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The Shorter Work-Day. Indications from several points are that the question of fewer hours of labor is meeting with more serious consideration, and that the sentiment is growing with favor for the movement. Its importance for good can not be questioned. It is a matter of vital concern to the members of our craft, as well as to the mass of wageworkers in all other trades or callings. It should be discussed at every opportunity. It will lose nothing of its merits from being dissected. Every one should reflect seriously upon the phases of its presentation, and the benefits to accrue from its application to not only time-labor, but piece-workers as well. We refer to it often, because we desire to keep the mind of the worker exercised on it as a problem to be solved wholly on its merits. Think on it, don't let it rest. If you haven't had an argument upon it yet, spring one, and it matters not which way it may terminate, the good points will be brought out, and lasting benefit may be derived therefrom.

THE printers of New Jersey seem to be made of the right kind of metal. The New Jersey Federation of Allied Printing Trades had an enthusiastic session on the 30th ult. at New Brunswick, at which were present delegates from Camden, Trenton, Elizabeth, Newark, Jersey City and Hoboken. The members of New Brunswick Union No. 307 proved most excellent hosts. A welcoming address was tendered by Mayor Williamson, and in the evening all sat down to a sumptuous banquet. The proceedings were harmonious and much good is promised from the work performed.

PEOPLE who enjoy the fruits of treason have little love or respect for traitors. The firm or corporation which employs men to take the place of striking workmen is generally prompted to the act for the purpose of intimidating the strikers and coercing them to terms. When the time comes around for their return, upon any basis of settlement, even the contempt and scorn of the original employes is not stronger than that of the bosses for the unprincipled wretches who bartered honor and good name for mere transitory gain. Education and enlightenment of the masses will reform all this. Thorough organization will rid the world of traitors and scabs in the labor world, and all who work will be the gainers thereby.

ONEONTA Typographical Union No. 135 is honored with the membership of a typical old time typesetter. John A. Parshall, of Delhi, has worked for over fifty-five years in the same office, at the same stand and by the same window. He first entered .his apprenticeship in 1835, at Cooperstown, N. Y., and has been stacking up the metal ever since. There may be older printers living, but probably not one who has been in one office so long. Mr. Parshall is much attached to the old window, and it is probable that when the Angel of Death shall flit through that old shanty, he will find the old gentleman looking out upon the familiar landscape. He is much honored in his advancing years.

COMPULSORY arbitration would be like a fellow furnishing the rope for his own execution.

The Union Label.

The union label of our craft was established by action of the International Typographical Union. It is as mandatory in its character as that of any other provision of the constitution or general laws. The law provides how it shall be issued, what it represents, and what other conformity to law entitles its possessor to its use. It also defines where it can not be used. Its presence on printed matter implies, without question, that the work by the firm using it employs only union labor as required by International law. Its absence from work where union methods prevail indicates that the work, if not all, at least a portion of it, of that establishment is done outside of and con

trary to legal, lawful union regulations. A refusal to use it on legitimate work should be a subject of local union discipline as much as that of incapacity, by not conforming to law for its use. An office or publication is entitled to its use, or it is not. Its presence is evidence of honesty and good faith; its absence, where its presence is expected and looked for, is unequivocal manifestation that "there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. It is a sort of ambiguity that no apology can elucidate.

An old copy of the Hartford Courant, printed 119 years ago, has turned up in Chicago. One item says: "Great care will be taken to collect from time to time all domestic occurrences that are worthy the notice of the publick." Only two advertisements are found in its columns -one of an almanac for 1765, the other of choice salt." The name of the printer was Green.

A GRAND ball is announced for Monday evening, March 16, at Germania Maennerchor Hall, Baltimore, to be given by Printing Pressmen's Union No. 61, which promises to be a great affair. We regret our inability to be present on the occasion, which we hope will be cheeringly successful to all concerned.

THE union label is a trade-mark, and don't you forget it.

If it wasn't for organized labor, the goods of many merchants would go begging.

WHILE Scores of wealthy corporations have been passing into the hands of receivers, the trades-unions keep right on growing and accumulating strength.

IF your trades-union was abolished, what would be the result of the conditions into which you would be forced from lack of the protection afforded by them?

ENTHUSIASTIC unionists at several

points have forwarded subscriptions to the JOURNAL for quite a number of oldtime printers, and their names have been placed upon the lists.

IT would be a good plan, in helping to keep up that frisky gold reserve, for the government to force the thieving railroad corporations to pay up their indebtedness. It would add many millions to the exchequer and relieve the government of a very large portion of its debt.

COMPLAINT Comes from several sources of chairmen of chapels appropriating to their own use and carrying home with them copies of the JOURNAL sent for the use of the chapel. This is not the intention of JOURNALS so sent. They should be placed on file in the offices where received, and at all times be open to the use of the chapel.

THE Brockton (Mass. ) Times comes to this office with the union label flying at its mast head and announcing its cheerfulness at the success of Typographical Union No. 224 in unionizing that city and adopting a scale which it pleasantly accepts and will comply with. It says the men in the mechanical department of that office "work under the most healthful and favorable conditions." The Enterprise of that city is still out.

WANT ADVERTISEMENTS. Special "Want" advertisements will be inserted in these columns at the uniform price of ONE CENT A WORD each insertion. Answers can be sent in care of The Typographical Journal, if desired. All letters received will be promptly forwarded to parties for whom intended, without extra charge.

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Nall-round printer and practical newspaper man, with 25 years' experience, who has filled all positions-editor, reporter, foreman, proofreader, etc.-on a daily paper, desires work in some healthy town or city of the South. Has to leave northern home because of the ill-health of his wife. Address K. L., care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A $1,500 newspaper or job outfit for $1,000, in Elwood, Ind. Address GEORGE BISHOP, Crawfordsville, Ind.

FOR SALE Leffingwell's Manual and Rules of Order for Parliamentary Debate." 10 cents per copy. Can be ordered through TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. FOR SALE-A Plow paper cutter; cuts 28x30 in., cheap. Address L. C., TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. FOR SALE Washington hand-press, in first-class shape; bed 30x46, platen 264x42; a bargain. Address CLAY, TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL,

FOR SALE-Two-horse power Otto gas engine, in firstclass condition. Address MUNGER, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE Cheap, a 6-column Army press. Has never been used. Address J. H. B., care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A Universal rule shaper, good as new and can be bought at a bargain. Address MUNGER, Care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A 9-column Cincinnati cylinder press, bed 33x48; this press has never been used, and can be bought at a sacrifice. Address FRANK H., care TyrOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-A large assortment of display type, on the old bodies; the type is all new, and will be sold for less than half price. Send for specimen sheet. Address MUNGER, care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL

FOR SALE-Prosperous newspaper and job office in live manufacturing town in central New York. Modern material and good location: town of 3,000, railroads in five directions; large job trade Price, $2,000. Address "NEWSPAPER," TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

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printed book containing full and complete instructions of the best and most rapid process known will be sold for the next thirty days for only fifty cents, price reduced to give everyone an opportunity to get it. itively the best bargain ever offered the fraternity. Process fully protected. Address, with fifty cent money order, for instructions or two-cent stamp for circulars, HASKELL & HASKELL, Ashland, Ky., U.S. A.

SITUATION WANTED-By a temperate and reliable young man as two-thirder in union job office, or as ad man on good country newspaper. Address O. W. JOHNSON, I Maple Ave., Morristown, N. J.

WANTED QUICK-Electrotype plates Confederate bank bills, face side only. Address "CASH," care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

FOR SALE-An interest in live daily and weekly, with

job office: good circulation: county patronage; one of the best cities in Indiana. Good chance for printer with a few hundred cash. Address "A," care of TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

WANTED-Printer with a few hundred dollars in cash to take interest in live daily in Indiana. Great bargain if sold at once. Address "B," care of TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

WANTED-To buy second-hand paper-cutter.

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dress, stating size, price and particulars COMP," care TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

WANTED-Situation by union man experienced in book and job work, platen press cutting paper, bookkeeping, etc. A 1 references. Address R, TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

TRADE JOURNALS

Prominent in the printing, book-making, stationery, paper-making and allied trades.

AMERICAN BOOK-MAKER, a journal of technical art and information for printers, bookbinders and publishers. Published monthly, $2 per annum, single cop ies, 25 cents. Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, 143 Bleecker street, corner West Broadway, New York.

AMERICAN PRESSMAN, official organ of the International Printing Pressmen's Union of North America. A technical trade journal devoted to the interests of presswork and to all pressmen. $1 per annum. Sample copies 10 cents. Advertising rates on application. If you want to keep up with the times in your trade subscribe for it. If you want to sell good goods at a profit advertise in it. Robert D. Sawyer, editor, 57 Washington street, Chicago.

AMERICAN STATIONER; established 1874; every Thursday: $2 a year; single copies, 10 cents Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, N W. corner of Bleecker street and South Fifth avenue, New York.

AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF PRINTING AND BOOKMAKING, 600 pages, profusely illustrated; half bound; price $12, delivered. This standard work contains all that is known of the printing and allied trades, from the earliest to the present time. A copy should be owned by every ambitious printer. Address, Howard Lockwood & Co., publishers, 143 Bleecker street, corner of West Broadway, New York.

BRITISH AND COLONIAL, PRINTER AND STATIONER, a weekly journal of British, colonial and foreign printing and stationery trade intelligence, mechanical and other inventions illustrated, novelties in leather and fancy goods, books and book manufacture patents, gazette and unique financial trade news. Subscription,

per annum. Post free to any address in the three Americas. Published by W. John Stonehill, 58 Shoe Lane, London, England. Specimen copy gratis and post free on application. Established 1878,

INTERNATIONAL ART PRINTER. A book of specimens of printing. Issued on the last of each month. The American edition commences in February. In it will appear no advertisements except on the cover pages The Canadian edition will carry any legitimate ad. If you have anything to sell to Canadian printers, an ad in the I. A P. is guaranteed a larger circulation than any other printers' journal circulating in Canada. Subscription either edition, $2 per year Single copies, 25 cents No free samples ARTHUR M. RUTHERFORD, Publisher, 130 12 Poulett street, Owen Sound, Canada.

NEW ENGLAND STATIONER AND PRINTER is now in the tenth year of its publication, and its forty odd pages are each month replete with interesting trade matter. Send 50 cents if you are interested, and we will mail you the paper regularly for nine months. Sample copies 10 cents. Address, Chas. C. Walden, publisher, Springfield, Mass.

THE INLAND PRINTER is unquestionably the leading trade journal of the world in the printing industry. Issued promptly on the first of every month. Replete with valuable technical information, articles of general interest and elegant illustrations. Only $2 per year, $1 for six months, 20 cents per copy none free. INI AND PRINTER COMPANY, 212-214 Monroe street, Chicago.

THE ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, leading journal in its line in the East Most artistic periodical pub lished. Strongest line of contributors of any printers' or engravers trade journal Known circulation. $2 per year; 25 cents per copy. No free sample copies. THE ENGRAVER AND PRINTER COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass.

UNITED STATES PAPER MAKER, devoted to the interests of paper-makers. Published monthly: $2 per annum: sample copies, 20 cents. Charles C. Walden, publisher, 132 Nassau street, New York.

The present age might appropriately be called the lying age. The ministry will not tolerate a minister who dares speak the truth; the daily press will not tolerate an editor who dares write the truth; the millionaire-endowed colleges will not tolerate a professor who dares teach the truth.-Co-Operative Age.

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Unionism vs. Politics.

Give us men

Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office can not buy. That quotation from your last issue is good enough text for the question, "Should union workmen take a hand in the game of politics?" I choose the affirmative on this subject and shall pay close attention to the arguments of the opposition. To open the debate, I assert that it is negligence in workingmen not to interest themselves in everything that has a bearing on their progress toward better conditions.

What has a more direct effect on our efforts to achieve greater happiness than the selection of those who are to govern us?-or, rather, to put in operation the people's decision expressed at the polls.

A most radical departure from past traditions in Typographical Union No. 6 was President Donnelly's declaration, soon after his election, that, regardless of parties, our members should use all the force they could command in politics in order to maintain the ascendancy of tradesunion principles in the government printing office.

Since then, it seems, there is danger of non-unionism obtaining an entrance there through the civil service door. To stop that, a vital question for applicants for positions should be: "Are you a member of the International Typographical Union?" The idea of non-union men being preferred in the printing office of the great Union is preposterous.

This is but one of the incentives we have to enter the political arena and make

the power of organization among workingmen felt in the most effective way. To pick out the men who have the best prospect of success, and, if they have proven loyal to our interests in the past, show them their fidelity is remembered and appreciated. Such men are not rare in public life, but there is one so conspicuous that your readers shall have guessed the name before I pen it. From his long career in congress, and from his first public utterance until he resigned his chairmanship of the house committee on naval affairs, our fellow-member, Amos J. Cummings, has been all that the most earnest advocate of workingmen's prosperity could desire.

At last Sunday's meeting of New York Union a most eloquent appeal was made by Mr. Hanford urging the members to elect real representatives of the people to congress to counteract the selfish aims of Fricks and Carnegies, and the minions of millionaires who have played the leech to Uncle Samuel, and have taken advantage of his every innocent move, until they have swollen almost to the bursting point with their greedy drafts on his life-blood.

To no man in America could the allusion more directly point than to Amos J. Cummings. Elect men like him, and if, like him, they prove true to their trust, the domination of the money power in this land will soon be read of in history, and men will wonder how it ever did exist. It requires but a short look backward into congressional records to find "our Amos" holding his union card aloft and declaring his determination to deal with those who defraud the government

as he would deal with common male- York, to organize workingmen's Cumfactors.

We remember the outbursts of venom from subsidized newspapers in Washington and elsewhere-all echoing instructions from the Homestead literary bureau -to down Cummings at whatever cost, and their efforts culminated with his defeat by a few hundred votes in the thirteenth congressional district of New York in November, 1894.

His defeat was the surprise of even that tidal wave election, and when a vacancy occurred in the tenth district, workingmen considered it good unionism to make every effort to get him nominated and then to work day and night for his triumphant return to congress, and how they did it is proof sufficient that those who faithfully represent the people are remembered accordingly.

The report of Mr. Cummings on the Carnegie frauds in overcharging the govvernment for ventilated armor plate of worthless quality is now historical. The more it is discussed the more it redounds to the credit of the workingman's congressman and proves him one of the"Men whom the spoils of office can not buy." Spring is coming and booms are sprouting, and it occurs to me that the people should start a boom of their own and not wait to be sucked into the maelstrom of any candidate but one of their own choosing. With his vast experience in national affairs, there is no man mentioned for the presidency of the United States better qualified to fill the office than this man of the people. There is but one element of success lacking, that is capitalistic prestige. But all that can be dispensed with if men get their heads together and determine to make their power felt.

All sorts of combinations are resorted to to develop a boom into a nomination. The only combination needed in the case under consideration is that of the plain people. If they begin all over the country, as they have begun here in New

mings clubs, they can as successfully elect him to the presidency as the workingmen of the tenth district elected him to congress last November.

Too often the dream of electing a true representative of the toiling millions has had no substantial background. In this case it is entirely different. In favor of our candidate there is a brilliant record of heroism on the battlefield-for he was as true to the union of states as he is to the unions of trades-and with the veterans of the Grand Army no man is more popular. His associates in journalism throughout the country hold him in the highest esteem, and his work in behalf of post office employes of every grade has made his name familiar from Old Penobscot's waters to San Francisco's bay. Add to these the fraternal feeling of printers in their hundreds of unions and thousands of chapel meetings, and the affiliated trades of America will have great cause for rejoicing before the end of 1896. .... A time like this demands

Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands."

OWEN J. KINDELON.

New York City, N. Y.

"Smoky City" Craft Chat. Topics in printing circles have been very scarce in this place lately, but with the approach of spring are beginning to liven up.

No. 7 held a very interesting meeting last Sunday. An important question, and one that caused considerable debate, was the Chronicle-Telegraph matter. That paper has been using the Rogers machines for the past three years. They are removing their plant to the Hamilton building farther up Fifth avenue, and have fitted out their composing room with twelve Mergenthaler machines. The question which caused so much argument was as to whether the operators of that paper should be allowed to serve a second apprenticeship. President Duffy made the ruling that they should do so, and pre

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