United labor bulletin., 1912-03-28
IMPORTANT WORK
OF CENTRAL BODY
Legislative Committee Reports on
Three Important Propositions.
and Report Adopted.

The legislative committee of the
Trades Assembly. since the meeting OF
March II, have under consideration
three propositions, on which they re-
ported at the meeting Sunday. The three
propositions deal with three very i'm
portant subjects; The issuing Of trans
fers by the Denver City Tramway Co.
only when paying fares; the lease Of the
Baum mine from the state land board,
and the framing Of a constitutional
amendment giving the state land board
the power TO mine coal on state lands
and sell same TO the people at cost; and
the Initiating of a bill providing for
public utilities commission.
The report regarding the tramway
transfers follows.
To the Officers and Members Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly:
Your legislative committee met on
Monday, March IL. in conjunction with
the committee from local union No. ~,
brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and
Paperhangers, to formulate ways and
means of combating the obnoxious rules
relating to transfers that are being en-
forced by the Denver City Tramway Co.
After thoroughly discussing the case.
the committee adjourned TO meet on
Monday. March is, after deciding to get
a copy of the franchise of the above
company to investigate. Met on the date
mentioned and in the meantime the agi-
tation which had been started from vari-
Gus sources resulted in the tramway
company changing their rules for Pc
riod OF ninety days, and instructing con
ductors to ask passengers on inbound
cars only II they wished transfers. Your
committee believes this is only to carry
the company beyond election. AS your
legislative committee is now acting with
various other committee formulating
public utilities bill for the enforcement
of rules for the protection of the public
in all matters of this kind in relation to
all public utilities, we recommend that
this matter be taken up ia conjunction
with the above bill when 1t is drafted.
Respectfully submitted.
+. A. BRYAN.
C. A. AHLSTRoM.
Il. II. HOAGE.
The report of the committee on the
Baum mine follows:
To the Officers and Members Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly.
On Thursday. March IA. your legisla-
tive committee met with Mr.. Keating,
president of the state land board, to in
vestigate the charges which were made
in n resolution presented at the meeting
of March 10, and given to this commit
tee for action on same. Mr.. Keating in
formed your committee that his coal en-
gineer had Investigated and had found
the coal in the veins referred to of such
quality as to be unmarketable in COM
petition with other Goals. In reference
to the royalties we are informed that
Mr.. Baum, the lessee OF the mine men,
toned, does owe the state about $4,000 in
royalties at this time. because OF the
difficulty in collecting from the purchas-
'ers Of the coal. but the improvements on
the mine amount to 100000, which re
verts to the state in the event of the
lessee not paying royalties according to
the lease. and the state board has notes
to the amount of the royalties. with s
per cent. interest on same, which is the
highest amount of per cent paid. The
state board is now having very ex-
haustive examination of the above mine
at this time, on which We will report
later, and they invite any practical min
ing engineer to their board for permis-
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