Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-13

quartet OI employees IuTHlSueu Soiue
excellent musical numbers. Thursday
night spoke to large mass meeting
in the First Baptist church, preceded
by an organ recital on an instrument
almost as large and harmonious as
the great new organ in our City Audi
torium. This church is about the size
of Trinity M. E. in Denver, and was
crowded to an overflow meeting in the
Y. NJ. C. A. next door. For the street
meetings my singers place a small
organ in large automobile and we
always have a large and orderly
crowd of listeners. The vets appear
dazed with the rapid-fire manner in
which the drys are conducting the
campaign.
THERE IS A WELL ORGANIZED
Union Labor Dry League here, COM
posed of representatives of nearly
every union in the city. 1t is doing
some very effective work, and giving
the lie to the booze interests, which,
as usual, claim to control the labor
vote. From what / have seen and
heard, the union labor people here, as
elsewhere, are refusing longer to be
for the saloon.
THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON
l attended a meeting of Syracuse
Typographical Union No. 55, and had
the honor of being introduced to speak
by James NJ. Lynch, for twelve years
president of the international Typo
graphical Union, now a member of the
New York State Industrial Commits
sion. "Big jim" as he is known
among printers everywhere, lives in
Syracuse, is member of No. 55 and
never misses a meeting. He comes
home from the state capital at Albany
each Saturday and remains over Sun
day. Jim is the same jovial, good
natured and broad-minded fellow he
was when, as head of the /. T. u, he
used to make frequent visits to Colo
RADIO as president of the Board of
Trustees of the Union Printers Home
In the meeting today he participated
in debates on matters under discus
sion just as tho he was working ac-
lively at the trade. Syracuse Union
has over 300 members, and | miss my
guess if majority of them do not
vote "dry."
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY
of this week l am scheduled to speak
at big dry meetings in Watertown,
about eighty miles northeast of Syra-
cuse, near the Thousand Islands in
the st. Lawrence river. A most ap-
propriate place to conduct an anti
booze campaign and where the water
wagon ought to make a home run.
Then l go to Auburn for day, and
back to Syracuse to help wind up the
campaign here. This is the pivotal
Io%
in this election, it is said, will have
now in session at Albany in regard
to endorsing the national prohibition
amendment. Next Monday, April Is,
the day before election, Billy Sunday
is to come here from Chicago and hold
two big meetings for the drys. Billy
conducted a revival here in 1915, soon
after his Denver engagement, and the
people here feel confident that if any
final punch is necessary to put the dry
victory across the plate, Billy will
give it.
ONE OF THE FRUITS OF BILLY
Sundays previous visit to Syracuse
was the redemption of Diamond"
Joe Cochran, one of the show char
acters of the town. Diamond" Joe
gets his cognomen from the number
of sparklers he wears, in his teeth, on
his fingers, scarf and shirt bosom. He
never appears in public with less than
$4,000 worth Of diamonds in evidence
His big White steamer is always at
dry headquarters for service, and
when riding in his car | get uneasy for
fear of holdups. Diamond" Joe never
tasted booze in his life, so he says,
nf in
Syracuse and was the most notorious
gambler in Northern New York, con-
Quoting several gambling houses and
a string of race horses. He hit the
sawdust trail when Billy Sunday came
to town, Joined church over protest of
the congregation, and is now spending
his money freely and putting in all
his time to make Syracuse dry as the
Saharah desert. One of the unique
| treats of this unusual campaign is to
hear Diamond" Joe tell of his re-
demption before large crowd on the
streets and wind up with a fervent
prayer. And there is this to be said
about him-he is thoroly conscientious
fiage about Diamond" Joe Cochran.
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WHILE FOR THE MOMENT THE
wet and dry fight holds the spotlight
in Syracuse, and is the chief topic of
conversation, war patriotism is in evi-
dence everywhere. Back East here
the war seems so much closer than in
Denver. Men are in training at camps
all along the line, and aeroplanes in
practice fit thru the sky. The third
Liberty loan campaign opened Satur-
day with parades and patriotic meet
ings in most all Eastern cities. 1t is
really surprising the way New York.
ers respond to every call of the ma
ton. There doesn't appear to be any