Denver labor bulletin., 1917-06-30
CIRCULAR ISSUED BY NOR
AN AND PIPPIN is CON-
SIGNED TO GARBAGE.
Labor Day Committee Accepts
$500 From Wahlgreen Print
ing Company for Privilege
of Issuing Program;
Bulletin to Publish
Usual Handsome
Edition.

When the scabby circular issued by
James F. Moran of Iowa and Warren
f. Pippin of Kansas, temporary Off
cials of District Is, u. NJ. W. of A,
was reached in the regular order of
business at last Sundays meeting of
the Denver Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, it was at once consigned to the
waste basket and later conveyed TO n
garbage can, where it properly be-
longed. The circular was an attack on
The Denver Labor Bulletin and its
editor for exposing the underhanded
methods adopted by these usurpers 20
drive John r. lawson and Ed. L.
Doyle out of the Colorado labor move
ment The circular bore no official
heading, had no seal giving il any au-
thority of the miners union, and was
probably printed in n scab shop, be-
cause ii bore no label of the Allied
Printing Trades Council.
Confidence in Lawson.
Following this action the Assem-
bly, unanimously adopted the follow
ing resolution:
"Resolved. BY the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly in regular ses-
sion, this oath day of June, 1917, That
we again reaffirm our confidence in
and high regard for John r. Lawson
and assure him and the organized la
Dor movement that we dcplore and
dcnounce any movement that has Tor
its purpose the removal of John X.
Lawson or Ed. l.. Doyle from the
ranks of organized labor in Colorado,
field in which they have so con-
scientously and successfully en-
ployed their abilities and energies for
many Years"
Secretary Thomas p. Rodgers was
instructed TO mail n copy of this res
olution to Moran of Iowa and Pippin
of Kansas, temporarily located IN
Pueblo. TO International President
John p. White. to John X. Lawson and
to Ed. l.. Doyle.
This was the first meeting of the
Assembly held since the recent peace
conference" in Denver and the action
taken is similar to that adopted by
the Pueblo Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, at its regular meeting last week.
Sell Program Privileges.
Fred Vessel. delegate from Barten-
ders Union No. 8, chairman of the
Labor Day committee, reported that
the proposition of the Wahlgreen
Printing company, to pay the commit.
tee $500 bonus for the privilege Of
getting out Labor Day program, had
been accepted.
but did propose to the Assembly that
IL the program was abolished this year
37h per cent of the proceeds of the
Annual Labor Day edition would be
given the Assembly. However, the
committee disposed otherwise and
Wahlgreen will send out solicitors
with credentials from the Labor Day
committee to get business for little
program that represents nothing to
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tunity to make an additional profit for
the Wahlgreen Program Printing
company.
Usual Labor Day Edition.
The Bulletin. of course, will this
souvenir Labor Day edition, which will
be credit to the labor movement of
Denver. the state and the nation.
Later in the meeting Emmett T..
Flood. general organizer of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, who was
present to deliver an address, de-
clared:
81 am somewhat amazed that this
Assembly should put so much empha-
sis upon making money out of its La
Dor Day celebration. Any central or
state labor organization which cannot
live without money secured thru the
publication of programs has no right
to exist"
Perhaps some day the Denver labor
movement will reach point where de-
votion to the interests of the rank and
file will have greater place than the
mere effort to secure bids and make
money from the issuance of programs,
n policy which has been condemned by
the American Federation of Labor,
state and central bodies in every other
section of the country.