United labor bulletin., 1913-11-29
THE OPTIMISTIC
PHILOSOPHER

The rearers of temple and spire;
song to the strong men of duty
Who shape the worlds future in fire
Sing, sing to the women, the mothers.
The weavers of life and of fate;
The sisters who toll for the brothers,
And open to hope the white gate.
song to the brain that devises,
And bends natures will into law;
A song to the brain that suffices
Its purpose from many to draw.
Sing. sing to the thinkers and hewers.
To brothers of brain and of Drawn:
A song to the worlds mighty doers
Who work for fastening dawn.
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There was a thunderous round of
oratory at Sunday afternoons meeting
of the Trades and Labor Assembly.
Forensics were at their height when
the o. P. arrived an hour after the
meeting opened, having been invited
to partake of a good old-fashioned
Alabama dinner, prepared by lady
who knows how Therefore mood,
temperament and receptiveness all
fitted the occasion. Debate had waxed
warm on the resolution to withdraw
from the Chamber of Commerce.
Bartholomew Blumenberg, cigarmaker.
who has socialistic tendencies. had the
floor and was contending the only
simon-pure organization in Denver that
had for its purpose the making of
greater and better city was the afore-
said Assembly. and that all use the
Chamber had for wage-earners was to
exploit them. His remarks, accom-
panied by proper gestures. were liber-
ally applauded.
Then came James Kirwan, miner.
with a melodious voice of Irish ex-
traction, who said the distribution OF
holy water in an A. P. A. meeting
would be more beneficial to the labor
movement than for the Assembly
to send a delegate to gatherings in
the marble temple OF big business on
Champa street. He was in favor OF
saving the ten-dollar fee and buying
candy for kids of the striking miners
at Christmas time. Rounds of ap-
plause greeted this speaker as his
flow of rhetoric ceased to reverberate
around the room.
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Robert Yetter Harrison, bookbinder.
who now holds the chair of labor di-
rector in the Chamber. arose and put
forth a strong appeal to be retained on
the job. and told OF what he hoped to
accomplish when firmly stationed
among the mighty men of business
Home industry would boom and bloom
as never before, and the union label
would garnish every product. or
course the great honor was as nothing
to the tremendous good he
could accomplish by mingllng with
captains of industry at the so cent
luncheons served in the
cathedral banquet room of the Albany
some one came for
ward with the aforesaid so cents
There was a disposition on part of
delegates present TO accept this eff
Of enthusiasm as being
prompted by purely selfish motives,
therefore soft pedal on the plaudits.
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Charles Hornburg, cigarmaker, pro-
claimed in mighty accents that the
Chamber of Commerce had at one time
served Denver union-made cigars at
a luncheon-but they had been do
mated by a local manufacturer In the
hope of securing orders for future
events. This had been widely adyer-
tised in the Rocky Mountain News as
ocular evidence that members OF the
Chamber were really in favor of pat
home industries. However.
this was too good to be true. and that
foreign cigars. minus the blue label.
had since graced similar festive oc-
casions. Charlie subsided before CIV
ing enlightenment as to how he came
in possession of these latter facts.
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Expectations of harmony were
shown in faces of auditors when p. J.
Devault, musician, took the floor up
on proper signal from President ives
sci. His instrument. however, was
attuned. as he had scant
praise for the Chamber and its sub
sidiary institutions. Yes, sometimes
they employ union musicians, +. j.
asserted" because we have a monopo-
ly on all the good talent in the city.
as demonstrated by Satriano's band of
forty artists playing at the Auditorium
this very moment to 1900 people,
who love music because 1t Is free on
sunday afternoon. One time when the
Chamber held an election and contend
ing factions threatened riotous pro-
ceedings, union band was employed
because music charms the savage
beast as well as the poetic SOUL This
was too farfetched an illustration Tor
the hundred or more delegates.
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