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Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
FOREIGN HOUSES
PLUCK COLORADO
Catalogues Are Shipped dnerein
Many Carload Lots
Every Dollar Sent Away Reduces the
Opportunity Of Colorado Workers
and Starves All Home Industry

Several million dollars are sent out OF
Colorado each year to pay for goods ad-
verified in catalogs issued by Eastern
houses. This necessarily reduces the op-
portunity of Colorado working men and
women for securing remunerative and
steady employment Most articles SO
purchased are produced in Colorado and
the supply would be adequate to meev
every demand if the purchasing public
could only realize the importance of
patronizing home industries. For years
| the labor unions have been preaching
this slogan, and now the Denver Manu-
facturers' association is conducting an
active campaign along this line
Recently catalogs of New York and
Chicago mail order houses have been
brought to Colorado points for distribu-
tion in carload lots. They look upon the
people of this state as easy victims to be
| fleeced. Not a dollar spent in this
manner ever returns to Colorado tc aid
the workers, manufacturers or merchants.
That President W. ]. H. Doran of the
Denver Manufacturers' association Is
wide awake to the situation il evidenced
by the following letter:
Denver, Colo, March q. 1915.
Chamber of Commerce,
Canon City, Colo.
been called to an article which recently
appeared in one of your papers which
says that the biggest lot Of mail ever
received in Canon City arrived there by
freight from Chicago few days ago, and
is to be put in your postoffice for dis
tribution throughout the state. The
mail in question, we understand, is made
up of catalogs advertising the wares OF
a New York wholesale firm.
1t is evident that the New York mail
order house contemplates taking thous-
ands of dollars out of Colorado without
any of this money passing through the
hands of our local merchants. This is
one of the great evils afflicting Colorado,
and It .rpears that the only relief IN
sight is tie education of the penple as TO
the significance of deals of this charac-
ter.
We are calling your attention to this
in hopes that you will have an oppor-
tunity to. bring it before your members
at some meeting. Each dollar sent East
to this mail order house will be taken
out of Colorado's pay roll and deducted
from the available patronage of Colorado
merchants. 1T is harmful in the extreme,
and the few cents that person. may
save by sending the money east does not
offset the loss which accrues IN other
directions. If you can get your local
papers to use something on this, 1T will
be to our mutual advantage. -
With best wishes, we are, n s.
Very sincerely,
DENVER MANUFACTURERS ASSN,
By W. J. II. Doran, President.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
Stage Employees

The Evansville Wonder" has recov.
cred the Little Mother" who, after =
serious illness, has sufficiently recov-
cred to be home again with the kiddies
and father. We congratulate both on
the rapid recovery and sincerely trust
that from this time ON old man bad
Luck" will be expelled from their home
forever.
Sam, the faithful volunteer dispenser
of liquid rejuvinator at the club, Ia
decorated with beautiful new produc-
tion, carrying the union label. Now il
Sam will discard certain Objectionable
sweater, forever, every friend and most
of his foes will admire his new raiment
and all declare him the Beau Brummell
of the Curtis street regiment.
The fly floor force of the Tabor Grand
is certainly enjoying life as lived by
flyman this week. A circIs in an
opera house is brand of perfume that
reqHi<es some education to enjoy and
the rope stretchers get it all, but do not
seem to enjoy it is they should. "Bo-
says that circus bees have wings and are
invading the loft, while Henry avers
they have parachutes and are coming
from above. Both are agreed, however,
that the bees are in the gallery and a
concerted attack is expected in force to
expel the invaders.
Gricourt, the power above at the Or
pheum, claims that Husband" has hung
everything on set Of lines this season
except the cellar floor, and now he wants
to have chat on trips SO that the water
from the animal room will run down the
sewer.
Coping, Van Camp, Woods, Stuart
and Mcfarland, farmers. What are we
going to do for stage mechanics. AND
now Barger is going, too.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03

Send The Bulletin to distant friknds.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
MOTHER IN GREECE ASKS DAMAGE

Left peniless and alone in Athens,
Greece, through the death of her son in
coal mine in Boulder county, Mrs.
Helen ]. Papanagopulos has started suit
in the United States district court OF
Denver through Attorneys Garwood &
Garwood against tie Foy Coal Mining
company for 5000 damages. The plaza.
tiff's son, Nicolas Papanagopulos. was
killed in the Fox coal mine, December 20,
1914, when heavy piece of coal fell
from the roof of the mine and crushed
sending part of his earnings to his moth
er.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
WAS VISITING DEnvra .RnuRa

Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Campbell Of Cripx
pie Creek were visiting in Denver lass
week, gnests at the Garman home. Ed
Campbell was for years prominent in the
labor movement being SECRETARY Of Grip
pie Creek Miners Union No. 20 and fire.
quently delegate 70 tie W. =. Of n.
Of the Colorado State Federption and
also president Of that body for . short
period. For the last few years he has
been leasing and now has good thing
in the Isabella.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
FULLER HERE AFTER BACK PAY.

Melville E. Fuller of Pueblo, a mem
ber of the Plumbers Union, state license
collector under former State Treasurer
Leddy, made demand on Treasurer
Stocker for salary, covering the months
Of January and February. Stoclcer
claims Fuller was discharged the day he
took office, but Fuller, who was not IN
Denver at the time, asserts he never had
any notice Of dismissal.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
Plumbers

Both houses Of the Oklahoma legisla.
ture have passed the Hudson plumbers
bill, which provides for the creation Of =
board Of examiner and inspectors Of
plumbers in every Oklahoma city and
town Of over 1000 inhabitants.
L. O. Boyle, attorney for the thirty six
master plumbers convicted IN the federal
court at Des Moines February "a last,
on the charge Of violating the Sherman
antitrust law, declared before Judge
John C. Pollock Tuesday that the evi-
dence in the trial was not sufficient 10
warrant the blanket verdict Of the jury.
The master plumbers are demanding .
new trial.
Beats them all. La Belle SC cigar;
union made in Dcnver.-.Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03
OPEN 10 ALL UNION MEN.

II you arc . member Of labor or
ganixa tion you are elegible to member
ship in the Trades Union Benefit As
ISOLATION. IT'S = place worth while.
Second floor Quincy building. There's
where you meet the people you know
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03

Beats them all La Belle SC cisar,
union made in Denver.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03

Trysa Principe dc Lees cigar for An
aftsr-dinner smoke. Union mads-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1915-04-03

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
aftcr-dinncr smoke. Union mndc.-Adv.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

Call ye that a society where there
is no longer any social idea extant;
not so much as the idea of common
home, but only of common, over
crowded lodging house? Where each
isolated, regardless of his neighbor.
turned against his neighbor, clutches
what he can get and cries Mine. A."
and calls it peace because in the cut
purse and cut-throat scramble no steel
knives, but only a far cunninger sort
can be employed. Thomas Carlyle.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
(By {. P. Marsh, President Washing
ton State Federation of Labor

(By {. P. Marsh, President Washing
ton State Federation of Labor
Some of the strangest chapters in
American history are being written in
the state of Colorado. The unbeliev-
able greed of the Standard Oil inter
ests. the absolute domination of the
civil and military authorities by 20
Broadway, the heroic struggle of
those miners to achieve a measure
of industrial freedom, form a drama
the like Of which America never saw
before. We thought when the rifles
of John DIS hirelings flashed at Lud-
low and defenseless women and chill
dred died. that the last Infamous
chapter had been written Terrible
as was that measure it still pales be-
side the travesty on justice which con-
demned to a living death, John X.
Lawson. | make this statement ad-
visedly. In theory democracy rests
upon the foundation of obedience to
law. That the passions of men may
be restrained, that the strong shall
not prey upon the weak, that the hum
blest citizen may feel the protecting
arm of law thrown around him, we
have built up through the centuries a,
judicial system. When those who have
sworn to uphold the law, to deal JUS
tice, deliberately trample all the prln-
ciples underlying legal procedure I'M
der foot, what greater crime against
human rights and human liberty can
be committed?
There is no escaping the indictment
brought before the bar of public opln-
ion against Standard Oil as result
of the Lawson trial Frank p. Walsh,
chairman of the Industrial Relations
Commission, than whom no ADLER,
more fearless tribune of the cause OF
humanity has appeared in public life
during the memory of this generation,
probed TO the core of the Colorado
situation and fixed the blame for the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

Last week when the Associated
Press carried reports that the conser-
vative elements of the United States
Industrial Commission had "squelch-
ed" Walsh and the other members OF
the committee that wanted report
with teeth" it began to look as tho
the people were to be cheated. 1t
was reported that Expert Investigator
Basil M. Manley had prepared re-
port that was said to fairly bristle
with unpleasant facts, but that the eli
nancial" members of the commission,
led by Mrs. Hartman, had successful
ly prevented it's publication.
But those of us who have watched
Walsh should have known that he
would have found a way out of the
difficulty and that he and his militant
hackers would have their way. Then
came the announcement that the Man
ley report was the one that was or
dered printed and will form the re-
port of the commission to Congress.
This has been accomplished only aft
er one of the hardest fought battles
that has marked the sessions Of any
congressional committee.
Through it all Chairman Frank
Walsh has been the one dominant fig
ure; the one rock that the opponents
have crashed against with their waves
of criticism and through it all he has
stood staunch and firm. The success
of Walsh in forcing the acceptance of
the Manley report by the commission
is a clear-cut defeat of the Rockefeller
influences that have striven to have
the report contain only a glittering
mass Of generalities.
The Manley report declares the fol
lowing to be the condition of labor
and industry in America:
One-third of the millions of work
ingmen in the country are poverty
stricken.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
EMPLOYMENT PLAN URGED

Observation-Disclosures conference
in this city organized labor, aid So
cietes and the state department of
labor and industry joined hands in
recommending a state bureau of en-
ployment An official of the Fedora
ton of Italian Societies said such
bureau would prevent exploitation. 1T
is nothing uncommon for contractor
to force a man to wait five days for
one days pay" he said. 81 have known
poor Italians to make three or four
trips to Germantown from the Ital-
ian colony to collect wages for a few
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
Let Labor Day be a Day of
Protest Against Lawson Sentence
Unjust Court Decision Far Reaching and Must Be Revers

The organized labor movement of
America seeks to vindicate the prin-
ciples of law, the principles that guar
antee the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of Justice and that vindication
must come through reversal of the
sentence of life Imprisonment upon
John r. Lawson.
Throughout the United States next
Labor Day it will be day of protest
against the shameful part played by
Standard Oil interests in the annals of
legal procedure. Through the active
work of the United Mine Workers,
the organization primarily concerned
in the Colorado situation, Lawson
protest speeches" have been arranged
for in many cities. Organized labor
proposes to lay bare the whole hideous
conspiracy on that occasion and let
the American people look upon the
structure that has been buifoed under
their noses. John r. Lawson is the
medium through which labor speaks
to America. Lawson is big enough,
self-sacrificing enough to take his
medicine calmly-and it is an awful
thing to be forever shut away from
Gods sunlight, to look no more upon
the flowers and the green swar1, never
to clasp again the hands of loved ones
or look into the eyes of those who we
called comrades-if through that sacri-
flee he could bring one step nearer
the day when his people should be
free men and women.
Lawson must not be called upon to
make that sacrifice. In this case JUS
tice and right can be indicated only
by a decision from the higher courts
giving Lawson back to his family, to
his organization and to society.
On this coming Labor Day, when
we turn our thoughts to the great
problems of life which so vitality af-
feet labor, let US not fail to voice our
protest against industrial wrong as
typified by the Lawson case, Labor
must and will be heard.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
Founders of
Labor Dav

According TO Terence \ POWderly.
for many years head of the Knights
of Labor. Labor Day had no father. "
There has been a friendly controversy
in labor circles as to who was it's
founder
"The man who named the day was
Robert Price. a coal miner" said Mr.
Powderly. This occurred in New
York city Sept 5, 1882 The general
assembly Of the Knights of Labor was
meeting in New York Matthew Nc
CURE, secretary of the Central Labor
union Of New York, invited the gen
eral assembly to review a parade OF
1orkIugmen AS general master work
man, or head of the organization,
placed the Invitation before the gen
eraI assembly and It was unanimous
ly accepted
we went to the reviewing stand
Bob Price, one Of the workers of the
Knights of Labor. sat near me. He
was a big fellow. standing six feet
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

Mitarism n 1910 cost the United States in time peace
the equivalent of throwing all the bonds stocks mortgages
the and buildings and all property of ALL kinds
Harvard University into the twenty days.
Kirkpatrick KS epOch-makng book War What FOr?'
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
Industrial Relations Committee
Reveal the Causes OF Industrial
Unrest--Wo rkers Themselves
Must Apply the Remedy

Thirty-seven per cent. of the wives
and mothers OF workingmen are forced
to do hard work themselves to help
keep the wolf from the door
Five hundred dollars per year is
the income Of half Of the wage-earn.
ing fathers.
Less than SIS per week is the wages
of two-thirds Of the adult male work
.ers.
Nearly half Of the women workers
earn less than S. per week.
Three or more persons occupy ev-
cry sleeping room in 81 per cent Of
the workers homes.
Babies of the poor die three times
as fast as those Of the rich.
Nearly 20 per cent. Of the school
children of this country are underfed
and undernourished
One out of every twelve corpsas in
New York is buried in the potter's
field.
Economic pressure forces two-thirds
of all children to leave grammar
school before graduating and only 10
per cent finish high school.
Farm tenancy is increasing at an
appalling rate
Workers in the basic industries are
out of jobs one-fifth of the time.
There are forty-four families with
incomes equal to the earnings of 100,-
900 workingmGn.
The (rich) per cent. of the people,
own so per cent of the nations
wealth; 65 per cent own les than 5
per cent.
Industrial conditions are responsible
for our biggest crime problems.
Labor and living conditions in this
country are such today that immi
grants come only from Italy, Russia
Austria-Hungary and other back
ward" nations of Europe.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
LABOR
BY Berton Braley


Out of chaos, out of murk
I arose and did my work;
While the ages changed and sped,
was toiling for my bread.
Underneath my sturdy blows
Forests fell and cities rose.
And the hard, reluctant soil
Blossomed richly from my toll.
Palaces and temples grand
Wrought ! with my cunning hand.
Rich indeed was my reward
Stunted soul and body SCARED
With the marks of scourge and rod.
I, the tiller of the sod,
From the cradle to the grave
Shambled through the world-a slave,
Crushed and trampled, beaten, cursed
Serving best, but served the worst,
Starved and cheated, gouged and
spoiled,
Still | builded, still I toiled,
Undernourished, underpaid,
In the world myself had made.
Up from slavery l rise,
Dreams and wonder in my eyes.
After brutal ages past,
Coming to my own at last.
I was slave-but I am free!
was blind but I can see!
I, the builder, I, the maker,
!, the calm tradition-breaker,
Slave and serf and clod no longer,
Know my strength - and who is
stronger?
I am done with ancient frauds,
Ancient lies and ancient gods
All that sham is overthrown,
! shall take and keep my own.
| Unimpassioned, unafraid,
Master Of the world I've made!
La Follette's Weekly
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

and Canada met in annual convention
at Columbus, Ohio, December SIP,
1886. and there joined forces with
what was called the Trade Union
Conference" and american Fedora
ton of Labor" became the official title
Of the organization. At this session
the legislative committee, in its re
port to the convention, said
AT the fourth session Of the FEEDER
alton a resolution was adopted making
the first Monday in September OF each
year Labors national holiday and
recommending its observance by wage
workers generally throughout the
country This met with a response
that exceeded the most sanguine eX-
pectatons. In our great manufacture
ing and distributing centers, thou
sands of wOrkingmen marched i'm pro
cession and participated in the fes-
Invites of the picnic grounds where
the most skilled mechanics and work
. ers in professions and laborers united
In a common celebration, exchanging
friendly fraternal greetings while lis
tening to the champions oil Labor
discussing the economic ana political
questions of the day The GOOD ef
fects of this are so well understood
that we recomGend its more general
. observance still until it. shah be- as
uncommon for a man to work On that
day as on Independence Day
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Origin of
Labor = ay

The initial action .aken to establish
our Labor Day setting apart one day
in the year on which to review the ac.
tiyIues and beneficent influence of
Union Labor. occurred at the after
noon meeting OF the third day
of the fourth annual session Of the
Federation Of Organized Trades and
Labor Unions Of the United States and
Canada. October 9, 1884, the conyen.
ton being held in Schloesser's Hail
Chicago. The resolution creating La
Dor Day was introduced In the con
vention by A. C. Cameron. a delegate
from the Chicago Trades and Labor
Assembly and was as follows.
Resolved, That the first Monday in
September Of each year be set apart
as laborers national holiday, and
that we recommend its observance by
all wage-workers, irrespective Of sex
calling OF nationality"
William J Hammond, Of New Or
leans. representing the international
Typographical Union. was president Of
the convention. The accredited dele
gates to this convention numbered
only twenty-six.
The Federation Of Organized Trades
and Labor Unions Of the United States
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

three inches. Next to me on the OPP
posite side was Richard Griffith.
AS the parade was passing Price
leaned over to me and shouted to Crit
fifth, This is Labor Day in earnest.
Uncle Dick
THAT was the first time | had heard
the expression Labor Day The same
evening We discussed informally the
adyisabiity of having a day set apart
every year to be observed as Labor
day. Other conferences followed. A
decision was reached that it would be
an excellent thing to have day set
apart, and the first Monday in Sep
TENDER was agreed on as the day.
The first bill introduced on the
subject was by Edward f. Riley, a
member of the New York state sen
ate, on Jan 4, 1887 The bill was
passed by the legislature and approved
by the governor May 8, 1887 Mean
while / sent copies of the bill to the
governors of all the states and to
prominent members of the organiza-
tions who were members of state leg
islatures
State Senator J j DAILY of Oregon
introduced a bill on Jan II, and it
became a law in that state Feb. q,
1887 Oregon, therefore, was the first
state to pass a law creating labor
day other states followed. The fed
eral law was not passed until 1894. "
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hours work"
Prof. Willis, of the University of
Pennsylvania, said:
big business today is represented
by superintendent and foremen, who,
as a rule, are the most inhuman insti-
tutions in our American life AS a
result, we have thousands of men
shifting from one job to another.
which means economic loss and much
human suffering"
President Maurer, of the state fed.
Grafton of labor, supported this claim,
declaring that employers vest too
much authority with subordinates.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

whole rotten mess at the door of 26
Broadway
No matter what the type of man
who defies the right of organized CAPT
tai to enslave the toilers, be he ultra
radical or ultra conservative, that man
is marked to be broken and crushed,
his power to rouse and unite his fell
lows ended. No man who knows John
r. Lawson could call him radical"
not in the sense that he would take
the life of any man, harm a hair of
his head. Lawson fought system,
not individuals. Dealing daily with
men whose primal instinct was to
strike out an injustice with the only
force they knew anything about, physi-
cal, his counsel always to his people
was to refrain from physical violence
of any sort. In the blacklist days of
Ludlow he sought constantly to re-
strain his people from violence, APP
pealing with all his powerful personal
ny llldL lCdoOll anu pdIlClICC
guide him. He believed that the law
of physical force reacted in the end
upon those who invoked it.
LAWSON'S REAL CRIME (O
Standard Oil never tried Lawson
for murder, that was a subterfuge;
Lawson was tried upon the charge
that he led an organized resistance
against the tyranny of a great finan-
cial institution, a resistance that
threatened a continuation of unholy
profits. Let us get that clearly in our
minds and each succeeding scene of
the great Colorado drama stands out
in bold relief before us
The organized labor movement of
Colorado and of the nation has taken
up the case of John R. Lawson and
has appealed it to the court of last re-
sort in this country the conscience
and the brain and the love of liberty
of the American people. The legisla-
ture and the courts of Colorado in this
travesty on justice went through the
pretended forms of legal procedure