Gilpin observer., 1907-01-17
0PPOSESSTRIKES
ACTION OF DENVER TRADES AND
LABOR ASSEMBLY.
PRACTICAL WORK PLANNED
VIII Work With Chamber Of Com
merce.-Union Labor Gains Many
coneessions.-President PuIver Ad-
vocates Exclusion Of Japanese La
borers

| borers.
Denver.-The Denver Trades and
Labor Assembly took action in two
matters Sunday that will place it
among Colorado boosters. President
Frank J. Pulver, in his semi-annual adj
rapidly becoming an obsolete method
Df bettering the condition of the work
Ing man. Arbitration, affiliation and
compromise were advocated by the
president Of the assembly. The as
sembly showed that it 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
ber has said that such an application
will be promptly granted, and the re-
suit is expected to do more for the ad-
vancement of the cause of organized
labor than dozens of strikes.
The business men have expressed a
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 a 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
wrong is discovered, the assembly will
use it's 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
farm reported that the charges 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
anese labor receive no more than 25 to
so cents day. Most of the unskilled
| labor receive 10 or 15 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 fits power to ex.
| clude the Japanese. Forty million
| people live in an area but little larger
! than the state of Colorado, less than
$4,000 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.