United labor bulletin., 1911-09-28
ECONOMIC LEAGUE
TO REFER ORDINANCE
Have Received Support OF Many
Progressive Organizations.

is now getting support in its fight on the
contract made by the city council with
the Denver Gas and Electric company to
furnish street lighting other than the
LARGE arc lights. Labor's Economic
leaoue will refer that ordinance to the
people at the general election next
sprina. The petitions are already printed
and support is being solicited in their
circulation. The ways and means COM
mittee has secured the support Of
The Direct Legislation League.
The East Side Taxpayers protective
Association. ,
South Denver Improvement Nssoa
tion.
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly.
The Citizens Party.
Progressive Republicans.
Labor's Economic League, whieh
stands, as all working people do Tor
municipal ownership, does not propose
TO sit idly by and the Gas and Elec-
tric eompany extend its contract with the
oity five years, install a system OF iisht-
ino and then claim, through the courts
that IL has preferential rights and
franchise.
The old contract has yet five years to
run, under which the city agrees to pay
s2s per year for each street iieht ttne
Kind that is Installed in suburban DIS
,rir,s, The new contract cancels the
old. and reduces the cost Of each light
ss.co but extends the time five years,
oivina the contract ten years to run.
In the place Of the lights now in use,
tho company proposes to instah seventy
five Watt Series Tungsten lamps, "hien
are an invention Of recent GATE giving
a stronger light than the ones now IN
nee but which can be produced with IS
oer cent less current. While the hght
,x produced as per cent. cheaper, the
company, in the new contract, gives the
eitv the benefit of but 25 per cent OF tnis
reduction.
Allowing that the company has mere
tofore been receiving Just compensation
for producing the lights, the league can
no, see why the company should receive
an increase Of 20 per cent for this serH-
irr on account Of a current-saHing IN
ven.ion The company is making a re-
duction TO the city. but 1t is also making
20 per cent. greater profit from the
service.
profit heretofore for this service, sno the
,..nay;no working men OF the city arc
a, 4 loss TO understand why the price
should be raised 10 the city when inHeh-
.IonK are utilized over which the Gas
company has no control.
4, is we'll known that another company
ba, offered terms for lighting the city
the city council with the Gas company
stand out as MONUMENTAL STEAL.
Rut abor's Economic League looks TO
the future. The men in the or9aniza-
tion arc old heads In the labor move
nent and in politics and AFFAIRS o. inc
city. They do not have in vie" the te"
hundred dollars that may be saved TO the
city in the next five years-but look to
the future.
.hor,. Economic League believes In
municipal ownership.
/, believes that Il fair profit is being
made under the old contract THE CITY
SHOULD RECEIVE 1T.
/. believes that II 20 per cent. greater
,rodt is TO be made under the new con-
tract, THE CITY SHooIo
THAT.
IL believes that where inventions are
made for the benefit OF the human fam
ily the citizens in the community In
which such devices are used should re
ceive the full benefit. and NOT SOME
GRAsPiNG CORPORATION.
Labor's Economic League stands for
municipal ownership.
Il believes that the eity-and not cor
porations-ShoUlD OWN AND OPEN
ATE ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES.
labor's Economic League does not
stand for the renewing Of any contract
or franchise with any corporation, and
WILL DO ITS UTMOST TO PssVsNi
1T.
The working people desire that the
,axpayers and not corporations receive
the benefit OF this profit and that the
LABOR EMPLOYED RECEIVE THE
HIGHEST OF COMPENSATION.
That is what is good for the business
men Of the city we'll as the workers
When the money is put in the hands
Of the workers II is not boarded, as wnen
nj. in the hands Of the few corporation
lists, but 1t is spent.
petitions will be circulated throughout
the city all next week. Sign them at the
first opportunity and prevent this monop-
oily from grabbing another valuable asset
OF the people.
The ordinance. as adopted by the city
council and signed by the mayor, fol-
lows: .
ORDINANCE NO. sc, SERIES 1871.
SUPERVISORS BILL NO. 2. INTRO
DUCED BY SUPERVISOR SPENGEL-
"a Bill for an Ordinance Providing Tor
n Contract Between the Denver Gas
and Electric Company, Corporation.
and the City and County of Denver,
for the Installation. Operation, and
Maintenance of Street Lights. and
Providing for the Execution Thereof.
"Be IL Enacted by the Council OF the
City and County of Denver.
section l. That the city and county
of Denver hereby enters into contract
with the Denver Gas and Electric COM
pany, corporation. for the furnishing
of electric street lights to be located In
the city and county of Denver for pc
riod of ten Q0) years from and after
the first day OF January, A. ID. 1911. said
contract to be substantially In the words
and figures following, to-wit:
THIS AGREEMENT, Made and en-.
to, ed into In duplicate this 20th day OF
January. A. d. 1911, by and between the
. Denver Gas and Electric company, cor
noration. duly organized and existing
under and by virtue of the laws of the
state of Colorado. party of the first part.
and the city and county of Denver.
municipal corporation. duly organized
and existing under and by virtue of the
constitution and laws of the state OF