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Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
OFFICIAL NOTICE OF UNION MINERS STRIKE AT
AJ0, ARIZONA, AND APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE

To Internationals, Central Bodies, State
Federations, Local Unions, and All
Members of Organized Labor.
Greeting: On November "a all men
employed by the Cornelia Copper com
pany, operating at Ajo, Arizona, went
on strike, and the company has been
declared unfair to organized labor for
the following reasons:
The company had promised the work
ers that the wages will be increased
with the increased price of copper, but
while copper has reached a record break
ing point, no increase has been granted.
In addition to the low wages paid, the
working conditions are of the worst. No
bath houses nor change rooms are fur
nished the workers, and they are driven
like so many cattle by the bosses.
At the time of the strike, the Carpen-
ters Union was the only local in the
camp, altho the electricians were all un-
ion men. Other crafts, including the
miners and mill men were unorganized.
The beginning of the strike occurred when
the electricians were refused the wage
scale OF other camps, and in going out
they asked all other crafts to join with
them, and while the strike originated
at the mill of the Cornelia Copper com
pany, within twentyfour hours, it had
spread to underground men in the mine.
Altho the mine and mill men were un.
organized and composed of several ma.
tiOnalities, including Mexicans and Pap
ago Indians, the response was unani-
nous. The camp is tied up and solidly
organized, the miners and mill men hav-
ing applied for a charter from the West
ern Federation of Miners, which was
granted.
While copper miners in other camps
of Arizona are receiving as high as So
and SO per day, the wages paid at Ajo
are as low as Sl.50. The men are ask
ing for a minimum scale that will equal
that of other camps in the state, with Il
sliding scale based on prices of copper,
and the crafts employed on construction
work are demanding the union scale.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
CHILD LABOR DAY
COMES in JANUARY
Will Be Observed by Schools,
Churches and Clubs
Date for Adults to Look Around Upon
the Children at Work. Find Out
Something About Them

Child Labor Day will be observed by
churches, January 2s, synagogues, Janu-
ary 2I, and schools and clubs, January
20 this year and the national child la
Dor committee announces it as 'look-
around you day The recent passage
of the federal child labor law has made
the regulation OF child employment In
factories, mills, canneries, mines, and
quarres uniform thruout the country,
but children working in stores and oil.
fices, on the streets, as telegraph mes
sengers, and in other industries not en-
gagged in interstate commerce, are out
side the field OF federal legislation and
must be protected by the states.
1t is to the children in these perfectly
familiar but more or less unregulated
industries that the national child labor
committee calls attention this year. at
is not the child in some faraway mill
or mine we ask YOU to think Of" say,
the committee, but the child just
around the corner, the cashgirl in the
downtown department store, the bakers
delivery boy, the newsie, and the mes.
senger. the child workers you see every
day and therefore accept as facts OF
life. They are not all OF them working
under good conditions. Many of them
work long hours; many OF them come In
contact with evil Influences many or
them have not had their proper school
ing. What do you know about them?-'
To facilitate the study of local child
labor conditions the national child labor
committee has issued STUDY outline
giving the main facts as to the indus
tries in which children may be at work.
an analysis of the child labor and school
laws that should protect them. and sug-
gestions for improving educational con
ditions and making school, mothers pen
sions and child labor laws coordinate.
The pamphlet also contains n program
for a child labor meeting which will be
of great help to all who plan to observe
Child labor Day.
Copies of the pamphlet together with
other special printed matter and infor-
nation as to child labor day may DC
obtained from the national child labor
committee, los East Twenty second
street. New York City.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23

Ajo is destined to be one of the larg-
est mining camps in the state of Ari
zona, and now is the opportune time To
establish basis of wages and working
conditions on an equal with those in
other camps. The solidarity OF the work
ers here is unparalleled, and we are CON
WINGED that victory will crown their eff
forts, provided they can secure the bare
necessities OF life. The condition of the
Mexican and Indian people, as well as
many of the Americans, is deplorable.
Funds are needed and needed at once.
We are willing to fight the battle and
undergo the suffering and hardships
which it entails, but to do SO we must
have the necessaries of life for ourselves
and those dependent upon us. and so we
appeal to the labor movement. The
highest skilled American mechanic en-
ployed at Ajo is standing shoulder to
shoulder with the lowest paid Papago
Indian. They have cast their lot togeth-
er and taken a solemn vow that none
will return to work until Justice is
meted out to all
We are not fighting the battle alone
for ourselves, but for the working class,
and SO we again earnestly appeal to you
for financial aid and with a parting
prayer for labor's victory, we beg to
remain
Yours fraternally,
ARTHUR +. THATCHER, Sec,
EDWARD j. GIBBONS, Chairman
Executive Strife Committee of all Crafts.
Send all donations to Arthur f.
Thatcher, Aio, Arizona
To All Organized Labor, and Those Who
Believe in Justices:
This is to certify that the above is a
true statement of facts of conditions in
Ajo, and We unhesitatingly say that
there has never been more Just cause
contended for by wage workers than that
for which the above appeal is made.
CHARLES ii. MOYER, Pres.
ERNEST MILLS, Sec'y-Treas
international Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
PUT LOAN SHARKS
OUT OF BUSINESS
Senator Elect Dunklee Draft
ing Air-Tight Bill
Victim May Refuse to Pay Both Inter-
est and Principal Whenever Loan
Is Tainted With Usurv

Edward B. Dunklee, one of the state
preparing bill which he will introduce
at the coming session of the legislature
to eliminate the loan shark evil. He
says that if this bill becomes law it
will absolutely stop the practice of TAX
ing usury in this state. Investigations
made with view to preparing this anti
loan shark measure show that today in
Denver there is S750.000 loaned that
draws 10 per cent or more per month.
This represents a huge economic loss to
the wage carners, who are the principal
borrowers from these sharks. While this
amount is loaned entirely by persons
regularly engaged in the business, other
amounts are loaned by private parties
at the usual 10 per cent per month.
Some years ago law was enacted
which sought to eliminate the loan
sharks, but provided that banks and
bankers might charge more than the
legal rate for short time loans. Under
this law all of the loan sharks imme-
diately became licensed bankers and pur-
sued their usual course.
Senator Dunklee's bill will provide,
among other things, that the sharks
victim can refuse to pay both principal
and interest if the loan is tainted with
usury 1t is believed this will put n
prompt quietus on the loan sharks pres
ent plan of threatening garnishee pro-
ceedings if payment is not Forthcoming.
1t is thru ability to use this club that
the sharks are able to do such a profit
able business.
Many working people, according to
Dunklce. fall into the hands of loan
sharks and stand to be mulcted month
after month, because the shark threat
ems garnishee proceedings, and the debtor
knows that such a court action would
most likely result in his discharge from
employment. The idea is to put the club
in the hands of the victim rather than
to let that club remain where it has
been so long in the hands of the greedy
loan shark
MANY instances could be cited where
the clutches of the sharks have brought
otherwise honest men to commit crimes.
Two men recently tried in the courts
testified they We're prompted to steal
money in futile attempt to escape the
clutches of loan sharks. Dunklee's pro-
posed bill is designed to stop such
practices.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23

tests for the crews and thus still in
many cases permits vessels to be
manned by coolies and by ignorant, in
competent persons who do not under
stand the uninterpreted emergency or
ders of their officers. Delegates to the
convention condemned Eugene T. Cham
berlin. commissioner of navigation, and
George C. Uhler. chief of the steamboat
inspection bureau, in the commerce de
partment. as being responsible directly,
and blamed Secretary Redfield as being
responsible at least indirectly, for this
violation and partial negation OF the
beneficent law.
The fast growing strength OF the fast
growing International Seamen's Union Of
America was pledged for the fight
against these administrative non-en-
forcements of the law.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
FRISCO cULINERY STRIKE IS OFF

The strike of members of San Fran
cisco culinary trades, which has been in
effect since August |, was called off last
Saturday following the action OF the
local Labor Council in voting the strike
at an end and advising the unionists to
return to work under the best conditions
they could obtain. Members OF the Mu-
sicans Union, who struck in sympathy
with the culinary workers, We're in the
same plight. The strike was called
when the restaurant and cafe proprietors
refused a demand for an eight hour day.
A large number of strikers returned to
their old Jobs, however, before such ac-
tions were officially sanctioned by the
Labor Council
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
By DANTE BARTON.

NEW YORK, Dec. l9.-At last, in
America, Jack is every inch a sailor,
and is no longer a chattel slave. The
twentieth annual convention of the In
ternational Seamen's Union of America,
which has Just closed an historic ses-
sion in New York city, celebrated this
fact by sending to President Wilson, as
its first official act, the following tele-
gram of congratulation:
"The international Seamens Union Of
America, in twentieth annual conven-
ton assembled, sends best wishes and
heartiest congratulations upon your re-
election.
For the first time in history the sea
men of America are now meeting as
freemen With your own good self at
the helm for four years more we feel
confident of our ability to demonstrate
to all America that the seamen's act,
to which you affixed your signature,
stands first for human freedom, second
for greater safety OF life at sea, and
last but not least for equality of op-
portunity for the American ship and the
American ship owner.
ANDREW FURUSETH''
100 Per Cent More Union Seamen.
President Wilson's answering letter of
thanks and best wishes was read to a
convention of forty-five delegates, repre-
senting 100 per cent more union seamen
than there were in the service of Amer
lean ships one year ago and before the
new law went into effect.
The prophecy OF Andrew Furuseth
president of the union, able seaman, and
a survival of the old Vikings, is COM
ing true: "The American sailor is 60
ing back to the sea and he is going back
a free man"
Just what that means, in its many
ways, to the United States and to the
internationalsm of the seven seas was
briefly indicated in statements made to
the committee on industrial relations by
Paul Scharrenberg, editor of the Coast
Seamen's Journal of San Francisco, and
a delegate to the convention, and was
set forth in the report of T. A. Hanson,
international secretary of the Seamen.
Shout For Flag; Hire Slaves.
Everybody connected with the sea
trades has been benefited immensely al
ready" said Mr.. Scharrenberg, except
the American investor in foreign ships
whose interest was to drive American
ships and sailors from the seas and to
keep all sailors in every world port
slaves, subject to be run down and cap
tured and turned over to slave chains
if they dared to exercise the right of
every free man and quit their Jobs.
These same investors in foreign ships,
and members of the international ship
ping trust have been the same ones, by
the way, who have talked so loudly
about the American flag, and yet have
hired Orientals at indecent wages to the
practical exclusion OF the American sea-
men.
''The American flag is being restored
to the sea, along with the American
sailor, by the seamen's act. Just con-
slider one side advantage which this
means. OF the 100000 or more union
sailors in the British merchant fleets,
more than 10000 are now serving on
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
IOWA POLICEMEN TO JOIN UNION
Davenport Force Organize and Will Al
filiate With Central Body.

Policemen OF Davenport, Iowa, are
soon to become members of n police
mans union. At a meeting held at the
city hall there shortly after roll call
Tuesday night it was decided that the
officers organize and become affiliated
with the Tri-City Federation OF Labor,
The object in organizing, it is claimed is
to secure better legislation.
Henry Hartman of the Street Car
Mems Union addressed the officers and
told of the plans. Following his talk,
Hartman presented a petition which was
signed by nearly every member Of the
force. 1t is probable that a meeting will
be held in the near future at which
time the organization will be made per
manent. Officers will be elected and a
name agreed upon. The action taken
by the police officers is similar to the
one taken by fne members OF the fire
department short time ago.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
LONGER PAY AND SHORTER HOURS

An advance OF Is 1927 per cent in
wages and reduction in hours was
granted $4,000 stove and foundry work.
ers thruout the country, under an agree
ment ratified in Atlantic City last week
by representatives of the manufactur-
ers and the international Moders I'm
ion The workday will be reduced n
half hour. The new scale will become
effective January l. The men had de
manded an increase in wages OF 26 per
cent and a reduction of one hour in
their workday. The compromise agree
ment was reached after conferences last
ing nearly week
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
Union Mined Coal

Under authority of Local Union No. 3l25,
United Mine Workers Of America, urging
all Union Men, Women and Friends of Labor,
to purchase Coal mined at the Wolf Creek
mines near Mt. Harris In Routt county. These
mines operated by the International Fuel
Company and are fair to the miners in every
respect and entitled to the support of all friends
OF labor. This coal is of a superior quality and
will prove satisfactory and economical Ask
your dealer for Wolf Creek Coal
THOMAS BERTRAM,
Pres. Local 3l25, u NJ w. of A.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Union made.-Adv.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
THE ANSWER.

Assistant to old lady. who has hand
ed in a badly spelled telegram)-What's
this word, please?
Old Lady-Never mind that, Miss; it's
none of YOUR business. They'll know at
the other end.-Passing Show.
Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23
merrp CHRISTMAS!
SsSI

The Spirit of Christmas is making itself felt in
this Christian land of ours.
Men, women and children are giving
thought to plans for making others happy on
Christmas Day.
Some will make costly gifts; some will give
little remembranceS, inexpensive, but rich in
genuine Good VIII: some will send written
messages of loving thoughts; and many. very
many will send the spoken word over the
Telephone lines.
While homes resound with Christmas merri-
ment and the very atmosphere Is charged
with Good Will to Men, the Telephone Operator
will be at her lonely post. connecting the lines
that will carry glad voices to distant friends
Her duty Is to serve, and right gladly does
she perform her tasks even while others are
making festive holiday.
And you who use the Telephone on Christ
mas Day will detect in the operators CHEEKY
Number please" the notes of the Merry
Christmas" which we wish for all our patrons.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
THE MALADY OF THE
KAISER'S FATHER

Whenever any indisposition of the
Kaiser is announced the recollection
of the malady of his father is nat
urally recalled 1t was in May,
1887, that the three German physi-
clans, Gerhardt, Bergman and To-
bold, declared that the Crown Prince
Frederic had cancer of the larynX.
DIR. Morell Mackenzie, the celebrated
English laryngologist, denied the
presence of a cancer and proposed
to charge himself with the treat
ment of the Prince. The Crown
Princess Victoria, daughter of Queen
Victoria. decided that her husband
should follow the advice Of her
countryman.
The Princess and her husband es-
tabIished themselves for time at
San Rema.' 1t soon appeared that
the German doctors were right in
their diagnosis. The cancer could
no longer be denied. Prince Fred
eric refused to allow himself 70 be.
operated upon In the meantime. the
old Emperor William died and the
Prince returned to Berlin, where he
became Frederic III. On June 5, a
year after the first Frederic sue
cumbed. DR.. Mackenzie then de
clared that he had dissimufated as
to the cancerous nature of the dis
ease through motives of humani-
ty." and wrote a pamphlet justify
ing his course. Frederic in 1887, at
the time of his death, was 81 years
old. The Kaiser William ii. Will
attain that age on January 27--I
[ Indianapolis News.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
FATHER OF PARCEL
POST" DEFEATED

Baltimore, Nov. S.-President
Wilson carried Maryland in yester-
days election by plurality estimat-
ed at Is, $40, but Congressman David
J. Lewis, father of the parcel post"
was defeated in the contest for the
United States Senatorship by DR..
Joseph |. France, whose estimated
plurality was 6,367. Lewis's defeat
was attributed largely to the open
ly expressed hostility of the Demo-
cratic organization in Baltimore
City and to the anti-prohibitionist
because of his vote in Congress for
a national prohibition amendment.
Baltimore City, which gave Presi-
dent Wilson $500 plurality, gave
Dr. France 9,7S2 plurality.
Four Democratic and two Repub-
lican Congressman were elected,
Republican gain OF one. In addi-
ton to the five incumbents, Freder-
lex N Zihlman. of Cumberland, Re-
was elected from the Sixth
District, formerly represented by
Mr.. Lewis.
Prohibition was defeated in seven
Of the eleven localities in which the
was voted upon in the
State.
Baltimore City gave majority !
against II of $4,000. Annapolis re-
ected it by 500, while Havre de
Grace, at which racing is conducted, !
vent dry by % votes. Hagers- I
own voted dry.
The budget amendment to the
tate Constitution was adopted by
bout 10000 majority.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
THE NATIONS BUGLE.
Hey, Boys, you hear that chicken

Hey, Boys, you hear that chicken
crow?
Good news comes from the West.
IT'S Woodrow Wilson once again
Once more the country's blesti
We need man of brainy head,
And brawny brains within it:
The world is spin aing like a top.
And he's the man to spin IT. d.
Grow on, aad let old Wall street
know
That money is not MASTER;
That when they spill their money
bags
We only run the faster.
Now hear that, rooster crow once
more
1t is the nations bugle,
And stfrs the blood witl1fn our
hearts
inst like old Yankee DoOdle."
-lJay Bee Gee.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
NOnagrnariany Vote.

j. N. Aspley, aged SO years, and
ABB Lyle, aged 80, cast their ballots
to-day.
Mr.. Aspley is Progressive and
cast his first Presidential ballot DOR
Zachary aylor in 1S4S.. To show
his youth Mr.: Aspfey jumped up
from the sidewalk this morning in
front of the Allison clothing house
and cracked his heels together in
the air. He resides at $50 Eleventh
street. this city.
Mr.. Lyle is 80 years of age and
east his first vote IN 1852. He is n
Democrat aad resides at 533 Chest
nut street, this city. Both are in
fairly good health.-[ Bowling Green
News.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
As Neutrals See Ii,

Now tire bitter truth, as 1t ap-
pears to- Us neutrals, is that this
fierce and bloody contest has in re-
atty no more of idealism behind 1t
than, let us say, the endless War of
the Roses. II il had We might wit
ness the destruction of life and pros
perity, the terrible hardsfiips tn Gown
on wretched non-comb atants, and
bear our own share of the general
misfortune that has fallen on Eu-
rope with greater equanimity and
less rending OF hearts. There was
indeed a moment in this war, after
Germany had broken her faith and
her treaty with Belgium. and tried
to bully her people, and England
had promised to stand by her obli-
cations, that We felt great rrinci-
Pile at stake, and in that strong
sympathy with Belgium's defense OF
her rights and her neutrality, found
it difficult not to throw aside all
feelings for our own safety and rush
to her assistance. 1t turned out that
Great Britain was not really goins
TO take up the cudgels for right
against might. but WIS bent rather
on making a business out OF wei
come opportunity, and was going TO
fight rather for her own interests
than for the ideal of safeguarding
the existence of the smaller nations.
Looking back into the history OF tho
last 20 years, the students OF Eu'
ropean foreign politics saw how IT,
entanglements had gradually pre-
pared the outbreak they We're
witnessing. And In these entangle-
ments there was pursuit of selfish
interests. and little or nothing Of
idaals.-tL. Simmons in the Novem-
Der Atlantic. ~
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
Regni.,r Hawk Killer.

A. j. Richmond. who is Keeper OF
Atkinson ParR, is fast gaining a rep
utation for craftsmanship when ne
goes out for game. Only the other
day when Mr.. Richmond shot al "a
big hawk that had one OF his fine
large hens curnered, he succeeded in
killing hawk, hen and all He has
a reputation for killing more hawks
and owls since he took charge OF
the park TRAN any keeper who pre-
ceded him. He said Monday be had
killed nearly a dozen owls and u
half dozen hawks. Il Henderson
Cleaner.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-11-15
Buy Back Captured Ships-

In addition to the purchases of
vast quantities of war munitions ~
Russia in japan, dispatch from
Maezuru to the Toxic Nichl Nichl
says that the Russian Government
has placed with the Japanese navy
an order for a number of mines and
1880 of these mines are to be built
at the naval arsenal at Maezuru.
Further. it is reported that nego-
tiations will shortly be concluded
between the Governments of Japan
and Russia over the sale to Russia
of the three old warships. The
really interesting thing about the
deal is that the vessels are among
those captured from Russia during
the war of twelve years ago. The
transaction will be dealt with, it is
said, by the Minister of Marine on
his own responsibility, without con-
sulting the Imperial Diet, though it
is said that the price of these war;
ships will be mentioned in the gen.
eral budget OF the Government and
submitted to the elaboration of the
Diet next session. The three war;
ships will therefore be Dropped out
of the navy list and then sold to
Russia.