Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-16
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posed of employing commercial print
ers and printers supply houses, one
of the numerous offshoots of the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Association,
held a Backbone" dinner Monday
evening in the Garden Room of the
Metropole hotel. officers elected at the
previous monthly meeting were in
charge for the first time, they being
John G. Garfield, chairman; Edward j.
Hines, vice-chairman, and F. A. Frank
lin, secretary. Formal speeches were
delivered by Senator L. NJ. Hatten-
bach, manager of the Retail Merchants
Association; George A. Levy of the
City Industrial Bureau; John L.
Hunter of the Hunter Cahill Adver-
tising Company, and Harry Allen,
manager of the Denver Typothetae.
Denver employing printers are endea-
voring to stiffen their backbone suffi-
GENTLY to obtain prices justified by
war conditions. About fifty were pres
ent at Monday nights banquet and the
speeches, together with other evi-
dences of getting together, would in
dicate that considerable progress has
been made along this line.
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| TOM EGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE
Colorado Pioneer Printers, was seated
alongside the o. P. at the backbone
banquet" and Tom disclosed some
hitherto unpublished history of how
the Union Printers Home came to be
located at Colorado Springs. Tom and
| c. w. Rhodes were delegates from
Denver Typographical Union No. 49
to the |. T. U. convention held in At
lanta, Ga, in 1890, at which time the
present Home site was selected. Texas
delegates were anxious to have the
Home built in that state and, following
the custom of that period, had brought
along a goodly supply of booze, which
was on tap at Texas headquarters in
the Kimball hotel Colorado delegates
opened up headquarters in the same
hotel with an abundance of Manitou
water, Gods purest nectar, which
flows from the depths at the foot of
Pixies Peak. For a day or two the
contest was between Texas booze and
Colorado aqua pura. Delegates from
Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo
were eloquent in portraying the great
advantage of having the Home located
where plenty of pure water from the
mountain peaks and flowing streams
below would be conducive to health
and long life of the residents. Visit
ing delegates from all over the coun-
try partook plentifully of Manitou
water and passed up the Texas booze,
so that when the vote was reached
they had clear heads and were able
to vote intelligently. Hence the prop
osition of the Colorado Springs Cham
Der of Commerce to donate eighty
acres of land adjacent to Pixies Peak
for the Union Printers Home was ac-
cepted.
At ,rrE,TrN-C or TUE nEn-
yer school board Wednesday night,
two teachers were dismissed for re-
fusing to sign the loyalty pledge de-
manded of the 900 teachers in the
public schools. Miss Ellen A. Kennan
and Miss Gertrude Nafe, teachers in
English in the East Denver High
School, were the two who paid the pen
atty. The meeting of the board was
open to the public and there were a
number present to support the teach
ers, among them being Ben Salmon,
convicted in the United States District
court two days previous for refusing
to obey the conscriptive draft law,
who is out on bond pending an ap-
peal. The boards action was unani-
nous, the vote being taken after the
teachers had been given an opportu-
nifty to state their case. The o. P.
is of the opinion that the board is to
be commended for this act, for surely
the minds of pupils in our public
schools should not be poisoned with
the least taint of disloyalty to our gov
ernment in such a crisis as now con-
fronts us. The dismissed teachers
gave notice that they would take the
matter into the courts.
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THERE WAS A REGULAR RE-
vival of old-time labor lights at Tues
day nights patriotic meeting held in
Painters Union hall. The spirit of
Abe Lincoln must have been abroad
to bring them together on this occa-
sion, and it was indeed good to see
them there. Among those who came
under our spotlight were Roady Ken
chan of Horseshoers Union, John E.
Connolly of the BARRIERS, Eli NJ. Gross
of the Cigarmakers, Frank C. Bird
sail, John E. Collett, August Rooster
and Otto F. Thum of the Topographic
cal Union, Pete Johns and Bill Hig-
ems of the Carpenters. Of course,
there are others, but we cannot re
call them at this moment. This, how
ever is sufficient to indicate that old