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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
Poisoning the Public as to Labor's Creed

The Rocky Mountain News conducting campaign against
This
recipient favors the industrial
the Maers which the
Rocky News other Denver
Therefore beneficiary
News should
support commission
goes however signatize the spokes
reasonable The labor
understand that the Rocky Mountain
unateaby opposed fundamental principle for
which organized labor stands During the coal
editorial
children Ludlow Immediately,
Chicago the Rocky Mountain News
This authentic history places the Rocky Mountain News the
well other citizen advised
columns garbed distorted and
by pokesen for labor the
hearings industrial relations committees of
credit the organized labor movement of the state.
only fair
News. The Rocky Mountain News has
law. The fight will continue
despite hostility of the Rocky Mountain News.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
The Limit as Well as the Last of Its Kind

The Bulletin the action of the state
industrial
refusing labor
commission BILL and then defeating organized abors repeal bill by
would almost waste OF good space
Perhaps the odm the reactonay have brought upon
themselves is the best conviction for their msdeeds
history of the organized
Colorado the and labor been
such affon And they feel keenl Criticism being
eaped the Democratic least the officials
parys designation having traitors to the large
this Last fall the Democratic party
labor demand for the repeal of the industrial cos
needed and the law repealed the
election Labor accepted this promise
fully strength for Governor Gunter and
will election in Colorado
Gunter his inaugural address, de-
of Colorado be undamen-
labor realized that
vernaulr they had been handed lemon
However, determined the fight before the egls-
the industrial commission
establish the record of the Democratic party
already under begin twoyear campaign
complete of the Democratic this state also
likely the this party of United States
unless the of
other designation
of the legislature who
laughing which they put labor will soon
find that they have been playing into abors hand and
organized labor holds all the trump cards.
industrial relates labor
regardless of further action this legislature take
will
guaranteed constitution this determination
voiced county OF the state.
Coporaon-servng legislators making their last stand in
labor
izenry being ignored and insued The twenyst
assembly the limit well the last OF its kind
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03

Europe must pay for this war!"
is sentiment as frequently met with
as it is unintelligent. Europe will
help to pay for the war, of course, but
the burden will rest very heavily upon
the people of the United States.
The American people are telling
themselves that they are prosperous
because wages are high and work is
steady. AS matter Of fact there has
not been a time in years when the
average American has been compelled
to work as hard for the simple neces-
saries of life as during this present
winter.
Some Americans are prosperous.
The real estate owners, the bank
ers, the merchants and the manufac-
turers are making money hand over
fist. They have something to sell,
prices are high, and they reap their
reward Unfortunately, for the coun-
try, the property owners and indus
trial leaders are in the minority. The
great majority of people in the coun-
trv are wage earners and clerks-the
bulk of that vast body of workers
"who make the mistake of having
the demand instead of the supply"
For them the present situation is full
of peril: A..
United States bureau of labor stats.
tics reports upon the advance IN 1000
prices from November 10, 1915 to
November 15, 1915. OF the twenty
seven articles listed all but two-cof-
fee and tea-have advanced in price.
The greatest increase is shown by po-
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
WHO IS PAYING FOR THE WAR?
By SCOTT NEARING.

tatoes which have more than doubled.
The next most rapid increase is shown
by beans which are three-fourths
again as high as they were year ago.
The prices of most meats have risen
greatly and there has been a con-
siderable advance in the price of
cereals. The increase in the price of
all articles combined is about 25 per
cent.
There is no way in which the food
bill of the United States may be COM
puted accurately, but roughly the
20,000,000 families in the country
probably spend on an average of
So week for food. The increase of
25 per cent in the cost of food would
therefore add So week per family;
$40,000,000 week for all of the
families, or $2,OOO,O 100000 a year to
the food bill of the people of the
United States.
There is no way to compute the
added cost to the people of this coun-
try for rent, fuel, clothing and the
like.
The point can be made, however,
with the food item alone. The total
European war debt to date is about
$50, 900 100000, which will carry an
interest charge of a little over two
billions a year. The increase in the
food bill of the American people dur
ing 1916 if continued for one year
amounts to like amount. In other
words the increase in food costs paid
by the American people this last year
is equal to the total interest charge
upon the European war debt.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
Bakers
tBy Ray Lowderback.)

tBy Ray Lowderback.)
At the meeting of the Bakery Work
ers last Saturday there was an un-
usual large gathering as the new
agreements were up for consideration
and naturally the high cost of living
has affected the Bakery Workers, as
they need the dough and it is hoped
by many that they will get some more
real dough as the baker is the poorest
paid Mechanic in Denver and surely
is deserving of a raise in wages. But
the most we ever get is to raise the
dough.
The entertainment committee re-
ported that they were doing every
thing to have an entertainment that
will excel anything ever given by the
Bakery Workers in the past. Invi-
tations will be sent to every baker
and his family for the occasion.
The local has put an assessment on
all members for the months of Feb
ruary, March and April, to raise a
separate fund for sick and distressed
long to the sick and death fund and
receive dollar day when sick.
Brother Filburg is doing nicely as
he has been on the sick list for the
past year, drawing the full sixteen
weeks benefits. Brother Lee Burton
has fully recovered and resumed
work.
At the last meeting we initiated
five new members and had the appli-
cations of two more. There is going
to be no letup until every baker in
Denver has become member, and
that will not be very long either, and
then we hope to be able to stop this
unreasonable long hours that some OF
the bosses insist on their bakers work
ing. Think of mechanic working
twelve and thirteen hours in hot bake
shops and receiving the small wage 8
baker does and no overtime. This is
the conditions we have here in Den.
yer in some of the shops. The con.
suming public can help remedy these
unspeakable conditions by demanding
the union label when buying bread
as the label is the guarantee that the
bread was baked in sanitary shops anc
the baker gets the union scale Of
wages which is small enough.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
SUBJUGATION OF
LABOR IS WANTED
Continued from Page one.)


ence of the economic organizations
broken and dissipated by the enact
ment of the amendment referred to a
despotism of unbridled exploitation
must follow.
To still further drive the legislative
wedge into the tree of human liberty
another amendment to the law is pro-
posed, under the caption of unfair
practice, (which is defined as follows,
as it relates to employees:
"ANY AGITATION, IN CIT E.
MENT, INSTIGATION OR OTHER
ACT, THE INTENT OR NATURAL
AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCE
OR EFFECT OF WHICH is TO GRE
ATE At hos HOSTILITY rILI ILh5FEELING EET
"ANY ACT OF ANY PERSON
PENDING THE DECISION OR SET
ELEMENT OF ANY DISPUTE BE-
TWEEN EMPLOYER AND EN-
PLOYE, THE INTENT OR NATUR-
AL AND PROBABLE CONSE-
QUENCE OR EFFECT OF WHICH
IS TO HINDER OR PREVENT THE
DECISION OR AWARD OF SAID
BOARD OR COMMISSION FROM
BEING ACCEPTABLE TO THE
PARTIES, OR EITHER OF THEM,
OR ANY ACT OR DECLARATION
IN ADVANCE OF SUCH DECISION
OR AWARD THAT SAME WILL
NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO, OR AC-
CEPTED BY, THE PARTIES, OR
EITHER OF THEM"
In the days of feudalism no more
drastic regulations existed. Ameri-
aside and the necessity of industry"
proclaimed as of more Importance
than human freedom. With such in
comparable power conferred upon an
irresponsible political commission the
last vestige of human rights is an
nulled.
The wage earners of this state are
awake to the gravity of the situation.
The fight for the repeal of the indus
trial commission law is backed by
every labor organization in the state
because every wage-earner knows
that if the caravan of greed and
avarice is successful in its efforts the
employers of labor in this state will
arbitrarily dictate the terms upon
which labor is performed.
In demanding the repeal of the in
dustrial commission law and its in
voluntary servitude and other liberty
destroying provisions the votaries of
the mining and other interests have
characterized the utterances of the
spokesmen for labor as reasonable.
The newspapers of Denver and other
parts of the state, to a large extent,
have taken up this unfounded asser-
tion with the hope and expectation
that labor's voice might be stilled and
its efforts retarded.
Clothed in the armor of justice, un-
daunted in it's courage, unafraid of
the judgment of the whole people of
the state, smarting under the injus-
tice of being stigmatized as class
of irresponsibles, determined to re-
tain its liberty at all costs, the organ
lied labor movement of the state of
Colorado proposes to continue its
fight for the repeal of this infamous
law and the defeat of the proposed
amendments with redoubled assiduity.
Labor stands in the open in this con-
test and will refuse to be silenced by
ridicule or threats. Labor has justice
on it's side, and every right thinking
and liberty loving citizen in the state
is lending his or her support to the
end that justice may prevail.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
"HELL MORGAN'S GIRL"

Bluebird has made gripping melo-
drama, under the title of Hell Nor
gan's Girl" in which Dorothy Phillips,
one of the most beautiful and gifted
of screen queens, carries the leading
role. Events Immediately preceding
the San Francisco earthquake and
fire, which struck the world with hor-
ror, eleven years ago, having been
woven into an impelling love story,
fraught with exciting episodes and
stirring scenes.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03

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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-03-03
SIENOGRAP REPORT OF ADDRESS MADE BY EDWARD DOYLE BEFOE
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-03-01

rousing speech ut Madison Square Gar
den in behalf Of the oppressed Cubans.
Moved by the appeal for Cuban Ibre,
Funston offered his services to the Gu
ban junta, although he knew nothing
about military affairs.
The Cubans were glad to have this
vigorous youth, and Funston set him
self to study the intricacies of twelve
FOUNDER Hotchkiss rifles and other
things a soldier should know. General
Gomez made him second in command
to Winchester Dana Osgood, the Cor
nell football player, who had charge Of
the insurgent artillery. Funston dis
tinguished himself for bravery at Gui-
marc in October. 1896. when Osgood
was killed. He took command and
with dynamite bomb in his hand led
a charge that broke the Spanish front
and ended the fight
Wounded at Bayamo.
At Bayamo he was wounded three
times and had his horse killed under
him. He was in the thick of the fight
ing at Las Tunas. After this battle
the Cubans insisted on shooting fifty
prisoners. Funston protested, was
waved aside and promptly resigned bis
commission. General Garcia gave him
an order for transportation and a safe
conduct. He fell in with Spanish
patrol and ate the documents. On
reaching the United States in 1898 he
was suffering from stomach trouble,
malaria and wounds, and his weight
was just ninety-fve pounds.
When the United States went to war
With Spain Funston was ready to fight
again. He declined an easy job on
Lieutenant General Miles staff and
finally got what he was after, COM
mission as colonel of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment Of volunteers. The
regiment was ordered to the Philip
pines, and while waiting for sailing or
ders Colonel Funston married Miss
Eda Blankart, music teacher. Six
hours later the transport sailed. and
when Mrs. Funston rejoined her hus-
band a month later in Manila it was
just before battle.
His regiment held an important place
in the fighting around Manila when the
Filipino instruction began in 1899.
During the fighting at Malolos the reg
iment was punished by wicked fire
from insurrectos fntrenched on the far
bank of the Marilao river.
Calling for volunteers, Colonel Fun
ston swan the river with a revolver
gripped in his teeth and twenty men
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-03-01
DARING EXPLOITS Of GENERAL Funston
MADE HIM idol Of ARMY AND PUBLIC
Little Red Headed Kansan, Not
Knowing Word Fear, Accus-
toned to Get What He Went
After From Time He Gradu-
ated Into Long Trousers.

T1NCE the civil war the United
States has had no military CON-
~ mander whose fighting qualities
and brilliant exploits so endear-
ed him to the people as Major General
Fred Funston, the little red headed
Kansan who fought with Gomez
against the Spaniards In Cuba and
with the Twentieth Kansas volunteers
against the Spaniards and the La
drones in the Philippines.
. While Funston gained the greater
share of his brilliant fame as a daring
soldier by his numerous exploits in the
Philippines, his mettle never was more
severely tried than in the months aft
er Francisco Villa with his band Of
cutthroats made the bloody raid upon
Columbus, N. NJ, last March. "
Placed in supreme command of the
campaign against Villa, with orders to
exterminate or dispense the bandits
forces, he nevertheless was so hamper
ed and restricted by the possibility
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-03-01
Capture Of Aguinaldo, Filipino
Chief, Spectacular and Earned
Him Promotion to Brigadier
General Wounded Many
Times-Life Of Adventure.

His rowing, adventurous spirit then
took him to Mexico, where he sought
options on coffee plantations, but he
never was keen about business.
Few know that his first work was as
a scientist with bent toward botany:
AS an agent of the department Of ag-
riculture in 1891 he took part in the
Death valley expedition; then he ex-
plored Alaska and the British north
west and crossed Alaska to the Arctic
ocean and Travelled from Mackenzie riv-
er to Bering sea, journey Of about
$500 miles.
He camped in the Klondike during
the winter of 1893 and then alone float
ed down the Yukon in canoe, jour-
ney Of hundreds of miles through a
wilderness without seeing another liv-
ing soul. Soon after that he resigned
from the department of agriculture
and travelled in Mexico.
Funston was in New York in 1896,
when the late General Sickles made e
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-03-01

GENERAL FUNSTON DIRECTING DEPARTURE
OF TROOPS FOR VERA CRUZ.
insurgent officers and four American
officers Funston plunged into the jun
gle where no white man ever had
been. s...
After eight days march through the
jungle, posing as prisoners taken by
Aguinaldos anticipated reinforce
ments Funston and his men reached
Aguinaldo's hiding place and arrested
him without the loss Of man. The
president made Funston a brigadier
general of the regular army in recog-
milton of the exploit.
.~- At San Francisco Fire.
He Served here and there until an
other chance came his way. This was
the earthquake which shook San Fran
cisco to pieces and started the great
fire. AS soon rs the full scope of the
catastrophe was known General Fun
ston rushed troops to patrol the streets
and guard the banks. AS the disaster
grew he rose to the occasion. He was
policeman, fireman, undertaken and
dominated civil authority with army
efficiency. He did not hesitate to as
sumo responsibility. He telegraphed
to the secretary Of war:
II shall do everything in my power
to render assistance and trust to the
war department to authorize any act
may have to take -
How thoroughly he accomplished his
task is history too recent to require
repetition.
When William II. Taft, then serre-
tary Of war, went on his mission to
Cuba General Funston went with him.
Subsequently he served as head of the
army service schools at Fort Leaven-
worth and in other routine posts of
duty. Then came the Mexican crisis
of the spring Of 1914, when General
Huerta's subordinates refused to sa-
lutte the American flag at Vera Cruz
after firing on American sailors and
marines. The navy took Vera Cruz,
and General Funston was sent there
in command Of force of occupation
and remained in command until the or
der to withdraw troops arrived.
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that his activities might precipitate
war with the de factO government of
Mexico that he was able to move only
with the utmost caution and circum-
spection.
Dispatches to the war department
repeatedly carried the indication that
he was chatting nightly under the COM
parative inaction and that he would
have been pleased by nothing else so
we'll as being permitted to conduct the
campaign in his own decisive fashion.
He never placed a great amount Of
confidence in the good faith of the
Carranza military authorities and much
better would have liked to dash boldly
into the barren Businesses Of the south
ern republic after Villa regardless of
the feelings of Carranza.
A Career of Adventure.
He was sixteen when his father,
"Foghorn" Funston, moved from Car
isle to southwestern Kansas. In 1885
young Fred entered the State univer-
sity of Kansas, where he had for a
classmate William Allen White There
was negro in the college town who
started for Funston one day with a
cleaning razor. The negro weighed
2OO pounds, Funston barely 100. The
negro was six feet tall, Funston five
feet three inches. In fifteen minutes
Funston had the half crazy black man
In the lookup and hadn't even mussed
his own clothing.
When he left college Funston got a
job as city editor of paper in Fort
Smith. It was Democratic. The day
before an election the editor in chief
left town, and he was temporarily
boss. Next day the paper appeared as
red hot Republican sheet, reviling
all things Democratic. AS crowd
gathered at the front Goor young
Funston retired by the back and from
Journalism. He explained later that
he was weary Of newspaper work,
''tired of a rotten town, a rottener
sheet and it's rotten politics., and
thought ! would wake things up a bit
before left just to show them was
alive.'
Always Looked For Action.
His next job was as a conductor on
the Santa Fe railroad. A cowpuncher
passenger, fred by whisky, shot holes
in car ceiling. Funston took his pis-
toll away and threw him off the train,
then stopped the train, ran back along
the track and thrashed the gun man.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-03-01
CAPTURE OF FILIPINO
CHIEF WON PROMOTION
FOR MAJOR FUNSTON

- 3 - X Is ~ E
It was the capture of the crafty
: Aguinaldo that enshrined Fred
: Funston as hero in the hearts Of
Americans. It was his campaign
: against Aguinaldo that won him
: the rank of brigadier general,
: and, though by a less sensational
: route he had attained the rank
Of major general, the boys who
+ used to hum
: Well, I'd like to know who's run
: ming this show
: Is it me or Emilio Aguinaldo?
: looked forward with the utmost
: confidence to seeing their hero
: regenerate the army Of their
: country and win new honors.
ST.