Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-21

promptly at 4 instead of s:30 o'clock.
The employees OF the Yak Company
are unorganized. They were repre-
scented in the negotiations with Labor
Commissioner Morrissey by W. Z.
Gray, one of the well known miners
Of the Leadville district.
The labor commissioner wns also
instrumental in settling n strike OF
coal miners at the Gordon Coal Com
pany property near Walsenburg. The
company posted new rules and reRu-
lations and most of them were OBJ
jectionable to the men. One rule es-
pocially aroused the ire of the work
men and finally led 70 a strike. This
regulation required the men TO do
their own timbering on their own
time and was all to the advantage Of
the company.
Commissioner Morrissey designated
f. w. Wells of Pueblo. superintend-
ent Of the Colorado free employment
bureau, to go to Walsenburg and
bring the company and employees to-
gether. Wells was able TO adjust the
controversy in twenty four hours and
the miners returned TO work Monday.
The labor commissioner spent half
day patching up n row between the
owner Of large apartment house
in Denver, three of his best tenants.
the janitor and wash woman who
cleaned up family wash of tne three
tenants each week. The owner OF the
building openly declared that he would
sooner lose the three high class ten
ants than the janitor. He said he had
been trying to get a competent janitor
for ten years and the one who Is the
principal in the squabble was the best
ever; and he did not intend to let
him go.
The janitor said he would quit un-
less the wash woman was excluded
from the premises, while the tenants
issued an ultimatum that IL the wash
woman was put out they would move.
Also Mr. Landlord calmly informed
the tenants that they could go as far
as he was conccrned-that the Janitor
was going to stay.
The labor commissioner was con-
suited by the wash woman and imme-
diatcly took her part. He told the
owner of the building that the wash
woman had a perfect right To 20 into
the apartments to earn livelihood,
and IL the owner persisted in his
stand there would be injunctions, re-
straining orders( nunc pro tune and
various and sundry other writs pasted
on his door.
The familiarity OF the commissioner
with court orders frightened the-owner
of the building and the commissioner
was called upon to suggest q way out
of the difficulty. He told the owner
that II would be an easy thing to wipe
the slate clean. The owner agreed to
regulate the janitor-the commissioner
agreed to stand sponsor for the good
behavior of the wash woman and the
arp,tat;ca aiUnpd
c.. ". Grassland, Union Pacific yard
master and president Of Division No.
12 of the General Yard Masters Asso-
ciation, comprising the Denver dis
trict, has received word of the organ
ization in Cincinnati Of all railroad
yard masters of the country. The new
society is to be known as the Railroad
Yard Masters Of America, with head
quarters Mt Columbus. Ohio. o. N.
Mason Of Milwaukee was elected gen.
eral president.
The organization is a merger of the
various yard masters associations Of
the country. The membership is about
10000, and it is believed the COM
bination will result in great benefit to
the yard masters thruout the country.
All Of the Western officials are men,
bers.