Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-05
The Optirnisti
Philosopher

very busy man. John R. Alpine is
well and favorably known to scores
of union labor men in Colorado who
feel great interest in his achieve
ments.
CHARLES PACKER, SECRETARY
and business agent of Denver Cooks
Union No. 1S, returned Thursday from
Nitro, w. Va, where he took body
of Colorado men who had signeds up
for work at the TINT" plant there.
Packer is in charge of the restaurant
and hotel department of the U. S. en-
ployment service and was assigned for
this work by State Director Roady
Kenehan. Men who secure employ
ment in the Nitro plant must be true
blooded, untainted Americans, because
a pro-German there could destroy
thousands of lives and wreck about
one-half the state were he so viciously
inclined. So rigid are the rules that
man who carries a match or look
ing glass into the plant is subject to
fine of $4,000 and thirty years in
prison. The plant is thoroly policed,
and platoon of soldiers are on guard
day and night. At present $4,000 men
900 pounds of powder and TINT"
daily. Some of the work is so dam
gerous that men are paid at the rate
of So per hour with a bonus of 81 900
at the end of each month. Nitro is
fourteen miles from Charleston, w.
Va, and has the largest TINT" pro-
duction plant in the United States.
The government paid high compli-
ment to the U. S. employment service
of Denver for sending a high type of
true American citizens for work in
this plant. Charlie Packer says it
was the event of his life to visit the
place and on the return journey he
stopped over in Chicago and Cincin-
natl for brief visits with old friends.
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YOU HAVE NOTICED BARRELS
painted red, white and blue in the
downtown business district for the col
lection of peach stones at request of
the government, and probably Won
dered how they could be used to help
to prevent our soldiers from being
gassed by the Huns. The stones are
employed as raw material for making
the best grade of absorbent charcoal.
This charcoal packed in small box
carried in a respirator on the front of
the mask worn by a soldier absorbs
the deadly gases in the inspired air.
1t has been found that the hard dense
compact substances of peach stones
form the most active absorbing quail
ties of charcoal, being much less bulky
than that made from wood and lighter
in weight. Charcoal is produced by
roasting wood, shells of nuts, pits,
fruit stones, dry blood and other or
ganic material. The roasting decom-
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one gaseous and one solid The gas
passing off from every cell and minute
part of cell leaves behind a highly
porous material with the property of
absorbing gases. This is charcoal.
When peach or other fruit pits are
used the pores of the charred mate
rial are infinitely fine and numerous
so that given volume of the carbon
will do far more work than the same
volume of other sgases of charcoal,
hence the demand for charcoal to save
our soldier boys from being gassed
by the Huns.
1T is NOW JUDGE JIM SAN
ford, police magistrate of Mountain
View, Jefferson county, Colorado. In
Denver he is known as James w. San
ford, secretary and business agent of
SlSdTiHdhtTS CIilOI w. 1So. Jim "do
elected Judge two months ago and
since being elevated to the bench has
presided in three trials. The first
was bunch of boys against whom
complaint was made for over-indul-
gence of fireworks on the Fourth of
July. Jim gave the boys a fatherly
lecture and let them off on promise
of good behavior. Another trial oc-
CURED when a woman swore out a
warrant against neighbor's COW for
munching grass under the dividing lot
fence. In this case Judge Sanford
divided the costs between the litigants
without imposing fine, hoping this
would cause them to be more neigh
borly. The heaviest fine imposed by
Judge Sanford during his term was 81
given one of the contending parties in
neighborhood quarrel. Mountain
View is a peaceful suburb of Denver
and police Judge is more of an orna-'
ment than a necessity, but Jim likes
the job and consented to take the
office inasmuch as it did not involve
an expensive election.