LOUISVILLE, KY.

The March meeting of No. 10 was not of the usual brand, neither was the entire membership present, but we had about seventy-five there who were bent on doing something for the good of this union. A more determined crowd, full of fight for a square deal and justice, ever "on its wits' end," has not been around since strike-times. Part of the time was consumed in an attempt to "outlaw" overtime if a competent sub can not be had at the expiration of each thirty days, contrary to union law. Three hours were wasted on that futile attempt to amend our local laws accordingly. Then came up the question of how many delegates we would send to San Francisco. After some parliamentary sparring the way was cleared for the question. Then Thomas Moran, himself a candidate for delegate, made a masterly ten-minute appeal to the good judgment of the members as to the cost of sending our full quota of two delegates, and the matter was decided in favor of sending only one delegate. Practically every other candidate for International delegate endorsed Moran's views there was not an opposing vote.

Our meeting opened half an hour earlier in order to give the Rev. Dr. W. N. Briney, pastor of the Broadway Christian Church, a chance to meet the "boys." Dr. Briney was an oldtime printer, he having joined Cincinnati Typographical Union about twenty years ago, then going to Memphis, holding his last card in No. 11. Since then he has been preaching the gospel, and is at present head of the Louisville Ministerial Association. He only made a short talk and got acquainted with those of our members who were present, but it is expected that he will address the union on the subject of "Arbitration" at a later date. During the course of our meeting honorary membership was voted for him and will be presented to him when he makes his address, and it is intended to present him with a solid gold International Typographical Union button. The Louisville ministers are trying the experiment of adult probation in the city police court and Dr. Briney is chief probation officer. That our best interests will be served well by having Dr. Briney on our honorary membership roll is the belief of everybody who met him and heard him speak.

Thomas Moran is the latest aspirant for delegatorial honors. His announcement is accompa nied with a real "classy" card in three colors that is artistic and handsome, and bespeaks well of the mental capabilities of the man. In the race for the office of delegate to the August convention we now have President John P. Stack, Bob Higgins, W. R. Hickman and "Tommy" Moran, all fine fellows, and the winner is hard to pick; fact is, the race will be a free fight and nobody will know who has won until the last ballot has been counted. There may be more in the race by the time nominations are made in May.

On March 2 No. 10 lost one of its oldest members by death, "Judge" Raymond Lynch, who was for seventy-five years in the employ of the CourierJournal, and who was a charter member of this

union. In the "Memorial Calendar" of this issue will be found No. 10's tribute to the deceased.

In the city police court, on February 24, the Weinberger Printing Company, Harry and David Weinberger, proprietors, pleaded guilty to the minimum fine of $25 allowed under the statutes protecting registered union labels, and agreed before the court to surrender the labels he had. Our label man was delegated to get them, and he got three; so much glory to the business methods of our local allied printing trades council.

Dan L. Leetch, an operator on the CourierJournal, put one over us on February 13, when he and Miss Vernie Lee Hartman, of West Point, Ky., crossed over to Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married by the Rev. M. C. Hughes, pastor of the First Christian Church. Mrs. Leetch is an accomplished vocalist, and is soloist of the Lutheran Church, at Second and Oak streets, in this city.

The third national convention of storekeepers and gaugers will be held in this city some time during the month of September. Their program will be a most artistic one, and the contract specifies that the union label must be on the work.

Julius Sagalowski has resigned his situation with the Hammer Printing Company, and has gone back to his old place at the Brandon Printing Company, Nashville, where he was foreman before he returned home about a year ago. "Sag" gets $7 more a week down in Nashville than in our town; that's why he left us again.

Contracts for remodeling the old postoffice building for the new home of the Courier-Journal and Times will not be let until June. The building will be ready for occupancy July 1, 1912, according to the present plans, and it will be modern in every detail.

Those members of the International Typographical Union who are members of the Improved Or der of Red Men should take notice of the fact that the American Red Man, printed in this city by one W. S. Marshall, is the product of one of the worst scab shops in this part of the country. Marshall runs his shop on a ten-hour basis, and pays as low wages as he can, and is always on the lookout for cheaper help. Our label committee is in possession of a letter written by Marshall to a country printer. This letter is causing a revolt among the Red Men of Louisville, who are determined to take the case up to the supreme body, the Great Council of the United States, and an effort will be made to cut Marshall off from future printing contracts for the order. Brother Red Men in the International Typographical Union should put a kick up to Wilson Brooks, great chief of records of the Great Council of the United States, 234 La Salle street, Chicago, Ill., and if Mr. Brooks is doubtful, since he is in possession of a copy of the letter, tell him he can have a photograph of the original for the asking. There is a real good Red Men's weekly published in this city, the Kentucky Red Man, printed in the Anzeiger office, and it shows the union label at the head of the editorial column. Its manager can be reached by addressing him at 321 West Green street, Louisville, Ky. The paper is not owned by

one man, but by stockholders scattered all over the Ohio valley.

A little more argument on a compulsory label law from a letter received by our label committee:

For your information probably 90 per cent of the printing done by this company in the past has been done by union shops. Whether or not they have placed their union label upon their printing, and why they failed to do so, has never occurred to us, nor interested us in giving them the bulk of our work.

Now, honestly, is it not plain that it would be a wise move to require our members to place the label on all first proofs and to leave it to the customer to say whether the label can stay on the job? Four years' experience in label work has taught us that it is up to the printer to try to use the label instead of label committees trying to create the demand, only to see careless printers overlooking the label. We should both create the demand for and try to use the label generally; then we will see our great organization grow until there are but few printers outside our membership. We are about to realize, by this time, that the best way to promote organization work is to boost the union label. On to San Francisco, boys! A compulsory label law!

Recent events have proven to the membership that we have in President James M. Lynch and Secretary-Treasurer John W. Hays two of the very best officers the International Typographical Union seems to ever have had. They are just the men for the jobs; they are fully capable of holding their own in all kinds of emergencies, capable of piloting us through any kind of a crisis, and these two men enjoy the confidence of every member of Louisville Typographical Union. Realizing the value of these two men to our great union has caused no little reflection as to the pay allowed them by our laws. They should receive anywhere from $3,500 to $5,000 a year for their valuable services. We do not have these two good men at headquarters for ornamental purposes, but for the purpose of leading and advising, and none of you have occasion to send a letter into the head office unless you are in doubt about some matter. It is to these two men to whom you look in all emergencies. "Jim" Lynch came to Louisville not long ago. Limited by affliction to seeing things to know what's going on, and to satisfy my own curiosity, except for the time he was at the hotel in bed, Mr. Lynch did not escape my scrutiny for a minute. I saw nothing but business, no fooling away of time to it, and if our 55,000 members could only get as close to Lynch and Hays as I have during the last four years, I am sure every one of the members will agree with me that we could not put better men in their places today. Then why should we not be a little more liberal about the salary they receive? In the opinion of most of No. 10's membership something should be done at the San Francisco convention to change the law so that we can pay these two great and capable officers as much as possible or their real worth.

Another matter of vital importance to the International Typographical Union is an increased mortuary benefit. The propositions that were defeated

last referendum should be again submitted to the membership.

In New York, it is said, they call it ale. Louisville has the distinction of having the only "common beer" in the world. Vice-President George Tracy, of San Francisco, when here last September, told me that in that city they have "steam beer." Curiously enough, I asked him if it was served hot. This information is confidential to San Francisco delegates and visitors! ROBERT IRICK.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

An event worthy of special notice in this column is the visit of Rev. Henry A. Atkinson to Minneapolis and St. Paul, on behalf of the Congregational church, in an effort to bring about a closer alliance between the church and workingmen generally. Mr. Atkinson was formerly a member of Atlanta Typographical Union, and in his addresses in the Twin Cities referred frequently to the good work being done by the International Typographical Union and paid glowing tributes to the union printers for the establishment and maintenance of the Home at Colorado Springs. The regular February meeting of No. 42 adjourned at 3:30, and about 100 members went to the local Y. M. C. A. hall to hear and become acquainted with the reverend brother. We believe Mr. Atkinson should receive the hearty support of organized labor in the magnificent work he is carrying on, and the printers especially should take interest in his work, as there are a number of church publications not bearing the union label, and with such a man as Mr. Atkinson working hand in hand with us good results should be forthcoming. And the average printer could stand a little more spiritual education without the load becoming burdensome.

After a year and a half of strenuous agitation and investigation, the Labor Review, the local organ of organized labor, has weathered the vicissitudes which have surrounded it and now promises to be a matter of pride to the laboring men of the city. Almost wrecked by a dishonest editor-manager, who has since been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary-being, however, released on probation-the paper has had a somewhat tempestuous

career.

It is now under the direction of a board of five managers, appointed by the trades and labor assembly, of which Frank N. Gould, an ex-president of No. 42, is chairman. Mr. Gould reports an increase in the subscription list of nearly 2,000, and the ads are also coming in in fine shape. So the paper, under its new management, appears to have a roseate future in store for it.

A special meeting was recently called to consider the case of C. Z. Nelson, deposed foreman of the Morning Tribune. Mr. Nelson claimed to have been promised a ninety-day trial, but was discharged at the end of two weeks' time. He then claimed priority in his old situation, but the local executive board decided against him. The union at the special meeting upheld the board, and now Mr. Nelson has filed notice of an appeal to the International executive council.

L. A. Bollenbach has applied for readmission to

the Home. He is suffering from an affection of the lungs, and believes a few more months of Home treatment would result in complete recovery.

A resolution, presented and fathered by Frank N. Gould, looking to the advancement and protection of apprentices, has been adopted by No. 42. The resolution provides for the examination of the apprentice at the end of the first six months by a board, consisting of the president of the union, the foreman of the office and the chairman, to determine his fitness to eventually become a union printer. Under the provisions the apprentice is also protected from discharge without sufficient cause. Another resolution provides for the payment by the apprentice of 50 cents per week for one year, the same to be applied on initiation fee and the I. T. U. Course of Instruction.

Bert Burlingame, a former St. Paul printer, who has been working in Pacific coast cities for several years, has, with his family, come to Minneapolis to live. He is working at the Syndicate Printing Company's job shop.

The printers' relief association held its yearly meeting last month. Reports of officers were read, and H. S. Holcomb was re-elected collector and Gus Winberg secretary. The society is in flourishing condition, owing largely to the efforts of Mr. Holcomb, who for twenty years has served it without pay. The government report on relief associations has designated the Minneapolis association as the very best of its kind in the country. At the conclusion of the meeting Mr. Holcomb was presented with a fountain pen and a beautiful china closet.

V. L. Chipman, of the Daily News chapel, has returned to work, after an illness of several months, which included three visits to the hospital. An abscess was the cause of the trouble.

This, in part, editorially, in the Minneapolis Journal, anent the Chicago American and Examiner strike:

A leader among labor organizations, the International Typographical Union has a reputation for living up to its contracts of which it is rightfully jealous. It is a reputation which all such organizations should cherish-and most of them do. President Lynch has given a refreshing example of how one organization of intelligent and highly skilled workmen regards its contracts.

Alderman James D. Williams, of the Daily News chapel, has been unanimously elected vicepresident of the Minneapolis City Council. Mr. Williams is coming to the front rapidly, and is a force to be reckoned with in city politics.

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Interest in the coming race for International delegates to San Francisco grows apace, although no new candidates have declared themselves. of those already in the field express confidence of election, especially those who worked so hard for the success of the last convention, and who feel they are entitled to some reward for their labors.

That "Beau Brummel" of tourists, Lee Stopple, has packed his trunks and departed for Winnipeg, after a brief stay in the Twin Cities.

The Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly, on motion of Charles E. Williams, delegate from No. 42, has undertaken to build a house to be

given to a Mrs. Nessler, a widow with seven small children depending on her for support. The work will be done entirely by union craftsmen.

An amusing incident occurred, in the course of the race for the delegateship to San Francisco, in a local office. One ingenious candidate secured a number of views of San Francisco, one of which he posted in each chapel, neatly inscribed: "View of Such-and-Such street, 'Frisco; Loaned to the Chapel by This was all very fine, until another still more ingenious aspirant came along with another placard, which he hung directly underneath. It was a picture of several persons gazing upward, and read: "Looking for Votes. Scene on Newspaper Row Before the Quake of May 17, 1911. PRESENTED to the Chapel by

Candidate for Delegate."

EDWARD S. KERN.

TUCSON, ARIZ.

The printing business is not as good here as it was this time last year. The Star has laid off all its jobmen except the foreman and one man. The news department keeps up pretty well, with a battery of three Mergs, doing some tariff work. The Evening Citizen has been doing well in the news department, but has laid off all the men in the job department save the foreman and one man. The Kimball printing house has been fairly busy. It has a monotype, but only keeps the operator busy about four days in a week.

There are a couple of Mexican offices here, but they are non-union and do not do much work. They get out a couple of weekly and monthly papers that circulate among their own people and in Mexico.

A new firm started up here in January, and while work has been slack with the other offices it has been busy. The new firm is composed of O. E. Smith and O. E. Comstock, sr., and the firm is styled the Smith-Comstock Printing Company. They have a neat office and well arranged to do work quickly. The office is well lighted, and the sanitary conditions are all that could be asked, and they say it shall always be so.

The members of Tucson Union made up a purse for ex-President Comstock to buy chairs for the Sunday-school he is conducting at Tentville, for the children of those who are suffering with the great white plague. The little ones can not come to town, so he goes out to them. The gift was highly appreciated and the hearts of the little folks are made happy.

Tucson Union is working for the "home printing" work. As it is now, a large amount of work is sent away from here to other points, and yet those same merchants have a fit if they hear of workingmen sending away for groceries, dry goods, etc., and cry out strongly against it; but they do not practice what they preach, so No. 465 is getting busy along that line, and is also asking that merchants have the label placed upon their work. Many are now having the label put on their work, and others will be induced to do so.

O. E. COMSTOCK, SR.

eventually making Lowell a 100 per cent union city, as far as things printorial are concerned. If the success of the venture is any criterion, there is every reason to believe the local council will have made a step toward its ultimate goal, for one of the most spacious halls in the city of Lowell was simply crowded with worthy followers of immortal Benjamin Franklin. Among the 300 or so who were present were many old out-of-town friends, who simply could not resist the call of their old comrades to get together for one good

Robert S. Maloney, who waxed eloquent on the advantages of joining the respective bodies connected with our craft, also giving an interesting account of what the International Typographical Union had done and is still doing for its members. Needless to add that his remarks were listened to with great attention and will be the means no doubt of assisting us in our efforts in inducing the wayfarers to step in and join the happy throng.. John J. Mahoney, of No. 310, and president of the trades and labor council, also spoke and compared

present conditions with what they were before the organization of local printers. The speaker of the evening was Lawyer James O. Reilly, of Lowell, who, although not born with the proverbial golden spoon in his mouth, came near making his entry into this world with a printing press in his arms, who dwelt at some length on "The Advance of Printing" in a lucid and interesting manner. What he does not know about the craft is not worth repeating, and he certainly went a long way in educating the majority of those present as to the early stages of printing history. All being told, if the allied council fails to succeed in its efforts, it will not be due to the want of success connected with this first smoker. A ladies' night and whist party is now on the tapis for future action.

The printers' strike in England is being watched with interest by our membership, some of whom originally came from the tight little isle across the pond. The way the members of the London Society of Compositors responded to the call to arms is commendable, and reminds us of similar conditions a few years back. The London employing printers made the same error as their American brethren in failing to understand the steadfastness and solidarity of those union members who, after repeated futile attempts to better existing conditions, finally decided that stern and unavoidable measures had to be resorted to in order to obtain the desired end. The way the membership responded to the assessment call and the action of those earning over a certain stipend making themselves liable to pay 20 per cent of their wages into the strike fund must have been an eye-opener to those who imagined that the old maxim of "Actions speak louder than words" would have been reversed on this occasion. And the same as we did they are doing, and will continue to pay the assessment until victory is theirs. The stand taken by the allied crafts in tendering notice to those firms who failed to grant the reasonable demand of the compositors is certainly an object lesson worthy of long remembrance. Had the Provincial Association followed suit at the inception of the struggle, as it was expected to do, it is safe to assume normal conditions would have been resumed by now. However, at time of writing, the London situation is well in hand and it is only a question of time ere the curtain falls upon the final scene. Then and only then will the employers realize what might have been had they accepted the more than reasonable compromise of the London Society of Compositors. The American Typothete had nothing to concede and nothing to arbitrate; on the other hand, the International Typographical Union was willing to sell to the employer eight hours per day and to do what it pleased with the remaining sixteen. The former may still have nothing to concede or to arbitrate, but the close upon 60,000 membership of the International Typographical Union, under the able handling of James M. Lynch and his executive board, are now selling eight hours per day, etc., etc., at a substantial increase in rate of pay. Since that time the value of union typos has been more amply recognized,

and the feelings between employer and employe are more cordial than they have ever been. Let it be hoped, then, that the English employing printers will have seen the futility of their efforts and wisely decide to grant the fifty-hour week to their employes, and think themselves lucky the fortyeight-hour week was not enforced at the present time.

To all appearances there is a possibility of our being represented at San Francisco, the body having wisely decided to appropriate a sum of money to partly pay the expense of a delegate. The distance is a long one and means larger sums than many small unions can afford to appropriate. The importance of this convention, however, warrants representation thereat, and all memberships should be willing to sacrifice that little something which may be the means of saving them larger amounts in the immediate future. We will also have our full quota of delegates at the New England convention, to be held in Springfield, Mass., next June.

Nominations of candidates for delegates to the conventions will be made at our April meeting, as well as those for elective offices of our local. These will be balloted for on the third Wednesday in May, and it is expected that some of the contests will be very spirited, which may mean an entire change in our present officeholders. All the better; the more candidates, the more interest taken in our monthly doings.

Oh, 'Frisco, your responsibilities are great this year, as much depends upon the action of the hundreds of delegates you will entertain next August. Let everything be weighed in the balance beforehand, in order that we may not repent at leisure for something undertaken perhaps all too hastily.

And then, Ottawa, Canada, or Norfolk, Va., 1912! GABRIEL AUDOIN.

CLEBURNE, TEXAS.

Since my last communication to THE JOURNAL there have been several very important changes in printing circles in No. 303's jurisdiction. A gen

eral "shake-up" was had in the composing room of the Morning Review, which resulted in a change of the entire force in that department, whose places were filled by an imported force, all strangers to No. 303. Mr. Anderson (the foreman) for a time held down a job in Dallas, while Mr. Dobbs, the adman, "caught on" in the adroom of the Evening Enterprise. Others of the old force sought and obtained employment elsewhere, being out of work but a short while. The most notable change, however, was the purchase and consolidation of the two job offices by Mr. Chambless, late of Ennis, Texas. After operating the concern as an exclusive job printing house, Mr. Chambless has installed a new two-revolution press, a folder, much other new material, and begun the publication of the Semi-Weekly Chronicle. A new Merg. is in transit and due to arrive any day, and then it is prophesied there will be "something doing" in and around the Chronicle building. Mr. Cham