United labor bulletin., 1912-06-27
MAY MANUFACTURE
GARMENTS IN DENVER
Chamber of Commerce Takes Up
Proposition--Labor Is
Interested.

1 as QdV1nS SAID, TeldIlNe W DtuNei anu
her commercial prosperity
without energetic initiative Denver
cannot secure to the full that measure
of prosperity she has every good right
and reason to expect. 1t is energetic
initiative which strikes out into unex-
plored fields and turns something up.
Turning things up, doing that which
none had thought to do before, pioneer
ing in the development of some natural
resource, breaking new commercial
path, is what helps every member OF
society while enriching the man who
| initiates.
Colorado and its principal city, Den
ver is never poor in anything but this.
This energetic initiative which sends
men of keen mind, probing its undevel-
oped veins and deposits, and building up
resulting business which rebounds to the
commercial credit of the state. Leaders
are always in demand, men to strike out
for themselves and discover something
so manifestly needed in business that
soon there will be work for many hands,
business for railroads and other manu-
facturers, growing out of the enterprise
he starts. When the state is poor in
such men it is poor, indeed"
Although it is reported that business
is little slack in Denver, today, that
there are number of vacant store and
office rooms, and dwelling houses, it is
quite evident that she has men and
women as residents who have the in
sight and who take the initiative that
Major William Cooke Daniels mentions
above, and that very soon they will re-
move the necessity that is said to exist
by the Men and Religion Forward Move
ment, in which they propose to enter
into competition with loan offices by
raising a fund and loaning to wage
workers, at rate that will simply bear
the expenses of conducting the business,
for they are initiating a manufacturing
enterprise that will give these people
full employment and relieve their neces-
sity for loan office use, and besides,
make it possible for them to be real
home-owners and taxpayers.
Already such men as Herbert George,
| o. d. Cass, E. l.. Scholtz, j. A. Fergu-
son, Dallas j. Osborne, E. j. Yetter, and
others, have investigated a plan and
presented it to the Chamber of Com
merce that they think will take one of
our natural resources, that of wool, and
| by the manufacture of that raw wool
into finished garments, produce a reve-
nue. to the state of seven times what it
now produces.
| So, Colorado is not poor, it has men
to take the initiative.
grown in Colorado will give full employ
ment to 1000 wage-workers, which
means that this industry would support
at least $4,000 people, the possibility OF
it's enlargement simply means the filling
of every vacant store and house in the
city and create the necessity for build
| ing more.
| Was it possible for the city Of Denver
to build this industry, there is no doubt
hr,t hat f1,,1l,
voted to do so, but as that is not posi-
BILE it may be successfully done by 1,5O0
people investing $100 per capita, because
of the fact that there are a number of
large idle plants offered at low cost, that
machinery is offered upon a like basis,
and that, already, there are millions of
people in organized bodies standing
ready to buy the manufactured product,
provided they may do so upon the CO.
operative plan, that proposes to give to
those engaged in the completing of pro-
production is not complete until the
consumer is reached), all that they pro-
duce. Proposing, first, that the capital
so invested shall be absolutely secured
and have fair fixed earning.
1t is proposed to supply the wool
grower, the wage-workers, and the con-
sumers with the means of completing
ILLS pIOuucIlOH, ]. e., tHe DullulUSS ana
machinery and working capital, and let
them pay back this initial investment out
of its earnings by the savings it is pos
sible for them to make through the man.
ufacture of this wool at the source of
its supply, and handing it directly over
into the hands of the ultimate con-
sumer.
1t was only few years ago that the
writer met representatives of the Aus
tralian government in New Mexico, sent
there to investigate the methods of irri-
cation, and now Mr.. p. E. Quinn, New
South Wales government commissioner
is in Denver, offering to people the ben.
efits that have resulted from the investi
cations made by the same people whom
we met few years ago in New Mexico
| The Australian government is simply
taking the initiative, mentioned by
Major William Cooke Daniels, in turn
ing non-productive land into a produc
tive state by supplying men with the
capital to make it productive. This is
all that we are proposing to do in the
instance of one of Colorado's natural re
sources.
1t is stated that "the New South
Wales government offers suitable mer
free transportation from their present
town to the nearest port, and 500 to
wards steamer fare, like concessions tc
tnelr 1amlueS, on arrival In Australia
free railway transportation to irrigation
area and choice of block from two tc
fifty acres. The government clears and
fences this block free of charge, asks
no rent the first year. After that set
tiers will pay rent equal to 2k per cent
of unimproved capital value of land
After five years perpetual title is
granted. Water will be supplied at $1.2(
per acre-foot. If required a residence
will be erected by the government or
easy terms. Other concessions and ad
vantages offered by the government"
The Chamber of Commerce is to be
commended for following up this init
ative that promises to give our people
fill employment here at home, instead
of going to Australia, and it will have
no difficulty in finding 1900 persons that
are anxious to have the opportunity OF
helping to do it.