Denver labor bulletin., 1915-07-03

c. II. Newell. editor of the Denver Ex-
press. With the assistance of his corps
of live newspaper workers in few days
time, Editor Newell secured the cooper
alton OF the state and city authorities
the park department. Bandmaster Innes
and the array of speakers for the event.
No editor OF newspaper in Denver has
ever before performed a nobler service
to the community than did c. H. Newell
and the Express ON Bunker Hill day. n
made big mark in local history.
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Roundup- and cowboys that once
formed a halo of romance and thrilling
excitement in Colorado are no more.
They are staged and shown in the movie
picture houses a. relics OF past ages.
Automobiles have revolutionized the
methods of herding cattle and sheep. and
rounding up livestock for the market.
Over in Park county. once the home OF
the bronco and the chuek-wagon. there
was a meeting Of cattlsmen last week
Sympathetic comment Was made upon
the absence Of horses in front OF the
meeting place. There was no bronco
huckiug contest ns a diversion. Instead.
thirty or forty automobiles were parked
ia the roadway. One covman happened
TO mention that the roundup was ON.
He was asked where the mess wagon
was located. and said they were not
running a wagon any more, but actually
came back to the ranch for lunch m
their automobiles and then returned 10
the SCENE Of the roundup. All these
changes have come in the last few years
and they have made a new game out OF
the cattle business. Horses are Just
being raised 10 b. shipped away to war
that's all Nobody = riding them any
more. Catilemcn don't get out and dis
GUS the fine points OF hor-eflesh. but
they stand around in front OF the hotel
and talk automobiles. It's almost incon.
eeiyahle TO the stockmen who Were fami.
liar with conditions in the old days.
- 80.
Last week Frank A Kennedy cele.
brated the twentieth anniversary Of his
editorship Of the Omaha Western La
borcr by printing an interesting history
of the papers career. and says he has
a den pa pcrcd with scalps Of other labor
papers and filled with mementocs of
twenty yeaTs IN the labor game" He
also publishes half.tonc photos of him
self a. he WAS twenty year- ago aud a.
hc j. today. which show that sadie
has grown hand-om. aud rotund in the
labor fray. And Il has been worth while
to the Kennedy family. for he puts il
this ways Il often got tired OF fighting.
but never had time TO quit. | have
learned = lot of things about the labor
union game in those twenty years. and
l expect to learn some more. In addi.
iion to having the blues. cold feet. the
mnmps and measles. Tho Western la.
borcr has been boycoited BY the Business
Mems association, by the outlaw inner
circle OF the typographical Union and
it, water carriers. by the Central Labor
Union and by Count Dombrosky of
the painters nnion, bu, the dear old rag
has lived through IL all 1, has taken
godsi care Of the Kennedy family and
grubsiaked the bunch when homestead
ing thrcc-quartcr sections OF land in the
Rosebud country" The Western Labor.
er j. one of the oldest weekly labor pa
pors IN the country. having been estab.
lished twenty-five years ago. five years
before being acquired by kennedy
According TO recent narrowing recitals.
arctic exploration is nearly as hard ON