Denver labor bulletin., 1915-10-09
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y WO interesting visitors to The
Bulletin office this week were
w. g. Kendrick of Atlanta, Ca,


Bulletin office this week were
w. G. Kendrick of Atlanta, Ca,
and George d. Oakley of Homo
lulu, both young men and members of
the international Typographical Union.
They came together, having just vacated
the Union Printers Home at Colorado
Springs, being pronounced cured of tu-
bercular trouble by the Home physician.
Kcndrick had been a resident there for
>~only four months, during which time he
I aimed twenty pounds in weight and
kpow looks the picture of good health.
Oakley came TO the Home from Homo
lulu eight months ago and returns in
perfect physical condition, with his
lungs performing their normal function.
After a day or two of sightseeing in
Denver, this being their first visit here,
each started for his respective home,
one in the heart of Dixieland and the
other in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Meeting at the Home strangers they
formed n fast friendship that will no
doubt last thruout their lives. As men,
bers of the International typographical
Union they had the privilege of coming
to the Union Printers Home-their owD-
home-in the health restoring climate OF
Colorado, where the white plague was
driven out of their youthful lives, and
the opportunity afforded for extending
the period of earthly existence to per-
haps the fun accorded lot of man. These
two young members, restored their
families in complete health and vigor.
are typical of hundreds of others who
have likewise benefited during the TWEEN
ty-five years this great institution,
founded and maintained by labor
union, has been in operation.
go:
During his visit to the big steel plant
OF the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
at Pueblo last week. young John ID.
Rockefeller got a taste of the risk TO
life and limb which several thousand OF
his employees undergo every day in the
year One of the newspaper men in the
party told the o. p. about it, and said
the young director, making his first
visit TO the plant in over twelve years,
displayed a steady nerve during all the
excitement incident TO the tour thru the
works He climbed narrow steel stair
ways" said the newspaper man, "crawled
over greasy places, looked into roaring
furnaces. and nonchalantly gossipcd
with rolling men in the rod mills with
ribbons Of red hot rods whirling about
him like writhing, living snakes Of fire
A dozen times during the afternoon n
misstep might have meant death or
serious injury to the richest young man
in the United States Many times he
had 10 jump out Of the way OF the large
travelling cranes and two-ton ingots of
steel lust from the crucible and throw
ing off Il white heat. At other mo
ments he obcyed the shout Of low
bridge just in time TO escape a wallop
ON the head. II was strenuous three
hours for Rockefeller. and he came out
a. ~ -
what II Is to be 4 steel worker. and no
men who endsnscr their lives in the big
mill. II was a great education for
John D.. jr."
The never ending campaign conducted
by labor unions of Denver and other
Colorado industrial centers for patronage
of home industries IL being ably and
fruitfully augmented by the Denver
Manufacturcrs' association. BE IL known
that this organization has no connec-
tion with the National Association OF
Manufacturers or the Post-Psrry Pope
brand of union labor baiter-. Tho Den
yer Manufacturer association Is friend
ly with organized labor. and in several
instances cooperation has resulted in
bringing home to consumers rcaliza.
tion OF what they owe the city and state
in which they reside and make their
living. Particularly have the printing
and cigarmsking trades. as well as the
building trades. benefited thru this co.
operation. President w. J. II. Doran Of
the association is real live wire and
IL doing n great work for Colorado. just
at present he is waging campaign
against the patronage of mail order
houses in the East. He says that Colo
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