The Elbert County tribune., 1907-01-17
'OPPOSESSTRIKES'
ACTION OF DENVER TRADES AND
LABOR ASSEMBLY.
PRACTICAL WORK PLANNED
VIII Work With Chamber of Com
merce.-Union Labor Gains Many
Concessions.-Presid Pulver Ad-
vocates Exclusion of Japanese La
borers.

borers.
Denver.-The Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly took action in two
matters Sunday that will place 1t
among Colorado boosters. President
Frank ]. Pulver. in his semi-annual ad,
dress, spoke against the strike as
rapidly becoming an obsolete method
Of bettering the condition of the work
Ing man. Arbitration, afiiliation and
compromise were advocated by the
president of the assembly. The as
sembly showed that 1t is in accord
with the principles set forth by Mr..
Pulver by approving his report and
voting that the assembly apply for
membership in the Chamber of Com
merce. President Spengel of the cham
Der has said that such an application
will be promptly granted, and the re-
suit is expected to do more for the ad-
yancement of the cause of organized
labor than dozens of strikes.
The business men have expressed
desire to get in touch with those they
employ and the assembly has met
them half way.
The other movement taken up by
the assembly is the investigation of all
county institutions. including the
county hospital. jail, detention home.
city institutions and the state indus
trial school
These investigations are to be made,
not in spirit of suspicion of misman-
agement. but for the purpose of ac-
complishing good. When something
good about the institutions is found.
it will be praised. When something
fe hn Il will
use its influence to correct the error.
In talking of the strike, President
Pulver said that laboring men were
coming to regard it as a last resort,
and that much more can be. accom-
plished by peaceable means. Better
conditions are in view for union labor
in Denver, especially, he said, as the
Board of Public Works has voted an
increase in wages to laborers and
teams. The wages of janitors have
been raised SIS a month at the City
Hall. In addition, the Board of Pub
lie Works has caused to be inserted
in all city contracts the express stipu-
lation that eight hours shall constitute
a days work for all laborers employed
by city contractors.
The committee appointed to investi.
gate the accusations against the poor
lariu reported tnat the cnafgeS IN rela-
ton to the bedding and diet for pull
monary patients are true. Other
charges are said to be untrue. The
county commissioner agreed, the com.
mittee reported, to make the changes
recommended by the committee.
President Pulver also took up the
Japanese-Chinese exclusion question
in his report. Many interest.
ing facts were presented by
him for the consideration OF
the assembly. The Japanese, he
said, can live on less than any race
on earth. Even the Chinese cannot
compete with them. He quoted figures
to show that the highest classes of Jap.
apese labor receive no more than 25 to
so cents a day. Most of the unsldlled
labor receive 10 or Is cents day. The
wages of each class of labor were
quoted. Mr.. Pulver wants a Japanese
Korean exclusion act and urged the
assembly to do all in It's power to ex.
clude the Japanese. Forty million
people live in an area but little larger
than the state of Colorado, less than
$1,000 square miles being suitable for
agricultural purposes. The rest, he
declared is mountain country. The
Japanese, according to his report, have
reduced living to the finest science OF
any race, under these conditions.