Denver labor bulletin., 1916-09-23
Bouquets
From Labors Flower Garden

iiouiei E. Duuu, COuueCLeQ Win Ln6 CQl-
cago branch of the Mergenthaler Limo
type company, writes:
Dear Friends Houston and Hines:
The Special Labor Day Edition of The
Denver Labor Bulletin renched me in
due course. I have, since the day of
its arrival, gone over its pages from
time to time, reading the interesting
matter it contained To use q slang
phrase, this issue of your paper is a
'humdinger!" After l have finished it.
will pass The Bulletin on to another
former Denverite, from whom you will
no doubt receive a subscription. An Is
sue such as this ought to make you
boys feel pretty good, as it is bound to
cause labor papers elsewhere to sit up
and take notice"
Messrs Houston and Hines, Editor and
Manager Denver Labor Bulletin, Den
yer, Colo.
sirs: Am taking this opportunity of
thanking you for the splendid Labor
Day number of The Bulletin which
reached me yesterday. 1 take it that
wherever there is a live labor paper
there is also a lot of good work be-
ing done. Your issue was great. Again
thanking you for the number mailed me,
1 am. Respectfully,
PHIUO HOWARD.
Secy. Northwestern Typo Conference.
John Zurawski writes from Brush
Colo, that reading of The Bulletins La
Dor Day edition has caused a movement
here to organize Federal Labor
Union of different workers, and asks
information as to how to go about it.
The Bulletin was pleased to give the de-
sired information.
Richard E. ('Dick') Croskey, general
organizer for the international Alliance
of Hotel and Restaurant Employees.
writes from Butte, Mont: Gust received
copy of The Bulletins Labor Day edi-
tion and 'devoured' its entire sixty
all by itself among labor papers, and
beats anything have ever seen"
Says the Utah Labor News: ''The
Labor Day Edition of The Denver Labor
Bulletin is larger than the average Sum
day edition of our metropolitan dailies,
having sixty eight well-filled pages. The
amount of advertising carried justified
the size of the paper"
Ounce Hutton of Grand Junction: "It
was sure some Labor Day Edition. and
made hit with the boys over here as
big as the paper itself"
Corporation lawyers and kept news
papers are still whining about congress-
"cowardly surrender" in passing the
eight t-hour day law at the request of
President Wilson, thus averting the rail-
road strike. If it's "cowardly surren-
dQr In ha D.
people to pass measures favored by 95
per cent of the people, we hope a few
more such towards get into congress.
For years we've been used to "cowardly
surrender" in the interests of the five
per cent.
Newspaper readers who gave the mat
ter attention noticed that last weeks
issue of The Bulletin which went to
press Thursday evening, came nearer Civ
ing the state and Denver county primary
tickets correct than any other printed
during the week in Denver. In only one
office was The Bulletin list subject to
probable correction, that of attorney
general on the Republican ticket, which
requires the official count to determine
the winner between three contestants.
A profit of more than $1,000, 900 a
week was made by the Ford Motor COM
pany during the year, ending July 81,
according to a statement made public
last week. The years business totaled
$2O8, 1857 ,347, and profits during the same
Der OF men employed in all plants is
1880. OF these 36,626 receive SIS or
more day, the statement says.
The Coast Seamen's Journal, published
in San Francisco, entered upon the thir-
tieth year of its useful and beneficent
life last week. This paper has welded
an immeasurable influence during these
years in changing the status of seamen
from virtual slavery to free workers.
The Bulletin wishes the Journal MANY
more years of the same sort of success.
full endeavor.
Sunday morning papers carried an As
sociated Press dispatch from Indianap-
olis giving the vote cast by locals of the
United Mine Workers for candidates for
president. This story was printed in
The Bulletin issue the week previous
To get the labor news first and straight
all the year thru, subscribe for The Den.
yer Labor Bulletin.
| In state of universal organization
among the workers one meal would be
worth all the money in the world. In
that event the advantage would lie with
the stomach most Injured to abstention.
In other words, hunger would be the
ally, not the enemy, of the workers.
Truth gains more even by the errors
of one, who, with due study and prepar-
alton, thinks for himself, than by the
true opinions of those who only hold
| them because they do not suffer them