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The Washington times., 1918-02-05

His only defense Is a revelation OF in
side plans, and that's why President
Wilson has no sympathy with the
Senators who under the guise Of
patriotism are trying to interfere with
the management of the war by the
executive branch OF the Government.
Senator Hitchcock's opposition is not
unexpected. Although he IL a Democrat
he has been against the Administration
more times than he has been for IL. He
fought the Administration on the Fed
eral reserve act, opposed the President
repeatedly on the confirmation Of i'm
portant nominations, and was the
author OF a resolution to provide for an
embargo on arms as desired by pro-Ger-
mans in America, a measure that would
have crippled the allies and brought
about their defeat in the battle for civ
Iization and democracy. SOtwithstand-
Ing his efforts against the President, sev-
eral Administration men, including Cabi-
net members, went out TO Nebraska in
1915 to help re-elect Senator Hitchcock.
While the Nebraska Senator Is
man of conviction, Il was wrongly
stated in some of the morning news
papers that he has been a consistent
supporter OF the Administration. He
has at times, as on the Philippine bill,
anu tue armed neutrality measure, Dy
reason OF his seniority on committees,
steered some Administration leGisla-
ton through the Senate. but few peo-
pie in the Executive branch OF the
Government consider Senator Hitch
cock has helped them as much as he
has sought to discredit tneIr policies
both in time OF peace and in = me of
war.
WadsUOrth Has Innings.
Secretary Baker was to have re-
piled today before the Senate com.
mittee. to questions which Chairman
Chamberlain and others las week in
d!cated they would PROFOUND. But
the stage was instead set for Senator
Jimmie WadswOrth. Republican of
New York. who had his inning Of
attack today. Criticism OF the Ad-
ministration has done a lot OF good,
but the question that is now caus-
ing anxiety Is whether Liberty loans
and food conservation programs arc
not going 10 be weakened by the
consistent efforts OF certain Senators
to contradict the public statements
OF the President and Secretary of
War and impugn their good faith
and sincerity. Every evidence points
to the fact that tho American people
are more sensitive than they have
ever been on the management of
thir Govrnmnt and the effect OF reck-
less statements on tho public morale
is incalculable.
The Washington times., 1918-02-05
cow. CONTROL
HAMPERED, SAYS
TRAINMEN HEAD
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were merely to supplement and not
to antagonize information the broth
erhood would supply. Mr.. Garretson
then announced that Mr.. Lee would
precede him in presenting statistics
bearing on the cost Of living in rela-
ton to the wage increase sought.
Mr.. Lee said that he wanted to as
sure the commission that railroad
men wanted to cooperate with the
commission to the fullest extent.
bearing in mind the high cost OF liv-
ing. The purchasing power OF a dol
lar, he said. is now 81 per cent less
than when the scale now in effect was
adopted.
The Washington times., 1918-02-05

chinery as now constituted-the War
Department, Navy Department, Aircraft
Board. Shipping Board, Food Admins
trauon. Fuel Administration. Railway
Administration, War Trade Board. and
the Treasury Department coupled with
the Federal Reserve Bank system.
''It must be apparent to every sensible
man." he said, that IL Is utterly i'm
possible to get any team work out OF
this conglomeration OF ambitious and
scattered agencies, official and unofficial.
unless we create some agency that shall
guide and control them in all those mat
ters in which team work Is essential for
the accomplishment OF great results4
Railroad middle.
Purchasing departments OF these bu-
reaus and departments have decreed
priority in shipments OF goods in thou
sands and thousands OF instances. Rail-
ways had no means OF planning for the
tremendous war traffic. Shipments
have been criss-crossed over the country
on Government blue tag orders without
the slightest regard for convenience and
even necessity.
The result has been a hopeless jam
and congestion OF our railway facilities.
our docks are overhowing with millions
OF tons OF material
For instance, in some places, loco
motive boilers and great piles OF
shells have been dumped out upon the
ground and lie rusting In the wintry
weather.
The blame rests with our failure
to systematize the effort. We have
manufactured and shipped millions
OF tons of goods to the seabcard. he'll
terskelter, pell-mell, with little or
no thought how we would find the
docks or the ships to send them
across the seaS
The Washington times., 1918-02-05
Long Statement.

Mr.. Lee read to the commission .
long statement outlining the joint de-
mands OF conductors, represented by
Mr.. Garretson. and trainmen, and
similar employees represented by him
self He quoted official Government
hgures showing that while the cost
of living had gone up 4S per cent
and even higher since 1918, there had
been no readJustments in the wage
scale OF railroad men
Increases for conductors, freight
and passenger. and trainmen. nag
men, brakemen and baggagemen.
ranging from 20 to 40 per cent were
asked by Mr.. Lee
By common agreement with. the
conductors brotherhood. is was
agreed that the trainmen and similar
employees should receive the larger
percentage OF increase.
Mr.. Lee pointed out that the rail-
read employees are not now able to
maintain their standard OF living un-
der the present scale.
The Washington times., 1918-02-05
Remedies Onered.

Each Of them has suggested one
or more remedies. one or more i'm
provements and all their suggestions
arc in tho same dlrect!on-the proper
Capitalization Of authority. an auth
ority established preferably by
statute. whose decisions may be
promptly reached and accepted as
final" said Wadsworth.
This great American giant has
been stumbling and cropping. exert
ing his tremendous strength, with.
out always knowing what he was do
ing or where he was going"
we have known some Of the things
we wanted TO do and have tried to do
them," he said. we have forgotten
some OF the things equally important
that we ought to have done. and II
has been nobody's business to think
of them.
Several groups OF distinguished
men. official and unofficial, have en-
deayored to plan out things in ad-
vance, but It has often been the case
that the plans of one group did not
CO ordinate with those OF another
group and there was no place in
where the needs of the
situation and the plans to meet them
could be brought together and CO.
ordinated."
The Washington times., 1918-02-05
Seek to Cooperate.

In conclusion he said that railroad
men wanted to cooperate to the full
est extent with Director General Nc
Adoo, making the operation OF the
roads under Government control q
success. He said that out OF 100000
employees In his union, 5,OeS men up to
last Saturday were actively engaged
in the war, either in France or in
camps here. The brotherhood has
made good the insurance OF all OF
these men, he said. having paid all
their dues and assessments.
The Washington times., 1918-02-05
PresIdent Overworked.

Asserting that Il was humanity i'm
possible for the President to examine
all the Intricate questions. the speak
er declared there was serious need for
additional governmental elements in
the war machine.
He declared that he would be con-
tent TO have things go on as they are
now going, II he was convinced that
the war would end in a short time.
But entertain the deep conviction
that tho end is not In sight; that We
shall travel long hard road. before
We reach tho goal" he said. 81 feel
certain that the strain will grow more
and more severe as the months 20 by.
Americas effort must constantly
expand; We must send more and more
troops abroad, must build more and
more ships TO carry them. must grow
more and more food to feed them and
to feed the allies and we must make
use of an ever-increasing percentage
OF our mines, transportation facilities
and manufacturing facilities.
Only at Beginning.
In short, am convinced that we
are only on the threshold of this tre-
mendous undertaking. am not sat-
Isfled that we have the kind Of organ
izAtion and machinery that can stand
the strain"
Mr.. Wsdsworth called attention to the
numerous parts Of the war-makinE ma
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
STATISTICS GIVEN
ON COMPENSATION
COMMISSION FURNISHES A
REVIEW OF PAST YEAR.
Since Colorado Law Became Opera
tive in April, 1915. 30,lOO Accidents
Reported and 4,333 Claims Have
Been Approved by Commission.

Reports of the Colorado Industrial
commission show that since the work
mems compensation act was put into
operation Aug. l, 1915, approximately
| 100 accidents have been reported BY
employers. OF this number approxi-
claims for compensation. meaning
mately 5,297 have developed into
thereby, that the workman has either
been injured or disabled beyond the
two weeks waiting period or died as
the result of the accident.
The commission, according to Hi
ram E. Hits, chairman, has up to
this date approved approximately A.
1893 agreements between insurance
carriers and the employees or their de-
pendents. Out of the total number of
s7sO,1s6 Paid Employees.
Hearings have been held in con-
tested cases and awards issued in 1868
claims during 1917:
The records of the commission
further show that approximately
S7S0,1S6 has been paid out to em-
ployes of the state or their dependents
as compensation in 5,297 claims. This
sum does not include reserves which
have been put aside to meet payments
which are still due on injury or death
claims.
During the year the records show
that the number of policy holders or
employers who have insured in the
state compensation insurance fund has
been increased by 33 Is per cent. and
that the assets of the fund have been
increased $4,000. Collections in
premiums from employers amounted
TO more than 5000, 600.
State Fund Increases.
The estimated total compensation
insurance written during 1917 for Col
orado employers amounted TO 100000
in premiums collected, and the state
fund is now writing over p per cent
Of this business. Excepting the coal
mines, which the fund does not write,
the departments share Of the state
compensation business Is over 3S per
cent. The assets of the state fund are
now 100000, says Chairman Hits,
and a comparison with similar funds
of other states shows that il is one of
the most successful state compensa-
tion insurance funds now being oper-
ated in the United States
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
1918 CITY BUDGET
TO BE PAID APPROX
IMATELY s225 200 MORE.
Total Municipal Expenditures for
Coming Year Given at s3,134,394.73,
Increase of $4,000 Over Last.

Beginning January / the city fire
men and policemen of Denver will re-
ceive S15 each per month over the
wage paid in 1917. A few other city
employees are to get percentage wage
boost so that in the annual city bud
get the allowance for employees adopt
ed by Mayor Speer and the city coun-
Gil approximates s225,000.
Mayor R. w. Speer submitted his
budget for the year 1918 to the city
council this morning and it was
promptly adopted. The total sum is
about $500, 900 more than for 1917 and
of this amount s225,000 is for in
crease in expenses of growing city
and the rise in the cost of city govern
ment.
! The total sum available for running
the city in 1918 is S3,143 ,394.73.
The mayor gives s15, 900 for the city
publicity bureau. This is the bureau
conducted directly by the city, of
which E C. MacMechen is chief. The
budget gives another $4,000 to aid
the tourist bureau of the Civic and
Commercial association in its publicity
campaign. This latter is the bureau
financed by the association. Both the
city and Civic and Commercial asso-
citation bureau are engaged in gen.
eral exploitation of the city and its at
fractions.
There is $4,000 appropriated for
the workmen's compensation fund that
is created under the state law and
which is made obligatory upon the
city. However, the school board is
contesting the legality of this law on
its own account and there is a posi-
bility that a legal decision may save
this sum. This compensation act
hooks Denver up with a district and
City Attorney Marsh is also interested
in the legal procedures in an effort to
prevent the city from being classed
with coal mines or any other hazard
Gus employment.
The mayor chopped off 100000
from the total estimates submitted 70
him by heads Of departments, and the
budget as submitted by him repre-
sents forty days Of almost continuous
study and work by the mayor.
Thru this levy total of S2,956,-
43S 5S will be raised. The remaining
1868 800 will come from city revenue
All city departments during 1918
will be given increases over 1917. ow-
ing to increased costs of materials and
increase in wages, granted the police
and fire departments by charter
amendment at the election last May.
The department appropriations are
ss69, 900 for parks and highways;
S34S. 900 for health and charity pur-
poses; $4,000 for the revenue de-
partment; S566,l9. for the depart
ments directly under the mayor;
S442 $500 for unassigned departments,
including the auditor and S7S5, 800 for
the maintenance of the fire and police
departments.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

Editor Denver Labor Bulletin:
In your last issue. under the above
caption, Mr.. Stoughton Cooley said
some very sensible things in a plain
way, but when he made the assertion,
that society should stop taxing indus
try. and tax only land values, and that
when this is done, labor will come into
its own, and everybody be prosperous.
and the millennium will dawn upon
mankind. he makes assertions that
neither he nor anyone else can prove.
Henry George, the founder of the
single tax, utterly failed to establish
that thesis. and no single taNer since
his day has come anywhere near prov
| ing the assertion, because it is not
susceptible of proof.
/ 1t is an easy matter to make such
general assertions. and indulge in
! fancy as to results, but quite another
thing to sustain them when asked
why the theory will accomplish so
much in practice.
I The fact remains after all is said,
that single land tax is tax on in
dustries. Just as much as the present
system is such tax. for land of itself
can pay no tax. and only as industry
is applied to its cultivation and inn
provement, is there anything to tax,
or anybody responsible to take care of
the assessment.
No community can ever be prosper
GUS by shifting the burden of taxa
ton upon one class of its members,
to the exclusion of the rest who are
equally protected by government and
enjoy its benefits and privileges. and
should therefore pay their proportion
lite share to sustain the same.
The general poverty of the people
in this land of plenty, is not owing to
any monopoly of the land by few,
for there is in fact no such monopoly.
Land can be had today almost every
where for small rental, and if it
were entirely free. as it is in many
quarters, it would not be, as it is not,
occupied. Something more than bare
acreage is required to yield n subsist-
cnce, let alone n profit, and that some
thing. Mr.. George and all single tax
crs. have sadly overlooked.
The sole difficulty with society is a
money shortage. So long as we are
content to do the business of the coun-
try on less than 3 per cent cash, and
% per cent credit, with its enormous
toll or tribute in the form of interest,
which eats up the entire net annual
products of all our industries COM
bined as fast as produced, we may eN-
pect to find poverty amidst great
riches.
The few who control the money and
credits of the country, are waxing
enormously rick, while we who are
excluded from these privileges have
all we can do to "make ends meet"
| And this state of things is bound to
continue, as long as we apply such
palliatives as the single tax and other
like absurd remedies. ard fail to lay
the axe Mt the root of the evil.
Increase the money volume of the
country so that industry does not have
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
NEED OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN WAR TIME

TO go to the banks and money
sharks" for this necessary life blood
every time it projects a new enter
prise, or wishes TO sustain an old one,
and you have remedy that goes to
the very foundation of the whole
trouble.
1t was an evil day when the first
Constitutional convention turned from
the views of the great Franklin, and
adopted those of the English system,
advocated by Hamilton and other aris-
tocratic upstairs who wanted to see
in this country part economic slave
and small part free to subsist as
parasites upon industry, and who Were
bent on adopting gold and silver as
the money that would best subserve
their enslaving purposes.
All the gold and silver of the world,
if here and in circulation, would con-
stitute but small fraction of the to-
tai business transacted yearly by the
American people, and would come far
short of enabling them to do the bust
ness of the country on a cash basis.
And this is the only true basis upon
which business should be transacted,
if the people wish to be prosperous
and escape the tribute of eNorbitant
interest charges, which is prolific only
in making plutocratiC billionaires.
Our government has now taken over
the entire railroad systems of the
country. Suppose the government
should decide to hold them after the
war closes, and should issue full legal
tender non-interest bearing land GER
tificates in payment for the property,
would any one be injured?
Would not these certificates pass as
money to the same extent, and far
more preferable, than gold or silver
Money, as Aristotle wisely declared.
is wholly the creature of law.
There are some Sl7,000,0o0 repre-
sented in these railroad values. If
these values were monetized by the
certificate process, they would consti-
tute property basis for the certifi-
Gates, and be as sound, and far more
enduring, than if based on gold of
that amount. We monetize gold to
day by the certificate process. why not
other values. particularly lands as
well as gold?
The certificates. if issued on these
railroad values. would go long way
in furnishing currency in volume
sufficient to enable the business of
the country to be done on n cash
basis, and obliterate the crushing in
terest toll that causes nineteen
twentieths of all business failures
thruout the country, and the hard
times and high cost of living that
have become so DEPRESSING to labor.
CHAS. NJ. BICE.
Denver, Dec. 81, 1917.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
1917 COAL OUTPUT
WAS GREATEST IN HISTORY OF
MINING IN COLORADO.
Figures Showing Rate of Wage In
crease. and Present Price of Coal
on Various Grades at Mine.
By A. r. TIBBITS.
(State Coal Mine INSPECTORS Office)

The coal industry of Colorado, in
common with that of the whole coun-
try, has been under extraordinarily
heavy pressure during the year 1917
With the increasingly insistent de-
mands for enlarged output of the basic
industries, with a scarcity of labor in
cident to the war, with serious car
shortage interfering with steadiness
of production, and with constantly
mounting wages and other costs, the
situation has at times reached a crit
ical stage in which the industry was
saved from disaster only by the intel
ligent cooperation of operators and
workmen.
Every activity of the country di-
rected toward the winning of the war
is dependent in large measure upon
the coal supply. Colorado miners and
their employers have realized that
their responsibility is heavy. In the
face of almost unprecedented obstacles
they have Joined forces to do their
share in providing home support for
the men in the battle lines.
Coal prices in Colorado were in
creased during 1917. Some increases
were naturally necessary as a result
following figures show the range of
wholesale prices for the best grades of
domestic coal, both lump and nut, now
in effect at the mines in the south
ern field:
Nut, $3.50; lump, S4.45.
Prices of the best grades of Ignite
coal, both lump and nut, also mine
run, in the northern field:
Lump, 1895; slack. 81 and s1.T0;
mine run, S2.75 and $3.50.
The following table shows wages
paid coal miners and certain classes of
day workmen in the southern mining
districts. A similar scale is in effect
in other parts Of the state:
Table showing wage scale January
1917, and November, 1917:
Scale Scale Per Ct
Increase
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

November earnings at four of the
largest southern Colorado mines
showed that at the mines the average
pay of all miners who worked full
time was S174.33.
The coal production of Colorado in
1917 was the largest ever produced in
the state In 1910 the tonnage reached
Il, 2,l04,SS7 tons, which has not been
exceeded until the close of 1917. Had
ii not been for the car shortage and
labor scarcity. the production would
have reached the 1880, O,0O0-ton mark.
The following is a brief summary
of the years operations:
Total number Of tons produced -. L, ,i3S. 10
Total number Of tons produced
tons produced in l9lGJsShrdl Iridium
in 1910 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10. So, ,lS5
in 1917 --...--......',.-..' 1aIO.s4i
Average number of men employed
in and about the mines. 1900. 1850
Total number Of days worked per
mine ra--s-.-.-r.- --...--..--, -bf-0
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
DETECTED

"Yes," said the young wife, proudly,
father always gives something eN-
pensive when he makes presents"
so / discovered when he gave you
away" rejoined the young husband
Stray Stories.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Under the new dispensation, we
wildly conjecture, the Democrats will
get the lower berths and the Repub-
licans the uppers.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

II you want job printing in a hurry
on union label watermarked paper,
call up Tho Bulletin. Phone Main 1895.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
Free tOTwinS
THEIR MOTHERS AND FATHERS

READ THE ADS OF THE MERCHANTS LISTED Be
Low. THESE MERCHANTS WILL GIVE FREE TO
EVERY HOME DENVER OF THE READERS OF
THE BULLETIN WHERE TWINS ARE BORN DUR
ING THIS YEAR VALUABLE ARTICLES OF MER-
CHAND1SE. THE BULLETIN MUST FIRST BE NOTI-
FLED OF THE ARRIVAL OF TWINS AND THIS
PAPER WILL IN TURN NOTIFY THE MERCHANTS
OF THE HAPPY EVENT AND REQUEST THEM TO
SEND TO THE HOME WHERE TWINS ARE BORN
THE ARTICLES OF MERCHANDISE OFFERED.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

Compared with Mr.. McAdoo. our ol,
friend Pooh-B Bah had scarcely any
thing to do.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

Mr.. Hoover has no intention of put.
ting the ban on sugar. All he asks i:
that you use sugar in your coffee in,
stead of coffee in your sugar. .
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

Try Principe de Lees cigar for an
after-dinner smoke. Uion made.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

Try a Principe de Lees cigar for ar
aftcr-dinner smoke. Union made.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05

O'Kccfc, the popular jcweler ut s27
Fifteenth street, has those beautiful
bride rings. Don't be afraid, boys.