United labor bulletin., 1914-12-26

| " coHplete unfinished Dusluers III cou-
nection with the recent meeting of the
international executive board. He will
return to Denver in few weeks.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
owner Of the big iron mines at Sunrise,
Wyo, viii increase the force OF miners
there alter the first of the year In
\ crease orders for steel at the Pueblo
plant make it necessary to mine more
iron ore.
Members of the Trades Union Bene-
fit Club in the Quincy building had
bad scare last Saturday night when II
| fire broke out in an electric studio on
the floor below at midnight. Prompt
work Of the fire department confined
the damage to the storeroom and no se-
rious inconvenience resulted to the club.
Matt Keefe, business agent of Street
Paving Engineers Local No. 464, Chi
ago, Is in Denver and expects to spend
the winter here. He is accompanied by
Franz Kicker of the same union They
are under the special care of Ralph G.
Nose, deputy boiler and elevator in.
spector for the city
The Colorado Springs and Interurbah
Claus To its employees this year by CIV
| ing each man $1,000 life insurance
policy, the company agreeing to pay
the premium each year as long as the
men are in its employ. All OF these
employs are memebrs of the Amalgam.
ated Street Railway Employees Union
Regular semi monthly meeting of the
Trade and Labor Assembly tomorrow
at 2 p. m, Painters hall. Eighteenth
and Champa Delegates should take no.
tice that record of those present ana
absent is now being printed in the Of
ficial proceedings in The Bulletin.
Therefore answer the roll call and show
that YOU are a live one.
The funeral of Arthur Gurd. national
! secretary Of the Hotel Clerks Associa-
I tion. who died Sunday at his home,
I 1855 South Pennsylvania street. was
I held Tuesday afternoon Gurd was "A
year old and came to Denver thre.
/ year ago from Omaha. He had been in
poor health for several years. He was
editor Of the Denver Hotel Bulletin and
OF the American Greeter.
/ Whcn the Colorado Legislature meets
next month bill providing for a closed
season for bears will be introduced as
I the first step in nationwide move
ment to protect bears from eNtermina-
tion by trappers and hunters. The bill
ALREADY has been drafted by J. A. Nc
Guirc editor on Outdoor Life of this
city. Ii has the support of countless
Sport of the state and no effort
will be spared to bring about its enact
neni into law.
The Republican members of both the
branches of the Legislature have been
called to meet in Denver on January 2,
I four days before the assembling of the
/ law-making body, in order to agree upon
program and determine the appor-
tionment of patronage. Philip b. Stew
art, chairman of the Republican state
committee, and the only candidate for
speaker of the House ON his side, has
/ issued the call
The industrial committe of the Young
Woman's Christian Association gave b
I Christmas party for the factory ana
laundry girls at the gymnasium and rest
room in the Wyoming building. Ebert
Jones, the three year-old son of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Gordon Jones, dressed as Santa
Claus, distributed presents of baskets
filled with fruit. candy and nuts to the
Young women. Each guest also received
a handkerchief and candy cane. Miss
Nancy Cattell gave n reading.
Application to build new $4,000
/ iobbing plant at Thirteenth and Blake
streets was filed Monday with the city
commissioners through attorneys repre-
senting G. A. Brecht of st. Louis, Mo.
II is said 100 employees viii be given
work, according to preliminary an
] - H.,
building will be started as soon as the
permit is granted. The exact nature OF
the plant has not been made known but
Brecht is said to be an extensive job
Der for manufacturers.
Hiram +. Hits, former state senator.
but more famous as the man who was
'crowbarred' into the county auditors
office about three years ago, has been
named by Governor Ammons as a mem
Der of the board OF State Capitol mana
gers. He fills the vacancy on the body
caused by the death of Harper NJ. Ora
hood. Appointments to the board are
I for an indefinite period, the incumbents
holding their positions under the law
until the Capitol building is completed.
Most people are of opinion that the
State Capitol building was completed
several years ago.
The biennial report of Warden Thomas
j. lyman of the state penitentiary has
been presented to Governor Ammons. II
shows that during the two years end
ing November 80 the appropriations FOR
the penitentiary were SSll,2S and the
total earnings were s5l4,21T, giving TO
the state a net profit of sos, $50, which
exists in live stock and permanent i'm
provements. The total length of snew
road built by convict labor was lSo
miles. of which fully 100 We're in farm
| ing communities and viii be of tre-