United labor bulletin., 1910-05-05
Referendum
AND RECALL
These Are the Issues Before
the Union Mam---Not
Barrett, Not
Patterson.
WHY COMMITTEE WAS DISCHARGED

Since the last meeting of the
Trades and Labor Assembly there
has been much comment and much.
of the water committee of the as
semby. The friends of the commit
tee have been very busy giving ex-
cuses as to why this action was
taken, some of them even bIaminu
The Bulletin for the stand II has
taken in the matter, while others
have said feeling was created
against the committee by the letters
circulated by Mr. Vetter of the Ma
chinists against Mr.. Barrett of the
committee. The Bulletin has said
before that it desired to see the COM
mittee discharged without having to
go into the rotten details of the
transaction of their business and
naming the source of their financial
assistance. The Bulletin desired to
see this committee discharged and
the assembly get down to real bust
ness without having to discredit the
men connected with the affair more
than they have been, for they are
all bright fellows and may yet be of
benefit to the labor movement.
But since the issue has been lost
sight of, and since the discharged
committee and their supporters have
been creating so much sentiment
over the affair, The Bulletin desires
to point out to its many readers and
union men in general what the issue
is
The letters from Providence TO Mr.
Vetter in regard to Mr.. Barrett are mere
ly an incident in the crooked political af-
fairs of union labor. MIR. BARRETT IS
NOT THE ISSUE. He never was the
issue. An effort was made to show that
the letters were produced against Bar
rett TO show cause why the committee
should be discharged. of which commit
tee Barrett was member, and on whose
petition he was a candidate for water
commissioner
Again We come to the Searchlight. the
official paper of the working men and
women of Denver gotten out by Ralph
Moser. card man and grand trustee OF
his international union, for the water
company. and who gets his copy in re-
gard to the water question and Patterson
and Rush from the water company. We
mention the Searchlight here because we
want to say to our readers that Patter-
son and Rush are not the issue 1t seems
that when Patterson takes a stand on.
some political question there are certain
papers and people that try to make Pat
terson the issue. as the Searchlight is
doing and as the Post and Republican
have done in the past PATTERSON
AND RUSH ARE NOT THE ISSUE
in this campaign.
The ISSUES are the WATER CUES
TION and the INITIATIVE, REFEREN-
DUN and RECALL.
This is why the Trades Assembly re-
called their committee-the committee
did not recognize the issue. They did
not recognize that the Initiative. Refer
endum and Recall are the most import
ant things that have been made possible
to the citizen since the Declaration OF
Independence-the only things whereby
the people may rule themselves as free
American citizens and enter in the pur-
suit of happiness.
They did not recognize that the
amendments by the Direct Legislation
League are the real amendments for the
people; they did not recognize that the
City Hall petition was fake and a.
snare to the citizen; they did not recog
niZe that when they put additional
amendments on the ticket they we're
complicating things to the delight of the
politician of the corporation-complicat-
ing things with amendments that, II
carried. would not be OF benefit to those
the committee represented.
And if they did recognize the import
ance, what is your conclusion? They
must have been grossly incompetent or
else working in the interest OF those op-
posed to the interests of the affiliations
of the Trades Assembly.
And to show those who desire to know
the truth-that it was u pre-arranged at
fair between certain designing politicians
to have new committee, we call your
attention to this fact: The day previous
to the meeting of the Trades Assembly
at which the new committee was named
the copy for the petition OF the new com
mittee was sublet By the Carson-Harper
Printing and Engraving company to East
wood & Kirchner Eighteenth and
Champa. to be printed. and when tho
proof sheets were returned on Monday
the names of the new candidates for
commissioner were marked in: and when
the job was sublet to Eastwood & Kirch-
ner on Saturday previous to the assem-
bly, meeting the Old committee had not
been discharged.
And some tell you Patterson and Rush
are the issuei
And some say Barrett Is the lssuet
What nonsense, II you VIII but think.
Human Intelligence will whisper to
you that you were b,ing cheated by these
men. Human intelligence viii tell you
that you cannot trust them.
These men were working for a REF
ERENDUM A referendum IL the submits.
sion OF question to the people for pop
ular vote-the Will OF the majority.
But llstenl When the most represent.
atiye meeting the assembly has had for
years discharged this committee fhey