Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26

VI NHttI-uD illilOS DlGIt. lldl = DtH-
yer this week, filled to overfiowing
with ranchers, stockmen and plain
politicians. In addition to the annual
horse, poultry and livestock show at
the stockyards stadium, there We're
about twenty state conventions. Stock
show week is the big annual event in
Denver, and this year it was bigger,
brighter, better than ever before.
Sombrero hats and bearskin overcoats
were all the vogue in hotel lobbies
and on the streets. Each county in
the state was represented by its fore
most citizens and citiZenesSes. 1t was
no disgrace to sleep on a cot in
hotel corridor, and at the hotel where
the o. P. has a hall bedroom, visitors
were paying S1.50 per night to sleep
on cots in the ballroo4. Merchants
report large sales, for Colorado peo-
pie are well supplied with money, par
ticularly stock raisers and food pro-
ducers.
SPICIOU S PERSONS ARE
worrying u. S. Secret Service Chief
Rowland X Goddard with letters and
samples of the newly minted ''two-bit'
pieces, requesting that he run down
the counterfeiters." The new 25-cent
piece is a little different, but just as
Sam. Tom Annear, superintendent of
the Denver mint, says the design was
changed because the Goddess of Lib
erty was too scantily robed." In the
last run of 25-cent coins the Goddess
wears a one-piece dress that extends
above the waist-which is more than
can be truthfully said of the one-piece
garment worn by the Goddess in the
first run. While the Goddess is no
prude, she desires to conform to con-
ventional dress. Another kick made
against the first run of the new coins
was that the eagle on the reverse side
was flying too low. Now she scars in
harmony with the high cost Of living,
but the quarter doesn't buy any more
The second design carries five stars
on either side Of and three stars un-
derneath the eagle, instead of seven
stars on one side and six on the other
side Of the eagle, as carried in the
first design. Here's a tip. Only
few thousand of the first design were
minted, and holders may some day
realize a handsome premium from
rare coin collectors if they can afford
to hold on to them.
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HERB GEORGE, THE MOOCHER,
has panhandled sufficient money to
Send out another circular in the name
of ''the Employers Association" an
ethereal body of no material conse-
uuence or use other than to be used
as pseudonym for Herbs diatribes on
organized labor Herb has just dis
covered that no one in Colorado is
paying any attention to the involun-
tary servitude clauses of the indus
trial commission law, and grieves be-
cause employees and employers alike
have accepted the position taken by
the Colorado State Federation of La
Dor, in convention, in declaring this
law unconstitutional until so decreed
by the supreme court Furthermore,
Herb says it is possible the sections of
the industrial law referred to have
been forgotten or overlooked, and he
proceeds to reprint them in his circu-
lar. Now comes Herb with an appeal
to employers of labor to exact their
pound of mesh by causing the arrest
of any employe who quits work or de-
mands a higher wage without gaining
sanction and approval of the Colorado
industrial commission, and says it is
the duty of each and every employer
to prosecute (the word "persecute" is
what he intended) employees who ig
more the only claw" of its kind printed
in the statute books of any civilized
.
Poor Herb, he has hard time getting
started in his move to revive the old
citizens alliance gag methods in Colo
rado. He should return to California,
where the moochinG is said to be much
easier and more remunerative.
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BEN B. LINDSEY, THE "KIDS'
jedge," returned to Denver this week
after series of speeches in the east
in behalf of the Red Cross work He
will soon leave for France, as a rep
/ resentative and by authority of this
government, to make study of the
social conditions and rehabilitation
plans among women and children in
the districts of Belgium and France
overruu by the Huns. Before leaving
Washington a few days ago, he had
conference with President Wilson, in
which the scope of duties in the war
stricken territory was gone into
.