United labor bulletin., 1914-04-18

bility. Imposters are sometimes |
found in both. The clothes do not |
make the man. Sometimes fine dress |
ers are fine men and sometimes they |
are not. Sometimes the dirty shirt |
covers the body of noble charac- |
ter and sometimes it does not. There |
fore judge the man not by the clothes |
he wears but by the deeds he does. |
In modern warfare it costs about $l5,-
900 to kill a man. In the Boer row this
item came as high as $4,000. The Bal
kan mixup with Turkey was conducted
more reasonably-$l0,O00 burned up in
making one man food for powder. Cor
gas, in the canal zone, has been saving
human life at the actual cost of $2.43
the individual. Sanitation in the 18th
mus under Gorgas has cost just 5 per
cent of the total canal building expendi-
tures.-Review of Reviews.
The Pueblo Chieftain has undertaken
the Herculean task of redeeming Colo.
RADIO from the sins of Governor Am
mons. As n preliminary step Managing
Editor Fred Marvin has written an APP
peal to editors in other states to cease
telling the truth about conditions here
of how federal and state laws are dis
regarded by the governing powers.
An investigation has Just disclosed
that there are government employees Mt
Washington who have not had a raise
in wages for 5S years. The pay of $l.54
per day. fixed in 1886, still prevails.
This Will soon be increased to min.
imum of SO through efforts of the Fed
Grafton of Federal Civil Service EN-
ployes.
Every time Denver wants to spend
money the consent of some one "Down
East must be secured. Now it has been
New York for a lawyer 20 decide wheth-
er Denver can sell SS,O0O,O0O worth OF
bonds voted by the taxpayers to buy or
build municipal water plant.
The Rev. II. A. Atkinson, representing
the Congregational Church OF America,
has been in Colorado investigating the
coal strike. "The church. to Justify it.
mission, must take a hand in these gi-
gantc Industrial struggles and square its
influence with the teachings of Christ, y
says the minister.
During the period of one year ending
with January 81, 1914, the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees of America paid 800
death benefits in the sum of $l4l .SSS.
During the six months ending with Jan
uary 81 accident benefits amounted to
100000.
President Wilson has been invited to
80. .t...r. a
Typists' Union. His eligibility rests on
the fact that he writes his important
messages in shorthand and then tran
sribes them on his own personal type
writing machine.
Many women clerks employed in the
offices of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad are Joining the Broth
erhood OF Railway Clerks, which has de-
cided to admit to membership every
woman working in this calling.
Preaching pays better than baseball
with Billy Sunday. Colorado Springs is
raising $4,000 to bring Billy to that
city as an added attraction for summer
tourists during the month OF June.
II useful men were appreciated in pro-
portion to what they do for humanity
the scavenger would stand higher in the
social scale than the banker.
Some Denver people are anxious for
war with Mexico because they have rela-
tives and meddlesome friends who would
probably join the invading army.
OPINIONS OF
OTHER EDITORS |
How Innocents Were Fleeced.
Henry Siegel and Frank +. VogeI were
two of New York's merchants princes
They are ardent believers in the open
shop. They belonged to the Merchants
Association of their city and of the
United States and were prominent in
the councils. They were at the fore
front of every move to prevent the or
ganization of their employees in order to
prevent their tthe employes) being tyr
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