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United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
Progressives Split
Over Senatorship
!. N. STEVENS THREATENS TO
FORM NEW COMBINE.
Two Branches of Party Hold Meetings
in Denver and Choose Diff
ferent Routes.

Just when conditions appeared
promising for the Progressive party
sweeping the state at the next cleo
new party's hopes by over;zealous
claimants for official preferment. AT
a meeting of state chairmen held at
the Auditorium hotel last week, L. p.
Costigan was chosen to again make the
race for governor and former Attorney
General Ben Griffith was labeled for
the United States senatorship. This
was not at all pleasing to City Attor-
ney l. n. Stevens and mis- followers
for he had picked the senatorial toga
now worn by Charles S. Thomas for
his own.
Therefore another meeting Monday
night at the Adams hotel by the Pro-
gressive league, at which l. n. Stev-
ems and John P. Stephens, once Repub-
lican candidate for governor, were the
leads. This gathering condemned the
Costigan-Griffith outfit as usurpers
and self-appointed BOSSES" and there
fore ''violators of the basic principles
of the Progressive party" They con-
tended the game of office-grabbing
had started prematurely. inasmuch as
Colorado laws provide for selection OF
party candidates by primary election
in which the rank and file are sup
posed to have hand.
In the meantime the standpat Re
publicans are to hold high-priced
banquet on Lincoln's birthday to gath
er the remnants of this once dominant
party and commune with themselves.
They feign to see some hope of sue
cess through the split of Progressives
and the deplorable flight to which
Governor Ammons' administration has
subjected the Democrats by bungling
method of handling the coal strike.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
FOR WEEK ENDING DEC. 4, 1913.

FoH w EEN ENDlNe DGt. 81 ioio'
26X3s, at S7oS Quivas. $4,000;
Mrs. McAleer. 1926 Humboldt, l sty
firm porch 7x14 at 1926 Humboldt,
Colo. Mtg. & Inv. Co, 2O9 Barclay blk,
repairs at, at 18th & Larimer. $4,000. =,
gty # brI< workshop 2lx4O at 60 S
j. "; White, 1919 Gilpin, repairs at
W. L. YEAST east 1880 s. Ogden bd sly yyo6 firm
2lxss at 1903 Bryant, $4,000,
j. gsx49 B Rusef ss ssa S's 6 eh ssh sdoS Sty 'Ff
S. j. Thomas Realty Co, 1886 Champa,
! sty brk 24x44 at 1917 Clermont,
Jno, Thompson. .1475 Steele, sty rf
brk bldg, 46xS0, at Colfax & Adams,
E. S. jackson, 912 Kearney St. Port
land, ore, repairs at 2740 Meade,
O. Tfhioulson. ss5 Lipan, move / sty firm
h at sSl Lipan, $40.
Post c. x l. Co, Post bldg, / sty firm
1oX16 at south side of Mexico near
Mrs: F.. Lockmiller, 1929 TETON. l sty f
IF brk h 1Sx26 at 1929 TETON, $1,000.
sly brt b 2ST4$ at 4I52 King, $4,000,
NoHliHenlsti oll 20, bZS NCBnee bluS-,
repairs at 36th & Platte river. $4,000.
Hattie A. Mercer, 1921 Milwaukee. 1
sulg sty brh garage 16x2o at 1921 Mil
E. H. wadsworth. 2737 w. 2sth ave.
l sty firm porch Sx16, at 2737 w. 2Sth
A. Devoid. 1855 E. 5th ave. Glen Tiff.
archt: ! sty brk 25x39 at 1854 Mon
D. +; DgEand, 1877 Elati. repairs at 1877
C. F., Fiuhrer 1855 Calf, repairs at
1870 Speer Blvd, SO.
b. ID. McNassor, 176 S Kalamath, re-
pairs at 23 Kalamath. $3.50.
Mrs Ling. ! sty brk 24x3s, at 1901
w: a. Tucker, repairs at 1882 Glenarm.
Bennett & Myers. own, repairs at 1868
Curtis, $500.
Mrs zachils. repair at Kalamath,
at 3o60. W SSth av, $i0o.
1no: C. Gallup, repairs at S13 E 18th
School Dist No. /. stairway at Hyde
Park school, $3.50
j. M. Carriley. 246 S. Ogden. / sty rf
frame garage 16x19 at 246 ogden,
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06

all paid dollar for dollar. in cash. at
par, into the treasury of our company.
for every share they hold. and they
have simply come into our company
because they believed 1t to be cafe
investment.
There IS, too, upon the part of the
public. 4 belief that the company Is
largely engaged in politics. We imag-
inc this feeling is caused by the fact
that in the past. Eimply from the
standpoint of self-preseryation. certain
to be in politics: but in these days,
when the tendency is to place all cor
porations and trust affairs into the
hands of a central body. such as the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
local state commissions, etc. to deal
with the conduct OF businesses such as
ours, being in politics, as believed by
the public, would be n foolish thing
and entirely unnecessary. This is.
therefore, to state emphatically that
we are not, either directly or Indirect
ly. in politics. in any way, shape or
manner. and shall not be.
We are going to attempt to give
you the entire story as TO our rates.
We have been told, when stating to
some of the public that we proposed
starting n campaign like this. that our
efforts would be futile; that our sub
scribers would turn out to be selfish
and only look toward the end OF get
ting as cheap telephone rates as pos
sible. We do not believe this. We
believe that the great majority OF the
public are inclined to be fair. and that
1t is not so much the question of what
our telephone rates are as II is that
when we make a statement regard
ing them and show our true financing.
that we shall be honest, and that the
public shall know that we are honest.
That when We make statement as
to our profits and earnings, showing
Just where the dollar that our sub
scriber pays us goes, the public may
know that we are not trying to de-
ceive them or keep anything back that
should be shown. When we honestly
do this and our position seems to be
just and right, we believe that the fair
ness of the public will sustain us.
We are going to set forth the in
herent difficulties of giving universal
telephone service. These articles and
letters are not to be piece of spe-
cial pleading or adroit use of words,
but a clear, business-like setting forth
of facts. We hope, before we get
through, both ourselves and the public
will understand each other better.
There is at least no harm to be done
in trying to accomplish this desired
result.
It is our aim to educate. please and
satisfy the public and to be educated
ourselves. 1t Deems to us that every
corporation has the right of self
defense, the same as an individual.
The public has the same right. Listen
to our defense and we will listen to
yours. No problem has ever been
harder for us than just how we were
going to let the public know truly
about us. but we believe that no prob
lem was ever more important to both.
II we really can make you feel that
you are partner in our business, we
shall have accomplished much. A
large part Of the problem will be
solved, II we can only bring the pub
lie, through education, to full under
standing that there Is mutual de-
pendence between the public service
CORPORATIONS and the public, and that
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
Aid Women Workers
Is Plan Of Federation
ONE CENT PER CAPITA LEVIED
ON UNION MEMBERS.
A. F. of L. to Send Organizers Into
Districts Where Women Are
Largely Employed.

At the Seattle convention of the
American Federation of Labor, per
capita assessment of / cent upon each
trade union member in the United
State and Canada was levied for the
purpose of organizing the women
workers. This will raise fund of ap-
proximately s25O.O0O, and both male
and female organizers will be sent in
to districts wherein women workers
are largely employed. Women will be
coached in the best methods of per-
forming these duties and in the man.
ner OF, speaking in public to large
gatherings.
In speaking to this proposition in
convention, John Mitchell said:
Il want to see the working women
and children brought under the pro-
tective banner of the labor movement.
am more interested in the work of or
ganization among women than among
men, for they need it most. / hope the
American Federation of Labor will do
even more in the future than it has in
the past for the protection of that
weaker element in labor's ranks"
This movement is expected to take
in all branches of industry employing
women from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
Labor and Capital Contending

Continued from Page -
tr1umphed in every other state of the
union.
In this struggle the operators seem
TO be blind to the fact that they are
antagonizing not only the lawful right
of working men to organize but are re-
sisting a great social force which they
can no more destroy than they could
suspend the law of gravitation. Sooner
or later they will find themselves
compelled to yield to the inevitable,
just as We're the operators of West
Virginia less than six months ago. In
that state it required 20 years of un-
ceasing agitation and innumerable
bloody encounters to establish the
right to organize, which the miners of
Colorado are now so valiantly fighting
for. There, as here, the operators
were arrogant, defiant, lawless. Like
Louis XIV they regarded themselves
as the state, and like the operators of
Colorado they regarded their miners
as SO much livestock, whose sole mis-
sion on earth it was to dig up coal and
produce wealth abundantly for their
aristocratic masters.
"The West Virginia operators were
sworn through their iron clad organ
ization never to recognize the miners
union and never to deal with the min
ers in any organized capacity whatso-
ever. The central and commanding
figure among the West Virginia oper-
ators was Quinn Morton, a millionaire,
Iy-hn Mr
Mr.. Welborn and other Colorado OPP
orators, had the courage of his CON
victions and carried out his doctrines
to its logical conclusion by himself,
shouldering a Winchester and going
into the coal camps in command of the
armored train which shot up the min
ers' tented villages and left death and
destruction in its barbarous wake.
mfr. Morton, however, was COM
PEELED in spite of his bravado to yield
to the logic of events, and to the cred
it of his intelligence, be it said, that
he yielded in the spirit of a man who
is big enough to confess that he is in
the wrong and plants himself square
| ly on the ground of right There is
not today single non-union man in
the employ of Quinn Morton and his
corporation. In a single field, the
New River district, West Virginia. 49,
900 non-union miners joined the union
on the same day, thus putting the lie
to those enemies of organized labor,
who contend, when the union is fight
ing for its right, that miners and other
wage workers join unions only under
intimidation. and are, in fact, the COW
ering creatures of the alleged leaders
who are given the credit for bossing
these unions.
"If the operators of Colorado are
not totally blind, deaf and dumb they
will follow the example of West Vir-
ginia. If they persist, however, in re-
naming dead to all entreaties, they
may succeed in arousing the sleeping
monster that may overwhelm and des
troy them and the heartless, lawless
power they represent"
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
Labor Convention Meets Dec. 16
Continued from Page ~


n fifth, the controlling arbiter to be
named by the President of the United
States. If this method of settlement
is rejected by the operators, Secretary
Wilson will proceed to Washington
and file a detailed report with the
President.
AS Congress this week passed from
extra to regular session, all members
are again in Washington. Early
adoption of Congressman Keatings's
resolution for a congressional probe
of the Colorado coal strike is ex-
pected. By most people here this is
looked upon as the only procedure by
which a settlement will be brought
about The operators are bitterly op-
posing adoption of the resolution.
Doyle Arrested and Released.
Because he refused to answer ques-
tions put to him by Judge Advocate
General Boughton in a military court
at Trinidad, Ed. l.. Doyle, secretary
and treasurer of District Is, United
Mine Workers of America, was ar
rested as a military prisoner and
thrown into Jail. Doyle had just ar
rived in the city on official business
connected with payment of benefits to
the strikers. After being detained in
jail for twelve hours, during which
time General Chase refused to permit
any of his friends to see him, Doyle
was released upon orders from Gov
ernor Ammons.
Robert Uhlich, president of the
Trinidad Miners Local Union and a
vice president of the State Federation
of labor, was also arrested, and is in
jail, charged with being implicated in
the killing of mine guard to the eX-
tent that he had knowledge of fire
arms and ammunition being in pos
session OF the strikers.
Indictment of officers of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America and min
ers to the number of twenty-four by
a federal grand jury at Pueblo was not
unexpected, and is in line with the
program of the operators to harass
the miners.
Arrangements for bond have been
made by the United Nine Workers.
Chase's Intimidation Methods.
General Chase is exercising third
drive striking miners back to work. In
one instance he compelled a striker
to dig his own grave, saying he would
be shot unless he and his fellow
workers returned to the mines. Affi-
davits certifying to the truth of this
have been placed in the hands of Gov
erlcr Ammons.
Auditor Roady Kenehan left Den
yer Thursday, with an assistant, for
Walsenburg and Trinidad, to distrib-
der boys This is for the first 20
days of service at rate of 50 per day.
and each soldier is to receive a sep
arate slip, which may be cashed at
any bank, after the governor com
pletes the task of making up certi-
fled list of the 1896 troopers doing
guard duty for the operators.
A remarkable decrease in the price
of coal was announced in Denver
Thursday following the call issued for
state labor meeting. This is an ap-
parent effort to divert public sympa-
thy from the strikers. Operators now
claim they have had plenty of coal in
reserve, but fail to explain why the
price of coal to consumers was near.
ly double normal rates during the past
two months. when the people paid
over $4,000 per day for coal in excess
OF rates prevailing before the strike
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06

Denver, Colo. November 80, 1913.
The Mountain Statca Telephone and
Telegraph Company, in the consider
alton of its future development, recog-
nizes that its highest interests as
public utility lie in establishing the
closest and most friendly relationship
with the public generally and with
its patrons In particular: therefore, it
is tho purpose of Tho Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
through this announcement, to inau-
guratc what may be termed an adver-
tising educational series of articles,
both in the newspapers and in the
form of letters to its customers. II Is
our hope that this campaign may mark
a new era in the relation of public
utility corporations to the public they
serve. We want this education to
work both ways-that the public may
learn the truth about us, and that we
may learn how the public regard us.
and how we may fairly and efficiently
serve the public-in other words, what
is just and right to us and to the peo-
pie, and to convince the public that
we will voluntarily remedy any wrongs
we are doing, IL pointed out to us.
We shall show you our financial af-
fairs, frankly and freely. 1t so hap
pens that our financing has been of
such n nature that 1t is easy for us to
clearly show to you this side OF our
affairs. What we mean by this Is, that
we have absolutely no water in our
stock; we have no bonds, nor any pre-
ferred stock, and no mortgage of any
kind upon which to pay fixed charges.
We have more invested in our plant
ont
our issue of common stock, and we
have no other stock issued than the
common stock There are no wheels
within wheels, nor companies within
companies, to absorb profits. We
finance ourselves from year to year
by selling our common stock to the
people. at not less than par, in he
states in which We operate.
When we tell you the story of our
financing, we will provo to you that
there never have been any fortunes,
large or small, made out of the manip-
ulation of our stock-in other words,
no high financing has ever been done
in connection with The Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, or its predecessors. The stock
never has had any speculative value; :;
it has been, and is now, simply safe
investment.
There is n great misunderstanding
upon the part of the public as to this
side of our business. Persons with
Interior motives, striving for office,
and newspapers wishing to give start
ling news fsee note below frequently
publish stories of how rich certain
officials of our company are. Right
now, this is being done in connection
with the new revenue tax. we sup
pose these stories grow out OF the
belief of certain Of the public that the
executive officials of our company own
the entire plant. 1t is absurd, for
these executive officials Of our com
pany are merely trustees OF the prop
erty. for the stockholders, and none
of them are rich men, nor have they
very heavy holding of the stock. 1t
is true that certain reputed rich men
have large holdings of the stock OF our
company-some OF them being on our
Board of Directors-but not one oi
them has madc any money whatsoever
O of dealing in our stock. They nave
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
NOTICE OF PUBLIC TRUSTEES

Whereas. Isidor Coret. by deed of
rIst ber dated The 2eth day Of s Sepssem, sea,
22i5, page ,sO6, of the records in the
office of the Clerk and Recorder of
the City and County of Denver. Colo
Trustee. in and for the City and Coun-
ty of Denver. Colorado, the following
County of e Denver. Hr colorado, rad 'tS toS-Wit' W.T.
Kittredge's Resubdiyisi of Block
Heights, together with ali improve
ments thereon. which deed of trust
wa, was made to secure the payment Of
his promissory note of even date with
said deed of trust. for the sum of ST.
10000 dollars. payable to the order of
Jessie N. Hodgson, three years aft er
the date thereof with interest there
on at per cent per annum until paid,
interest payable quarter annually. as
deed of trust, reference to which is
hereby made for greater certainty,
and,
Whereas, The. said Isidor Coret.
having defaulted 'in the payment of all
principal and interest since June 90,
1913, and the legal holder of said note
having elected on account of said de-
fault to declare said note unpaid, due
and payable,
guest of Jessie N, Hodgson, the legal
holder OF said note, pursuant to law.
ana II for the citv % and e Conntv r1s'ee nf Dem IN
yer. Colorado. do hereby give notice
that | Will, at the hour OF 10 o'clock in
the forenoon of
MONDAY, JANUARY eth. 1914.
at the fremont street front door of
the Court House. in the City and
county OF Denver; Colorado, sell at
public auction. to the highest and best
bidder for cash. the said described
premises. and all the right title and
interest of the said Isidor Coret heirs
and assigns therein. for the purpose OF
paying the sum of SI245.50 (befng the
Indebtedness secured by said deed of
tFuSt1, and the cost and of
executing this trust, and will deliver
to the purchaser certificate of sale
as provided by law.
Dated at Denver. Colorado, December
4th. 1913.
HENRY A. HICKS,
fuDilc trustee in and for the City and
County of Denver, Colorado.
First publication, December 6. 1918.
Last publication. January 3. 1914.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06

]. w. Anderson. general chairman
of the Queen & Crescent Railway
system, division No. 62. has been
elected Mayor of Oakdale, Tenn, and
all of the other city officers are mem
bers of some labor union in good
standing.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
BUILDING PERMITS

Notice.-An plans filed with the
City Building Department for other
than public buildings, and where the
estimated cost is less than $4,000, and
same We're filed prior to January /.
1913, will be destroyed If not called
for prior to january 1, 1914. This mo-
tice is printed because many who file
plans are not aware they can be re-
turned.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06

The Illinois child labor law has been
sustained as constitutional by the
United States Supreme Court in the
case of Arthur Beauchamp, Is years
old, who recovered a verdict of s4,50o
from the Sturges & Burn Manufactur
ing Company for having suffered an
injury of the hand.
United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06

Smith-seems to be good Democratic
name There are four of them in the
United States Senate-one each from
Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and South
Carolina.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-30

Of sugar has been dissolved. When it
begins to drip from the tube it is
caught in tin pals, and these again.
when full, are emptied into large bar
rcls drawn in a sleigh-the most con
venient vehicle for driving through the
maze of trees ana underbrush. Arriv-
ing at the "boilinghouse', the contents
Of the barrels run down a spout into
the boiling pan. which is Adopt SIX or
eight feet long, two feet wide and
three inches deep. 1t is placed on a
slight incline. to allow the sap to run
down it into the receptacle at the end.
In order that the sap shall not run
down too fast to get thoroughly boiled
by the fire which is kept constantly
burning underneath it is checked by
thin strips of wood laid across the pan
and which only allow about an inch
Of space through which it can pass
The nearer the sap gets to the lower
end Of the pan the thicker it becomes
until. when il reaches the final recep-
taclc, it is that beautiful clear brown
color and has acquired that delicious
taste that has 50 many limitations and
no equals. The price OF the syrup alt
tine boiling house itself is usually Il
dollar and quarter gallon. Maple
sugar is practically maple syrup in a
solicited form. caused by a continual
ton of the boiling process and. as it
necessitates the use of more sap, it is
naturally more expensive.
Arizona republican., 1913-05-30

dry gains. Later the nearby rural
precincts began to be heard from ana
showed that the dry sentiment in
them had not abated within the last
two years. But as soon as the count
was wen under way in the inside
city polling places it was disclosed
that the prohibition sentiment
was stronger than it had been sup
posed to be
Each Of the four precincts Of Phoa-
nix had been subdivided, the first
three wards into polling places des-
ignated \. b and c Those deslgna-
ted c lie outside the limits. Those
designated y are in the central part
Of town ana All Of them went heavily
wet All the r precincts went dry
except in the third ward where
there was a tie.
The following is the result within
the city limits:
The chronicle=news., 1913-08-06
IN TIit; IIDI'SE.

Washington, Aug. s.-Eramins-
ton Of Martin NJ Muihnil. self
styled lobbyist Of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers. was post
poncd by til. oust lobby committee
until Monday. II, the rcaucs, Of llul-
hall. who announced that in tn. last
few days he had discovered in his
files In Baltimore som. zoo addition
al letters bearing on National Poll
ties and he believed n given - few
days he would b. abl. to discorcr
more.
Louis Sciboid resumed the stand
and was examined briefly a. Ia his
part in the MuIhall stories prepared
Tor the New York World
TIL. committee then announced IT.
sclf without witnesses James \.
Emery having been called before the
house committee. \ recess was tax
en- until the temperance OF Emery.
The chronicle=news., 1913-08-06
LOCAL POWER CO.'S
ASSESSMENT IS.
over 4 MILLION

An increase OF '3::.3:s.0: is aI-
nounrcd by the Colorado Tax commits
sion In Its first annual assessment u
the public utility corporations OF the
state. Cnder the old iaw.thc sta'c
board or equalization only had the
power to make assessments on cor.
porxtions doing an inter-county busi-
ness. The assessments on these pub
lie utility corporations last year
based on one third valuation amount
cd to 3i6.iSs.6s2. This year based
Gu the full valuation the tax commits
sion reports q total assessment OF
11t O94.145.
The largest increase in assessment
Of any public utility corporation in
the state In levied against the Trin'-
dad Electric Transmission. Railway
aud Gas Co.. Of this city and coun-
~. In 1912 the county assessor fixed
the valuat ion of the company proper
~ at 3I5S,O73. The assessment THU
year is 3i.28s,oO0 many fold in
crease.