The Labor enquirer., 1884-09-27
BAREFACED LIES.
The Daily Press Of Denver in collu-
sion with the Despoilars of Honest
Working People.

Working People.
The daily papers of this city have
semi-occasional TITS of interest in the
working people and on such occasions
print long winded articles about the con-
dftion of one branch or another of wage
workers, giving funds of information
about the demand and SUP ply Of
toilers and the wages being paid The
exceptions are very lare where these
articles tell the truth about one point in
connection with this subject of so vital
Importance to the community, the most
useful class of citizens it contains, and
humanity in general. The enterprising
reporters go forth, pencil and note book
in hand, and at the dictation of their
masters, proceed to the proprietors Of
large establishments and the employ
ment offices to find data upon which to
base an article evidencing the wonder
full and kindly interest taken in the
"poor and lowlya by "our paper" as the
reporter calls it. 1t is much pleasanter
to occupy a comfortable sofa in the
counting room of an employer, or to
lol1 in the secluded private room of
the blood-sucking employment agent
when obtaining information than it is to
mingle with common hired hands at
their toll II hunt them out in their un-
comfortable lodgings, no matter what
may be the relative accuracy of the in
formation to be obtained. 1t is so with
the capitalistic press elsewhere, as well
as in Denver, and who can say that it is
not serving the Master who owns it,
well? ak Trz ~. L.
To get down to the recent evidences
of this craven and inhun1an seourse of
our great newspapers" Arecent article
in the Tribune Republican, purporting
to be statement of the wages paid to
women and girls employed in the large
stores of this city, was lie from begin
ming to end, and showed upon its face
from whence the information (2) came,
1t said the girls were paid from 81 to SIS
per week, scarcely any being asked to
work for less than 81. There is no need
to take up time and space arguing point
in which there is no ground for argu:
mept. have simply to say, and l stand
ready to prove what say, that there
are more female clerks working in this
city for less than S. per week than there
are receiving more than that. A large
number do not get over $4, and the few
who receive over $40 are not working
women, but "salesladies" -'would-be
labor aristocrats who ape their employers
and do not associate with common clerks.
The wages of clerks in this city are as
low as in the eastern cities, and the
treatment no better. 1t is authoritatively
stated that one large firm in this city
reduced the pay of its help 10 per cent
recently for the purpose of making the.
expense of an elaborate new front to
their store out of their already poorly
paid and hard worked hirelings.
The News of last Friday morning con-
tanned "scare-head" article headed "a
Hired Girl Famine" which was either
paid for by an employment fend of this
city, or is towering evidence of the
depravity to which cod
fish newspaper aristocrat can sink when
he imagines that be has progressed
beyond the communicating touch of the
'herd"
The article contained considerable
which was intended to be funny at the
expense of the hired girl" and stamped
the writer as one so dead to all that is
good in humanity that he could jeer and
make sport of his unfortunate sisters.
The statement that working girls are
scarce in this city, which was the burden
of the article, is wholly false. There are
hundreds of "hired girls and women" in
this city more than there is work for.
The writer of this knows what he is
talking about, and If anyone doubts it,
he will furnish all that kind Of help that
is needed, on five minutes notice. There
ia one honest employment agent in this
Dwyer-and call upon her
will substantiate the statement that
there is large number of housekeepers
and Servants out of employment in
this city.
1t is pretty we'll understood where the
News reporter got his information, and
it is also we'll known that the blood
sucker who gave it to him only desires
to bring more women and girls in here
from the east that the profits of the
robbing system carried on in that shop
NAV be increased. Anyone who has
ever investigated the ordinary employ
ment Office knows how the fee is exacted
from every applicant for work, and, con
sequently, the more applicants the more
fees. But do you all know it is the Gus
tom of the employment hyena where
the News got its Information to take the
fee from a girl and send her to place,
and then a few days afterward send
another girl to take the place away from
the first one by sending note to the