Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-01
BREWERYSTRIkERS
RECEIVE BENEFITS
Each Man Out Gets 81 Weekly
From International
Fight on Coors Products Being Vigor-
curly Waeed ThruOut Colorado
and Wyoming by UnionistS

The striking brewery workers at the
Coors plant in Golden received their first
weeks strike benefits Tuesday. While
81 per week is not a great amount the
boys We're all well pleased and sad it
would be enough to keep them in trim
until their fight is won. Later on, with
donations coming in from other locals,
this amount will be considerably in
creased. Many of the members express
satisfaction at receiving 81 per weel. for
doing no work. while the poor girl. at
Coors' pottery works have to work hard
for 81 or less per week.
The working men of Golden who are
not members of the Brewery Workers
Union are to be congratulated for reius-
ing to work for Coors, and deserve great
credit for having the manhood stay out,
while three former members of the IN
ion have proven traitors to their fellow
workers. The Brewery Workers doff
their hats to the true blue working men
of Golden.
The brewery workers, those on strike
as well as those employed in the Denver
plants, wish to thank the union men and
women of Colorado for their splendid
support. A reduction in wages in these
times cannot be tolerated. Most work
ing people are receiving increases in
II
steel workers at John d. Rockefellar's
big plant in Pueblo have been given
raise. John ID. Rockefeller has a better
heart than Adolph Coors.
Many of to brewery workers are
wondering why the Coors company is do.
ing so much advertising in the daily pa
pers since the strike began. Can II be
that the people are refusing to drink ts
''Mannah." or to use its matted milk be
cause Coors reduced the wages of HE
men. some of whom had worked for him
more than thirty years?
The Coors company in their ads rec
Ommend their MALT Mannah" to the
public as a "healthful and invigoratng
beverage" How can they recommend it
so highly when Mr. COors himself -lvs
he wouldn't drink that stuff" and does
not allow his employees to drink a drop
OF it during working hours. The Coors
company also highly recommend their
matted milk for infants. If it will make
them so strong and healthy. as they
claim in their ads, the Golden people
should feed their infants plenty OF it.
so they viii be strong enough to work
in the Coors pottery for 81 or less per
week when they grow up.
The following poetic comment has been
received by the secretary of the Brew
cry Workers Union:
Vogel. Pfeil and Rehko 7~'i
Three scabs of Golden, Colorado.
Their manhood sold, themselves dis
graced,
Among respectable men they dared not
show their face.
Respect for man they dared not know.
At night they would remain at home.
Among respectable men they could not
roam.
In the morning they would crawl
Like a bedbug from the wall.
To suck life's blood from their icllow
men,
Is the ambition of these 'so-called' men
To their work they would sneak
Like a snake beneath your feet.
For the pay they now receive
Many a union man has had to bleed.
Brave soldiers they would make.
If the almighty dollar was the take.
But place honor, manhood and respect,
In danger OF being swept
From off the earth by a master cry,
For a dollar bill they'd play the spy.
Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv.