United labor bulletin., 1910-09-29

A appeal. We can't think tLdt you
throw this appeal in basket, but send
i us as much help as possible.
Remember that here are more
than 5000 of new members
| that want aid; that they trust on
you as brothers, that they don't i'm
agine that you will let them degrade
| by famine.
Remember SO many, hundred of
| childrens asking bread, have in mind
those sad ideas of hungry and shell
terlessness. and send us help.
If SO the greatest victory ever won
| by A. F. of l. we will accomplish
Cigarmakers, Union No. 129, at their
regular meeting Tuesday evening, Sept.
Goth, levied a $500 assessment on all of
h it's members in aid of the striking cigar
makers in Tampa, Fla. This assessment
will bring in about $4,000.
Could any thinking man read the above
and then fight the union label? Can any
one who has the interest of his constitu-
ents at heart fight a union label when
such appeals as the above are sent ou.
by men and women fighting for the very
necessities of life? These men and WON
en- have been reduced to poverty and
then to i'll health until it is vital to their
very existence that they organize, and
the cigarmakers-and all other trades-
can best organize by the assistance OF
label to mark their product.
We live in an age of organization-of
capital. of labor and of all the vital forces
OF life. Children at school and at play
organize to advance some romantic
thought: birds of the air organize for
flight to a warmer cline, and even fe-
male cattle will organize and form cir
Gle to protect their young from the as
sault of wolves-and yet we have those
who deny human beings the right to or
ganize and label the product of their la
Dor.
! We have in the city council super
visor who is more than "standpatter,
he is 'gobacker." This supervisor is
Kindel-George J.-and he calls union
/ label un-American, calls the label of the
| Allied Printing Trades Council bed
bug"-hence George has come to be
known as Bedbug Kindel. Kindel is not
''standpatter" but "gobacker." be-
cause he wants to return TO the days
when union labels were not known
George wants to go back to the days be-
fore the ordinance was adopted calling
for the label OF the Allied Printing
Trades Council on all city printing, and
has introduced an ordinance repeating
that ordinance Kindel has been re-
solved against by the Allied Printing
Trades Council. typographical Union No.
40. Union Label League No. l, The Den
yer Trades and Labor Assembly and the
State Federation of Labor for his oppo-
sition to the use OF the union label and
his branding OF labels as un-American.
The Cigarmakers' Union use strong Ian
guage in their resolution which has been
adopted by the Denver Trades and Labor
Assembly and which follows:
whereas: The Cigarmakers' union in
September, 1850. adopted the Blue Label
so the people could distinguish the cigars
made under union conditions, and
Whereas: The blue label is the as
surance that the workman is member
of an organization devoted to the ad-
vancement of the moral. material and in
telectual welfare of the people. and the
blue label is the only guarantee the ci-
gars were made under sanitary conui-
tons. eight-hour day, and represents
other benefits too numerous to mention,
and,
whereas: George ]. Kindel, supervis-
or of the city of Denver, introduced a.
resolution repeating the city ordinance
which required the Allied Printing Trades
label on all city printing, declaring the
label was un-American, and.
Whereas The printing trades label
bears the same relation to the printing
trades and people in general as the blue
h,,- ral Of bD A l.
the above mentioned supervisor. Geo. }.
Kindel. shows himself to be an irrespon-
sible person. gifted with an extremely
narrow, prejudiced mind. unfit to care
for the interests and needs of the people
of the city of Denver; therefore. be 1t
Resolved. that we, the members of
Union No. 129, C. NJ. l. u, assembled In
regular meeting, consider Geo. j. kindei
an enemy of organized labor, and In
struct our delegates to the Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly to present
this resolution to the delegates and re-
quest the assembly to devise ways and
means for protest delegation represent
Ing every craft In the city of Denver, and
present suitable resolutions to the board
of supervisors of the city of Denver In
the near future. and be 1t further
Resolved, that copy of this resolu-
tion be spread on the minutes OF this
meeting and copy be given to the daily
press and labor papers, and be 1t still
further
Resolved, should Geo. j. Kindel ever
aspire to any ONCE elective or appoint
i've. at any time, we take such action as
may be deemed expedient to defeat him
CIGARMAKERs' UNION NO. 12s.
JAS. T. FAULKNER.
President.