United labor bulletin., 1914-08-22

vital questions of the day, and prin-
ciples of industrial and social justice
must be considered in rational manner
He said the state university was not
the institution of any special group or
class, but for all the people, and that it
was great error to refer to it as n
school of the rich, and for thirty years
it had upheld the best standards of
education.
Professor Cockerell of the university
also made an interesting address.
Shot at Ammons and Farrar.
The following resolutions were
adopted amid considerable applause:
Whereas, The special session of the
Colorado General Assembly appropriated
81 100000 in lump sum to pay mill
tary expenses incurred during the Rock
efeller war on union labor, and refused
to designate that certain alien troopers
should be exempt from receiving pay as
state militia men, leaving it up to the
state auditing board to pass upon bills
submitted by Adjutant General Chase,
and his staff officers; and
Whereas, a majority OF said state
auditing board composed OF the gov
ernor, secretary of state, attorney gen
eral, state auditor and state treasurer,
mine guards and Baldwin Felts gi,nmen
enlisted in Troop a and Company B,
which precipitated and committed the
Ludlow massacre on April 20. las, in
strict violation of the terms of the -tate
constitution, and
Whereas. The governor, attorney ger
eral and state treasurer, comprising n
ma jority of said state auditing "oard.
did approve and vote for such Illegal and
unjustifiable expenditure of the peoples
money, to pay for murder and arson
committed in the name of the state,
which act has caused honest God fear.
ing citizens of this and sister states to
hear with shame the record of their Of
ficial servants. and
'Whereas, The state auditor and sec
retary of state, a minority of said
auditing board, vigorously protested
against such misappropriation of the
public funds; therefore be it
Praise Kenehan and Pearce.
Resolved. BY the Colorado State Fed
Grafton OF Labor. in nineteenth annual
session assembled. that we, as repre-
sentatives of $4,000 organized working
men and women, loyal and law abiding
citizens of this state, emphatically con-
denim Governor Elias NJ. Ammons. at
torney General Fred Farrar and State
| Treasurer Michael A. Leddy as traitors
to the state. willful violators of the con-
stitution, demeanors OF their oath of
office and entitled only to contempt and
| ignominy, and as unfit to hold any pub
lie trust, and be it further
Resolved, That we do hereby com
mand and applaud the acts of State
Auditor Roady Kenehan and Secretary
of State James b. Pearce for their
prompt and steadfast refusal to approve
or vote for any payment to such mine
guards or gunner, their Jealous regard
for the good name of the state and pro-
lection of the people from plunder by a
corrupt and discredited board of militia
officers, who are disgrace to this state
and the government, whose uniform they
are even yet permitted to year"
May Defer Political Action.
At this writing. Thursday morning,
no definite action defining organized la
bor's program along state political lines
has been enacted. A resolution, signed
by a number of delegates. has been in
troduced authorizing the Executive
Council composed of the president, sec
retary and seven vice presidents, to can
vass the records OF candidates of all
parties nominated at the state primaries
on September and publish them to the
organized voters. Should this be
adopted, as now seems probable, it will
leave the members practically free 10
exercise their own judgment to
whether a candidate would make an ac-
| ceptable official. The Democrats, Re
publicans and Progressive parties have
had agents here all week quietly work
ing among the delegates, apparently
| with Wow of gaainu that M nct inn