COSTIGAN WINS NOMINATION BY SWEEPING VOTE
COSTIGAN WINS NOMINATION BY SWEEPING VOTE Receives Majority Over Both Opponents in Colorado Senatorial Primary WILL OPPOSE SHAW in NOVEMBER RACE Will Carry Fall Campaign To People in Fight...
...The Republican primary was haracterized by the expenditure of £uce sums of money by both candidate...
...So great was the lavish expenditure of money in the Republican campaign that Senator Nye of the Senate campaign funds investigating committee felt it necessary to send investigators into Colorado to gather evidence of the misuse of the "slush funds.''I is understood that the invertigator...
...Fearing the widespread support that Mr...
...h. A. DREYFUS COMPANY Herbert Crabtree, Jr., Supl...
...Five Day Week Meets Approval of Big Concern L. A. Dreyfus Co...
...In its investigation of the Republican primary, It is understood that the Senate investigating committee will make a vigorous effort to locate the source of the large sums of money expended by Shaw to secure the nomination...
...As the Democratic nominee...
...Another feature of the five-day whe-dule I hat Is attractive to us is that in an emergency we can increase our output 10 or 20 per cent by working the plant one-half or all day on Saturday without Increasing our help...
...He began the practice of Law in Denver and since that time has been a tireless supporter of the interests of farmers and working men...
...Costigan's candidacy...
...won the' Democratic nomination to the United Slates Senate with the united support of progressives and organized labor in Uiis state...
...L. A. DREYFUS COMPANY Rosebank, Statrn Island New York Gentlemen: In reply to your inquiry, our expert' ence with the five-day week plan operation has been most satisfactory, bott from our standpoint and that ol out employe*-The full Saturday ?hut dowr permits our mechanical department tc keep our equipment in first class condition and allows them to work on machinery that runt continuously durinj the week, with a much reduced accident hazard...
...It is reported, too, that before Shaw announced his candidacy for the Republican senatorial nomination he had his employer, Doherty, approve his plans...
...Additional letters will appear in future lssue of The Progressive.—Editor's Note...
...Shaw's reputation as a corporation attorney is well known through the state...
...In the Republican senatorial primary last week George H. Shaw, power Trust lawyer and close associate of Henry L. Doherty of the Cities Service corporation, defeated William V. 1lodges, candidate of the Phipps ma-rune...
...With his opponent in the fall election well known as a "hired man" of the power trust, it 18 predicted by local observers that Mr...
...Costigan will oppose the Republican candidate, George H. Shaw in the November election...
...Our employes are keen for it because it permits them, to take care of work around their homes on Saturday, thus giving them at least a complete day of rest...
...Costigan, although a Democrat will draw a large Republican vote next November...
...In the administration of Woodrow Wilson he was appointed as a member of the United States tariff commission, but he resigned two years before his term expired as a protest against President tjoolldge's attempt to "pack" the commission with men favorable to the big business interests of the East...
...of New Yorl Finds Arrangement Benefits Both Their Own and Their Employe's Interests (The following Is another of a series of letters from big manufacturing and industrial concerns In various part of the country telling of their experience with the five-day week in their plants...
...He was recently employed by Henry L. Doherty of the power trust to secure a franchise for the Doherty interests in the city of Denver...
...Costigan plans to carry his fight to the voters of Colorado on the "slush- fund" issue, while it is expected that Shaw and his supporters will have huge sums of money at their disposal to fight Mr...
...COSTIGAN WINS NOMINATION BY SWEEPING VOTE Receives Majority Over Both Opponents in Colorado Senatorial Primary WILL OPPOSE SHAW in NOVEMBER RACE Will Carry Fall Campaign To People in Fight Against Power Trust Opponent i Special to The Progressive) DENVER, Colo.—Polling more votes than his two opponents combined, Edward P. Costigan, progressive leader sac a supporter of the interests of farmers and laboring men...
...Costigan, the Democratic nominee, has long been associated with the progressive and labor movements in Colorado...
...have uncovered much evidence and that the senate committee plans to personally conduct a -probe into the Republican primary election...
...Costigan has enlisted, it is expected that the Republican bosses of the Phipps machine and those supporting Shaw will get together in a concentrated fight against Costigan...
...Cost iean defeated Morrison Shafroth and James A. Marsh, both of Denver, both of whom carried on a vigorous and active campaign...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 42
