Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-14
The qheOptinistic
Philosopher

whiskers the equal, if not the superior,
to those which adorn the front side of
Justice Hughes, is of small consequence.
Certain it is that the Illinois senator is
puncturing every charge lodged against
the Democratic national administration
by the Republican candidate. Senator
Lewis really made good labor speech,
declaring that he himself had assisted
in drafting the eight-hour day bill that
a,erted strike. This law" said he,
mot only benefited 100000 men EN-.
ployed in the transportation service of
the railroads, but also was of immediate
benefit to lO0,OOO,OO0 people of this na-
tion who would have suffered by q tie.
up of transportation service. / hope to
see the day when no wage Garner in
the United States is compelled to work
more than eight hours a day. 1t is a
od-given law, for when this universe
was created, each calendar day was
made to consist of twenty-four hours,
which divided in three equal parts gives
eight hours for work, eight hours for
social recreation and eight hours for
Sleep
William L. Chenery, who for a brief
period was chief editorial writer on the
ducts "I'he Guide Post" column for the
Chicago Herald, is writing some splendid
articles for Life and Labor" monthly
magazine of the National Woman's
Trade Union League of America. 1t was
Chenery who wrote the famous edito.
rial in the News entitled "The Massacre
of the Innocents," the day following the
slaughter of women and children at Lud-
low by the Colorado national guard. The
editorial was reproduced in more than
two hundred labor papers and maya
zines thruout the country, but it caused
the immediate discharge of Chenery
from his editorial position on the News.
Many have asked the o. p. what became
of this editorial writer. and we are
therefore pleased TO furnish this infor
nation.
By q freak slip OF the typewriter or
linotype. the o. p. was made to say last
week that the article by Harvey O'Hig.
gins. entitled John r. Lawson, Miner"
appeared in the Cosmopolitan Magazine,
when a matter OF fact, it should have
read METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE.
The article is in three parts, the first
part being in the November number, now
on the news stands. That much interest
is Delnp TAKEN Dy ~ ne buietiH rehueIs
in the Lawson article is indicated by
numerous letters and phone messages
complaining that they failed to find it
in the magazine named last week. Get
it in the metropolitan
Mrs. Ellis Meredith Clement of Den
yer is in Chicago. where she this week
became associated, with the Western
Bureau of the National Democratic Com
mittee to assist in the Wilson campaign.
All of the Chicago daily papers have
printed interviews with Mrs. Clement
concerning the fight being waged in
woman suffrage states of the West by
the National Woman's party against
President Wilson and Democratic con-
gressmen. She declares that Wilson has
done about ten times as much for wom-
ans suffrage as any other president We
have ever had, and says this I. w. W
branch Of the woman's suffrage move
ment is making friends for Wilson
among the womer voters every day.
Says she: "The bitter and vindictive
manner in which these women are wag-
ing their fight will set womans suf'
frage back in this nation twenty years.
Naturally Democratic women do not like
them, and Republican women regard
them much as the British did Benedict
Arnold--useful to their cause, perhaps,
but traitor just the same"