United labor bulletin., 1914-05-09
THE OPTIMISTIC
HuOSOPHER

1t pays to wear smiling face
And laugh our troubles down;
I For all our little trials wait
Our laughter or our frown.
Beneath the magic of a smile
Our doubts will fade away
As melts the frost in early spring
Beneath the sunny ray.
1t pays to help worthy cause
BY making it our own,
To give the current of our lives
true and noble tone
It pays to comfort heavy hearts
oppressed with dull despair,
And leave in sorrow -darkened lives
A CLEAN of brightness there.
Postmaster Sherman s. Bellesfield of
Pueblo came up last Saturday to for
mally tender his resignation as state
senator to Governor Ammons, being dis
| qualified under the law from serving in
both capacities. For two terms in the
House of Representatives and one term
| of four years in the Senate Bellesfield
who is a union printer, made good with
the working people and had the approval
of every right-minded citizen of his dis
trict and the state as well. His absence
iAoiH tue special SESSION Inucn re-
GREETED, as his recognized ability rs a
parliamentarian and debater would have
been valuable to the labor forces in the
crisis now confronting them in this
state. He was appointed postmaster by
President Wilson more than eight
months ago, before the present coal
strike was inaugurated. As postmaster
of Colorado's second largest city Bellies
field has already made splendid record
for efficiency and courteous treatment
of attaches and patrons.
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General" John Brown returned to
Denver this week, having voluntarily
surrendered his command Of the strikers
psuedo- military camp at San Rafael up
on arrival of the federal troops. His
army" comprising many nationalities
some of them heroes of the Balkan war,
were willing to accept the rule OF Uncle
Sans men, but would never permit their
| guns to be turned over to the state
militia. The general says he had great
| difficulty in restraining his men from
attacking the state troops at Ludlow
under HamroclS and Llnderfelt. and was
able to do this only by reason that
| President Mcl.ennan was held "A prisoner
in the militia camp and would have met
the fate of Louis Tikas had the attack
been made. Brown said after the first
day his men were well provsoned and
that they were good soldiers" in every
sense, obeying his orders as conveyed by
Interpreters without the least opposition.
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The Rev Arthur J. Finch. state super
intendent OF the Anti-Saloon League. was
a very much crestfallen man this week.
Monday, accompanied by a number of
ministers and women Temperance adyo-
| Gates. he marched to the state house and
entered Secretary of State Pearce's Of
| flee to file petitions for statewide
prohibition election this fall. Each petit
tion bore the signatures of 10000 citi-
zens. which had been secured after con-
siderable physical effort and the expend-
iture. of neat sum OF money. When
the state official focused his penetrating
optics upon the petitions he found they
had been prepared under the old forms,
did not comply with the new law for
protection OF the initiative and refercn-
dunn, and were therefore invalid.
Among other omissions, the petitions did
not bear the clause warming persons
against fraudulent signatures and did not
give the ballot title Of the proposed con-
stitutional amendment. Therefore the
work will have to be done all over again
before Colorado can be made dry
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Among the many eastern newspaper
men in Denver this week to make copy"
for their periodicals was Norman Hap
good. now editor of Harper's Weekly,
and formerly with Golfers having come
here to get first-hand information. He
declared that labor had not only the
right to form unions and be recognized,
but should have representatives on the
boards of directors of all big corpora
tiops. In discussing this subject with
the o. r.. Mr.. Hapgood said:
1T is absurd for anyone to claim that
laboring men, individuals. can deal
successfully with corporations. 1t is per-
fectly illogical for such to be the case
when capital in the last few years has
ceased entirely to be individual. A cor
poration is an artificial creation. 1t is
something which enables money to work
in large units. II is based on the prn-
ciple that it serves the interests of your
money and my money and Jones' money
to combine all our moneys and act as "A
great unit. Labor has tried to do the
same thing with individuals, trying TO
combine individual forces to serve their
mutual interests in a large unit. They
have found this combination necessary
for efficient action under modern con
ditions. When corporation says il will
| not recognize IhDor as an organization
but as individuals it is talking perfect
nonsense"
SiPte the arrival OF Uncle Sans khaki
boys. who are real soldiers, the recruit
ing of labor men by the Workers Defense
League has not been so apparent. How
ever, scores of drill teams are forming
in Denver and other sections Of the state
and the manual of arms is being taught
by those who had military service dur
ing the Spanish American war. The
boys are determined to be prepared in