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Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

deep, for the present at least, and let
US unite as one to celebrate our day
in manner worthy of our movement,
of our city, of our country and the
great cause for which we are at war.
in order that this may be done
there must be systematic cooperation
thruout our ranks in the city.
.'The Labor Day committee there
fore asks that each labor organiza-
tion appoint committee of live men,
bers to make the necessary arrange
ments for its participation, especially
in the parade, which it is proposed to
make the principal feature of the cele-
bration, and that as soon as you have
acted write to our committee, thru its
secretary, stating what you have done,
or propose to do, and if you need
any information or help in any way
we shall give it cheerfully to the ex-
tent of our ability.
Every member of each organiza-
ton should be present in that parade
to swell the number to the utmost,
and the organizations that can do SO
we hope will put out floats, or uni
forms. or whatever showing they may
be able to make to help make our pa
rade a credit to our movement and to
our city.
There is no time to lose. Begin
in touch with our committee ard you
will see what we can do when we try.
"Fraternally yours,
sTHE LABOR DAY COMMITTEE"
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
LABOR DAY COMMITTEE OUTLINES PLAN
FOR GREATPATRIOTICDE DEMONSTRATION
Every Organization Denver and Vicinity Is Urged Join
Loyalty Parade and Exercises Follow Lakeside;
Floats, Banners Flags and Epeca Uniforms
To Be Spectacular Features

Plans for a great patriotic demon
stration of organized labor in Denver
on Labor Day, the first Monday in
September, are now under way by a
committee of the Trades and Labor
Assembly. All organizations of work
ing people, men and women, are ex-
pected to join in the parade to be
held in the forenoon and the exer-
cises at Lakeside park in the after
noon.
The following letter urging coop
Grafton and giving an outline of the
program is being mailed this week to
the various labor organizations OF
Denver and vicinity:
DENVER, July 10, 1915
Brothers and Sisters:
at is the intention of the Labor
Day committee. appointed by the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly,
to do all in its power that will tend
to make our coming Labor Day cele-
bration the most impressive and me-
morable ever held in this city, both
as a patriotic occasion and labor
demonstration.
'In the great crisis thru which this
country is now passing and the tre-
mendous responsibilities resting upon
labor during that crisis, it is quite
proper that our annual celebration
should be so arranged as TO give evi-
dence Of our loyalty and devotion to
our country, while our brothers are
defending our liberties on the battle
field.
aLet any differences or grievances
that might exist among US be buried
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
OFFICIAL NOTICE
TO P,O. EMPLOYEES
SCHEDULE OF RAISES IN
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Carriers aad Clerks Receive $500 Per
Year More. While Others Get Is
and 20 Per Cent Increase
by Act Of Congress.

Denver Postofice Clerks Union No.
222, affiliated with the National Fed
Grafton of Postal Employees, has re-
ccived the following letter from Gen.
cral Secretary Thomas F. Flaherty.
officially announcing the wage in
crease Of 5000 per year for clerks and
carriers, and 20 per cent to other en-
ployes: ,,,
passed by Congress contains the fol-
lowing wage increases for the next
fiscal year, effective July /, 1918:
Two hundred dollars increase for
clerks in first and second class Offices
and carriers in the city delivery serv-
ice with transfers into new salary
grades as provided in the Madden
amendment, and n new fiscal year re-
classification act fixing $1,000 as the
entrance wage and 81 800 as the max
imum.
1.-TWO hundred dollars increase for
railway mail clerks with transfers
into new salary grades as provided in
the Tague amendment, and a new fis-
cal year reclassification act fixing ST.
tcsntinsed on Page Four)
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
INDUSTRIAL GOVERNMENT BEING
ETABI ISHED BY i. s. WAR BOARD
AMONG ANTI-UNION EMPLOYERS

He finds the board TO be made up of
representatives of five big groups of
employers, five big trade unions, and
a lawyer chosen from each group. Its
character is national-not local
Supplants welfare Plans"
That is what makes the private
union formed by John d. Rockefeller
in the refineries of Standard Oil in
New Jersey and elsewhere foredoomed
to be a failure. 1t is not an organi-
zation of protest, nor of determine
tion to establish higher wage stand
ready-made plan drafted by the COM
pany and handed out to the men, per-
mitting them to perform n poor imita-
ton of an old-fashioned labor union.
When the war labor board gets around
10 Standard Oil. this union will either
tcoatiassd on Pare FeurJ
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
HERB THE MOOCHER
TRIES TO BUTT IN ON THE MU.
SICIANS WAGE SCALE
Receives Direct Rebuff, With State
ment That He Is Neither of Two
Sources of Help If Needed.

Herb George, the Moocher, who
styles himself president of the Denver
Employers Association, the printed
list of directors of which have repu-
dated him in the public press, has
received another slap in the face for
butting in where he was not invited.
The rebuff was delivered this time
by Denver Musical Protective Asso-
citation No. 20. Herb wanted to get
a chance to mooch off the union and
the proprietors of moving picture
houses on Curtis street. With this in
mind, he wrote letter to John kess-
Ter, secretary of the union. offering his
good services" in negotiating a pro-
posed wage scale with the movie house
managers. And Secretary Kessler re-
piled:
"For twenty-five years the Denver
Musical Protective Association has
been doing business without the help
of self-appointed negotiators. In case
we find it necessary to arbitrate our
wage scale, there are two sources from
which our union may call for assist
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
LABOR MINIS SION E R
MORRISSEY BRINGS AC-
TON AGAINST COAL
MINE OFFICIALS.
Superintendent Shumway Arrested
in Denver for Discharging Adam
Flockhart Because Latter Was
NJ m Der of Independent
Union of Mine Work
ers of America

Joseph W. Hawley, district attor-
ney with headquarters at Trinidad,
is not afraid TO act when just griev-
anees are presented TO him. This is
shown in the prompt attention he gave
the complaint filed with him by Labor
Commissioner w. L. Morrissey, charg-
ing r. W. Shumway with violation of
the state anti-coercion law.
Shumway is superintendent of the
Alliance Coal Company mines at Ojo,
near La Neta, and during the recent
controversy between the two miners
organizations, discharged Adam Flock
hart for membership in the 1ndepend-
ent Union of Mine Workers of Amer
lea.
Mine Super Arrested
Following the submission of evil
dence in the case, Hawley. thru his
representative at Walsenburs, filed
information against Shumway under
the state statute. Shumway was ar
rested in Denver by the police and re-
turned to Walsenburg, where he gave
bond and was released
The case was one of the most ag-
gravated of its kind the state labor
department has had to contend with.
Morrissey wrote letters to the Alli-
ance Coal Company, sent kilograms
TO their chief officials, and even went
SO far as to attend directors meet
ing, urging the company to settle the
difficulties SO that he would not have
to go into court. His letters and
kilograms were ignored and it was
only after the case had been filed with
Hawley that Shumway took it upon
himself to answer the commissioner s
charges.
Has q Bad Record.
The Alliance Coal Company has
been a constant source of trouble to
the officials of every state bureau
which has anything to do with mining
operations. The men only recently
charged that they had paid 81 900
into the company rs hospital fees,
and not only cannot get this money
back into their own hands. but are
forced to guarantee payment Of hos
Continued on Page -Four,
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ance, and it is needless to say that
you are neither one of the two"
The Musicians Union has adopted a
new scale of prices for Curtis street
moving picture theaters. effective Au-
gust /. 1t calls for s2S per week for
each member of the orchestra playing
five hours per day or night, and $31
per week for six hours.
At least two Of the theaters are
now paying approximately this scale
and it is not believed there will be
any trouble in having it accepted by
all the managers.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
DEPORTED MINERS FILE SUIT.
Arizona Men Demand Damages in
Amounts ,Totaling $4,000.

One hundred and sixty civil suits
were filed this week at Tombstone,
Ariz-, the county seat, by men de-
ported from Bisbee ard the Warren
district on July 12, 1917. The suits
ask for damages in amounts up to
$780, 900.
The actions were fled against the
El Paso and Southwestern Railroad
Company. the Copper Queen Consoli-
dated Mining Company, the Calumet
and Arizona Mining Company, the
Shattuck Mining Company, NJ. J. Cum
ningham, Walter Douglas, former
Sheriff Harry Wheeler. Gerald Sher-
man, F. B. King and others alleged to
have been implicated in the Wholesale
deportation Of miners.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

Sunday, July IA, is the Independ-
ence day of France. 1t is the ami
versary of the fall of the Bastile,
which marked liberation of the French
people from the misrule of monarchy.
To France it is what the Fourth of
July is to the United States Of
America
The United States is going to OBJ
serve the Independence day of France
in tribute to the celebration of the
Fourth of July this year by the peo-
pie of that war-scourged nation. Thru
out the United States ceremonies are
to be held tomorrow (July 14) in
honor of France and the splendid fight
her gallant people are making to crush
Prussian autocratic government.
Mass Meeting in Denver.
In Denver a great mass meeting
will be held in the City Auditorium,
beginning at s o'clock in the evening,
under auspices of the various local
patriotic organizations. Addresses,
songs and instrumental music appro-
pirate to the occasion will make up
an interesting program. Resolutions
of tribute to France and her people
are to be read and adopted, and for
warded to the French government as
an expression Of the great bond Of
brotherly love connecting the two
leading republics in this war for hu-
man liberty.
Labor's Tribute to France
Among the resolutions will be one
from the working people of Denver
to the workers of France, emphasiz-
ing sincere regard for both the old
and new democratic spirit among the
worlds workers.
Judge Ira C. Rothgerber will pre-
side at the meeting tomorrow evening,
uniformed members of the motor
corps of the National League for
Woman's Service will act as ushers,
and music will be furnished by the
Fort Logan band and by Mrs. Hattie
Louise Sims and Ralph Hartell. THE
Star Spangled Banner" the MAR
Republic" and similar patriotic airs
will be featured. James E. Watson,
United States senator from Indiana,
will deliver the principal address.
Many Patriotic Societies.
Among the societies to be repre-
sented at the meeting will be the Alli-
Red Cross, Young Mems Christian
Association. National Security League,
National League for Woman's Service,
the Alliance for Labor and Democ-
racy, the Civic and Commercial Asso-
citation, Jewish League of Mercy,
United British Society, Italian So
ciety, Trades and Labor Assembly, the
Building Trades Council. state council
of defense and the county council Of
defense
Members of organized labor and
their families are especially invited
to attend the Auditorium meeting.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
MINERS COMPLAIN
ARE BEING PAID BELOW THE
PREVAILING WAGE SCALE.
At Suggestion of Labor Commissioner
the Matter Is Being Investigated
by the State Board.

A representative of the state indus
trial commission is in Aguilar this
week attempting to adjust the griev-
ances of the miners employed by the
Southwestern Company, near Aguilar.
The men made complaint to Labor
Commissioner Morrissey that their
wages were from 10 per cent to 20
per cent below the average scale Of
the district, but the matter being one
which did not come within the juris-
diction of the labor department, the
mep filed their complaint with the
state commission.
The miners are members of the In
dependent Union of Mine Workers of
America and threatened to strike un-
less their troubles were adjusted at
once, but acting upon the advice of the
labor commissioner, the workers
agreed to remain on the job until
such time as a state representative
could get on the ground and attempt
to fix the scale so that all the miners
would be paid on the same basis.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13
DENVER WILL PAY TRIBUTE TO FRANCE
TOMORROW WITH PATRIOTIC MEETING
Will Join Ceremonies Independence Day of
Republic With Song and Oratory; Every
body Invited to
Meeting P M

Fellow Americans
holiday
feeling soldiers
them that America will them the end and
right
established? This meeting held under the auspices the
Alliance other
cations Testify interest by attending and by sending the sol
this until the triumph of liberty and justice is firmly established
Hon. N Walter Dixon will address the meeting Good music
E.. E.
IRA ROTHGERBER,
L H. FITZGERALD,
CARROLL EDISON,
MARY F. LATHROP,
Committee
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

All the fire fighters of Denison, Tex
as, have unified their interests and
are in a union with a charter from
their international association. Their
working conditions have already been
improved and wages advanced II per
cent
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

The present Congress has seven
teen union labor members.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

Pro-German sedition spouters learn
quickly when loyal Americans show
them the ropes.
Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-13

II it's in The Bulletin. its true.
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shall try 10 give you little news. Little
is right. We work hard and eat lot and
sleep the rest of the time.
| have read lot about the mud in
Flanders. Let me state right here that
the mud is not confined TO any Flanders.
This part of France has all that / want
to see. Rain over here seems different
from that at home. 1t not only falls-it
fills the air and comes up.
This is certainly pretty town. can't
get out Of the way of thinking that am
on a comic opera stage, especially in the
moonlight. You see the air has so much
moisture in it that the moonlight is re-
fracted and looks blue. So the white
houses and red roofs are all blush and
spectral looking.
One of our boys slipped and hurt his
knee the other day and is now at French
base hospital. went up TO see him yes-
terday. 1t is most up to date place, in
fact the only modern thing or place T
have seen IN the town. Lady at the head
of it IS a Countess who owns the town.
They say she is wonderful. This fellow,
Jim Kirk, SAYS he learns more about the
war in the hospital than any one can
outside. Your BIG Son.
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for Halifax. Not a light showing. You
can't smoke on deck after dark The next
morning we were out Of sight of land.
At $50 that night We passed the Texan
YOU remember she was rammed on Mon
day the 14th. We didn't stop. There was
another ship standing by. At P. NJ.
Thursday we anchored in the outer bay at
Halifax and took the pilot aboard. We
couldn't 60 in through the mine fields and
submarine nets at night, so we lay off
there. About noon next day We went in.
The harbor is a wonder There were a
number of ships along the narrows, Amer
lean and British warships and submarines.
We passed the wreck of the limo, the Bel
gian relief steamship, which hit the French
boat and caused the trouble, and, believe
me, it was trouble. About two square
miles on both sides of the narrowS is
wiped clean MOI house or tree stand
ing. Just cellars. One tug was lifted
clear up over the pier and dumped on a
railroad track. 1t is awful.
We lay down in the basin that night
and the next day and sailed Sunday.
There are quite a few ships in this convoy.
Big ones all armed.
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Lieut. Jouett F. Singleton, whose
death in action IL France was reported
officially the other day, was a graduate
of Princeton. He was born in Louis
vile, KY, May 29, 1895. His father is
one of the staff of the Niagara Fire In
surance Company.
Young Singleton was offered Cap
taincy after his graduation from the Of
fcers training camp at Plattsburg, but
declined it to accept a Second Lieuten-
sQcy in the Regular Army.
His letters TO his father and mother.
which cover the nearly sir months from
his departure from America to his death.
give a striking illustration of the rapid
change in view of the young soldier
from the light. rather gay attitude when
he sails away to the earnest, serious,
resolute attitude that comes with the
unfolding of the great tragedy of war.
The letters of Lieut.. Singleton, ex-
tracts from which are given here. typify
the spirit of young America, the young
America that is TO win the war, about as
we'll As any wrtten papers can reveal IT.
"SoMEwHERE IN TIE ATLANTIC OCEAN"
January %, 1918.
N EAREST MOTHER: / am going
L. TO begin this letter to-day and
write it with due regard to censorship
rules, so far as / have seen them, but what
/ write / know Will contain no informa-
ton of military importance.
We sailed one week ago to-day. / was
all wrong about getting home for lunch
last Tuesday. We left the pier at 2:30
and were all sent below as We went down
the harbor. We got down below Staten
Island and the Narrows and anchored
until after dark.
| might say here that we are on the
Atlantic Transport Company's ship Nor
goha, formerly of the Pacific Mail. You
may remember this is the boat which fired
the first shot OF the war and sank sub
marine on April II last. They have the
darndest camouaage on her l have ever
seen. She is completely covered with two
foot blocks of pink, light blue, gray and
green. Futuristic in the extreme. Not a
spot was missed. The masts, the guns
the funneEeverything 1t may help3 -
We sailed from The outer bay after dark
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little attention 10 the amount of the APP
preparations asked for. | did not care
what the War and Navy departments re-
quested, felt that ii should be granted
l felt the same way this year in grant
ing appropriations, and l state now thai
so far as l am concerned, if it becomes
necessary for the Government to take
every cent that | own on earth to win
this war most cheerfully will / give it.
would rather die and l would rather see
every child of mine in the grave than TO
see Germany dominate this world. What
ever the demands for the carrying on of
the war, they must be and will be met by
the people.
! repeat, however, that | would like TO
have seen the Senate authorize the issu-
ance of bonds sufficient to meet every
emergency, for it would not make one
cent of difference TO the Treasury to have
done so. No obligation is incurred until
the bonds of the Government are issued;
we do not have TO raise the money for the
purchase of the obligations of foreign
countries until the need arises, and if the
war should cease i'll three months it would
make no difference whether the bill au-
thorized 81 900 ,0G0, 900 or So 900 900 900,
it would not be used unless required. So
again | urge that the American people
should have been dealt with in this whole
matter of expenditures and revenue rails
ing frankly and fairly, instead of hesitat-
ingly and sporadicaliy.
Sees Much Ill-Advised Optimism.
There has been much discussion and,
believe, much ill-advis2d optimism as TO
what will be accomplished by section 3
of the amended bond act covering the Is
suance of our bonds payable in foreign
money. In ordinary times this section
would mean that foreigner could pur-
chase Government bonds upon a better
basis than an American citizen.
The merit claimed for the section by its
sponsors is that it will tend to stabilize
the American dollar in foreign countries.
As l shall presently explain, l am con
";nrad that if either the Treasury Depart
ment or any one else anticipates this de-
sirable result from this section there is
going to be a great disappointment.
will admit that similar measures have
been adopted from time TO time by for
eign countries in order that foreign
money might be brought TO the country
issuing the bonds, but am frank 10 say
l have never approved of such policy,
and certainly cannot approve of it for
the United States, because her obligations
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SATURDAY, January 26, 1918.

JAIL -Os AClc.
We have been on this boat for twelve
days. 1t seems lifetime. Really the
time goes pretty fast, but it would drag
except for bridge. We have been sailing
straight out from Halifax with big stern
wind. On Tuesday they called for forty
eight volunteers TO do watch duty for sub
marines. I unluekily was there early and
was elected.
We started Wednesday. So far
haven't seen blooming thing and GER
tainly hope l DO not ever see anything.
We race along-the eight ships in two
long lines with the cruiser ahead.
Tonight we hit the war zone. l will
write you about lodging subs later.
trust l have nothing 10 say.
Here are few little details which may
be Of interest. Henry Ford and are IN
the same ststereqm. We have a table,
Henry, Ferde Jelke from CiBcinnati),
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war is over ] know our currency or Fed
eral bank notes Will not have gold re-
serve back of them such as we always
have insisted upon in the past. Our paper
dollars will be secured with all the gold
that we now hold, which is only about
$4,000, 900, 000-one-quarer Of all the
gold in the world-but back of them are
all the immense resources and credit OF
the greatest Government On earth, and
this will keep our paper money at par.
There is nc question but that we are
no longer on gold paying basis, and
do not hesitate TO say so. All civilized
peoples of the world know it. If they do
not know it it is because the knowledge
would have no significance.
Cannot Fool Business Men.
You cannot fool the business men of
this or other countries. They know how
much gold we have; they know what our
paper circulation is; they know the
amount Of our national debt. During
the early period of the war our immense
gold accumulation enabled greater issue
of paper money under existing law than
could have been put in circulation before
the present war began. Our imitation will
never approach that of Germany or
France or England, but as the war pro-
ceeds the difference will grow progressive
ly less.
lan-r met ho mn lot nrxT
soldier the United States puts into the
field costs about eight times as much as
a soldier costs the French Government
and about ten times as much as
every soldier costs whom Germany has
fighting for her. 1t has been asserted
that it costs us fourteen times as much
as Germany a man, but figuring it out
from the number of men Germany is
reported TO have put into the field and
the obligations that Government is re-
ported 10 have issued can only make it
about ten times as much.
So if this war continues another wear
or two years we need not worry about
currency initiation, for it will be with us
in full bloom. Our Government is going
to keep every dollar Of gold she has for
q basis of currency issue-there is no
doubt about that should have liked
if our Treasury contained every ounce of
silver it did before the law passed au-
thorizing the melting Of the silver dollars
for export.
Every unnecessary expenditure should
be avoided We must serutiniZe future
appropriations more closely. l admit
that for the first year OF the war l paid