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Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
CARLSON BEING B0MBARDED
WITH LETTERS AND WIRES
LABOR AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
PROTESTING LAWSON VERDICT.
State Authorities Held Responsible for
the Outrageous Court Proceedings
in Las Animas County.

Governor George A Carlson's business
hours in the state capitol on the green
swarded hill are being molested every
hour by telegrams and letters conveying
indignant protests against the verdict
rendered against John r. Lawson at
Trinidad. Labor unions. sociological and
humane societies the nation over are de-
nouneing the state administration for
permitting such a travesty on justice to
be carried on with sanction and aid of the
governor and attorney general.
Resolutions protesting against the ver-
diet and sentence We're unanimously
adopted at the last meeting of the San
Francisco Building Trades Council. and
copies ordered sent TO Governor Carlson,
the Western Federation OF Miners, the
United Mine Workers of America and the
American Federation of Labor.
The resolutions express regret that
Lawson should BE- condemned to spend
the rest of his life in prison while the
hired Hessians who killed innocent wom-
en- and children are still at liberty. ready
to answer the call OF their masters for
the next atrocious fray"
Men with red blood in their veins
cannot. must not and will not let this
travesty upon justice go by without pro-
test" writes Paul Seharenberg. secre-
tary treasurer of the California State
Federation OF Labor. The hired Rookie
feller thugs who freely shot and killed
the Colorado strikers have been turned
loose continues Seharrenberg, while
the assassius in the uniforms of the
state militia who murdered women and
children, have been acquitted. Shall we
sit idly by and see lawson placed be-
hind the bars for life."
sent the governor of Colorado by the
Walters Union of San Francisco. A
still stronger protest, containing an i'm
piled threat, was wired the governor of
Colorado by Nillmen's Union 40.
The San Francisco Labor Council
joined in the general protest OF organized
labor against miscarriage of justice.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
MOYERINDICTMENT
QUASHEDBY COURT
Judge Sets Aside Copper Strike
Cases Against Union Men
Thirty-Seven Conspiracy Charges and
indictments Found By Grand Jury
Wiped From Record Last Monday

President Charles II. Meyer and other
Officials and members OF the Western
Federation of Miners. TO the number of
thirty were freed Monday OF all
CONSPIRACY charges and indictments
found by the Houghton county grand
jury at Calumet, Mich, about a year
ago. These were the cases that grew out
OF the copper strike when a citizens
ALLIANCE mob assaulted Meyer in hotel
there and came near ending his life.
Judge T. II. 0'Brien nolle pressed the
cases tin the Baraga County circuit court
at LAnse. on motion of Prosecutor W.
J. Gaibraith of Houghton county. Meyer
was IN court ready for trial when this
actien was taken.
Tho prosecutor said "the strike has
establish in this community certain
Fundamental facts and principles. and its
conduct. leadership and subsequent
events have thoroughly discredited the
imPoried merceHary agitators and the
gospel Of class hatred"
Meyer Expected Dismissal.
Among the thirty-seven men indicted
weres Charles T. Mahoney OF Denver.
vice President of the Western Federa-
tion Of Miners, and Guy Miller, J. c.
Lowney. W. P. Davidson and Yanko
Terziel- members OF the executive eoun-
ell OF the union.
Commenting on the ruling of Judge
O'Brien Charles II. Meyer said:
Il eNpecied this. We would haze been
acquittod il brought to trial. The in
dictmHt was returned by gr-nd jury
not only prcjudiced. but acting under
control Of the mine owners.
Says Jurors Helped Depot.
''So,ne Of the men on the grand jury
We're the ones that helped 'lcport me
from Hancock. Mich
sSince the enactment of the Clayton
bill. giving organized labor the right to
pese lly convene. 10 strike. picket and
contribute TO the support of strikers,
there was nothing to do but dismiss the
case
Nv lille I never feared the outcome. it
was q body blow delivered to organized
labor, and the Western Federation of
Miners has plenty of other troubles with
out this fight. If the case had continued
it would have been persecution
Mover immediately left Calumet for
Black Hills, : D., where he has been
called for pending trials.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22

Minimum wage boards, regulating
hours of labor by law, workmcn's com
pensation. woman's suffrage and other
achievements of peaceful efforts in set
Ting industrial unrest 'are not worth
a pinch of snuff, because they get at the
root of nothing" declared Clarence :.
Darrow. the noted Chicago labor attor-
ney, in testifying before the federal in
dustrial relations commission at Wash
ington this week. He said that the
working people do not have anything
like an equal opportunity before the
law or in the courts of this country. and
that wage-carners of England have
greater liberty and freedom of action
than in the United States.
Darrow told the commission he be-
lieved the day not far distant when
jails and prisons would be abolished and
hospitals would take their places.
81 don't mean that some people will
not be confined" he said, "but they will
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
JOHN LAwsoN's MOTHER IS DEAD
Aged Lady Passes Away at Home in
New Jersey Last Sunday.

John r. Lawson, international board
member Tor District 10 of the United
Mine Workers of America, received word
last Sunday of the death OF his mother
at the family home in New Jersey.
Mrs. Lawson has not been in good
health for several months. She was a
native of Galston. Ayrshire, Scotland
and came to America with her husband
John Lawson. and her two oldest children
in 1870. For number of years the fam
lily lived in Pennsylvania, but at the
time of her death she was living at Tn
ion Hill. \. ]. She was 73 years old and
had been a widow for six years Mrs
Lawson is survived by four daughters
and three sons.
Mr.. Lawson visited his mother at her
home in New Jersey last January. He
did not 60 East for the funeral owing to
the trials now going on in Trinidad,
where he was recently convicted and is
a witness in other cases.
At meeting of the Justice League OF
Colorado in the Library auditorium sun
dav afternoon. resolutions of sympathy
We're adopted and sent to the Lawson
family, signed by the following commit
tee: Mrs. Lee Champion, Mrs Jane
Robinson. Mrs. \. \. Boyer, Mr.. h. F.
Perry.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
CONGRESS MAY PROBE
NAGEL'S NEUTRALITY

The status of Charles Nsgel as a neu-
trail member OF the board of arbitration
which sat in the controversy between the
niuety-eight Western railroads and their
employees may be made the subject of
congressional inquiry.
This matter has been thoroughly con-
siderei by all the chairmen of the local
unions of locomotive Engineers and the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen in a
recent conference in Chicago. and it is
thought such demand will be made.
The Trainmen are openly disappointed
with the award made. and ii the sus-
picion that Nagel was not absolutely un-
influenced in his action is substantiated
by am investigation. it will go long way
towards creating distrust in arbitration
as a method OF settling industrial dis
putes.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22

night at headquarters of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor in the German -Ameri-
can Trust building. Representatives
were present from the State Federation
executive board, the Colorado Justice
league, United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, Western Federation of Miners. Dem
YER Trades and Labor Assembly. Build
ing Trades Council. Union Label League.
Allied Printing Trades Council, Metal
Trades Council. and several local un-
ions and organizations. 1t was unani-
mously agreed that something must be
done to bring home to all the people the
crucial situation confronting the Iiber-
ties of those who do not bow in meekness
to the dictates of Rockefellerism in Colo
rado.
Monster Parade and Meeting.
Plans for a monster parade next Sat
urday night, composed of labor unions
and citizens generally. men and women.
were set on foot. Following the parade
there viii be a mass meeting either at
the Auditorium or on the Capitol
grounds, at which selected speakers, To-
cal, state and national viii deliver ring
ing messages OF truth about the appal-
ing conditions existing and the danger
to future rights vouchsafed under the
federal constitution.
4ne parade Will form at :3u p. m. on
Eighteenth street, with wings resting on
Champa, Curtis and Arapahoe streets.
march to Lawrence. then to Seventeenth.
mp Seventeenth to Court place. down
Sixteenth to Champa, thence to Four
teenth and GO either to Auditorium or
the State Capitol grounds. as may be
later determined. Two bands of music
Will furnish martial airs for the march
ers-
Arrange Details Monday Night
A committee from the Justice League
OF Colorado is visiting the various labor
and other sympathetic organizations each
night end urging participation in the
parade and mass meeting. 1t Is expect
ed one OF the greatest public demon
strations OF protest against judicial, ie-
gal and state executive tyranny ever
known in the West will be the outcome
of this movement.
Another meeting of the general COM
mittee of arrangements will be held Mon
day evening at 80 o'clock at headauar-
ters of the State Federation of Labor
Those desiring to contribute to the ex-
pense OF this demonstration are request
ed to send money or checks to the sec
retary treasurer of the Colorado State
Federation OF Labor, sos German Ameri-
can Trust building. At Wednesday
nights meeting $50 was pledged to this
fund.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
PARADE AND PROTEST
MASS MEETING TO BE
HELD NEXT SATURDAY
Labor Unions and Civic Organizations, Sympathizers
and Friends Who Believe Justice Should Prevail in
Colorado to Give Mighty Public Demonstration

A mighty protest parade and mass
meeting will be held in Denver next Sat
urday night, May, 20. 1t will voice the
feeling of organized labor. friends and
sympathizers against the outrageous YER
dict rendered in the John r. Lawson
and Louis Zaneannelli cases at Trinidad,
and the program OF persecution being
pursued by Attorney General Fred Far
rar under orders of Governor George A.
Carlson. Four hundred and twenty five
union officials and former strikers are
in the jails of Colorado or under exces-
sive bail bond charged with murder, ar
son and les majestic. Six victims, in
Guiding Lawson and Zancannelli, have al
ready received sentences OF imprison-
ment for life by hand-pieked juries act
ing under orders OF a specially created
corporation made judge. The people of
Denver, the state of Colorado and the
nation, are aroused over this iniquitous
form of tyranny.
Equal Justice Demanded
At the same time not a single infor-
nation or Indictment has been entered
against those who instigated and per
petrated the Ludlow massacre and other
crimes against the working people of the
state Justice" Is the demand and it
will be secured either through means Of
peace or war. say the indignant victims
of these legalized outrages
A meeting to arrange the prelimina-
ries for the protest parade and mass
demonstration was held Wednesday
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
WILSON THANKS ASSEMBLY
FOR CONFIDENCEEXPRESSED
APPRECIATES ATTITUDE OF LABOR
IN PRESENT NATIONAL CRISIS.
Secretary Tumulty Writes President
Houston in Reply to Telegram Sent
Under Instructions of Assembly.

That President Woodrow Wilson sin
cerely appreciates the attitude of organ
lied labor in Denver as voiced by the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly Mt
its meeting Sunday. May o, is indicated
Houston from Secretary Tumulty this
week. The resolutions adopted ana IN
corporated in telegram to the Presi-
dent opposing this nation becoming en-
brciled in the European war. commended
President Wilson for his wise and sane
conduct during the present national
crisis growing out of the Lusitania dis
astcr," and that "the working people.
who would he called upon TO do the
fighting. do not believe there is suffi-
cient justification for the present de
mand in certain quarters for deelara =
tion Of war"
Following Is the letter of appreciation
from the president;
The White House
Washington. ID. C.. May II. 1918.
Ny Dear Nj Houston:
The president has asked me to
thank you for your telegram OF MAY
9th, and to assure YOU and the mem
bers of the Denver Trades and labor
Assembly that he deeply appreciates
your generous expressions of conf
dence.
Sincerely yours.
J. Z. TUMULTN.
Secretary to the President.
Mr.. Clint c Houston. President. Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly. Denver.
Colo.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
WYOMING COLLECTING PREMIUMS
First Compensation Money Paid This
Week by Corporations Affected.

The first monthly remittanees from
employers of labor engaged in oxtra-ha1-
ardous work due under Wyoming's new
workmen's compensation act, became
PAYABLE this week The Union Pacific
Coal company will be the heaviest con-
tributor. paying S2,9l7lO. which repre-
sents ? per cent of its monthly payroll.
The company employs AHA miners.
The second largest contributor will he
the Superior Coal company, which will
pay SSS6.es. In the course of the year
the Union Pacific Coal company will pay
into the compensation fund about SS5.-
600, or only 5000 less than the states
appropriation for industrial insurance.
No insurance yet has been paid to in
jured employees under the new act
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
MCLAUGHLIN GOES EAST
TOlSTUDY. LABOR LAW

Il. +. Mclaughlin, chairman of the
Colorado industrial commission. will
leave Denver today saturday. for New
York to visit the New York industrial
commission for the purpose of obtaining
first hand knowledge as to the methods
employed by that body in the enforce
ment OF hthc workmen's compensation
law.
ON May 20 he will attend meeting
of insurance actuaries in New York city
who will determine the rates 10 be
charged employers in Colorado for pay
mcnt OF the indemnities to workmcn
fixed by tho Colorado compensation law.
Later il will be n part of the commits
sion's work to determine whether the
state shall charge the employers the
same rates or lower ones for furnishing
compensation insurance.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
MICHIGAN GUN MEN GO TO PEN

The Michigan state supreme court has
sustained the sentences of four strike
breakers and gunmcn imported into the
Michigan copper country by the mine
managers during the recent strike of
miners in the northern section of the
state.
These gunmcn-,James Cooper. Arthur
Davis, William Croft. and Edward Polk
inghornc-werc part of band that ter
rorizcd workers in the vicinity OF Hough.
ton and Calumet. They were found
guilty of manslaughter and sentenced TO
the Marquette prison in the upper PEN
insula Their terms range from seven
to fifteen years.
Every effort was made TO release these
thugs. who are now ordered by the state
supreme court to serve their time.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
JUROR wAGED A BET ON VERDICT
Attorney Hawkins Alleges ass Errors in
Plea for New Zancannelli Tnal.

Two hundred and thirty-five assign
meuts OF error were alleged by Attorney
Horace \. Hawkins in the district court
OF Trinidad in his motion for new trial
for louis Zancaunelh. convicted of first
deCree murder OF Baldwin Felts Detect
i've gorge W. Belcher after the first
jury had disagreed, standing eight to
four ior acquittal
haWkiEs put Lee Rollins, barber,
and steve Burkhardt. juror in the sec
ond trial. on the stand to show that
Burkhardt had made bet of 81 that
il be- were on the jury there would be a
hung Jury or hung Dago,"
One of the errors alleged * that Judge
Cranky Hillyer refused TO excuse Burk-
hurit from service on the jury.
II the Lord loved long face so,Ge
OF The people who pose a saints on
earth might get nv with the gloomy
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22

the commissioner of safety carried by
a vote of ls.l6l for to l4,7oo against.
Commissioners Sharpley and Greenlec
Those retiring from office at that time
are Commissioners Otto F. Thum and
j. NJ. Perkins. Two years hence cleo
tions will be held for commissioners of
finance. safety and improvements.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22

!N ordinary hero can die for his co,,n-
try once, but it requires the submilest
patriotism to submit to being killed
every week, as do the crown prince and
General Won kluck.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22
TELLER. SHARPLEY and CREENLEE WIN ELECTION:
OTTO THUM and TWO-PL ATOON SYSTEM DEFEATED
Combinations All Against
LabOr'S Candidate
Single Tax Showed Under, While
Civil Service and Public Utilities
Are Retained By Big Vote in
Last Tuesdays Election

HENRY b. TELLER, Commissioner of
Elections.
WILLIAM II. SHARP.EY, Commis-
sioner OF Social Welfare.
LEWIS c. GREENLEE, Commissioner
of Property.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26

have closed their home in Amelia and
arc now established In their residence
on West Avenue for tho winter.
Miss Sa!lle Saunders has returned to
Richmond. after spending the summer
in the mountains.
Mrs. Saunders Hobson has returned to
her residence on West Franklin Street,
after spending six weeks in tho North
Miss Elizabeth Jarvis Watkins. who
has been the guest OF Miss Ethel Cren-
shaw Watkins. of travellers Rest"
for the past week, has returned to her
home.
Miss Annette Tyler. OF Park Avenue.
will leave this week for the Southern
Seminary ut Bucna Vista. whore she
Will resume her studies for the coming
session
Miss Nellie Payne has returned to the
Normal School at HarrisonburE. after
visiting in Richmond and Lynchburg.
Mrs. George l.. Bowman. who has
been visiting her parents, MIR. and Mrs
~ y. Pollard, for the past three months.
left las, week FOR her home in Okla
homa.
Mrs. J. iosc Tyler. Jr. of Roanoke.
is the guest OF Or and Mrs Clifton
Miller OIL East Grace Street
Mrs. NJ !. Cuilinan. OF lclS Floyd
Avenue. has returned from an extend
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after a Wait to Rev. and Mrs. John p
Nan at BlountVille.

after yisit to Rev. and Mrs. John p.
Nan at Blountville.
Miss Minnie Mahoney and Mas Mat.
tie sublette. of Hartman. Tenn, ara
guests OF Mrs. .. Is. Mahoney on Penn
sylVania Avenue.
Mrs w, &. Croswhite, after a visit
20 her uncle and aunt. Mr.. and MIS-.
W. II. Martin, on tho Weaver PIKE
has returned to her homo at corpu.
Christi. Tex.
Miss Lucy Claire Grayson and Rob-
err V. Hope. OF Bland. Va. were mar.
siea mere this week, Magistrate J. H.
swan officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. G. l.. Hedrick are sue,ts
or Mrs Hcdrick's brother, Dr.. Josenh
y. vance. In Detroit. Mich.
hFs. 4. +. Pendleton, of Fort Worth
: EEK. Is the guest Of her sister. Mrs.
Mrs. IL. NJ. Crumley. Mrs. r. e. Cob
oie ana MRS. y. b. ReMipe have been
seieoted by the management Of the
Bristol Fair to be I'm charge OF tbs
fancy work in the %oman's department.
the fair begins next Tuesday and con.
unoes TOR four days.
Mr. anu AIRS. Howard Cochrane have
returned from Atlantic City, where thev
spent ten days. N'
Mrs. II. Fl. Andrews attended ~.
annuai meeting of the Virginia Dauah.,
tors OF the Confederacy at Danv1li.
this week. e
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26
AND NOW WE'RE OFF
The News of Readiness for Fall
and W7intar Wants
Daytime
and Evening
Autumn
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Darts style arbiters have
decreed somber back
grounds, with strikingly
original touches essentially
Partisan.
y royal response to this
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the bodice lined in silver
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The skirt pocketed and full
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Many delightful models,
at popular prices.
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BRISTOL

BRISTOL. VA. September 25.-on
Friday evening Mr.. and Mrs. John ALI
Brewer gave reception at their home
on Pennsylvania Avenue in honor OF
their son. Haven HoSe Brewer; and
bride. nee Miss Bachman. Many friends
or the family called during tho eve
ming.
Miss Louise st. John entertained the
Bachelor Maids on Tuesday evening,
confiimentary to Miss Mary Cox. the
daughter OF former Governor and Mrs
John l. Cox. who is to be married to
Joseph II. Fleming on the evening of
September 90. Tho occasion was en.
Joyed by large number Of the young
people OF the city
AIRS. Edward Munscy and Miss BERT
Munsey have returned to Washinaton
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26

turnins, they will make their home Il
Gloucester
ChRrtt. ENcst.
The women Of the Sanctuary Society
ot ST. BcncdiCts Chapel will give a
cuchrc and Parcel rariN" Oh We'd
ncSaSN evening az S:iS O'Clock in the
assembly hal, ~ the Ecncdictine Col
lrSc. corner ~ Sheppard Street and
stuart Avenue. The eUchrc game will
begin promptly at the hour stated
Refreshments will ~ served and all
interested are invited ~ attend
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9=Pho,o.>ey~rndeIEead, a. uadsTsaaa:l
G35 ,

In this couture. originated by Rosn
Pnrhau. rho hair is slightly waved aud
comhcd backward. leaving II smnll bang
over the forehead and temples. The
side of the bang il curlcd. The hair Is
drawn 20 the back. leaving the cars
uncovered. and twisted into Il smnll
knot.
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Sel. 1902 Pleasant Streee. All member.
are urged to return the envelopes To-
sued at this time.

The Helping Circle or Kings Daugh-
ters VIII meet on Tuesday afternoon
at O'clock with Mrs. Fl. ]. Ridenour
2303 East Broad Street. business OF
much Importance Is to be transacted
and every member is urged to be pres
ent,
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Returned from New England.

Mrs. William L. Turner mas returned
to the city. after spending the summer
season at New England resorts Mrs.
Turner viii spend the winter with Mrs.
Horace Wexford Jones, al 40 West
Franklin street
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26
.kprronchin" Marriage.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joh: -. Saunders an.
nouncc the engagement and approach.
ing marriage Of their daughter. lisa
belle Pearl TO Harry Edward Morris.
s"tt. of this city. The wedding will
take place in November.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-26

the ceremony to take place on Tues
day evening, October ). nj $50 o'clock
in Grace street Baptist Church, with
the pastor Rev. Lloyd r Wilson. u. D.
of!icia ting
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Closing 6 P. M. Daily
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