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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
OHIO EXCLUDES
PRIVATE FIRMS
INSURANCE COMPANIES TO
LOSE FIELD.
Pledge of Democratic Party to Work
ers Kept in Good Faith by
Legislature and Governor
in Buckeye State.

A signal victory for state insurance
funds has been won in Ohio.
First came a decision of the Ohio
supreme court on January 81, eXclud-
ing insurance companies hereafter
from workmen's compensation in the
state. This decision not only prevents
employers from insuring themselves
against loss due to their own negii-
gence, but also prevents them from re-
insuring compensation risks with stock
companies after the state fund has
absolved them from the necessity of
carrying insurance.
Two days later, by a practically
unanimous vote, the legislature passed
bill prohibiting private insurance
companies from writing any compen-
sation insurance whatsoever. Since
Governor Cox was elected on 2 plat
form pledge to exclude private insur-
ance companies from competition with
the state fund, it is certain to become
the law.
This closes the door completely to
private casualty companies, since the
contest will not be carried to the Unit
ed States supreme court. Employers
and employees joined forces in this
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17

the United Mine Workers. 1t is be-
lieved that McLennan will be appoint
ed general organizer TO work in this
district. 1t is further reported that
similar appointment was offered
Lawson, which he declined. Doyle may
return to work in the northern fields,
where he was employed before being
elected secretary-treasurer of the dis
trict.
Retiring Board Member Lawson and
Secretary Doyle issued circular let
ters to the officers and members of To-
cal unions in District Is this week,
stating their position and reciting the
various incidents which has led up to
suspension of the charter and taking
over of control by the international.
Both affirm their continued loyalty to
the United Mine Workers of America,
regardless of what they declare an un-
just program adopted by the interna-
tional officers.
International Vice President Frank
J. Hayes, chairman of the policy COM
mittce, was in Denver this week set
ting the new program in operation.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
PAN-AMERICANL LABOR FEDERATIONTO
COMBINE WESTERN WORLD WORKERS
Thrown Down American International Corporation and
Other Trading Monopoies Which Seek Control the
Land, the Industries and Public Utilities
of This Hemisphere

correspondence will be carried on be-
tween all of the groups and by each
group with the conference headquar-
ters in Washington Authority for
the formation of this body was given
by the recent Baltimore convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
Outline of Manifesto.
Briefly, the purpose is to line up
in one Dig combination for interna-
tional action the wage earners of the
Western world. F--s
"As is well known" the manifesto
says, "the capitalists of North Amer
lea and some European countries are
scattering millions and millions of dol
lars thru Latin-America, acquiring
concessions and business properties
which are disposed of to them by La
tin-American politicians and specula-
tors without taking into consideration
the rights of the masses of the people
the masses of the people who by
these transactions have their future
endangered for decades and perhaps
centuries.
If the employers, the capitalists,
of Pan-America thus unite for the
protection of their common advantage,
it becomes all the more evident that
the wage-earners Of these countries
must also unite for their common pro-
lection and betterment
1T will be the duty of the Pan
American Federation of Labor TO
show to the world that its purpose is
to permeate the Western Hemisphere
with a humane influence. This infiu-
ence will more truly represent the
sentiments of the American people
than the influence Of all the corpora
tions of the United States, and is in
strong contrast with those capitalists
who are eternally crying Business,
businessn and Dollars, dollarsl'
above all things, the Pan-Ameri-
can Federation of Labor should stand
as a guard on watch to protect the
Western Hemisphere from being over
run by military domination from any
quarter"
Prevent Industrial Feudalism.
In these words the gauntlet is
thrown down to the American Inter
national Corporation and all other
American, British or other invest
ment and trading monopolies, now pre-
pairing to get control of the land. the
industries and the public utilities of
the countries of South and Central
America, of Mexico and of the West
Continued on ragc Tourl
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
LABOR COMMISSIONER KILLED
Chairman of Washington State Board
Attacked in His Office.

Edward S. Olson, chairman of the
industrial insurance commission of
Washington state, was killed in the
Office of the commission, in the state
house at Olympia, Thursday after
noon of last week by John Nandell,
who claimed that the commission
should have decided that his injury
constituted total disability. Fandell
had a claim and was paid SIS for an
injury on January 5, but was per-
manently disabled and entitled to a
life pension.
In 1913 Olson was appointed state
labor commissioner and held that po-
sition until last June. when he was
made a member of the industrial in
surance commission, and was chair
man of that important body.
Olson was a printer by trade, being
member of Walla Walla Typograph-
ical Union. From the workers stand
point his official conduct was of ut
most fairness and the workingmen
and women of Washington feel that
they have lost their best friend.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
TRADES ASSEMBLY ADOPTS NEW
AND MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY
in AMENDING IT'S CONSTITUTION

successful campaign to keep profits
out of compensation insurance, and
leaders now assert that the new law
prepares the way for the health insur-
ance bill now pending, which also
shuts out the commercial companies.
Ohio's policy has attracted wide in
terest. The official commission of in
vestigation in British Columbia re-
Gently made a study of all the differ
ent types of administration of work
States and reported strongly in favor
of the exclusive state administered
fund, as saving the employers an i'm
mense amount of money and also
eliminating many undesirable fea-
lures usually attendant on the compe-
titive company system"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
TYPO JOURNAL PAYS
THE BULLETIN HIGH
TRIBUTE AS A PAPER

The February issue of the Interna-
tional Typographical Journal has the
following pleasing editorial comment
on The Bulletin:
"a recent issue Of The Denver La
Dor Bulletin. THE NEWS1EST AND
BEST PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE
INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LA
BOR IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY,
contained an editorial rebuke to the
late governor # Colorado in having
accepted, thru his attorney general,
an armored automobile for the use of
the national guard Of that state. This
death-dealing machine, says The Bull
letin, was Christmas gift to Colorado
from Lawrence C. Phipps, whose mil
lions are red with the blood of Home
stead. After reading of such actions
by men who are the products of cor
poratc tyranny and greed, it is easy
to realize why those who are affiliated
with organized labor do not fall over
each other in their mad rush to enlist
in the national guard.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
LAWSON, DOYLE AND M'LENNAN GIVE
WAY AS OFFICERS OF MINERS DISTRICT
New Policy Of International Became Effective Thursday With John
F. Moran of Iowa and Warren Pippin of Kansas in
Charge of Headquarters; Vice President
HAYS in Denver This Week.

Effective Thursday. February Is,
this week, the new policy of the Unit
Cd Mine Workers of America in deal
ing with the Colorado situation. sus-
pending the charter of District Is and
abrogating of district officers, pre-
sents the newest phase of the trouble
which grew out of the election Of Off
GERS in December last
An order to this effect was received
from International President John p.
White and places policy committee
of five in charge of three districts
whose charters are suspended. These
are District 10, comprising Colorado,
Utah and New Mexico: District 10,
Tennessee, and District 20, Alabama.
The policy committee created by the
international executive board consists
of Nice-Prcsident Frank J. Hayes,
John Zimmerman, Andrew Watkins,
w. ID. Van Horn and Robert II. Harlin,
all members of the executive board.
President John McLennan, National
Board Member John X. Lawson, Secre-
tary- Treasurer Ed. l.. Doyle, and other
district officers are deposcd.
James +. Moran, former executive
board member of the Iowa district,
has been appointed acting president,
and Warren Pippin of Kansas, acting
secretary for what was formerly Dis
trict 10. They are in Denver and have
taken charge at headquarters in the
German American Trust building. 1t
is stated that n vigorous campaign of
organization will at once be inaugu-
rated and that when this district, Colo
RADIO. New Mexico and Utah, is thoroly
unionized, the charter and autonomy
will be restored by the international
union.
So far ms The Bulletin is informed,
the deposed officers, McLennan, Law
and Doyle, are undecided as to their
future employment other than that
they will remain active members Of
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17

In the hall of the house of represen-
tatives Tuesday night a public hearing
was held on the proposed amendment
to the Colorado child labor law which
would prohibit employment of chill
dren under fourteen years of age in
the beet fields. The meeting was held
by the labor committee of the house,
presided over by Chairman Robert NJ.
Born. Friends of the children were
out in force and n delegation headed
by two Lutheran ministers, a lawyer
and an officer of the chamber of COM
merce came down from Fort Collins
to oppose the amendment.
Those who spoke in advocacy of the
amendment were Mrs. +. p. Costigan,
Mrs. A. Ritter Brown, Miss Alice Nc
Cabe, E, P. Costigan, Judge Ben B.
Lindsey, J. \. SeNson, superintendent
of the Logan County high school at
Sterling, and II. +. Black, superin-
tendent of the public schools at Eaton.
Arguments in favor of sugar beets
and against the children were present
ed by Fancher Sarchet, an attorney
representing the beet growers; II. H.
Hartman. secretary of Fort Collins
Commercial club; A. W. Hauser, mer-
chant of Fort Collins; the Reverend
Baumgartner, German Lutheran
church, Fort Collins, and the Rever-
end William Wilk, German Lutheran
church of Windsor.
Dog Houses For Babes.
The fact was brought out that in
the beet fields of northern Colorado
there are employed five thousand chill
dren under sixteen years of age. This
represents, however. only per cent
of all workers in the fields. An inter
esting development of the hearing was
that the German Russian families who
work in the fields, many of them NOV
ing out from the cities during the
beet season, have what are called "dog
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
by LAWRENCE TODD
special washinEton Correspondent The
Denver Labor Bulletiu.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-In the
midst of the chorus of warlike resolu-
tions and committee reports-most of
them designed to put some new bur-
den on the wage earners of the coun-
try-jammed into congress during the
past week, the manifesto of the con-
ference committee of the Pan-Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is made pub
lie. This manifesto is of real histo-
rical Importance, yet it is probable
that not one out of ten among the
regular newspapers of the United
States has printed any outline of its
text.
Samuel Gompers, on behalf of the
American Federation of Labor; Car
los Loveira, on behalf of the labor
movement of Yucatan; Santiago 1gle-
sias. on behalf of the labor movement
of Porto Rico. and John Murray, one
of the promoters of the first revolu-
tion in Mexico, are signers of this
manifesto. 1t is printed in Spanish
and English, and is sent to every labor
organization and national head of a
labor movement in Latin-America. 1t
calls for the sending of n representa-
tive of every national labor move
ment TO the conference. Meanwhile
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
SUBSIDIZED PRESS OF THE STATE
TRUCKLES TO DEMAND OF CAPITAL
THATLABOR'S IS SHACKLES BE WELDED
HOW VAST SUMS OF MONEY ARE PAID DAILY PAPERS
TO POISON MINDS OF READERS.
Colorado Legislature Refuse Repeal the UnAerica
and Unconstitutional Industrial Commission Law, Wage
Farmers Be to Defend Their Posi-
Under the Bill of Rights.

Publicity which expenditure OF the
compulsory of the
fall during their
employed 1900 their
advertising campaign place their arguments before the public at
These
weeklies and
5000 Nine national advertising agencies drafted
This advertising campaign similar in character that
by the Bethlehem
public the United States could manufacture
Is plate.
millions advertising
educate public favor compulsory arbitration for federal
all
the interstate commerce commission 1t IS significant
great bulk newspapers the occupying
edorialy position and their columns not
while sympaheticay inclined toward the rail
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
HOMES NOW CHEAPER

The United States senate has passed
the summer residence homesteads act
which permits citizens TO secure ten
acres or less of non-mineral vacant
public lands at cost of SIPS an acre
after residence thereon of not less
than two months each summer for
three years. During this time a hab-
liable summer dwelling and other i'm
provcments, to the total value of $500
must be made. II the land lies within
a national forest the government will
permit sufficient standing timber to
be cut to erect the dwelling and for
fire wood
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
UNIONISTS MAY STATE FACTS.

Because members of Painters Union
No. i60 at Hammond. Ind. exercised
their constitutional right in stating
that !. l.. Cohen was n non-union con-
tractor, the latter started suit for
$4,000 damages. The union did not
deny this statement, but it did insist
that it has the right TO inform the
public that n concern is unfair and
that it has the right to persuade the
public from patronizing said unfair
concern. A jury in the circuit court
agreed with these common-sense views
and dismissed the contractors plea.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
MARYLAND MINERS UNIoNIzE

United Mine Workers Union has
opened branch office in Cumberland,
to direct an extensive organizing cam
paign thruout Maryland coal fields.
Local unions have been established at
practically every mine in the district.
The campaign is being carried on by
International Organizers Feeny, Dia-
mond, Malone, Turnblazer and Bit
ner. who are holding large mass meet
ings in every mining center.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
WOMEN ASK APPOINTMENTS.

A committee of women headed by
former State Senator Helen Ring
Robinson called on Governor Gunter
Wednesday and presented communi-
cation asking that he name n woman
on the state industrial board, in the
event the present nominees are not
confirmed and it is necessary to make
new nominations. The governor said
he would give the matter considera-
ton.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17
COoPERS WANT s-HoUR DAY

The st. Louis Cooperage company
has refused nine-hour day and twen-
ty-eight cents an hour to its organized
coopers and these employees have sus-
pended work. The company favors a
l0-hour day at twenty-five cents an
hour and the non-union shop. Former
conditions were ten hours at twenty
two cents an hour.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-17

Don't holler because you have to
pay fifteen cents for shave. Would
you look up mans nose for five min
utes for fifteen cents?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT why


The Canadian contingent in the British
army has again demonstrated its fighting
qualities at the bloody Vimy ridge on
the northern sector OF the front in
France, having captured the greater por-
ton of the region which is called the
keystone to the famous Hindenburg line.
An endeayor to capture that position cost
the French 100000 men earlier in the
war and later the British spent $4,000
men in like venture and did not get
near the coveted position. The British,
thanks TO the dashing bravery of their
Canadian troops, have seized the position
without great cost in lives, if we are able
to credit the reports given out officially
in London. II Won Hindenburg intends
to fight it out on the present line it is
certain that a most vigorous effort will
be made to regain the pivotal position,
and that would necesstate most desper
ate defense by the troops now occupying
ton of'the German strategist TO fall back
to the Franco Belgian border. or even
into Belgium itself, the Canadians will
be spared the sacrifice which the reten
ton of the Vimy ridge would mean. In
either event the Canadians can be de-
pended upon to give excellent service.
And when we give credit to the Canadian
troops on the western war front we in
directly pay tribute to the fighting
qualities of Americans, for it is well
known fact that a considerable percent
age of the Canadian overseas troops isl
made up of Americans who crossed the
border line between the United States
and Canada and elisted in the army OF
the dominion. As yet no American d.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
THE VICTORY" AT EDDYsToNE.

Undoubtedly some mental perverts are
chuckling over the great victory" at
Eddystone Pa, in which the lives of 122
people--mostly women and girls-were
snuffed out by tremendous explosions in
the munitions factory. The act was on a
par with the great achievement" herald
ed by German newspaper when the
Lusitania was sent to the bottom with
its more than 900 souls, including a
large number of small children. 1t is the
kind of a victory, the sort of achieve
ment, which can have but one end. If
Justice in the world is not completely de-
throned, the deliberate murderers of in
nocent men, women and children will get
their punishment, whether in the form of
national defeat or in personal retribu-
ton. The sentiment of civilized world
will not stand for that sort of thing, and
the nation which does it and the nation
in whose name those things are done,
even il without orders from the home
government, will become a pariah, fit to
abide only in its own solitude. Indeed,
that nation has been relegated already to
that position by the thought of the civil
lied world.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12

1t goes without saying that the build
ings of Norwich university, "the military
college of the state of Vermont" should
be adequately protected because they
might be the target OF some misguided
enthusiast of the cause of Germany, who
thought that he might be damaging the
United States governments chances by
destroying few hundred rifles. After
the experience of Monday night in which
someone started fire in one of the main
buildings with view, probably, to wip-
ing out the guns of the cadets, much clos.
er guard of the property will probably be
kept. In a sense, the Norwich university
grounds are now military reservation
and they ought to be as thoroughly po-
iced by armed guards as regular army
reservations would be guarded,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
TALK or THE TOWN

See the Csc hats at Nourse & Wilson's
Congregational ladies will hold a rum
mage sale at the church Saturday after
noon, April ID, from 2 to s. Send in CON
tributions Friday afternoon or notify
Mrs. Spear or Mrs. langley if you want
articles called for.--adv.
George f. Parker and s. Wallace Rey-
nolds of Rutland, who have been staying
at Hotel Barre while in Washington
county to attend meeting of the Yer
mont telephone chapter at the capital
returned last night to their home in Rut-
land. While returning from Montpelier
after meeting Tuesday evening, Mr..
Reynolds had the misfortune to make a
misstep in alighting from a car in con
sequence of which he finished his visit
here on crutches and will probably con
tinue to use them for few days. A bad
ankle sprain resulted from the mishap,
although the doctors examination did
not reveal any bone fractures.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
A CHANCE TO BE PATRIOTIC.

The people OF Vermont, in common
with those Of every other state in the
country, should begin to make up their
minds now to do their part in absorbing
that s7,OOOOOO,OOO loan to the United
States government for the purpose OF
prosecuting the war. The loan viii be
somewhat in the nature Of a test Of sen
timent throughout the country regarding
the action Of Congress in declaring was
against Germany. II the people and
that means every person who is able to
-srape together 81 or more do not re
spond promptly 70 the appeal Of the gov
eminent 70 subscribe to the loan and take
up the whole amount, it win be more or
less Of a confession Of lack Of confidence
in the action OF our government, and the
moral effects on both the sides nov en-
gsged in Sighting viii be very strong. de-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
THE CALL TO RUSSIAN PATRIOTISM

If the spark of patriotism still fingers
in the breasts of the common people of
Russia, it will be invigorated and
strengthened by the direct appeal made
by Lvofr, president OF the council The
letter which he has just directed to all
parts of the great nation is startlingly
straightforward and may at first be cal
culated to strike dismay into the hearts
of the peasantry who have never been
permitted to know fully what the gov
eminent was doing Lvoff said plainly
that Russia was hard pressed; that the
government had been run by the Roman
off regime in disgraceful manner and that
a strong enemy was at the very doors OF
the nation, in fact, was already occupy
ing "whole territories of our state" 1t
is perhaps the first time in the history Of
the nation that the people of Russia have
been told the truth. 1t remains to be-
seen how the responsibility fits them. III
they are fully eognizant OF the fact that
they are now their own masters and that
the success Of government rests upon
them they will rise to the patriotic APP
peal Of their president of council"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12

pressing to the entente allies and en-
couraging to the central powers. On the
other hand, if the loan is quickly alb
sorbed by the people without necessity
to recourse by the government to the
great banks, banking houses and other
financial institutions, it will be an eX-
preston of confidence in the government
that has thus far directed the destinies
of the nation through nearly three years
of world discord and will, therefore, lend
tremendous moral support to President
Wilson, rs well as to the nations with
which we are now aligned. while at the
same time it viii lend some very tangible
and much needed assistance to a few Of
the entente powers which are hard
pressed for money with which to prose
cute the war. Hence it becomes a pa
triotic duty for all OF us who can get to-
gether S25 or more to buy some of the
government bonds or certificates. Aside
from that, there is the purely business
aspect of the purchase in which you have
the opportunity to buy gilt-edged bond
from the strongest financial nation of the
world, being thereby assured of fair an
nual return on the investment and vir-
tually absolute guarantee that the bonds
viii be paid on maturity. No investment
could be safer than the money you spend
in a United States government bond. Be
patriotic and buy one or more when the
opportunity comes.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-12
RAILROADS DISCUSS PLANS.
Presidents of Chief Roads Meet in Wash
ington to Consider War Measures.

Washington, April l2-Ability of the
railroads to meet demands of the govern
ment for transportation of troops, mu-
nitions and supplies was discussed yes
terday by presidents of the chief roads
at meeting with Daniel Willard, pres
ident of the Baltimore q Ohio, and mem.
Der OF the council of national defense's
advisory committee. A complete plan for
military cooperation already has been
worked out by the American Railway
association.