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Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
DENVER LABOR
FOR 4TH LIBERTY
LOAN EN- MASSE
UNIONS AND MEMBERS IN
DOUBLE-UP CLASS.
Suspension of Regular Meetings In
terferes With Work of the Union
Labor Team. but There Was No
Lack of Interest in Shops.

After getting up a full head of
steam. pep and patriotism, the union
labor team in the Fourth Liberty loan
army was seriously handicapped this
week by not being able to address and
canvass meetings of the various labor
organizations. All meetings were
called off under the order of the city
health department. However, mem
bers of the committee went to the
shops and addressed the men during
the noon hour.
Organized labors record in the
Fourth Liberty loan is going to ex-
coed that of any previous drive. AT
this writing complete figures are un-
obtainable, but the subscriptions SO
far reported show that in most in
stances the union and members have
doubled over the Third Liberty loan
last April For instance. the stock
yards employees purchased bonds to the
magnificent sum of S2S0,000, as
against Sl00, 900 of the Third loan. At
the Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad
shops the subscription is over $780,
900, more than double the amount of
last April. and the same is true of
the men employed in the Colorado &
Southern shops. Burlington railroad
shop men purchased $4,000 in bonds
Local Union No. 605, United Asso-
citation of Steam and Gas Filters, em-
ployed by the Colorado & Southern
railroad shops and the Denver Gas
and Electric Light Company placed
subscriptions for S5.o50, an average
of a little over $500 per member.
Under the plan adopted by the CAM
paign committee, there was no oppor-
tunity for all the unions ascertaining
h.. r -
tions. These should be compiled by
officers of the various unions and sent
to The Bulletin for publication in or
der that the public may know, how
loyalty the organized workers of Den
YER and the state are standing by the
government and with the boys on the
fighting front.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
MOVIE STARS TO
HAVELABOR UNION
WILL NOT TWINKLE FOR
MERE TRIFLE.
All Cannot Be Mary Pickfords and
Charlie Chaplins, Hence VIII De-
mand Plebian Wages in Place
of Starving Salaries.

At last the motion picture players
of Los Angeles and vicinity have
awakened, says the Labor Citizen of
that city.
For years these observation-disclosures
men and women have been in a trance.
during which they persuaded them
selves to believe that, being identified
with profession. they had nothing in
common with wage earnerS.
They We're encouraged in this belief
by the cunning promoters, who have
grown fabulously rich from the profits
of the motion picture industry.
With childish faith the men and
women who have made these fortunes
possible have waited for years for the
managers and promoters to pay ade-
quate salaries to motion picture play
ers other than famous stars, but they
have waited in vain.
Growing tired of promises, and at
last realizing that the Mary Pickfords
and Charlie Chaplins constitute very
small per cent of the motion picture
players, they decided there is much
wisdom in the adage that the Lord
helps those that help themselves" and
they proceeded to help themselves in
practical manner. They have formed
Continued Page Five9
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
ORDER OF HEALTH APARTMENT STOPS
LABOR MEETINGS, CLOSES THEATERS
Epidemic Spanish Influenza Throws AccN
toned Order of Affairs in Denver Some of the Unions
Hold Outdoor Meetings o Transa of Bus
Which Mo- Be Deferred

When the Denver board of health
and municipal officials issued an order
last Saturday night placing ban on
all indoor meetings, effective Sunday
morning at o'clock, all labor meet
ings for the week were called off.
This drastic order was for the pur-
pose of stopping the spread of Span
ish influenza in Denver. The ban ap-
plies to churches. theaters, political
meetings, in fact, every kind of an
indoor assemblage.
DR.. w. II. Sharpley, head of the city
health department., reported approNi-
mately 500 cases in Denver, with fifty
deaths resulting from the epidemic.
Reports from the city hall are to the
effect that the ban will not be lifted
for perhaps two weeks, or at least un-
til there is material decrease in
the number of "influenza" cases in
Denver. Similar action has been taken
in other parts of Colorado, notably
Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Boulder,
Several outdoor labor meetings
were held during the week by unions
which had important business that
could not be deferred. Monday night
Sheet Metal Workers No. Q held a
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
RAIL MEN CLAIM
POLITICAL RIGHTS
COMMITTEE PRESE ENTS
CASE TO McADOO.
Order Would Prevent State Legisla-
tive Board of Brotherhoods from
Urging Measures for Redress Be-
fore General Assembly.

When W. G. McAdoo, director gen.
eral of railroads, issued an order thirty
days ago forbidding railroad employees
to take any part whatsoever in poll
tics, he stirred up a veritable hornets
nest, and it is freely predicted that he
will have TO modify the ultimatum to
considerable extent before the rail-
road men of the country will be sat
isfied.
The effect of SUCH an order is bound
to be far-reaching. In Colorado the
lodges Of the Brotherhood of Railway
TraInmen have already started a
movement 10 call off the usual annual
meeting Of the state legislative board
of the trainmen on the ground that
1t viii be in direct violation of the Nc
Adoo order to hold such gathering.
The proposition is now being con-
sidered by all of the local lodges of
the trainmen in the state, and the en-
gineers, firemen and conductors will
probably take similar action at no dis
tant date.
Last week in Washington. Presi-
dents Lee, Garretson, Stone and Shea
of the trainmen, conductors, engineers
and firemen brotherhoods, respective
ly. went before Director General Me-
Adoo and used some pretty plain Ian
guage in giving their opinion of his
recent order.
No one knows just exactly what was
said at this conference between the
heads of these bureaus and the di-
rector general. but it is reported that
the labor leaders told McAdoo that
it was very likely that they would is
sue orders to the railroad men of the
country to disregard his orders. While
this report cannot be verified The
Bulletin believes that it is substan-
TALLY what took place.
The brotherhood leaders are said to
have told Mr.. McAdoo that there was
no occasion for the issuance of such
an order. and that it not only deprived
the men of their political rights. but
was an order which affected freedom
of speech and action, and contrary
to the constitution of the United
States 1t is not known Just exactly
how the conference terminated, but
The Bulletin is in a position to state
that the railroad brotherhood leaders
were determined to take stand and
force the issue before the public if
McAdoo did not modify his order.
The brotherhood men take the po-
sition that in case they are deprived
of all political activity, that men un-
fitted for Office will be elected not
only in the coming general election,
but in the future; but that the order
is one which will play directly into the
hands of big business, and permits
them to go ahead and nominate and
elect men who would be unfriendly to
labor and probably control the Senate
and House of Representatives during
the critical war reconstruction period.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
TAFT AND WALSH TO DETERMINE
WHETHER WAR BOARD Is TO TAKE
JURISDICTION in ALL PARTS u. S.

sideration. before DIR. Garfield himself
should approve it.
DIR. Garfield answered that he would
gladly have the secretary of labor and
this new board sit with him and with
the spokesmen of the mine operators
and the mine workers. so that the
object of the new board would be
gained. The coal wage discussion is
now under way.
Reconstruction Programs.
Reconstruction programs are being
offered in Congress by both the Re-
publicAns and Democrats. The first
move suggested is a study of the va
rious problems of demobilizing the
armed forces and the war industries
workers, at the end of the war. 1t is
assumed on all sides that the war
will have been won before the Con-
grcss 10 be elected this November can
have been at work more than a few
months Accordingly. the labor rec
ords Of candidates for the House and
Senate become vastly more important
than they appeared month ago.
The labor group in the House is
small Half "a dozen men are its ac-
tCsntiuu~d on rsEe Fourl
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12

$50 taken in by each chair, will soon
be conceded, as the boss BARRIERS have
found it impossible to secure low
wage non-union help. Some of the
shops which refused to grant the
scale have remained open with the
boss BARRIERS alone at work.
In one or two instances an attempt
has been made to introduce cafeteria
barbering,' but this innovation has
not made hit with men who have
been accustomed to the courtesies and
superior workmanship of Denver's
union BARRIERS.
In addition to the three large shops
unionized this week. there are ap-
proximatelv 100 shops thruout the city
which had signed the new wage
schedule when presented by the Jour
neymen BARRIERS committee.
At headquarters of the BARRIERS
Union in the Club building Secretary
John f.. Connolly is paying benefits
to all those who are yet on strike,
which will be continued until the boss
BARRIERS have broken loose from Mooch-
err Herb Georges phantom Employ
ers Association" and decide to do bus
mess with their former employees.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
MORRISSEY AT LABOR CONFERENCE
in WASHINGTON OF STATE RIJREAJIS
AND COMMISSIONERS ON WAR POLICY
PERKINS is GETTING WISE.
International Cigarmakers Union No
Longer Scared by VETS"

President Perkins, editor of the of
fetal journal, writes as follows under
the caption, Preparedness" in the
September issue:
Whether nationwide, bone-dry pro-
hibition will be operative after the
war no one can tell. We, however,
know that prohibition has or will soon
be put into force and operation as a
war measure. The closing of the sa-
loon will destroy some of the avenues
thru which union label cigars have
found their way to the smoker. Don't
wait until that time cbmes; commence
now TO prepare for the change.
The same amount of effort and agi-
tation that was formerly and is now
used to exploit our label in the saloon,
if used in drug stores, cigar stores,
groceries, restaurants and other places
where cigars are sold, viii produce the
same results, if not better than those
achieved in the saloon
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
BEN SALMON, DRAFT EVADER, is GIVEN
25 YEARS IN PRISON AT HARD LABOR
Socialist Stacker Shown No Mercy by Military Court
martial at Camp Dodge, and He Reaps the Fruits of
Debased Attempt Aid he Kaiser With
Ani-War Propaganda.

Benjamin Salmon, Denver Socialist
and Stacker, has been convicted by a
urt-martial at Camp Dodge and SEN
fenced to twenty-five years at hard la
Dor in the federal prison at Fort Leav-
enworth. Kansas. When war was de-
clared by the United States on Ger
many Salmon started a campaign
among the labor unions to enlist mem
bers for his council of peace" but
was soon booted out Of every place
he visited.
All efforts on part Of Salmon and
others TO create q pacifist movement
in Denver was knocked out by the or
ganization here Of a branch of the
National Alliance for Labor and De
mOcracy. which began a campaign of
loyalty and patriotism. Salmon and
his small crowd Of pacifists were then
denied the use Of every meeting hall
in the city.
Salmon was tried for draft evasion
in Denver and sent TO Fort Logan,
then to Camp Funston and finally to
Camp Dodge, Iowa.
The staggering blow dealt by the
court-martial at Camp Dodge to Sal
mon is the climax to long series of
attempts to evade the draft. With the
aid of legal assistance, Salmon has
fought the case from its incipiency,
when he was first arrested last JAN
uary on the charge of violating the Sc
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
BRICKLAYERS WIN
So DAY AT CAMP
WORK BEGUN ON SECOND
UNIT THIS WEEK,
Contractor Lambie Wires From WASH
ington That Wage Disputes Are Be-
ing Adjusted; Laborers to Re-
ceiye 10 Cents Per Hour.

Denver bricklayers have won their
contention for n wage rate of SIS per
day Mt the army recuperation camp
near Aurora. A telegram to this eff
feet was received Tuesday by George
l.. Miller. business agent of Bricklay-
ers Union No. !. II came from Cen
eral Contractor C. S. Lambie. who
went to Washington last week to
straighten out this and other wage
matters at the big army camp.
Pay of day laborers is increased
from 37l1 cents to 40 cents per hour,
with price and one-half for overtime
work. These laborers will work from
nine to ten hours per day in the future.
thus materially enlarging their week
ly pay envelope. .
Carpenters also are seeking for an
extra hours pay per day mt rs cents
for time consumed in going to and
from the camp each day from their
homes in the city. This matter was
not referred to in the communications
by Contractor Lambie received in Den
yer this week, However. these mat
tcrs were taken up by him with the
authorities in Washington, and will
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
BARRIERS ACQUIRE LARGE SHOPS IN
DOWNTOWN DISTRICT; ANOTHER SIGNS
Fail Union Scale Cafe
terra Shaves' Are Not Making Hit: Hundred
Shops Are Now Displaying the Gard
ploying Members Union

Two of the larger downtown barber
shops were taken over this week by
members of BARRIERS Union No. 205
and are now being operated under
union conditions. Major and Flem-
ing. 1912 Seventeenth street, got
tired of fighting the union and sold
their shop. Twelve union BARRIERS are
now working there. This is one of
the largest and best equipped shops
in the city.
William Buck. 62S Seventeenth
street, another large shop which had
refused to grant the new wage sched-
ulc of the BARRIERS Union, sold his
eight chair shop to committee of
the union Wednesday and force of
union BARRIERS are now employed
there.
Jake Barfosky. 93I Seventeenth
street, another good sized shop, signed
up and again has the union card in
the window.
This breaks the backbone Of the boss
BARRIERS fight against the union in the
downtown district. 1t is confidently
expected the other shops which have
been holding out against the 500 per
week guarantee and Go per cent over
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12

lective service act, to the recent ses-
sion of the United States court of ap-
peals in Denver last month.
No case connected with the work
ings of the draft law or related to
the war in general in this city has
excited the Indignation of patriotic
Denver as has the litigation entered
into by Salmon. Basing his claims
of exemption on religious" grounds
and declaring that he was a -eon-
scientious objector," Salmon left no
stone unturned to escape service. As
a result of his attempts to avoid
training on the ground of religion
and because of his attitude on the
war, the Knights of Columbus, a lay
organization Of Catholics. which has
devoted itself to aiding in the win
ming Of the war, caused Salmon to be
dropped from membership.
Salmon ran into conflict with the
federal authorities when he refused
to answer his QUESTIONABLE in the
first draft He was arrested and tried,
the jury finding him guilty and Judge
Lewis sentencing him 10 serve nine
months in the county jail. His con-
viction took place February u and
his sentence was handed down March
80 by Judge Lewis along with a scath-
ing arraignment by the court. Sal
mon at once appealed and while his
appeal was pending was drawn in the
draft.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12

no doubt be reported upon when he re-
turns to the city.
Foundations have been laid for sew
eral new buildings for the second unit
at the camp. A force of bricklayers
began work Thursday at the new
schedule of IS per day. 1t should be
understood that SIS per day is the
prevailing wage on all other brick
work being done in Colorado. The
matter of 81 per day due the brick
layers on the recuperation camp job
is being considered by the government
wage authorities in Washington and
the decision will probably be rendered
soon.
Building of the second unit, which
practically doubles the size of the re-
cuperation camp, will continue thruout
the winter il weather conditions are
favorable, giving employment to over
900 building craftsmen.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12

meeting on the Stout street esplanade
of the new Postoffice building. A
similar meeting was held there Thurs
day night by Painters and Decorators
Union No. 20, with Il very large at
tendance.
A revival meeting of the Teamsters
Union was held at Tenth and Elati
streets Thursday night.
A special committee of the Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly had
mailed out 1000 letters to telephone
employees for great mass meeting
Monday night in Painters Union hall
for the purpose of assisting the phone
girls in perfecting their organization.
This meeting had to be postponed un-
til further notice by the committee.
The officers and executive commit
tees of the various unions have trans
acted the necessary routine business.
In many instances this extended to
the purchases of Fourth Liberty loan
bonds.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
RENT PRoFITEERs ARE WARNED

Governor Edge of New Jersey has
issued proclamation warning land
lords who are guilty of rent profiteer-
ing to desist from the practice lest
they make necessary extraordinary
measures which would unavoidably
impose hardship upon the innocent
as well as the guilty" The procla-
nation adds that it may become neces-
sary to appoint dictators of housing.
as well as of food and fuel, and that
if the necessity arises New Jersey
will not hesitate to take the initia-
tive"
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12

A course to fit women for tracers
in engineers offices will be given by
the University of Michigan this sum-
mer.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-10-12
NO MORE NEW NEWSPAPERS.

The postofiice department calls at
tention of postmasters to the ruling
of the war industries board regarding
the prohibition of new newspapers. In
quiries as to whether new publica-
tion may be established should be ad-
dressed to the war industries board,
pulp and paper section, Washington.
Conservation of paper is behind this
order.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11

We are fighting for the lbertyoff the world,
for the triumph Of our ideals Of democracy and
sef-government. over the last great advocate Of
force upholding injusttinpee. We are buying with
our Liberty, Loans th~ee1security and Joy Of our
people for generations to come. No price could
be too high to pay for such a Wctory-no cost
too great for such a purchase.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11

The enemy is watching arMiously for the
first sign that we are faltering.
Our Government Loans should go 1over the
top" as eagerly as our soldiers do, in order to
carry with them the terror of furious attack.
Our dollars must rain upon the enemy as over.
~whelmingly as our hail Of bullets or our storm
Of shells. 4
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11

sum in order to make, in 50 short a time, an
adequate beginning for our gigantic task. !. j..
But it is only our beginning. We must follow
it with greater energy and support i with
increasing power. Men, munitions, ships and
supplies must got to Europe in a larger and larger
stream. We must redouble our blows and add
constantly to the strength Of those Blows
our initial effort is not to be wasted.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11
The Enemy IS Watchin9
By NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary 81 War

The supreme moments of our struggle with
Germany have now come.
We have carried our first armies across three
thousand miles Of ocean and joined the issue
of battle with the military power Of a nation
that has been for forty years preparing its
plans and its weapons for its present attempt
to dominate the world. We have had to put
forth an immense effort and spend a fabulous
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11

This Means That Our Fourth Liberty Loan Must Be Lar9er
Than It's Predecessors, More enthusiastically Sup
ported and More Quickly Than Ever Subscribed
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-07-12
ELECTION NOTICE.

On August 1st., 1918, q primary
election will be held in each precinct
in the county under the rules and
regulations of the State Primary
Law, to nominate a united States
SENATOR a Congressman, Governor,
Two numbers Of Estate Committee,
State slnator, Bbterial Representa-
tive and prekntative. The same
compensation Said in the usual way
as genefal eisctions. All ballots to
remain lndd the supervision Of the
officerss Of Election.
+ B. Gardner,
r. H. Whitlow,
W. B. Spalding,
]. p. Turner,
Claude Bushart.
Democratic Primary Election Com
missioners. Ii.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-07-12

Because of the surplus Of velvet
beans in the south efforts ara bsang
made by the Bureau Of Markets 10
aequaint dairymen and feeders Of
livestock in the North and East Of the
value Of velvet-bean meal in feeding
livestock.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-07-12

Soon after the United States en-
tered the war the United States De-
partment of Agriculture requested
the United States highway commits
sion to join it in directing expendi-
lures only on roads Of prime impor-
lance for economic and military pur-
poses.
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-07-12
SINS DECLINES TO
ENTER JOINT DEBATE
Eighth District Congress-
man Has Important
q Legislation in Care.

Washington, July lG.--Congrsss-
mai 7. w. Sims, Of the Eigth Tennes-
see District will not meet his oppo-
ncnt, Judge s. ]. Everett, in debate.
Judge Sims says in reply to Judge
Everett's request for a joint can
yass of the district that:
"So-called joint debates between
candidates of the same party have to
great extent become thing of the
past. Joint debates between the
nominees of opposing political parties
have largely been discarded. The
very existence of free government
throughout the world is seriously
threatened, as such time as this ths
people take no interest in the petty
personal discussions Of the claims Of
rival candidates for office. The six
ty-fifth is war congress and the six
ty-sixth will be no less than war
congress. No one will foreses when
when the present session of the six
ty-fifth will end, and no one CT It,
members ought to be challenged to
abandon his post of duty In order to
have joint debate with competi-
tor for q party nomination"
He then says that his duties here
are such that he must remain com
stantly at his post. He tells Of his
work as chairman Of the committee on
interstate and foreign commerce In
securing the enactment of railroad
legislation and other bills asked by
the President and closed by referring
to the proposed water power legisla-
ton, declaring;
But in addition to the Importance
of my duties as chairman of the COM
mittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce. am also chairman of the new
water yorew committee, created at
the request of the President, to have
consideration of all bills, both Of the
house and senate, providing for the
development of hydro electricenergy.
After several months of the most ar
dous lair of The water power COM
mite will Immediately begin final
consideration Of the senate bill COM
monty referred to as the Shields bill, |
which passed the senate in December
last, but as 1t passed the senate it pro- |
vided for water powed develpoemnt
only on the navigable rivers 1t will
be amended so as to apply also to |
water power development on the pub
lie IBIS an dforest reserves, so as to |
harmonize with the recommendations
of the president that all water power
legisl ION should be embraced in one
act to be administered by commits |
sion composed of the secretaries of
war, interior and agriculture. AS soon
as practicable the amended senate bill i
will be reported and passed in the
house. As chairman, must neces-
sarily be member of the confer
ence committee and cannot possibly
serve as conferee without remain
ing here"
The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1918-07-12

lowing to the scarcity Of labor,
every farmer has his work cut out FOR
him and all | can say, is that il ne
will not help mis- ne stbor and by do
ing 50 produce more food for his
country, he is not good American, "
writes one Tennessee farmer.