Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
PmtinsA AttendedBy Many
Dramatic Incidents
Orfaaized Labor Of Denver Cuts
LoossFrem Corporation Influence
and Declares an Honest Policy

Complete expose OF labor lobby
lists in behalf OF public utility cor
porations and removing the cloud
OF suspicion which has hung over
the Denver Trades and Labor As
scrnhly for three or four years
took place at last Sundays meeting. u
vas the culminnfion Of a dramatic scene
on the floor of the house of representa-
tsses Saturday forenoon when President
Clint &. Houston Of the Trades Assembly
caught the labor corporation lobbyists
red handed in an attempt TO deliver
organized iabor'- support to the notori-
Gus Williams -sabin Denver Union Water
company bill amending the state public
utiiitie- law in such manner a. TO de.
priyc Denver, Pueblo. Colorado Springs.
Grand Junction and other cities Of the
night 70 buy. construct. control or regu-
late their respective public utilities, anr
make The clutch OF the corporations p-r-
petuai.
President Houston Exposes Fraud.
While this hill was under eonsidcra.
ton N the house last Friday afternoon,
Representative Perry c. Dunlap OF fai-
chic read from letters and other docu-
Inrnts purporting TO be n part OF the OF
feisi records OF the Trades Assembly.
which apparently gave the Endorsement
aud approval OF organized labor 10 the
sieions corporation measure. Questioned
hs Representative Randolph NJ Hagcr-
mann Of Denver II the house was 20 un-
dersfand that the Druver Trades and La
bor As-enbly indo>ed the bill, Dunlap
replied: II am 40 informed
When this part Of the house proceed
/. =.
Roxy N1sntsin News. labor Inrn an1
si.ri. fsirnfls wrs~ Indignant Prc,kasne
lsdeI>tcs went 70 the CApito, before the
hnssp< cnasened. inmedisfely snssAf out
Representative Dunlap and demanded to
brow his authority Tor making spch
s<atement. The Pueblo representative
f~cnt to his desk. took therefrom ana
handed Houston q bundle Of Ietter. all
searinr date OF 1919. They we're ad-
dressed 70 Henry N. Cohen, former at
sarpey for the Trades Assembly. and
were from water corporations and bond
companies IN The East, all opposing mum
AsksA wkc furnished him the Ieaten
aud cAv~ him authority for thc ssase-
ment on the floor Of the house. he said
the man was Frank A. Bryan. president
ct the Trades Assembly In 1919. when
Il vas common talk In Denver and
throughput the state that the Trades As
rrspbly had been sold out TO the water
company then striving 70 secure re-
ne~a1 oi O-ycsr franchise about 10 en-
pire-
Lobbyists Caught Red-HAnded.
I,ryAn was in the house lobby at the
tune. and he was called over TO face
Dunlap. Houston denounced Bryan as =
corporation lobbyist and informed Dun
lap and other representatives who had
been attracted BY the conversation, that
neither Bryan nor Cohen represented the
Trrdee Assembly In any capacity, either
~ delegates or officials, nor had tncy TO,
two years or more. He further stated
the letter. read had never been n part
of the Trades Assembly records
A. Sundays meeting Of the Trades and
Labor Aassnbly an unusually largo num-
bcr Of le3eGntes and visitors were pres
ent In anticipation Of Developments, the
house affair of Saturday having been en-
tcnsivciy featured by the daily papers.
Early IN the meeting . resolution waa
intrcduced dcnouncing labor lobbyists
who sought 70 deliver" the Assembly
10 corporations or make deals ma repre-.
scntafives Of orRanixcd labor. The VIII
liam<-sSabiu bill was roundly denounced.
and labor's oft-rcpcatcd dcclarAtion In
favor Of municipal ownership Of public
utiIitics again reiterated. The rcsolu-
tons were introduced by Dclegates Fred
Vessel and Roy Heron. Under the r,ilea
they werc referred to the Committee on
RESOLUTIONS, composed of Delegates X. r.
Crorkey, Edward J. Hines and Jamcn @.
Bulgrr. After due consideration the
resolutions as introduced wcrc reported
back With approval Of the entire COM
mittce. They arc printed in full in an
adjoining column.
DsaIap Absslved From Dup,icity.
prsrIdcut Houston took the floor Ia
s,,pport Of the rcAplutions, and gave :
rectal Of what had occurred the day
nrcvicus In the housc Of representatives.
to- ahsolvcd Representative Dunlap from
any blame other than, through his ignor-
once Of the Denver situation, IN per-
miftine Bryan to put one over on him.
Thjs Il D,niap's first term a. legisla-
tor and he has been one Of tho few
bo,,ss members 70 protest agAinst the
treason" s'sedition'' and Other vicious
iawandortlcr anti-lnbor mcasurrs. Hous.
ton explained that Bryan was wise to
this and for that reason anxious 20 have
m,nlnp make the abatement that the
watcr company bill had organiaed la.
hor's indDrssmentj ~ coming from hin
Il would ~ mns< likely to be accepted
ns havlug antAority.
IN 0penine his argument for e4crelpq
OF The res1lutions. Prsstdent Honsser