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The herald., 1917-11-29

Sir John Simon, the noted British
barrister, has given up a practice OF
$4,000 year to accept a secret COM
mission, and ii is understood he will
devote his brilliant abilities to formu-
lating and co-ordlnating the terms
which the allies will impose on the
central powers when the time comes
Sir John, 1t is said. will have the rank
of colonel in the intelligence bureau
of the general staff.
The herald., 1917-11-29
FOREIGNERS BUY LOAN BONDS
Total Of More Than $3,40o, 900 Bought
by Employees Of Pennsylvania
Railroad Lines.

To ascertain the extent to which
railroad employees of foreign birth
subscribed to the first Liberty loan. a
special investigation has been COM
pleted on the directly operated lines
Of the Pennsylvania railroad on its
lines east of Pittsburgh. The result
shows that out Of 160,127 employees
25,S27 were foreign born. There were
among all the employees, both native
and foreign born, 52,782 subscriptions,
totaling more than s3,4O0O00. Nearly
one-third of all the foreign-born en-
ployees we're purchasers.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Cav. lie. of Many Cars.

Heavier loading enabled the Balti-
more C Ohio to save the use OF 6,23S
cars in the handling of less than car
load freight in July, compared with
the same month last year. At the same
time the company handled 1900 more
tons Of this class Of freight in 1000
less cars, according to the report OF
the transportation department.
The herald., 1917-11-29
LARGEST Jib Crane.

a 50O-ton locomotive jib crane capa-
bic of lowering. raising or swinging
56-ton load at its maximum working
radius of ST feet has been built for in
stallation on the Panama canal at Bal
boa. 1t is said TO be the largest ma
chine of its kind in the world.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Stupefaction.

Stupefaction is not resignation; and
it is stupefaction to remain in ignO-
rance. to shut up all the avenues by
which the life of your fellow men
might become known to you.-Ex-
change.
The herald., 1917-11-29
LASSO CAR wheels
Unloaded by "Man-Power" Meth
DDS That Are Old.
TAKES Skill TO stop Them
While Travelling at High Speed They
Are Lassoed as Cowboy Stops a
Steer-Some Possibility Of
Broken Legs.

After a railroad car wheel has been
In service for a considerable time the
tread, or part that bears on the rail,
becomes uneven with wear and the
wheel must then be sent to wheel
lathe, where the tread IS planned down
to an even surface. The actual work
of replaning the wheels is usually a
smaller job than that of getting them
to and from the lathe, as each pair OF
wheels, mounted ON their axle, weighs
in the neighborhoOd of two tons, writes
]. E. Murphy in Popular Mechanics.
In an industrial district of Chicago,
that is busy day and night with the
hum of labOr-saving equipment, is
wheel-lathe plant where the work OF
unloading and loading the car wheels
is done by "man-power" methods that
are as old as railroading itself.
Stopped by Lassoing.
With the carload of wheels set or
the track alongside the wheel yard, O
skid having a rail for each wheel Is
placed against the end of the car sc
that it forms a steep incline down tC
the track. Each psir of wheels Il
then worked with steel bars to the
end of the car and over the top of the
incline. BY the time they reach thu
The herald., 1917-11-29
She Will Learn.

Butcher-"Exeuse me, mum. but !
forgot TO give YOU the bill for that
there duck" Mrs. Newlywed-"Oh,
no. you didn't. 1t was on the duck.
saw it when you wrapped up the par
cel."-Judge.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Roadway Tests.

A dynamo meter mounted on an ordi
nary dray is used by the United States
department of agriculture to register
the tractive force required to draw
various weights over different kinds Of
roadways.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Tokyo Stock EXCHANGE.

On the Tokyo stock exchange all
margin money is held by the exchange
itself and not by the broker, and the
exchange may demand more margin
whenever fall in prices makes this
necessary.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Unloading by Man Power.

track the wheels are travelling at high
speed, and it takes skill and strength
to stop them. This is done by the
same method that cowboy uses In
catching q steer or pony-by lassoing.
Two men, one on each side of the
track, stand ready with wire loops.
and as the wheels dash past them each
throws his loop over the end of the
axle and then runs and pulls back
until the wheels are stopped, this be-
ing accomplished usually within
hundred feet. Occasionally only one
Of the loops holds. In that case the
wheels are derailed, with the posi-
bility Of broken legs and other In
juries for anyone that happens to be
in the way.
Another Primitive Method.
The work Of loading is done by an
equally primitive method. In this
work a steel bar having a fork that
fits over the end of the axle, and
known as "wheel stick" Is used.
Starting 200 feet from the car, with
two men to each "wheel stick" the
wheels are pushed along the track
with increasing speed until, as they
reach the incline. they have the mo-
mentum for mounting to the car floor.
In spite of their primitive nature
these methods are likely to be used
for many years, as they are the most
economical yet devised for a plant
where the number Of wheels handled
Is too small to justify the use OF
depressed track or the installation OF
air-hoist equipment.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Save Hauling Car.

To save hauling an additional car
a railroad in Europe has put a wreck.
ing crane on top of a locomotive,
which provides the power to oper.
ate It
The herald., 1917-11-29
UNLOADING STEEL RAILS AT A FRENCH PORT.

It nothing equipment to
Of railway
something wholly
The government purchase OF
conception OF the magnitude OF
according
miles of double VIII
terminal developments sngs etc. from
the olive drab
will oupy and transporting them and their supplies
The herald., 1917-11-29
Rails Help Enqinemen.

Rails that permit enginemen to
leave locomotive cabs quickly and
safely in emergencies have beeh In
vented.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Hjuhest Aerial Tramway.

Switzerland has built its highest
aerial tramway, a mile and half long
and ascending to an altitude of near
ly a mile, solely for tourists.
The herald., 1917-11-29
At the Party.

Dorothy was invited to party
where oil the other girls were a few
years older than she. On arriving
home she said to her mother: Moth
err, had an awfully good time, and !
was the babiest one there"
The herald., 1917-11-29
Ages Required.

ue Constitution Of the United
- rsquireS that the president shall
aot less tSan thirty-five years old,
4 esentatiyes In congress not less
: twenty-five years old, and United
~ senator's not less than thirty
The herald., 1917-11-29
Women SuppIant Men.

The French railways employ 6,7OO
women in places formerly held by
men.
The herald., 1917-11-29
ADOPT Steel Passenger Cars.

All steel passenger cars are being
adopted on Egypt's state railroads.
The herald., 1917-11-29
Some Speed.

esnma Snail-Go down to the store
get pound of sugar, Willie, ana
pack l want to Use it next
The herald., 1917-11-29
Affected His Speech.

One-Gee, the cards have sure got
old McDealem.
Two-How so?
One--Why, he even walks with
shufiie.-Chaparral
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03

Bearing more resemblance to huge
hunk of Swiss cheese than to the man
killing armored motor car, presented
as a Christmas gift to Colorado by
Lawrence C. Phipps, the multi-million-
aire, today shamefully reposes in the
Maxwell -Chamberlin garage at 1871
Sherman street
Screened from public gaze by a
heavy tarpaulin blanket the nine thou
sand dollar pride of the state militia
is now bullet ridden and shot torn.
The assault upon this man-hller was
not made by working men, but by
members of the state militia. There
fore all the more reason why the peo-
pie of Colorado are laughing in great
glee.
When the armored car arrived day
or two before Christmas from the fac-
tory it bore label guaranteeing it to
be bullet proof, stamped with the Off
cial test of the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany. 1t might as well be remem-
bered that this same steel company is
furnishing millions of dollars worth
of armor plate to the United States
government in the present mad pro
gram of preparedness"
Like a Hunk of Cheese.
Saturday morning the car was put
upon rail wheels, for the thing was
intended to operate on railroad tracks
as well as on dirt roads, and taken to
the rifle range at Golden over the In
terurban tracks for a real test. Bull
lets from regular army rifles fired by
guardsmen at close range penetrated
the protected armor plate Of the imam
killer" in several places. One of the
bullets fired at it was discharged from
.45-calibre automatic revolver. 1t
plowed with ease thru the arInor plate
and tore a hole in the Bethlehem steel
more than an inch in diameter. One
of the bullets striking the car just
above one of the rear wheels passed
promptly thru the armor plate and
whizzed thru the air on the other side.
Still another bullet passed entirely
thru tn otec, plate - - Ii sides of
the machine. Indeed, it was brand
of sport like shooting a hunk of
cheese.
Brave One" Escaped.
Before the test shots We're fired
Lieut. Harold Morris started to take
his seat at the steering mechanism,
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
RELIEF IS ASKED
OF CITY FATHERS
ON COST OF COAL
LABOR COMMITTEE PRE-
SENTS GRIEVANCES.
Delegation Appears Before City Coun-
Gil Judiciary Committee With
Facts and Figures that Com
mand Instant Attention.

Organized labor had hearing Tues
day evening before the council judi
ciary committee in the council rooms
at the city hall. The resolution adopt
ed by the Denver Trades and Labor
Assembly, demanding an investiga-
ton of the present high prices charged
for coal to consumers in this city, was
under consideration A number of As
sembly delegates and other members
of organized labor were present to
hear and participate in the arguments
presented and show that labor was in
earnest.
In the absence of Chairman W. c.
Danks of the judiciary committee,
Councilman Harry Zimmerhackle pre-
sided. Councilmen Bartels, Rycraft
and Spacey also were present
Backs Plea With Figures.
Chairman Clint c. Houston Of the
Assembly committee on public insti
tutions presented the plea in behalf
of the working men and women of the
city. He quoted from official reports
and other authoritative data showing
the wide discrepancy between the cost
of putting coal upon the Denver mar
ket and what is paid for it by con-
sumers who purchase at retail prices.
Miners in the Colorado fields are paid
forty-one and forty-two cents per ton
for machine mined coal, and sixty
three cents per ton for picked. The
freight rates on coal from the south
ern and Fremont county fields range
from sl.40 TO s1.60 per ton. The haul
from the northern field costs from
forty-five to siNty-five cents per ton.
Chairman Houston said that the cost
of placing a ton of coal upon cars at
the mines is from s1.10 to SIPS per
ton. He further quoted from testi-
mony of coal operators given before
the Foster congressional committee in
Denver about two years ago that the
average price of placing n ton of coal
on the car for shipment in the north
ern field was SLIP.
Not Due to Labor Cost.
Selling prices on coal in Denver this
winter have ranged from S5.25 for
Walsen nut to $3.50 for Lafayette and
Routt County lump. Houston further
showed that the high price of coal
was not due either to increased wages
paid miners, shortness of coal nor
want of cars in which to make ship
ments. Said Chairman Houston:
During the last year there has
been an increase of only per cent in
wages paid TO miners in Colorado, this
being the first and only increase since
1912, when 5 per cent raise was
given a portion of the miners en-
ployed in the southern field. The re-
port of State Mine Inspector Dalrym-
pie for 1916 shows 10,511 ,0s1 tons of
coal were mined, being an increase
over 1915 of 1 1,795, ,6S4 tons. The aver
age number of men employed in and
about the mines was 12,4S7 and the
/ total number of days worked during
the year by each man was 1917, thus
indicating that much more coal could
have been brought to the surface had
the mine operators so desired. l am
Continued Page Fivc)
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
PHIPPS' CHRISTMAS ARMORED CAR IS
NOW LIKE A HUGE HUNK OF CHEESE
In Golden Bethlehem Plates Are Made
Look Like Plaster; AL Colorado Laughing
AndN No Found Sympathize With
Flustered State Militia.

expressing to a motion picture pho
tographer his conviction that there
would be no danger and that the effect
would be more realistic. He now is
congratulating himself that he did not
carry out the intention, for one bullet
that split the armor plate almost in
direct line with the seat he would
have occupied would have made the
effect much more realistic than he had
anticipated.
The tests were made under the di-
rection of Lieutenant Morris and
Lieut.. Frank P. Loveland, who enlist
ed in the national guard last summer
to devote their time and energy to-
ward procuring the big armored war
machine for the state.
Dazed by Discovery.
They were not aware of the damage
to the machine accruing from the
shots until the tests had been con-
cluded Then, to their amazement,
they found that the miniature warfare
had thoroly incapacitated the machine
for actual warfare. 1t is probable
that Lieutenant Morris would have
been killed had he Occupied the chauf-
feur's seat in the car, as he had
planned.
The general Swiss cheese appear
ance of the armored car after the tests
prompted the officials to wait until
after dark to drive it into Denver.
Crestfallen, the big automobile then
thundered wearily up Twelfth avenue
and eased itself humbly and apologet-
ically into one corner of the garage.
Patriot" Phipps Chagrined.
The armored car was presented to
the Colorado national guard the day
before Christmas with patriotic" GER
emonies on the snow clad lawn at the
east entrance to the state house Mr.
Phipps made the presentation speech
and Adjutant General Gamble accept
ed the car in the absence of Governor
Carlson. The Sunday following, while
being driven about the city for public
exhibition by Lieutenant Loveland the
man-killer collided with a street car
and score or more passengers mar
rowly escaped death or injury.
1t is understood that Millionaire
Phipps and his patriotic associates are
considerably crestfallen over the ig-
noble plight in which their Christmas
offering to Colorado now presents it
self
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF COLORADO WAGEEARNERS
PROTEST AGAINST LAW CHASING THEM AS CRIMINALS

MEMBERS OF the Colorado Legislature who are
AVA enamored of involuntary servitude for the
wage earners, as expressed by the industrial COM
mission law, ought to begin to revise their opinions
if they desire to avoid being listed Objectionable
reactonaries. The action of the interstate COM
merce committee OF the United States senate in
excluding from the Newands railroad regulation
bill the compulsory service clause by vote of
to three, and with the further action of the
same committee in disapproving the compulsory
investigation clause by vote of ten to five is
sufficiently emphatic to indicate to the Colorado
lawmakers that the action of the state legislature
in presuming to repeal the thirteenth amendment
to the federal constitution, which provides that
citizens shall not be deprived OF their liberty cx
cept punishment for crime, is not popular
While the Newlands bill has not been reported
it is certain that the compulsory provisions of that
measure will be entirely eliminated when the re
port of the committee reaches the senate In the
house the prospect that the Adamson bill, with its
compulsory features, will receive favorable recon-
mendation by the house interstate commerce COM
mttee is remote the prospect that the
Newlands bill could pass muster before the senate
committee.
The wage earners of this state are a unit in
demanding the repeal of the industrial commission
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03

law. They base their objection to this statute
upon the same grounds taken by organized labors
representatives who appeared before the interstate
commerce committee OF the United States senate
and the house of representatives. The industrial
commission law provides for involuntary servitude
for the workers OF Colorado. authorizes the indus
trial commission to invade the meetings of unions
and provides fines and Jail sentences for disobe-
dience to numerous provisions OF the statute
Labor is seeking in a rational and peaceful man
ner the repeal OF statute that is clearly and un-
deniably invasion of the constitutional rights
OF the wage earners OF the state. Every effort is
being put forth to convince the members of the
legislature that injustice has been inflicted upon
the workers in this state by the action OF the last
legislature in framing and passing the industrial
commission law. The campaign for the repeal
will be continued during this session until it shall
have been wiped off the statute books or the
Democratic majority refuses to accord labor its
inherent and constitutional rights
If the Democratic majority determines to retain
this involuntary servitude statute which was writ
ten into the state law by the preceding Republican
legislature then labor, who made it possible for
the Democratic party to control this legislature,
will have been handed the proverbial stone In
that event organized labor of this state will show
Continued Page Four)
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
FINS IS WRITTEN
OVER CLUB DOOR
Junk SHOP GETS FURNI-
TURE OF JOINT.
Bulletin Writes Last Chapter of the
Fight to Abolish Blind Tigers
Masquerading Under Name
of Union Labor.

Finis was written over the door of
the notorious Union Association club
at 1715 California street Monday af-
ternoon when all the furniture, bar
fixtures and gambling paraphernalia
not demolished by Chief of Police
Armstrong; hammer squad in recent
raids on the joint were loaded into
moving van and hauled to a junk shop.
The only mourners at the final obse-
manager, and his choice collection of
gang thugs.
Antrim was in police court again
and costs. This was for only one of
the several charges pending against
him and his associates in the blind
tiger and gambling business.
Thousands of readers of The Bull
letin, members of organized labor
generally in Denver and thruout the
state are sharing in the qualification
which comes to the publishers of this
paper for putting the Union Associa-
ton club and the Trades Union Ben
eft Association club completely out
of commission. Both masqueraded as
union labor headquarters" and made
victims of their patrons who bought
their rotten bootleg booze and were
ASSSSo AZ Va
games
1t develops that a fellow named
Peterson, who was foreman" of the
jury of three which found Antrim not
guilty of assault on The Bulletin ed
itor in Justice of the Peace W. A.
Rice's court last week was bartend-
er at the Union Association club and
had been arrested in two of the police
raids on the joint. Having appeared
before Judge Rice twice while presid-
ing in police court. it would be inter
esting for the Justice" TO explain
why he permitted Peterson to serve on
a jury in trial of this character be-
fore him in his justice court. The
fact that Peterson was member of
the Union Association club gang was
not known to the plaintiff or deputy
district attorney until after the trial.
AS told by The Bulletin last week,
Constable key Goldman went out in
the hall and brought in the jury of
three, evidently waiting there for just
that very purpose.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
GOMPERS HONORED
BY MANY FRIENDS
ON 9TH NATAL DAY

Labor leaders from all parts of
the country gave a dinner in New
York last Sunday night to Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, to COM
memorate his fiftieth anniversary
of activity in labor circles, his
siNty-seventh birthday and his
golden wedding anniversary.
Twenty-seven of Mr.. Gompers'
relatives were present, including
his wife and father, Saul Gompers,
who is ninety-two years old.
Among the guests were Alton B.
Parker, District Attorney Edward
Swami, John Mitchell, chairman of
the state industrial commission;
Cornelius Ford, United States pub
lie printer, and many others Of
prominence.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
RAILROAD LEGISLATION AWAITS
SUPREME COURT DECISION ON
THE ADAMSON EIGHT HOUR LAW
SUPREME COURT
MAY RULE MONDAY
ON ADAMSON LAW

Beginning next Monday the
United States supreme court will
take a recess until March 5. If the
decision in the Adamson eight-hour
law case is not handed down next
Monday, therefore, it will not be
rendered until after the adjourn
ment of congress.
Litigation involving the constitu-
tionality and operation of the COM
pulsory and voluntary workman's
compensation laws of Washington,
New York and New Jersey are be-
ing argued this week. No decis-
ion was reached on previous argu-
ments in February last year.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03

labor paper, dissolved restraining or
der issued by Circuit Judge Brown.
The result is considered q victory
for the unions. Prange, who is jew
elry merchant of Grand Rapids, sought
to have the unions and labor leaders
restrained from placing his store on
the unfair list" He originally asked
$4,000 damages.
Judge Mcdonald said: "The COM
plainant has not presented a case
which would justify interference by a
court of equity, for, so long as the
object sought is lawful and the means
used to attain it are lawful, the court
cannot interfere, even tho injury re-
suits. The principle is well settled
that in case loss to an employer re-
suits from peaceable assertion by
workmen of their rights it is a dam
age without remedy. Under the
circumstances of this case the means
used were lawful
Keep everlast stingly at it and organ
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03

Keep everlastingly at it and organ
ize. Never give up.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
HUNT LOSES GOvERNoRsHIP.

The Arizona supreme court late
Saturday afternoon returned a decis-
ion holding that Thomas E. Campbell
is the de facto governor of Arizona.
The decision was signed by Justices
ham submitted dissenting opinion.
The majority opinion holds that the
certificate of election issued to Camp
bell is prima facie evidence of his
election.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-03
PRINT UNFAIR LIST
JUDGE RULES IN FA-
yOR OF LABOR PAPER.
Decision Given in Case of Jewelry
Merchant Who Sued Grand Rapids
Paper For $4,000 Damages.

Circuit Judge Mcdonald of Grand
Rapids, Mich, declares that a labor
paper can publish an unfair list" and
that unions can maintain boycott.
This decision was given in the case
of Jeweler Ernest A. Prange against
the Trades and Labor Council, the
Building Trades Council and other af-
filiated union bodies, and Claude o.
Taylor, publisher of the Observer, a