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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
DENVER COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 28 1917
Building Trades

The Building Trades Councils re-
cent action in honoring Sheet Metal
Workers Local No. for the perfect
attendance record of their delegates,
c. M. Moore, VIM. F. Cammerer and
j. T.. Miles, by presenting them with a
neatly designed honor banner is a de-
cided innovation in trades union cir
cles and should be appreciated by all
members of the movement, as this ac-
ton will undoubtedly increase the in
terest in better attendance which is
greatly to be desired, not only in the
central organization, but in the locals
as well. One of the most important
questions confronting the labor move
ment today is one of persistent inter-
est in the affairs of the respective or
CARNATIONS and any action that will
result in improving the records of at
tendance naturally increases the eff
cheney of the organization and should
not only be source of qualification
TO the movement as a whole, but
should be studied with interest and
in many cases could well be patterned
after.
The record made by the above men
TONED delegates is one to be proud of
as 1t extended over a period of six
months and it was necessary for all
three to attend twenty-six consecutive
meetings in order to establish the
same.
The average record of attendance of
all delegates to the Building Trades
Council for the past six months was
1863, which is an exceptionally high
record for a central organization, but
1t is a rule rather than an exception
with the council to establish a good
general average of attendance, how
ever, the record of the Sheet Metal
Workers delegates has never been
equaled before in the history of the
council, hence the occasion for special
recognition of the accomplishment.
W. J. Chamberlain, p. Johns and J.
Ii. Mitchell were appointed as a COM
mittee to secure the banner and Sc
lected one 36X56 with a purple back
ground, white lettering and appropr-
ate trimming. The inscription is as
"Sheet Metal Workers Local Union
No. 9, Honored by Denver Building
Trades Council for perfect representa-
ton. January-June, 1917"
The above mentioned committee
presented the same to the Sheet Metal |
Workers at their last regular meeting |
and it was apparently greatly appre- !
ciated by their membership. The in I
terest shown would Indicate that they |
felt perfectly safe in challenging the /
other organizations affiliated with the /
council to duplicate their accomplish |
ment.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Machinists

At a conference between officials of
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railroads and representatives of
the Machinists Union held in St Paul,
a new wage schedule was agreed to.
Rates are increased 61a cents an hour,
for an eight-hour day, with price and
one-half for overtime. The old rate
was SO cents an hour for nine-hour
day At the conference other shop
men secured similar increases.
The Peoria, Ill, Machinists Union
has raised wages 10 cents an hour,
making the minimum rate 80 cents.
Machinists employed on war muni-
tion work at Bridgeport, Conn, have
raised wages from 3 to 10 per cent.
They asked for 10 per cent, but the
companies refused. The latter would
not meet committee of the union and
snubbed Mayor Wilson, who attempt
ed to aid in a settlement. The fed
eral department of labor was recog-
nized, however, and an adjustment was
reached.
Organized machinists report several
large firms in Canton, Ohio, have ae-
cepted their eight-hour day and in
creased wage demand. Included in
the list is the Selas company, which
announced a short time ago that it
would move its plant away from Can
ton because of labor troubles"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Walters

The Buffalo, n Y, Hotel Mems as
sociation has signed a two-year agree
ment with their organized walters and
have made verbal agreement with
cooks, granting wage increases, one
day off in seven, and a ten-hour day
within fourteen hours. After a forty
eight-hour strike restaurant managers
also granted the demands of their cul-
mary workers.
After a short strike against leading
hotels and cafes in Boston, Mass,
Walters Union No. "a has secured one
day off in seven for its members. The
employment of none but union walters
is also agreed to. No change was
made in wages. as a monthly increase
of 81 was secured last April. The
walters victory means their union will
increase its membership from 400 to
about $500.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Retail Clerks

The Memphis, Tenn, Retail Clerks
Union has scored a notable victory
over department stores and other
shops in that city, and has established
minimum wage for women, secured
a fifty-seven-hour week for women,
sixty-hour week for men; pay for
Christmas, New Year, Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving day and Labor Day
The right to join the union is conceded.
The clerks are especially jubilant over
the reduction of hours. The man
ayers precipitated trouble by lock-
ing their employees in the stores last
April, because they understood the
union intended calling strike. An
injunction was issued against the
strikers and they and sympathizers
were ordered to keep away from the
stores. The strikers used the courts
order as a boycott weapon and ap-
pealed to all law-abiding citizens to
obey the mandate. A united labor
movement made the clerks victory
possible and representatives of the
United States department of labor as
sisted both parties in settling the dis
pute.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Cigarmakers

Colorado comes to the front again
for the month of May in the manu-
facture of cigars showing 1 ,664 $40
cigars which is an increase of 313, $50
over the same month last year.
The increased production in the
manufacture of all kinds of tobacco
| in the United States for the month
of May would indicate that prosper
! ity is real fact or that more of the
weed is being consumed than former
| ly. 1t is encouraging to note that the
districts that show decrease in the
production of cigars are the non-union
ones in Pennsylvania, and still we
have non-union factories trying to
gain foothold in Denver and Colo
RADIO. Cigarmakers are waking up
even in cheap Pennsylvania and join
ing the union where they belong.
Puritan Bond, Copyright, Best
Value, Ranger and High Altitude,
five-cent cigars, are not made by
members of our union which accounts
for them not having our label. A
few boxes that the manufacturers had
over from last year still have the la
bel and are kept in the show case to
show what they used to be.
R. w. Strachan, charter member
of 1923, has been obliged on account of
the heat-to take a week off to rest up.
Two of our members that went to
Chicago last week returned this week
and report no jobs open in that city.
Miss Rosa Glenski is making tour
of the Pacific coast on a strictly pleas
ure trip and will not take a job if
offered. She has been contemplating
this trip for a long time, and will put
in about six weeks sightseeing.
Charles Alderdice was up one day
last week from his dry farm which Is
located 20 miles east of Pueblo Char
lie reports crops fine and that he has
a fine well of iron and soda water
handy, also some oil indications which
he intends to look into after the crops
are laid by.
The production of cigars in all in
ternal district in the United States for
the month of May amounted to 748,-
.943, an increase of 1O5, ,l17 $50
cigars.
The Livingston Cigar company re-
ports difficulty in getting young Ia
dies to prepare the stock as formerly.
Maybe they have joined the Red Cross,
you can't tell. Anyway, Lee is mad
about it.
The Dry Climate shop is working
full capacity and will be obliged soon
to seriously consider the erection of
a new building.
The NJ. G. o. reports the demand
for their Little NJ. & o. cigar exceeds
their output.
The Denver, over in the West side,
says they have no kick coming while
F. X. Spitz of the V. o. P. shop re-
ports business fine.
Cigars that do not bear our label
are not made by members of our un-
ion and we do not recommend them.
You might as well have the best while
you are charged the same price. Fair
dealers are offering the label goods
now.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
A MONEY SAVING
TIP TO MEN
BUY CLOTHES NOW

The price Of Mems clothes will be
higher in another month-in some
stores the prices have already ad-
vanced.
The man who buys clothes right
now. even for future wear, is making n
wise move
Menter sells mems clothes on easy
weekly or monthly payments at cash
store prices. The old prices still pre-
vail.
You can get good SIS suit by pay
ing one dollar down. Then pay as YOU
wear. Si.00 n week
II you want a better suit-one for
SIS or $50; or n very classy one for
$3.50 or S25 our terms are the most
liberal known.
Mcnter wants TO trust you-wants
you to buy your suit now at the old
prices; wants you to come and feel
that you are welcome.
eve do as we advertise" and lust
now we are advertising the fact that
it pays to buy clothes now. and we have
a range of styles and patterns that
Will please the most particular. Men
ter. 1929 Stout street. Open Saturday
nights. c. +. Keepers. Manager.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Bakers

Cincinnati bakers are aligning with
the policies of Herbert C. Hoover in
the campaign to conserve the food re-
sources of this country.
The bakers have discontinued the
practice of accepting unsold bread
from the retailers. Grocers must es-
innate the amount of bread to be sold.
A E. Muth, Cincinnati chairman of
the war emergency committee of the
baking industry, said: Il am sure the
bakers of Cincinnati are patriotic and
appreciate the need of cooperation
with the government. | am convinced
the change will be for the best inter
ests of all concerned and | am anxious
that the consuming public shall un-
derstand this is patriotic service we
are rendering the government as a
necessary part of the war program" ="
II is estimated by bakers that a
saving of between $l2,000,00O and
$20,0OO.00O a year will be made in
the United States by the elimination
of problems caused by the waste of
stale bread.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
ALL VEGETABLES
ARE NOW,RIGHT
FOR CANNING
Fruits of All Kinds Selling at Low
Prices and Are Plentiful. You
Should Start Preserving Now.

There will only be one more good
week of raspberries and there is not
much chance that prices will be lower
than the present quotation of S2.S5
per crate, 2 boxes, 25c.
Gooseberries are very near out,
good, firm stock selling at from $275
to SO per crate, 2 boxes, 25c; currants
will be few next week, the bulk of the
crop having been harvested, they are
selling according to down town deal
ers at 1925 to $3.50 per crate, 12kc
to 15c per box.
Cherries are at their best and will
be fairly plentiful all next week. The
Montmorency variety, which is the
most popular for canning selling at
1925 per crate, per box, 10c.
California plums, all varieties, are
65c per basket, $3.50 per crate. Colo
RADIO apricots are $3.50 per crate, 65c
per basket for the large high colored
fruit; small apricots are selling as low
as 81 per crate. If you want to pun
up the California Bartlett pears, deal
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Horseshoers

A strike of go St. Louis horse
shoers is scheduled unless their wage
scale served on the employers in the
local branch of the National Horse
shoers Protective Association is rec
ognized.
The scale under which the horse
shoers have been working in the 125
shops in St Louis expired July 13.
Since that time they have held con-
ferences with the employers, but the
war wages which members of Jour
neymen Horseshoers Local No. 3 de-
manded did not meet response.
Under the new demands the union
men ask the daily wage for nine hours
of So so be raised to $3.50. They also
ask for half day on Saturday with
full pay of $3.50. Their demands for
overtime work jumped from 60 cents
an hour, which they have received
in the past, to 81 an hour in the fu-
ture.
The employers offered S4 day of
nine hours, with half day on Sat
urday at So An effort has been made
for two weeks to reach an agreement,
but it has been unsuccessful.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Labor Meetings
Coming Week
THE TIME AND PLACE

Tonight-saturday.
Bakers No. &c, 1I15 California st.
caepsls eafpeaters So No 1iai. p Bank bk W. cofa.
Ladies Auxiliary to Railway Carmen, X. OF
T.. hall. Evans blk, at loop.
Sunday.
No meetings scheduled.
Monday.
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers No.
., Club bldg.
Brleklayers. b. t. G, Club bldg.
Carpenters No. 55, Carpenters hall, 1917
Elsetrieai Workers No; os 1917 IL Lawrsnee.
Steam Filters, 323 Charles bldg.
q r. No. a. Id 80 ,EPs7 b ni riotiS iisl champa
b.. L.. E.. No. 451, 1 80 p. m, Sixth and
Tuesday.
Glass Workers and Glaciers, $50 18th st.
Meat Cutters and Butchers, II. 7. c., Club
bldg.
Plasterers. 1917 Lawrence St
b. Il. L. No $50, Club bldg.
Wednesday.
Carpenters District Council, 1917 Stout st.
Cement Finishers 3. T C., Club bldg.
Retail Clerks No. I, 200 Charles bldg.
Stereotypers and Electrotypers No. i3,
structural Iron Workers, 1871 Arapahoe.
B. L. L. No. 734, . p. m. 3lst and Clay.
II. X. L. No. 30, 1913 Champa ST.
Ladies' Auxiliary b. l.. Il. No. 40, 175l
Champa st.
Thursday.
Electrical Workers No. III, 1917 Lawrence
Hosting Engineers. b. Y. G, Club bldg.
Leather Novelty Workers, B. T. c, Club
bldg.
Painters No. 10. $50 18th st.
Photo Eugraver~. 1915 California 81.
stationary Engineers, B. 7. g, Club bldg
renmsters aud ChuuIcurs, 1i1G Lariuer st.
Il l.. f. Il. No. ~, Masonic Temple.
Ladies' Auxiliary, Il. l.. T. L. No. ca. 2
=, m, 3Sth and Franklin St
Friday.
Backsmiths No. 457, a2i Charles bldg
building Trades Council Carpenters hall,
1917 Stout St
Board Hotel and Restaurant Employees.
p. m, 1881 Arupahoe St
Laundry Workers No. -, 1913 California.
Sign Writers, $50 18th st.
Pressrncu No. !. Charles bldg.
Union Label League No /, p. m, b. T
Window and House Cleaners, 1881 Arapa-
hoe St
Ladies' Auxiliary Il. L. F. E. No. %, sth
and Santa Fe
Ladies' Auxiliary, o. Il. c. No. % D. IN
1Ijl Champa st
Ladies' Auxiliary b L. E. No. sos. Ross ct
aud Dunkeld pl.
Il. L. f. Il. No. 273, Eighth and Santa Fe.
h. X. I. No. 4i6, 1913 Champa st
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28

ers say you should get them now at
$3.25 per box, however, II you prefer
the Colorado pears you can wait for
several weeks. California peaches.
per box, Sl.45 and Texas Elbertas. 2
lbs, 25c, per basket, 40c.
Cantaloupe will be little scarce
for about another week, prices range
from for 25c to 20c each; fiat crate,
sl.50, and standard crate. S3.75. Cas-
aba melons, each 3Jc to soc; honeydew
melons. each SOC to 60c. Watermcl-
ons, each soc to 81.
Southern tomatoes, per lb., l5c and
hothouse tomatoes. per lb., zoe.
Flour is selling today Mt s5.95 per
whole sack for the Legal Tender and
Longmont Special, and S605 for Hun
garian Patent and Pride of the Rock
les.
The California new potatoes are the
best on the market now, selling at
lbs, 25c; 100 lbs, S4.25. There are n
few Kansas potatoes on the market at
s3.75 per hundred. but they are lit
tie undersize and dirty.
The butter market remains very
firm, the Orange Creamery, Brookside
and Columbine selling at i0c per h.,
and the other Denver brands at i3c
per h., 2 lbs, S5c. Tub butter, per
ID, 3Sc; 2 lbs, 75c. Eggs are 35c,
40c, and 45c per dozen.
The vegetables you should be can
ming now are green and wax beans,
green peas, new beets and carrots.
Green and wax beans are 2 los. 25c.
Peas, per lb., Zoe; new beets, turnips
and carrots, large lunches, DC; per
dozen punches, soc.
Leaf lettuce. 2 lunches, DC; long
radishes, 3 punches, 10c; round rad
ishes, punches, DC; cucumbers, each
&c to zoe; the higher prices are hot
muda onions, lbs, 25c; new cab
bage is n little lower, now selling at
Z lbs, 25c.
Fresh meats remain firm without
any material change in prices.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Laundry Workers

The White Swan, Pueblo's new un-
ion laundry, to be started in the brick
building in the rear of the Congress
hotel, will make a trial run Saturday,
and will be ready for business Monday
morning. 1t is owned and controlled
and will be operated by union en-
ployes. Harry A. Bruce, member of
the Stationary Engineers, delegate to
the Pueblo Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, and for long time chief engineer
at the Vail hotel, will be the manager.
War conditions made it impossible
to obtain machinery for a complete
laundry and the equipment now in
place was received after many and
long vexatious delays. Therefore the
business of the new establishment will
be confined for the present to the laun-
dering of overalls and jumpers.
For this business the White Swan is
the best equipped in the West. Every
piece of machinery is of the very lat
est Improvement. 40 entirely new
process will be used to clean the fab
ric. There will be no chemicals used
in the cleansing. There is no metal in
the washers to destroy the fabric of
the cloth. The plungers are of wood,
instead of wire netting as used by
other establishments.
The equipment now in place consists
of one advanced press, one body iron
er, two washers, one starch boiler and
one water extractor. And as above
stated it is of the very latest i'm
provement.
Just as soon as additional machin-
cry can be obtained for the handling of
all kinds of laundry work, it will be
installed. r.:
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
BARRIERS

Journeymen BARRIERS Local No. 134
of Oakland, Cal, has decided that the
minimum wage scale be advanced
from SIS per week to SIS per week.
Immediately upon the Endorsement of
this resolution by their International
and the central labor council, this
scale will be in operation. 1t was also
decided that the hour of closing
should be o'clock p. m. instead of
8 p. m. This is step in the right
direction as the BARRIERS are the cham
pion long hour workers.
The BARRIERS Union of Seattle,
Wash, is enjoying unprecedented
growth. At its last meeting it re-
ceived five new applications, readmit-
ted four, accepted three retiring cards
and initiated four. During the last
two weeks it has signed up fourteen
shops. The leading ones are the
Joshua Green Building shop and the
Leary Building shop.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
News of the Labor Unions
Carpenters

William Koch of the Brewery Work
ers came up with bunch of matches
advertising Coor's near beer and malt
ed milk as being on the unfair list,
but the matches didn't reach around,
so come again, Bill.
The Carpenters also want to call
attention to the union label on cas-
kets, the following undertakers han
ding union label goods when you de-
mand them: Hoffman,, Third and
Broadway; Yeager Mortuary, Eleventh
and Broadway; Whithead Undertake
ing company, 519 Eighteenth street,
and George Olinger Mortuary; and
when you patronize any of the above
you make no mistake.
Bill Brokate blowed down from
Wyoming last week. Same old Bill;
hale and hearty.
Ike Morris was on the sick list last
week.
Harry Sleeter is able to be around
again.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Iron Workers

Secretary Sam Adams of Kansas
City, writes that there will be about
eighteen months work for 100 men
on the terminal viaduct over the Kaw
river into Armourdale. Work has just
begun on this viaduct which will be
used by the Rock Island, Union Paci-
fic and Missouri Pacific railroads as a
western approach to the union station
in this city. Secretary Adams says
that he is in receipt of letters from all
sections of the country asking for
bridge and structural iron workers.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Painters

A letter is being sent to all the
ing the information that by special
dispensation the initiation fee from
July l to September l will re $40.
By this action it is hoped to add many
members to the organization. 1t has
been decided that the scale of wages
from September l, 1917, to April l.,
1918, shall be 65 cents per hour and
after the latter date it shall be 70
cents per hour.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
HOME GUARDS FOR
COLORADO TO BE
RAISED AT ONCE

Until the legislature provides a state
constabulary or home guard for the
protection of the various public utili-
ties and grain elevators of the state
Governor Gunter has initiated steps
to secure adequate guards to take the
place of federal and state troops now
on duty.
The governor instructed Adjutant
General Baldwin to Immediately in
crease the state guard by the forma-
tion of an additional regiment of in
fantry consisting of two battalions of
$50 men each and one squadron of
cavalry of 460 men.
Men will be accepted for enlistment
between the ages of eighteen and fifty
years inclusive and only such men as
have no families dependent upon them
for support. This increase in the
Colorado national guard is strictly
for home duty within the state and any
man who enlists and is subject to draft
will be compelled TO enter federal
service when called and is automat-
ically discharged from the national
guard.
at has become necessary on account
of insufficient protection after August
6 to increase the guard for home duty
said Adjutant General Baldwin, land
it is apparent that men who are not
within the draft age provisions should
enlist in the new state troops
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
Plumbers

Union plumbers employed in the
erection of the army cantonment at
Aver, Mass, suspended work to en-
force union conditions. The unionists
insist that they will not set aside
working conditions secured after years
of effort because some contractor, sit
ting as judge and jury, believes he is
the sole arbiter of patriotism.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28
CHILD LABOR DELEGATE

Labor Commissioner W. l.. Morris
sey has been designated by Governor
Gunter rs Colorado delegate to the
national conference on child labor TO
be held in Washington. There is some
question as to whether or not Nor
rissey will be able to attend owing to
the fact that there is no fund availa-
BILE
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28

Texas state authorities revoked the
license of an employment agency in
Houston which was found guilty of
sending workers to places where no
demand for labor existed.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-28

If you want job printing in hurry
on union label watermarked paper,
call up The Bulletin. Phone Main 1895.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1917-03-16
commissioners Sale of Land
For Partition.

3. IL. Studdard ct. AL, VS.. Mrs. Lula
Studdard. No, 1864.
Ry virtue of the provisions OF "A de-
cree of the Chancery Court OF the 2nd
district of Chickasaw county, Missis-
sippi, rendered by said court on the
9Th day of December, 1916, the un-
dersigned as special commissioner of
said court, in said cause. will on Mon
day, the 2nd day OF April. 1917, at
Okolona. Mississippi. within legal
hours, in front OF the court house door
offer for sale and sell To the highest
bidder for cash. the following describ-
ed land, situated i'm the county Of
Chickasaw and State of Mississippi,
to- wit:
Forty acres, being the ne. Id of the
NV. Ia. and 40 acres in the northwest
corner of the ne. Ia, all In section 80,
township IA, range 8 east, said county
and State.
The title to the above land is be-
lieved to be good. but | will convey
only such title as II vested in me as
commissioner.
This March 7th. 1917.
w. J. WILLIAMS, Commissioner.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1917-03-16
cloture. and l shall cooperate with

cloture. and l shall cooperate with
my brethren in the Senate generally,
and my Democratic colleagues es-
pecially, in any effort that may be
necessary to bring about a change
in the rule so that the will of the
Senate may be expressed. l have
never opposed cloture-I have never
favored filibuster; but. on the con-
trary, l have universally been in fa-
vor of majority rule in the Congress
of the United States. And / will be
permitted to add l am also in favor
of Congress ruling itself.