United labor bulletin., 1910-07-14


attract the crack teams of the state.
There will be baseball game and other
athletic events, and a speaker of ma
tional reputation will give an address OF
interest to laboring men.
No delegates have been sent from
Denver to the annual convention of the
Associated Bill Posters and Distributors,
which met in Chicago this week. Bill
posters of Colorado are on the road at
this season and it was found impossible
to send a representative.
Officers of the Western Federation of
Miners are planning to bring suit against
Roady Kenehan to force him to issue a
warrant for the payment of 100000
which was voted to the federation by
the last legislature, in settlement of dam
ages claimed by the miners for the de-
struction of their stores during the Grip
pie Creek war. There is no money on
hand to meet the bill, and victory for
the miners would be a barren one, it is
believed. All bills of this nature are
placed in the fifth class, says Kenehan,
and money is appropriated for them only
after all other bills have been provided
for. The auditor is not allowed to issue
warrants for which there are no funds
available, says Kenehan, and if the courts
sustain Kenehan in his position the only
remedy for the federation will be to
have the matter brought up in the next
legislature, in the hope that there will
be sufficient funds available to permit
payment.
The American musicians have been
approached by their fellow profession
ais in Great Britain to interchange union
membership. The plan is regarded with
considerable favor and will probably be
put in operation next year. There is a
confederation of European musicians,
which includes those of Great Britain,
and it is not unlikely that the Ameri-
cans will affiliate with that federation
after affecting an alliance with Great
Britain.
Get Union Labor Hospital coupons
from your merchant. They will be val
liable as the contest progresses.
About the strongest strike on record
has just occurred at Fort Worth, Texas,
where eight policemen went on strike
against protecting strike-breakers dur
ing local strike. The cops were given
the glad hand by the laboring people
generally, who are talking about reward
ing them by electing them to public
office.
While the theatrical trusts and the
independents are battling for supremacy
at the box office, the actor folks are en-
gagged in a war on their own account
behind the scenes. The actors union,
affiliated with the A F. of L., has start
ed fight against the White Rats, the
well-known social organization. The
actors union had a strike on in Chicago
and won, but some of the Rats refused
to keep out of unfair houses. The union
subsequently offered to enter an Of
fensive and defensive alliance, but the
Rats wanted everything their own way.
the breach was ,widened and now the
fight is on, and it will not be an opera
bouffe affair, either.
Some 10000 1ithographers are to re-
ceive the eight-hour day, beginning Jan.
waged national strike to en-
force the shorter work day, but were
unsuccessful. They reorgan-
lied their shattered lines, accumulated
funds and were preparing to make an
other onslaught when the employers
in the trade decided that 1t
would be wise to make the concession
and avoid further trouble.
Ask your merchant for Union Labor
Hospital coupons.
A steam stake-driver, not unlike pile
driver, has made it's appearance. The
new device does the work of so men and
only two are required to operate it.
Coppersmiths on the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas road are on strike to enforce
their demand for better pay and i'm
proved shop conditions
Officials of the Colorado-Wyoming rail
road have granted the increase asked by
the striking switchmen, according to re-
ports from Pueblo. They refuse, how
ever, to take back the men concerned In
the strike, and will fill their places with
others. They claim that the increase
asked was granted on July 1, a day before
the men walked out The strikers deny
this, and say that they will force the
to reinstate them. 1t is said
that the company is ordering all strikers
to vacate the company houses at Mime
qua, where they were required to live
while in the employ of the company.
The executive board of the Western
Federation of Miners is in session to
take up many matters of much import
to the membership at large and arrange
1t in shape for presentation to the an
nual convention next week in Odd Eel
lows Hall, on Champa street. All OF
the members were on hand and two
sessions daily are being held. In addi-
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