Denver labor bulletin., 1918-09-21
ARCHITECT FARES
BADLY AS REFEREE
tCentisued from Page ons.)

Continued from Page One)
men along with labor member and
an employer member, to investigate a
complaint and make an award. This
Minneapolis dispute is important be-
cause it involves the action of the
state public safety commission in is
suing an order, based on pretended
agreement between organized employ
ers and certain labor officials, that
no more shops should be unionized
during the war. That order directly
violates President Wilson's proclama-
tion of principles upon which the war
labor board was established.
Judge McGee, chairman of the Min
nesota public safety commission, has
tried to enforce the open shop rule
against the employees in the plant of
the Steel and Machinery Company.
The strike now in progress, and the
political struggle of the organized la
Dor and organized farmer forces in
Minnesota to capture the governor
ship and rid the state of MCGEE and
his terrorist methods, are so closely
interlocked that the war labor board
will have difficulty in knowing, at any
given moment, whether it is investi-
eating an industrial plant or the gov
ernment of Minneapolis.
Program of Federal Employees.
Something new is happening in the
labor world of the United States. The
National Federation of Federal EN-
ployes is not merely publishing a pro-
gram for the period of reconstruction
after the war, but it is setting about
the hard job of carrying that program
thru. Its recent convention at Chi
cago, with delegates present from a
hundred local unions, adopted resolu-
tions declaring:
1. That the government should
guarantee to the returning soldiers
and sailors, and to all civilians, the
opportunity to earn living.
q That women engaged in indus
try at the close of the war should not
be forced out to make room for men,
nor be made to underbid men in order
to retain their jobs.
3. That the aged workers and chill
dren should be taken out of industry
for their own good and for the good
of the community.
a. That except thru the usual eff
cheney tests, the returned soldiers and
sailors should not be given civil serv-
ice jobs merely as a means of dis
charging the debt of the public to
these men.
Committees were appointed to con-
slider and report means for making
these demands effective. The conven-
tion voted that some of the measures
needed were:
Old-age, health and unemployment
insurance, backed by minimum wage
legislation.
A national program of construc-
tion of public works.
Preparation of farms for the re-
turned soldiers and sailors and war
industries workers.
Control of prices on the necessaries
of life in the interest of worker and
consumer.
Heavier taxation of big incomes and
big fortunes, with taxation Of land
held idle for speculative purposes.
May Become Big Factor.
Luther C. Steward, president of the
organization, is the promoter Of this
program, which closely resembles the
demands of the British and Austria
liam workers. In the Federal EN-
ployes Unions are some $1,000 gov
ernment employees, most of them hav-
ing high school or college training,
and having standard Of living that
makes them dissatisfied with the pres
ent situation of the government clerk.
They are likely to become big factor
in the agitation for greater share
of power for organized labor in the
particularly thru politics. Their mag
azine, The Federal Employe, prints in
its September number an account Of
the defeat Of Congressman Borland,
who tried to force government en-
ployes to work an extra six hours
each week. They fought him in the
primary in Kansas City, and he was
beaten more than two to one in the
city precincts, and by 6,728 in the
whole district.
In that connection it should be noted
that Representative Edward Keating
of Colorado, who has had the enthu-
siastic support of these government
employees and the postal workers,
along with the rest of the labor move
ment, has been renominated in Colo
RADIO by some 1000 majority, which
insures his reelection in November.
Tricking Lake Seamen.
Once more the Lake Carriers Asso-
| citation, dominated by the steel trust,
has apparently tricked the seamen
and firemen on the lakes. The car
riers officers have been summoned
here by the shipping board, to sign the
general agreement Of the ship owners
of the country with the organized
seamen and the shipping board, and
once more they have raised technical
points which delay the enforcement
Of the conditions. The Sailors Union
and the Firemen's Union of the Great
Lakes are watching the carriers close
ly, and are steadily pressing the ship
ping board for a fair enforcement of
the conditions. They are no more sat