Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noticing the comment on Bonfils' "great" exploit in the fishing stream in TIME (Sept. 7), I call your attention to the comment carried by the Longmont, Col., Times-Call, and which has been reprinted by numerous Colorado papers...
...explained like peasant gossips to the newcomers that the new structure was a Laboratory of Anthropology. A rich man from the East called John Davison Rockefeller Jr. who was over at Tucson last spring had given $200,000 for the building. He was very rich, owned coal mines in Colorado...
Girls & Vegetables. An observation: Vegetarian co-eds at the University of Colorado have more efficient digestive apparatus than their meat-eating school mates.?Dr. Glen Raymond Wakeham of Boulder...
Because she sincerely believed in union labor, President Roche invited the return of the United Mine Workers of America, which other operators had driven out of Colorado after the Ludlow uprising (1914). She gave her men a tip-top wage scale-$7 per day. She set up company welfare agencies. She created a cooperative form of management. She got rid of the thousands of dollars worth of machine guns, ammunition and barbed wire the company kept on hand for labor disturbances. She won the loyal affection of her workers, all of whom know her by sight, and the anxious distrust...
Early last summer Rocky Mountain announced to the Colorado Industrial Commission that the 1929 wage scale would be maintained. Colorado Fuel & Iron followed suit with a similar pledge for its non-union miners. But late in July, C. F. & I. abruptly announced a 25% wage cut, with base pay cut to $5.22 per day. All other important companies in the State except Rocky Mountain made like reductions. Miss Roche publicly appealed to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., C. F. & I. owner: "One word from you can prevent a recurrence of the human and economic waste which will result from the action...