United labor bulletin. (Denver, Colo.) 19??-1915, 1910-06-30
N0N-UNI0NISTS ON
COUNTY HOSPITAL
Non-Union Men Begin the Erection of
the County Hospital Addition-conn-
missioners Appealed to Without Re-
suIt-Unionists Demand Some Action.

The county of Denver is building an
addition to the county hospital. and Con-
tractor J. Tomlinson has the contract.
The foundation for the building is under
construction and the work has been sub
let to Cement Contractor Cowell, and
he has put a force of non-union men to
work on the foundation for the building
The Building Trades Council of Den
yer took the matter up with the county
commissioners, and they gave the coun-
ell some assurance that a correction
would be made. and the officers of the
council waited patiently for the result
And while they waited for the COM
missioners to take some action the con-
tract of the steam heating was let to a
| c. P. Pfeiffer, non-union firm Again
the council has taken the matter up
with the commissioners, but it seems
that they viii do nothing to correct the
matter. 1t is not known at this time
who will get the balance of the contracts
for this building to be owned by the
people.
he commissioners try to excuse them
selves by saying that the hiring of union
men lays with Contractor Tomlinson.
This may be the status of the case at this
stage of the transaction; but the county
commissioners surely knew that they
could let this contract with the under
standing that union men were to do the
work.
It is a disgrace to the public officials
to put men that have been imported to
Denver as strikebreakers on a county
building.
i 1t is worse than a disgrace for public
servants 10 take the money paid into the
treasury of the county by taxpaying
union men and giving it TO imported
strikebreakers who were brought here
to drive men from their homes, and who
have no interest in the welfare OF the
city, county or state
The Building Trades Council of Den
yer has asked the county commission
ers what they were going to do about it,
Now, Messrs. County Commissioners,
the union men of Denver want to know
what you are going to do about it.
And more than that, they want you to
do something now.
/ You may think it wise to cater TO the
desires of the General Contractors as
sociation, and believe what they say
when they tell you through the public
press that the Building Trades Council
has no standing in Denver. but this pa
per-representing the Trades and Labor
Assembly, with 60 affiliated unions, and
the State Federation of Labor, with hun
dreds of aifiliations-takes this occasion
to inform you and the General Con
tractors association and the public in
general that the Building Trades Coun-
ell of Denver has the backing OF every
Organization that is represented by this
paper and by the central bodies named
above-not to mention the American
Federation of Labor.
And more, the time has come when
the union men OF this city and state dc
not propose to be taxed that the revenue
thus collected shall be paid out to strike
breaking home-destroyers-
BY letting this contract to firm that
will hire non-union men throughout
Messrs. Commissioners, you beneht only
the contractor.
You do not benefit the merchants oi
the city. because you cheaper labor and
the men have not the money to spend
with the merchant they otherwise woult
-it goes into the pockets of the con
tractors.
You do not benefit the community. be
cause the lowering of wages and the i'm
portation of strikebreakers and the riff
ran of the country will lower the morals
of the community and put women ant
children to work More than for ths
raising of wages. the union man stands
for better government.
You cannot benefit yourselves-uniess
It be hnancially-because you will dis
grace yourselves among your friends,
and every union man that hears youi
names will blush with shame that he has
supported such hypocrite.