Denver labor bulletin., 1918-02-02
THIS WEEK THERE CAME TO

the o. P.'s desk a copy of Horace
Greeley's Tribune, revised edition, ac-
companied by a cordial invitation to
the sixth annual banquet of the Colo
rado Pioneer Printers, to be given at
the Metropole hotel on the evening
of Monday, February A. Heretofore
it has been the custom of the Pioneer
Printers to hold their annual fiesta
on or about January II, the birthday
of Benjamin Franklin, patron saint of
printerdom. This year, however, it
was decided to honor the man who
invented the slogan, go West, Young
man, and grow up with the country" !"
lhls advice was accepted by most of
those who now constitute the Colorado
Pioneer Printers. Horace Greeley's
birthday is February 8, which happens
to be Sunday this year, so the banquet
is staged for Monday, the following
day. It's going to be a real event, for
Thomas C. Egan, president, and Joseph
u. Brown, secretary, are working
overtime to make it so. Printing of a
miniature copy of The Tribune will
add much zest and not little humor
to the occasion. This "steam print"
publication is gem geographically
and editorially. The front page con-
tains an engraving of Horace Greeley,
taken from one of his best photo
graphs, together with an article en-
titled Greeley in Denver Ten Days."
This visit occurred when Denver was
only six months old, but even then a
strong rival of the city of Auraria
on the opposite bank of Cherry creek.
This page also contains the informa-
tion that Greeley was born February
3, 1911, just 107 years ago. Much of
the editorial page is taken up with
printing the names and titles of the
editorial staff and managing depart
ments of the revised modern edition
! of The Tribune. Otto F. Thum is edi-
| tor-in-chief and August Koester. gen
eral manager, and it was due to their
indefatigable labors and brilliant brain
work that the banquet edition appears
to please the people. 1t will become
a historic relic and one to be highly
! priced by happy possessors. Of course,
there is reproduced a letter written
by Greeley, done in zinc etching, faith
fully showing the great editors
chirography that sent many a printer
to an early grave. The paper contains
correct list of the officers and mem
bers of the society, together with
. market quotations, modern legal ad-
vertising and illustrated advertise
ments in the style which prevailed
when Horace Greeley became the first
president of New York Typographical
Union. Copies of the Tribune are 81
each, but will be given as souvenirs
edition is limited. Thomas NJ Hunter
| is to be POSTMASTER and he is given
this hint in The Tribune:
ga wise old owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard
Why can't you be like that old bird ?"
Other features scheduled are a brief
speech, short talk and a few words
by Judges E. W. Hurlburt, Morton S.
Bailey and William D. Wright Musi-
cal numbers by Mrs. James R. Noland,
Joe Newman and Clinton C. CASTOR.
MRS. MAY PEAKE, INTERNA-
tional president of the Ladies' Auxil-
iary to the International Association
of Machinists, writes from Lowell,
Mass, where she has taken up the
work of organizing 5000 women en-
ployed in, munition factories into
unions to be chartered and affiliated
by the l. A. of NJ. One union com
prising 2,300 women workers, the first
of its kind in America, had been or
ganized before Mrs. Feake's arrival.
She says: 81 am planning vigorous
organizing campaign here. There are
some very enthusiastic boosters for
unionism in Lowell, very agreeable
and pleasant people all around /
visited the Lowell Cartridge plant, en-
/ ploying thousands of women, a re-
markable institution. This is a great
manufacturing city, women working
everywhere, and I find them anxious
to join union. They are awake to
the power of collective action and the
necessity for organization"
:. :. :.
DAN w. LAW, FORMER SECRE-
tary of the Pueblo Trades and Labor
Assembly, member of the Machinists
delphia to take position in a big
shop doing work for the government,
writes an interesting letter and Incl
dentally requests that The Bulletin be
mailed to his new address so that he
may be kept informed as to Colorado
labor news. He says: "Munition
plants and shipyards here are all
working three shifts and running
twenty four hours day. The big
job for Philadelphia just now is the
Hog Island Shipbuilding plant and
yards being erected by the govern
ment. People here say it is even a
bigger undertaking than the Panama
canal, and it is sure an eye-opener.
When finished Philadelphia will be the
largest shipbuilding center in the
world. Ten thousand men are en-
ployed in construction work, and
when in operation it is estimated the
force will consist of thirty thousand.
/ go past the plant every day on my
way to work. Three or four of the
private shipyards here are kicking be-
cause they can't keep men. The rea-