Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1901 — Not Proud with Millions. [ARTICLE]

Not Proud with Millions.

Multimillionaire W. S. Stratton, who was a journeyman carpenter dependent on his daily wages when he discovered the ore in his great Independence mine at Cripple Creek. Colo., ten years ago, will march Labor day, Sept. 2. with the Colorado Springs lodge of Carpenters’ union. He joined the order three months ago because he was asked to do so and because his sympathies are with the workmen "with whom he was once associated. Stratton employs union labor in all his buildings and other enterprises. The parade will be through the streets of Colorado Springs and strangers will not know him from the rest of the boys.