Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-07


~ tured in the November number of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, which was
placed on sale in Denver this week. He
is made the subject of three part ar
ticle by Harvey O'Higgins, the noted
writer and playwright, who elaborated
with Judge Ben B. Lindsey in preparing
the Beast and Jungle" articles for
Everybody's Magazine a few years ago.
The first of the three-part series in the
Cosmopolitan deals with Lawsons ad-
vent into Colorado and his experiences
at the New Castle mines, leading up to
the coal strike OF 1908. Two more arti-
cles, appearing under the title of John
Lawson, Miner" will give his biography
and deal with eventful labor history IN
Colorado down to the present day. 1t
MIGHT we'll be captioned "The Molding OF
a Man." for the first part tells how
raw breaker boy from Pennsylvania de-
yeloped into a leader of men in Colo
RADIO. The article is featured in the first
part of the magazine and is well illus
trated. including fine halftone OF the
principle. The two parts yet to come
will be looked forward to with much in
terest.
Living happy, salubrious life in
Florida, Fred Girton, who graduated
from Denver as a perambulating printer
writes the following interesting letter to
Frank ]. Pulyer. bearing a Jacksonville
date:
Sorry / could not get to the conven-
tion at Baltimore, but as the admins
tration galoots would have probably
greeted me with the warmth OF a South
erner grasping Republicans hand, !
did not choose to be a little Daniel.
In / at
/ r, L. gathering when | can sit beside
the onlv-only girl and watch the big
moon come a-peeping DER the ocean hori.
zon and follow the pathway OF gold
waving atop the sea? And why should
I listen to the speeches of the ants
and the administration orators when the
lady o. mine crOOns the music OF her
melodious Southern voice to my ear
And why should ! worry about whether
HUGHES will capture the German vote
or whether the Germans will wrest Yer
dun from the French when I'm dong my
best to win unto myself wonderful
flower of girlhood whose smile sufiuses
nv being with the golden glow OF the
divine passion? Not so, not so. IN
among the stars and | hate to think OF
tbe time | nav fall back to terra firmn,
.sThere are no mosquitoes here. Least
ways that's what the Chamber OF Com
merce expostulates a Ia folder Florida
Beautiful. But there is cross between
n bumble-bee and gila monster winch
bores and buzzes and bites and itehes
about ten to the square inch oil iIesh'
Nope. there be no skeeters. No sharks
either. Not so at all. But several times
of late I've left the water hurriedly.
The editorial page of the Florida Met
ropolis opinioned that the sea ABOUT
Florida was minus the man eaters.
must lust have imagined the nine footef
| if prayish tint which | hooked on blP
line was a shark. And several big fins
protruding from out the sea must also
/ have been brainstorms. But, believe me
| aoain. 7 knoy what l know and that's
some knowledge. leastwise as it per-
tains to the denizens of the deep
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In remitting the price OF his subscrip'
tion to The Bulletin this week, X. ;.
WcAIpin of Pueblo writes the q p,
thusly: "1hru the courtesy OF our mu'
tual friend. Ed Anderson, | received
COPY of your splendid Labor Day edition
I consider it the greatest boost the or.
oouized labor movement of Colorado and
the Rocky Mountain region ever received
Reading il was as pleasing as 1t was
instructive. / was particularly inter
ested in the history of the Colorado
State Federation of Labor, as written by
Secretary Anderson, having been dele
gate to the first convention held IN
Pueblo, July Is, 1895, and to the sue
ceedinp three conventions. Tho not a
active as then | am proud to be a
worker in the union cause. On July
o. 1884 with two other d. & r. e.
locomotive fircmen, | was initiated ms a
member of y u. of f. Lodge No. 30
OF this trio. beside myself, George Dit
more is vet living and doing good work
] While some may consider the labor
movement is making slow progress, a
retrospect OF thirty-two years tells me
that a wonderful advance in working
conditions and life of the wage-earner-
has been made. Permit me to congratu-
late The Bulletin publishers upon the
high class paper you are publishing
and TO wish YOU continued success
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The nomination in the primary cleo
ton of Hugh Dorsey for governor oi
Georgia was. proclaimed as Tom Wat
son victory. and to most OF these proc.
lamations the prediction was appended
that il also made Tom Watson the des-
pot of Georgit democracy. 1t was Tom
Watson victory, undoubtedly. Espous'
| ing his candldacy, chie1ly II not chIIIeiy
for the reason that Mr.. Dorsey had
prosecuted Frank with vigor which
seemed to satisfy the fanaticism Of Tom
Watson, his success in the primary was
more than nominally n Watson victory.
But the prediction that Watson was thus
become the despot of Georgia democ-
racy seems to have been promptly re-
futcd. For the Georgia Democrats, in
state convention the other day, indorsed
the Wilson administration and candi-
dacy, notwithstanding all the plcadings
ca aioleres and orders of Watson to pre-
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