Some weeks ago H. H. Wynkoop, formerly an official of the Typographical Union of Albuquerque, N. M., was expelled from the union and skipped out, leaving his financial affairs badly tangled and with many irregularities which threatened to bring him into the courts if he were found. Now his brother Frank M. Wynkoop, also of Albuquerque, is in trouble, and has left town. The Albuquerque Morning Journal tells the story of this unionist as follows:
    "Frank M. Wynkoop, for some time past editor and manager of the Labor Advocate, an organ conducted under the auspices of the Albuquerque Central Labor Union and supported by that organization, suddenly left the city yesterday, leaving behind him a problematical destination, a miscellaneous collection of unpaid bills and a sorrowing organization who are left in the hole to get out the best way they can. The Central Labor Union will continue the weekly newspaper as heretofore, only they propose now to put it under a management that will insure them a run for their money, something they have failed to get under the late administration, Wynkoop having done all the running by himself. Wynkoop sent his family away several days since, supposedly for Los Angeles, and it is supposed that he has followed them to that city.

    "The first known of his disappearance was when a letter written on a west-bound Santa F� train was received by O. S. French, secretary of the Central Labor Union. In this letter he stated that he was going hence, to a place where he could get a square deal. The secretary says he hopes he will stay with the square deal, so that the Albuquerque organization may get its chance at the square. Wynkoop is supposed to have paid all bills of the Labor Advocate. That he has not done this is evident to the officers of the union, who are receiving unpaid ones in quantities.
    "The Central Labor Union paid him $100 a month for conducting the weekly newspaper, and a profit in the business as well. The officers of the union estimate that they have paid in for the support of the newspaper in the six months of its life some $1980. All they have left to show for it is a somewhat dilapidated plant and the aforesaid unpaid bills. What Wynkoop did with the rest of the money is a problem. It is asserted by the officers of the Central Labor Union that he has expended a large portion of it over the green cloth and some other portions over various bars. In his letter Wynkoop says that he will have just $2 in his pocket when he gets to his destination. The officers say that they are not particularly concerned whether he has a cent when he arrives, they only hope his destination is distant.

    "The bills of the Labor Advocate, which Wynkoop represented he had paid will foot up more than $200. The organization proposes to pay these bills and put the newspaper on its feet again, with a live management and a conservative and businesslike policy. Wynkoop has conducted a radical sheet, using the term "scab" freely, and filling the columns of his paper with abuse of the people who have been its chief supporters; all this against the wishes and counsel of the union. They now propose to alter this policy into a sane tone. With his brother, Harmon H. Wynkoop, who was recently suspended from the Albuquerque Typographical Union for irregularities with the funds of the union, Wynkoop has been an active and persistent agitator and has taken a very active part in the movement of the more radical element among the labor unions of the city. The officers of the Central Labor Union say that they are relieved to have the man removed from the field, where he has done much to injure the cause of labor."

Source:

Unknown, "Labor Editor Leaves Debts, Another Member of Notorious Wynkoop Family Skips," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Sunday, 17 July 1904, p. E1.