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Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
OPERATORS MEET
MINERS ON WAGE
QUARTER MILLION MEN
GOING TO GET MORE.
Increase Guaranteed by Contract Be-
tween Employees and Employers in
the Central Bituminous Fields of
Illinois. Ohio and Indiana
Ry DAME BARTON.

On top of the great victories that
the United Mine Workers of America
have Just won for its members and
for unionism in Colorado and West
Virginia comes now the fruit of sue
cessful conference for a wage increase
in the central bituminous field of Illi-
nois, Indiana, Ohio and western Penn
sylvania.
This something more than 90 per
cent wage increase for a quarter mil
lion mine workers. secured by per-
fectly friendly and businesslike nego-
tiations with the mine operators, will
undoubtedly mark a new and historic
epoch in the progress of trades union
ism. and in the Development of indus
trial equality Of workers with en-
ployers. The collective bargaining of
two sets of free men, free workers and
free employers, has been set forward
n whole generation and has been set
on a sure and permanent foundation
by this notable achievement of the
United Mine Workers of America.
In the words OF President John P.
White of the Mine Workers:
"The conference Just ended has set
81
of relations between employers and
employees in a spirit of patriotism and
mutual accommodation. worthy of
good citizens in this time of emer-
gency.
"Operators in the great bituminous
fields of Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and
western Pennsylvania have been quick
to appreciate the necessity of wage
advances to meet the difficulties faced
by miners who were anxious to do their
share and asked only for adequate
provision in the wage schedules for
the vital needs of themselves and
their families. Substantial increases
have been agreed upon, and the miners
will now so to work with redoubled
energy, confident that the family lard
er will not go empty and that their
families will not feel the pinch of
need"
The substantial wage increase for
the miners Ito keep pace with the
cost of living) was in addition to the
bigger increase in wages procured
one year ago. II is to go along with
that former increase in wages of that
other contract until April /. 1918,
when new contract is to be nego-
tiated.
The miners are to receive their addi-
tional money as steady wages, OBJ
tained and guaranteed as contract
and not rs ''bonus," which might be
withdrawn by the employers,
The vital principle of an inviolate
contract has been completely vindi-
Gated. II has been proved that work
ers. united in great labor organiza-
tion like the United Mine Workers,
which keeps its contracts. have the
confidence and respect of the employ
ers. 1t has been demonstrated that
such workers in single great organ
ization can gain. by their own voice
and action, acknowledged rights far
greater than anything that might be
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
FRANkFURTER TAKES ON BIG TASK AS
PEOPLES LAWYEY, SUCCEED BRANDEIS
Plead the Oregon Minimum Wage Law Before
Supreme Court and Won Favorable Decision; Elhu
Russian Commissioner Brings of
Protest From American Laborites.

would retard and curb democracy and
deny the people power. He is a rep
resentative of that aristocratic class
which thinks things can be done for
the people better than they can do for
themselves, but he fails to recognize
that altho autocracy may produce
efficiency it does not develop men and
women.
Always Against the Masses.
His record upon legislation favor
able to the interests of the people is
almost uniformly in opposition. Dur
ing the time when Senator Root was
in the senate as chairman of the sub
committee on the senate judiciary
committee, he was in a position to ex-
ercise tremendous power over legis-
lative proceedings in the interest of
the wage-earners-the masses of the
people.
There was referred TO that commit
tee Legislation for the purpose of Sc
curing for the wage-earners rights
necessary TO their protection and for
the exercise Of such activities as were
inseparable from their protection and
increased well being-the rights exer-
cised by every other citizen Of the
country.
Deaf Ear TO the Workers.
Senator Root used all the author
ity Of his office 70 prevent considera-
tion or action upon that Legislation.
He turned a deaf ear to all the ap-
pcals made by the wnge-earners. He
refused 10 move from his adherence to
lcgalistic principles and his concepts
Of the injunction and the use of the
injunction. He staunchly upheld rights
associated with the ownership of prop
erty and was unable to understand the
rights that belonged 10 human beings.
and he carried these concepts over to
the convention.
AT the election of November 2. the
people of the state of New York by
nearly half n million majority defeated
Mr.. Roots proposed constitution. In
deed. 1t was not an election-it was n
revolution. II was a manifestation of
an indignant revolt against the at
tempt of subtle master minds to en-
mesh the people in n maze of intrica-
cics, designed as n first step in their
cnslavement by vested interests and
special privilege"
Now. like calamity" as Represen-
tative London-himsclf n Russian pol
/ itical rcfugec-says, comes the selec-
| ton of this anti-labor fanatic to speak
/ for America TO the great labor repuh-
/ lie which is just getting upon its feet
] Protest is coming from all sides. Root
may be compelled TO decide that III
health keeps him at home.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A mother knows that her baby is
going to be a great thinker because
of the thoughtful way he sucks his
thumb when he isn't crying.
Any woman would rather lose her
money than her hair. But it is differ
ent with men.
Don't be too hard on the poor mutt
who was tempted and fell. Maybe you
would have done the same thing your
circumstances.
1t is sometimes hard to determine
who do the most harm-your enemies
with the worst intentions or your
friends with the best
Why do men think it wonderful to
see womau's leg? Legs are not so
unusual. Nearly every creature in
the world has legs.
1t always tickles busy man when
he manages to introduce two chronic
bores and they start to bore each
other.
The man who says that his wife
never agrees with him is a wall-eyed
liar. Every wife agrees with her hus-
band when her husband doesn't want
her to.
A woman is never guilty of procras-
tination when it comes to spending the
money her husband gives her.
OF course it isn't very sentimental.
But case of cramps will soon make
girl forget broken heart.
While we know that we are an
Iconoclast and brute. we still insist
that most of this Higher Thought
stuff is fapdoodle and slush-mush-
gush.
The women are hunting lotion that
will not produce downy growth of
hair when used. And the bald-headed
men are hunting one that will.
The only opportunity some men seek
is one to get along without having to
work
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
FIRST LINOTYPE

The first linotype machine ever
made in the United States has come
into the hands of the Smithsonian
Institute and is now part of their
collection of relics.
This machine is known as the Mer-
genthaler type as il was invented by
man of that name.
The inventor of this machine is in
no small way responsible for the pres
ent standard of the American printing
trade.
In fact the machine has thoroly
revolutionized the printing trade.
Previous to the invention of the limo
type composition and distribution were
done by hand which involved an in
finite amount of diligent labor and
needless expense.
Mergenthaler's invention was the
first machine ever produced which
would cast bars and slugs.
From the time of the invention of
the first machine in 1877 to the present
day, the popularity of the machine
has increased greatly.
The rapid rise of the machine is
perhaps best shown by comparison of
the machines now in use.
Ii is estimated by authorities that
the number of these machines now in
use is something more than twenty
times rs many as were in use eighteen
years ago.
The first official test of the Mergen-
thaler invention took place in Balti-
more. Md, in July, 1884.
On that day great crowd of cur
ious persons had gathered at print
shop on Bank Lane to witness the
public demonstration of the wonder
full invention.
When everything was ready Mer-
genthaler called for the steam to be
attached; he composed line, removed
the stopper from the metal pump, and
touched the line key.
Smoothly and silently the matrices
slid into their places, were clamped
and aligned. the pump discharged its
contents, n finished linotype, shining
like silver, dropped from the machine,
and the matrices slid again, to their
normal positions. The whole opera
ton consumed but 10 seconds and the
success of the invention was instan-
" recognized.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
ABOUT OUR UNION LABOR DIRECTORY

Attention is called official directory printed
this gives organization, date and
place of meeting and address of This directory
corrected weekly that
who need always galley proof
by calling The Bulletin Office
and other members who may have knowledge
of this directory requested to phone call
notify for it only thru this method that the
date and of service readers
This important feature maintained free of for the ready
benefit of readers and it only thru their
operation reporting changes that its value be maintained
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
URGES GOVERNMENT CONTROL
President of Farmers League Wants
Uncle Sam to Handle Food.

A. c. Townley, president of the
Farmers Non-Partisan League of
North Dakota, in newspaper state
ment. urges action by the government
as follows:
Take over the distribution system.
Take over the packing plants. cam
neries. flour mills, warehouses, eleva-
tors and storage plants.
Take over the idle land held by
specializing land holders, and distrib-
ute it among the hundreds of thou
sands of farmers who will make this
land productive.
Loan the farmers money with which
to buy seed, equipment and labor.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
ATTENTION! UNION MEN AND WOMEN

The Teamsters Laborers Petition will be No the
ballot Be sure and against the
City Amendment The Teamsters and Laborers Amend
rent goes Immediately after its adoption The other
one puts council and it is left their
option Go polls Tuesday May and for the
interests workingman against political tricksters
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05

Tell 'em You saw it in The Bulletin.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
LENNON THANKS HIS FRIENDS.

John Lennon. treasurer of the A:
F. of L., who has been seriously i'll
for several weeks writes President
Gompers that it is physically impos-
sible to reply to the immense number
of letters received during his recent
illness from everywhere and from
all classes and conditions of people,"
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
To Issue Souvenir Edition.

The Denver Labor Bulletin is at
work on n souvenir convention num-
Der in honor of the twenty-second an
nual convention of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor and the annual
convention of the International Typo
graphical Union, which convenes in
Colorado Springs the following week,
which will be n masterpiece of its
kind and will advertise our convention
in a way nothing else could. On ac-
count of the action of the last conven-
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05

Since the people of Russia revolted
and gained freedom, Colorado remains
as the only spot on the civilized map
earnors is legalized by statutory law.
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05

for he renewed our faith in those with
whom our lot is cast. Some of them,
at least-the majority of them, per-
haps-have made good" as the say
ing is. Such as these will leave the
world better than they found it, and
that he has lived and labored-and sac
rificed-Atlanta Journal of Labor
Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
RAISE FOR BTTUMTNoUS MINERS

Coal operators and representatives
of the mine workers of the central
Pennsylvania bituminous fields reached
an agreement late Monday night by
which the men will receive an increase
in wages of from % to so per cent.
The miners had demanded an advance
of 1915 per cent About $4,000 men
are affected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
GRO BE CONTINUED
WHAT THE CITY GIVES BACK
Those Who Return Home to Stay Are
often Nothing but Empty
Shells.

We who knew him In the days be-
fore the city swallowed him up Chat
was 40 years ago. had forgotten all
about him until the other day, when
the morning train rolled in and we
stood ready to help unload the coffin
and then to follow it to the place on
the hill prepared for him, Tom Bodine
writes in the Paris (Mo.) Mercury. Ev-
cry now and then someone like him
comes home to stay, and it is the same
story so far as we who remain are con-
cerned. Not until the train comes to
a standstill and the baggage car door
thrown open do we remember-and
sometimes it is poignant. When the
city took him he was young, and,
though bearing a grieyous burden, he
went hopefully. When the city gave
him back to us he was an old man
broken by many griefs, and desolation
looked up from the dead face, whereon
the majesty of the final peace more
often sits enthroned.
What the city takes and what it
gives back are always different. Some
times it sleeps them in folly and re-
turns dead wrecks, whereon we look
and read an ancient regret for things
that might have been better-and per-
haps in the end, happier. Again it
swallows them up in the vortex of the
great unceasing. pitiless economic
struggle, and, having Slapped brain,
body and soul. returns to us the empty
shell that once housed our friend.
That is what it did to him.
Are not some fated to he bound TO
the wheel and others TO walk in the
glad places, and at the end of the
dolorosa way is not there heavenly
compensation? Perhaps. but somehow
down deep in our hearts will continue
the bitterness of an ancient revolt be-
cause of empty and ioyless lives, the
deep resentment because of that blind
fatality. which even through love.
wrecks human aspirations and makes
of life an intending tragedy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
WORLD OWES MUCH TO WATT
Scotsman the First to Realize and
Make Practical the Wonderful
Power of Steam.

Science took a tear from the cheek
of unpaid labor, converted it into steam
and created a giant which turns with
tireless arms the Countless wheels of
toll"
Thus Ingersoll's poetic explanation
of the origin of the transformation
of pent-up steam into controlled and
industrially valuable mechanical ac-
ton. Elaborated in a more prosaic
manner, James Watt, yOung Scotch
man of Glasgow, and an instrument
maker by trade, once had an idea. 1t
was most revolutionary idea. Men
had been working on steam engines
for many centuries, but they had pro-
duced nothing of any practical value.
In the engines of that period steam
was admitted into only one end of the
cylinder, and about the only use such
an engine had was to pump water. And
it wasn't very good at that. AS for
using an engine to turn wheel-why,
nobody had thought of that. 1t SIM
ply wasn't being done. But James did
it. He let steaN into both ends Of the
cylinder instead of only one, put fly
wheel on the end of shaft and a
crank on the other, and there was the
steam engine, all ready for its real
business.
Watt was born in Greenock, Scot
land, on January 10, 1876, his father
being a builder, contractor and mer-
chant.
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The Spirit of Scotland.

/ went into Cupar twrites a cor
respondent to make s business call
in small office, ard in the course
of conversation asked the Scotswom-
an l was talking to. a perfect
stranger to me, il she had anyone
'at the front" The answer of this
noble and heroic oman (who was
evidently unaware that she was Civ
ing expression to the spirit of Scot
land springing up eternally through
the centuries1 was:
Three sons have I given to the
wars. Two have been killed, one at
Loos and one later. The third is safe
as yet, though he is in France. Soreiy
grieved when / heard, bat / dc not
grudge them. II 1 had ten sons
would give them all gladly for the
defense of the country. think shame
of the women who hide away their
men tNlks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
Some Don't Get Back.

The dusky tonsorial artist nervously
busted himself among his implements
of torture as the tired business man
sank into the operating chair and pre-
pared to rest while his stubble was be-
Ing removed. The barber tucked in the
annie bib. lathered the passive face
and opened his conversational bat
teries.
"Ah just got back from funeral"
yentured the ebony as a starter.
The tired B. NJ. opened one eye.
cleared the lather out of the corner of
his mouth and in biting tone re-
torted:
"You ought TO be blamed glad to get
back-a good many people don't"
And the shave continued amid
profound silence.-Columbu (O.) Dis
catch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19

of fifty, of no family or wealth, whose
salon attracted ministers of state;
they haven't the education nor the lib
critics that your women enjoy, and, in
the mass, they are not regarded-how
do you -chivalrously. Yet there
they are
sand why? Because they are capa-
BILE of great passions, great desires.
They are willing to take the art OF
wornanhood seriously make innumer-
able sacrifices for it, as one must for
any art, in order to triumph in it,"
Rose thought this over rather du-
biously. 1t was a new notion to her
or almost new. But suppose" she
objected, zone doesn't want to tri-
umph at it? Suppose one wants to be
a-person, rather than just woman?'
"There are other careers indeed"
Madame Greville admitted, "and one
can follow them in the same spirit
make the sacrifices pay the price
they demand. Mon Dieu! How l
have preached. Now you shall talk
to me- 1t was for that l took you
captive and ran away with you"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
CHAPTER IV-continued.

She refused to hear q word more
In those circumstances. I'm coming
straight down." she said, "and We'll go
somewhere for lunch. Don't you real
lie that we can't talk about IL like
this2 Of course you wouldn't, but It's
go"
Over the lunch-tabIe she got as de-
tailed an account of the affair as Rod
ney, In mis- somnambulistic condition,
was able to give her, and she passed
1t on to Martin that evening as they
drove across to the North side for
dinner.
"WeI, that all sounds exactly like
Rodney" he commented. Il hope
you'll like the GIRL"
"That isn't what hope" said Fred
erica. ''At least it isn't what I'm most
concerned about. 1 hope l can make
her like me. ROddy's the only brother
I've got in the world, and I'm not 60
ing to lose him if can help it. That's
what will happen If she doesn't like
me-"
AS II happened. though, she forgot
all about her resolution almost with
her first look at Rose. kOdney's at
tempts at description of her had been
well-meaning; but what he had pre-
pared his sister for, uncOnsciouSly
of course IN his emphasis on one or
two phases of their first acquaintance,
had been a sort IF slatternly Amazon.
But the effect of this was, really, very
happy; because when a perfectly pre-
sentably clad, well-bred, admirably
poised young girl came into the room
and greeted her neither shyly nor
eagerly, nor with any affectatiOn OF
ease, a girl who didn't try to pretend
1t wasn't a critical moment for her,
but was game enough to meet it with
out any evidences of panic-when
Frederick realized that this was the
Rose whom Rodney had been telling
her about, she fell in love with her on
the spot.
Amazingly, as she watched the girl
and heard her talk, she found she was
considering, not Roses availability as
q wife for Rodney, but Rodney'S as a
husband for her. 1t was this, perhaps,
that led her to say, at the end of her
leave-taking: "ROddy has been such
a. wonderful brother, always, to me,
that I suspect you'll find him. some
times, being a brother to you. Don't
let it hurt you if that happens
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
Helping the Laundress.

81 declare to goodness, have got the
backache so today just can't lift that
tub" said the laundress, as she looked
at it on the bench in the laundry
"Why lift it?" asked John.
"And how do you suppose am
going to get 1t emptied?" asked the
laundress, sarcastically.
"Siphon it out" said John.
Then he went to a closet where odds
and ends were kept, found piece of
rubber tubing, filled it with water, and
then, holding both ends placed one
in the tub and trailed the other Off -
the sewer opening in the floor. In
moment the water was running out
nicely, while the laundress stood with
her mouth open, watching how easy
it was.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19
Warranted NonshrinkabIe.

workingman came home In tri-
umph one evening with a red flannel
shirt. which he had bought at a bar
gain. and moreover. it was guaranteed
not 10 shrink. In due course the shirt
was sent and returned from the wash,
and the following morning the work
ingrnan put 1t on Just as he had done
so his wife entered the room. "Ullo,
'Arry.- she exclaimed. "where did you
get that new tie?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-06-19

the drive, than, instead of answering
Roses question. the actress repeated
one of her own.
Il ask you who you are. and you say
your name-RoSe something. But
that tells me nothing. Who are you
one of them?"
mo. not exactly" said Rose. "0nly
by accident. The man / married is
one of them, in a way. / mean, be-
cause of his family and all that. And
so they take me in"
$50 you are married" said the
FrenchwoEan. But not since longT
six months" said Rose.
She said it so with the air of regard
ing it as very considerable period
of time. that Greyille laughed. But
tell me about him. thsa Wis husband