Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-12

that time as manager of the southern
division. In 1915 he was sent to Lon
don to assist in the organization of
the Associated Press incident to the
great volume of war news that poured
thru this gateway. Later he organized
the Stockholm bureau, the main office
for reception of news from the Central
powers. Since then Mr.. Small has
been correspondent for the Associated
Press on the British, French and Ital-
ian battle fronts, having witnessed
some of the greatest drives of the war
and many of the most stirring Incl
dents, which he has given American
readers thru Associated Press reports.
In his younger days Bob started to be-
come printer, as had been his father,
but soon took up the reporting end of
newspaper work, in which he achieved
signal success.
JOHN B. LENNON, FORMER
treasurer of the American Federation
of Labor, has accepted position un-
der Secretary of Labor Wilson as
mediator in labor controversies, in
which he will act as a direct represent
ative of the government. His work
is to cover a wide field, and his splen-
did talents will prove of benefit to the
United States Labor Department, as
they did for so many years with the
American Federation of Labor. John
B. Lennon is one of the foremost men
of the American labor movement, hav-
been for number of years general
secretary of the Journeymen Tailors
Union of North America, and for
twenty-eight treasurer of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor Lennon is
Denver man, having formed the first
journeymen tailors union in this city,
took part in the formation of the
Trades and Labor Assembly, was its
first president and for many years
took an active part in the labor move
ment of this city and state. 1t is very
pleasing to his many friends here to
know that his abilities are now to be
exercised in promoting the best inter
ests of employer and employe during
the war. Lennon was a member of
the Federal Industrial Commission,
appointed by President Wilson, of
which Frank P. Walsh was chairman,
and did splendid work in helping the
memorable investigations conducted
by that body.
WERNER 2. REED OF DENVER,
a member of the Federal Mediation
Commission recently appointed by
President Wilson to adjust industrial
troubles having to do with the war,
will sidetrack his private car and
travel in ordinary passenger coaches
henceforth. Last Sunday Mr. Reed
started for Washington in his private
car, but on reaching Chicago it was
discovered that an order from Director
General McAdoo prohibited private
cars moving east of that city. Since
being appointed federal strike media
tor and representative of President
Wilson as trouble shooter" Mr..
Reed has had to travel into many To-
calities in the work he was called on
to do in the settlement of the oil field
strikes in California, Texas and Lou
isiana, and the copper strikes in Ari-
zona, and his private car in such cases
has served him as hotel and office, Civ
ing freedom to do the work which he
was sent to do and for which the gov
ernment pays him 81 per year How
ever, Mr.. Reed does not make his per
sonal comfort condition of service
to the government, and will continue
the work in which he has achieved so
much for the stability of labor and
capital in the war industries during
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WORK OF INSTALLING DEN
ver's great municipal organ in the
City Auditorium has advanced to
stage where the people can begin to
realize the immensity of this musical
machine. The first public concert is
scheduled to take place February Is.
Clarence Reynolds, the organist who
has been engaged by Mayor Speer to
perform on this great instrument,
comes from Philadelphia, where he
won fame as the organist in the Bap-
tist Temple and in the Auditorium at
Ocean Park. His salary will be
$4,000 and the Rotary Club $4,000
The manufacturers declare this to be
the finest organ in the world. One of
the marked features of the Denver
organ is the console, the brains OF the
instrument" The console is COM
monty called the keyboard, but this
one has four keyboards and pedal
boards. 1t weighs two tons and when
not in use rests in the basement of the
Auditorium. 1t is raised to its posi-
ton in the orchestral pit by hydraulic
elevator. 1t is attached to 100-foot
cable which connects with all the vari-
GUS parts and pipes of the organ. The
console has 229 stops and keys, 65
pistons and aids to the organist, and
each key has a second touch, so that
he can emphasize the music and bring
out one or two distinct tones or notes
simply by pressing the same key.
There is also a pizzicato touch which
enables the organist to produce the
violin effects, or the effect of simply
picking the stripus of the violin An
other attachment connects with
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