Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-03

plicit confidence.
WILLIAM FORREST EVANS
for more than twelve years business
agent Of Denver Machinists Lodge No.
At, has received his commission as
senior examiner in the United States
employment service and assumed his
new duties August / at salary Of
$4,000 per year. He will travel in
four or five Western states, making
his headquarters in Denver. In recog-
milton of his long and faithful services,
the Machinists Union at its last meet
ing presented Evans with gold watch
charm bearing insignias Of the Inter
national Association of Machinists and
the Masonic order. He was also pre-
scented with handsome travelling bag.
His successor as business agent will
probably be chosen at next weeks
meeting of the local union, which now
has about 1000 members.
THE o. P. HAS RECEIVED A
letter from a delegate who attended
State Federation of Labor in Sheridan
last week. It tells how the liquor in
terests were on the ground in force,
confident of being able to put thru a
resolution placing organized labor on
record as being opposed to the state
wide prohibition amendment which is
to be voted upon in the November
election. The resolutions had been
prepared and numerous copies printed
for quick publicity use by the booze
interests, and the State Federation
president was to pave the way for this
in his annual report. But none of
this happened. Upon advice of many
delegates, most of them members of
the coal miners unions, the president
deleted from his report all reference
to the prohibition campaign, and after
feeling out the sentiment of the dele
gates at Sheridan, the resolutions IA
voring the Wets were never brought
to the surface. A chagrined bunch
of boozers then departed for Chey-
enne. AS a matter of fact, a great
majority of the union labor men in
Wyoming are supporting and will vote
for statewide prohibition, which will
carry next November by at least three
to one.
EVERY CITIZEN OF COLORADO,
whatever may be his or her status in
the so-called social scale, is proud Of
Captain John Evans, provost marshal,
who has made such fine record for
the state since America entered the
war. Captain Evans was this week
; ordered by wire from Provost Mar
shall General Crowder to report to the
war department at Washington for
higher duty with the government.
When war was declared Citizen John
Evans offered his services to the gov
eminent in any capacity. He was
made provost marshal for Colorado
and commissioned by Governor Gunter.
So fairly and efficiently has he adj
Iministered the selective draft law
that not a faint Of scandal has been
limited, and Colorado's quotas have
always been met promptly with the
best class Of fighting material. He is
also director in this district for the
federal reserve banking system and
was general state director of war
savings stamps, promoting the recent
successful campaign which put Colo
RADIO near the top Of states buying
war savings stamps. In order to per-
form all these duties, for which he re-
fused remuneration from the govern
ment, Captain Evans asked leave Of
absence from the International Trust
Company, of which he is president,
and from the board Of directors Of
the Denver Union Water Company:
Captain Evans has made hundreds OF
new friends among the working -peo-
pie of Denver and the state, who have
come to know him personally in con-
nection with numerous war activities.
Colorado can ill afford to lose the
services of such a man, but it is a
keen compliment to the state that the
war department has chosen him for
b;1bor and porbapa mora reaDOnsihle