United labor bulletin., 1911-06-01
TRADES ASSEMBLY WILL
CONSIDER LEGISLATION
CENTRAL BODY INSTRUCTS ITS LEG
lSLATlvE COMMITTEE
TO REPORT.

DOaro OF SUPERVISORS ana pdsScu
gives the Colorado Telephone company
the right to use the streets and alleys of
the city for the payment of 2 per cent.
of their business into the city treasury
The substance of the ordinance was en-
bodied in a letter to the mayor from E.
3. Field of the company. MIR. Field pro-
posed the 2 per cent. payment, as stated
above, and the supervisors, by ordinance,
accepted the offer, and w. NJ. Robertson,
president Of the board, attached his name
to the ordinance. If the ordinance is
passed at the meeting of the board of
aldermen on June it then becomes a
law.
The resolution passed by the Trades
Assembly follows:
Believing that the delegates to the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly
should keep in touch with all issues of
public interest and believing that data
should at all times be in the possession
of the proper committees of the assem-
bly,. to enable the assembly through the
delegates to protect the interests OF the
members of affiliated unions in all cases
where the general welfare is involved,
therefore be it
Resolved, That all committees report
particulars and data on all propositions
over which their respective committees
have Jurisdiction; and be it further
Resolved, That the legislative com.
mittee present TO this assembly at the
next regular meeting the facts in the
attempt of the Colorado. Telephone COM
pany to obtain the perpetual use of the
streets and alleys of Denver through the
connivance of the city attorneys Office
and other city officials. with no apparent
regard for the welfare of the future citi-
zenship of the city, and the said lesis-
lative committee is hereby empowered
to oppose all obnoxious telephone legis-
lation, and otherwise, now before the
city council"
The ordinance, as passed by the board
of supervisors. follows:
"A Bill for an Ordinance Relating to a
Proposition of the Colorado Telephone
Company to Pay the City and County
of Denver Certain Sums Annually, and
with Reference to the Expenditure
Thereof;
Whereas. Pursuant to q Resolution
passed by the Board of Supervisors OF
the City and County of Denver on the
18th day of October, A d. 1910. a COM
mittee of the supervisors was appointed
to examine into and report to the city
council after consultation with the city
attorney. by what right the Colorado Tel
ephone company now occupies the
streets and alleys and other public
places of the city and county OF Denver
and is conducting therein its business,
and Notwithstanding the city attorneys
opinion said committee has taken up
with the Colorado Telephone company
the question of the payment by the Colo
RADIO Telephone company to the city of
certain sum annually, and said commit
tee has secured an offer from the Colo
rado Telephone company, which offer is
in words and figures as follows, to-wit;
Denver, Colo. May Q. 1911.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Coun-
ell of the City and County of Denver;
.Nessrs. Webb. Meyers and Spengel, a
committee of the board OF supervisors
of the honorable city council, have been
in consultation with the officers of the
Colorado Telephone company relative to
its present occupancy of the streets and
alleys and conduct of its business in the
CITY and county of Denver. This COM
mittee, we understand has procured an
opinion from the city attorney upon these
questions Said committee has also taken
up with the company the proposition OF
the Colorado Telephone company, in
common with other public utility corpo-
rations operating in the city and county
of Denver, contributing a certain sum
annually to the city toward its uphuild-
ing and development. After full consid-
Grafton of the subject. the Colorado Tel
ephone company has concluded to make
the following offer:
1t has been the policy of the city to
require corporations obtaining fran
chises, in recent years, to contribute in
some manner a certain amount from
their earnings for civic purposes, usually
for use by the city in the Improvement
/ of its streets. parks and other public
places The Colorado Telephone COM
pany. while not seeking any franchise, is,
nevertheless, desirous of assisting the
city in the Improvement of Its streets.
parks and other places, in like manner
as other corporations which must obtain
franchises from the city. by paying an
amount equivalent to what such corpora
tions pay. in proportion to the amount
of their earning capacity.
, Therefore. the Colorado Telephone
company hereby agrees, upon due accept
ance of this offer. to pay semi-annualiy
on or before the 18th day OF August and
February in each year. to the treasurer
of the city and county Of Denver, COM
mencing with the year 1911. two t2l per
cent. of its gross receipts for local serv-
ice within the city and county of Denver,
based upon the gross earnings for each
semi-annual period ending June Soth and
December Sist to be by him separately
| kept. and which sum shall be used solely
for the establishment. improvement and