Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-16
Daue Coates Writes Reminiscent
Letter After Reading Bulletin
Congrauates Publishers and Colorado Labor Upon Stupen
dous Achievement of Labor Day Edition; .Now Battling
for Human Welfare Up in North Dakota

ers of North Dakota will elect every
candidate and come into possession OF
every branch of the state government.
"This farmers organization telegraphed
every senator and representative from
this state asking them to vote for the
eight-hour day for the railroad employees,
and that is going some for farmers,
who are constitutionally against the
eight hour day.
Recites Exciting Experience.
81 am glad to note that many of the
old timers are still in the game with
you, and as you meet them shake them
by the hand for me.
81 shall ever be proud of the night
/ introduced in the Pueblo Trades and
Labor Assembly the resolution which
brought the State Federation of Labor
into existence, and the work of getting
the delegates elected and together in
spite of the great Cripple Creek fire of
few days before the convention, and
the fact that Otto Thum and l got stuck
in snow storm north of Colorado
Springs on our way to appear before the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly the
Sunday before the convention.
"Fraternally yours.
"D. c. COATES.
Fargo, North Dakota"
Anderson Visits Pueblo.
Secretary Treasurer Anderson spent
Sunday and Monday in Pueblo, visiting
various organizations, and looking after
business of the Federation. The labor
movement in the Steel Works Town is
on the high tide. more prosperous and
militant than ever before in its history.
While they have taken politics out of
the central body, that does not mean
they have lost any of their interest in
the political situation OF this state. and
this fall will find them fighting shoul-
der to shoulder along the lines laid down
by the American Federation of Labor, to
support their friends and elect them to
office and to remember their enemies
and defeat them
Now that the primary is over and we
know who have been selected by the va
rious parties for the numerous positions,
the Federation will begin active work to
endeavor to carry out the instructions
OF the last convention along legislative
lines. While a number of legislative
matters We're indorsed, the repeal of the
industrial commission law will be the
paramount issue before the organized
working people of this state, and to this
end our energies will be directed
Six New Affiliations.
Several other matters that were in
dorsed by the last convention and the
twentieth annual convention which will
also receive our attention. and to elect
men to office who are in harmony with
us in these matters should be our aim.
We should also exert our united strength
to elect men to office who will enforce
the labor laws which we have worked
years to secure, which have for their
object the protection and benefit of the
working people of this state.
It is also gratifying to report to our
membership that we have six new affilia-
tions of locals of the United Mine Work.
ers of America since the last news let
ter was written, some of whom are old
locals of that organization recently re-
organized, and others organized in locali-
ties where local of that organization
was considered impossible to exist before.