United labor bulletin., 1912-10-31
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and oppressed. Will you, if elected,
support such a program?
Your attitude in the past in opposing
Organized Labor is patent to most every
member of a labor union in the city
Your opposition to the label of the Allied
Printing Trades Council has probably
done you more damage than your op-
position to a labor organization in your
mattress factory; yet the opinions of
man are constantly changing and we do
not know your attitude at this time
Men admire your fighting qualities for
certain principles, and Organized Labor
would like to have you on its side of the
battle for humanity and for the under
dog. A reply by bearer to this letter
would be appreciated. Yours most sin
cerely, JAMES A. CONKLE.
Denver, Colo, Oct 23, 1912
Mr. James A. Conkle, P. O. Box 759,
Denver, Colo:
Dear Sir-In reply to yours of yester.
day handed me by Mr.. A. ID. Glennon,
Will say, | regret that Organized Labor
representatives have not investigated
or lnterrogated me as to my position on
Organized Labor before they condemned
me. Mr.. Gompers has been misinformed
Y am not opposed to Organized Labor
but ] am opposed to and utterly detest
the labor skate" who won't work and
will not let anybody else work They
are parasite on the community. Why
didn't the Trades Assembly wait upon
me as suggested by Mr.. Gompers before
they condemned me in meeting and
through the press?
What have | done these past twenty
years but work for the millions as
against the millionares? Have | not
championed the parcels post in opposi-
tion to Gov. Shafroth, ex-Gov Alva
Adams and all but one other delegate
from Colorado at the Transmississippi
Commercial Congress?
When the labor organizations or any
other organizations send such walking
delegates to bluff and intimidate me as
they did some years ago when the
drunken dog catcher, ex-mattress maker,
tried to bulldose me. what else could
you expect, except that | would run
them out and ignore them? If this is
what you call the attitude that Organ
lied Labor is objecting to, then there
can be no change in positions Again,
my opposition to the label of allied
Printing Trades Councip' was for its un-
readable size and or every fool piece of
stationery printed for city hall | am
not hypocrite to let such a thing go
unchallenged. On the 10000 booklets
for which | recently contracted, con-
sented to the union label providing that
it was put on in respectable size.
Personally / am a factory man, start
ing in a factory when twelve years old
and when the boss did not treat me
right and | was able I started little
Joint of my own. Been at it over thirty
years, haven't been lazy or dissipated,
but no doubt fighting perhaps indiscreet-
ly the cause of humanity which has cost
me time and money, so that today leaves
me still heavily in debt and what is
more disliked by the Chamber of Com
merce, the railroads, the express COM
panies and many of the trusts who will
not brook interference with their hold
on what you term humanity or under
dog"
| am free to say that If elected, as
have every reason to believe I shall be-
Organized Labor need have no fear of
my not voting for every fair and legiti-
mate proposition that is to their in
terest. Also. that / never will act the
hypocrite and sycophant as SO many
candidates for public Office are guilty Of
Thanking you for this opportunity to
defend myself and thus briefly elucidate,
I am. respectfully yours,
GEO. ]. KINDEL