miles an hour with the added power. A meeting will be called of those interested in the near future to complete organization for the year.

I am indebted to Editor Freeman Saltus, of the Worcester Labor News, for current copies of his fine weekly. For a labor paper, Freeman has one of the best I have yet seen, and from the looks of his advertising columns I should judge that the merchants of Worcester find it a valuable advertising medium. A labor paper of the character of the Labor News is well worth reading and passing along for others to read. I look for it every week.

What is the matter with the printers of southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island getting together and having a grand printers' outing some Sunday or holiday at some resort down the Providence river when the clams, etc., etc., are on the job this summer? I advocated this matter several years ago and there seemed considerable favorable sentiment, but then the matter was dropped because Providence Union was going to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary that year. There is plenty of time to arrange for something of the sort this year. Let's get together.

The Gazette has installed one of the latest model double magazine headletter machines, making a total of four in that office. The firm is also thoroughly renovating its building and generally showing signs of prosperity. JAMES H. FARRELL.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

At the last regular meeting of No. 42 plans were promulgated for the organization of a junior typographical union. Under the provision, the junior body will be in all respects a live union, will be recognized by the International Typographical Union, and its members will have practically the same protection as is afforded journeymen union printers. Similar unions are being formed in other cities, and the movement is expected to prove of vast benefit to the apprentices generally.

An answer to arguments made by the antiunionists of the Otis-Post tribe is to be found in the erection of the Nessler home, mentioned in this column last month, by members of organized labor in this city. The death of the husband and father left Mrs. Nessler destitute with a family of seven small children dependent upon her for subsistence. On motion of a member of the typographical union the trades and labor assembly voted to erect a substantial home for the widow, at no cost to herself, labor and material being furnished by various crafts affiliated with the assembly. The fact that the deceased was not and had never been a union man was not allowed to interfere with the charitable plan of these big-hearted workers a fitting reply to the charges of clannishness so often brought against organized labor by the mendacious anti-unionists.

Under the caption, "A Voice from the Lone Star State," appeared in last month's JOURNAL portions of an address made by S. H. McGregor, of Austin, Texas, before the legislature of that state. In a brilliant address Mr. McGregor re

counted his own triumphant struggle with the great white plague, and it is doubtful if the walls. of the historic capitol ever resounded with more eloquent oration than that delivered by the member from Austin in pleading for state provision for the care and cure of consumptives. This subject is one which touches the printing craft more closely perhaps than any other trade, and too much stress can not be laid upon the importance of the work in which Mr. McGregor is engaged. The Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs has partly solved the problem for the printing fraternity, but many other organizations are not so fortunate, and in the interest of humanity in general there is imperative need for earnest and active work to aid in stamping out this dread disease.

Frank Lessard, of the Daily News, was called to Portland, Ore., recently by the serious illness of his sister.

After a layoff of several years, "Pat" Shane, formerly of the Minneapolis Journal, has decided to return to the keyboard.

The death of Percy Monroe at Muncie, Ind., in March, recalls the fact that the convention at Minneapolis was the last of the many he had attended. Mr. Monroe was rather ill at the time, and had about decided not to come, but at the earnest solicitation of J. C. Herbert, of the Journal, and other oldtime friends, he made the trip. While here Percy renewed old acquaintances and made many new friends, and it was with feelings of genuine sorrow the tidings of his passing were received in Minneapolis.

President Henderson has appointed C. Z. Nelson and B. E. Ellsworth as fraternal delegates to St. Paul Union, acting under instructions given at the last meeting of No. 42. They made their first trip to the down-river village recently, and brought back a report of a large and enthusiastic gathering of the Saintly printers. The scheme is quite a success, and will be made permanent.

The Northwestern Miller has purchased a large plot of ground in Kenwood, near the outskirts of the city, and will erect thereon a modern printing plant. It is planned to have two separate buildings, one an administration and the other a mechanical structure, with thoroughly modern equipment. The plans are to be unique in many ways, and will be given in greater detail later.

Conditions among the local mailers are becoming greatly improved, and the members feel a great deal of elation over the prospects. President Mortenson reports all union mailers employed at the Daily News, while firmer footholds are being gained on the other papers.

Only two more names have been added to the already long list of avowed candidates for delegate to the 1911 convention-those of Frank Boreen, Morning Tribune, and Thomas Chesney, Tribune Job.

Extra! Extra! "Pete" Wheelan is a grandpa. EDWARD S. KERN.

EVERY man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular all his lifelong.-Burton.

NEWARK'S JURISDICTIONAL TROUBLES.

Jurisdictional troubles are evidently only a side issue in the fight which is being waged between the jewelry workers' union and the union of the metal polishers, buffers and platers, but the fight is of a nature to affect the interests of at least nineteen other organizations which have to do with the production of buttons, badges and metal novelties. So far have the jewelry workers gone in their demand for the double acorn that they have implied the non-unionism of thoroughly union institutions and factories because they could not apparently gain control of a branch of industry which had been thoroughly organized many years before their advent into the field of unionism. It is indeed a sad state of affairs, but one to hark back memories of internal fights which have rended the unions in the printing industry into factional parties, but which aroused the factors to a more aggressive and determined policy which in the end meant greater solidification and unity of purpose.

On the surface it appears that the metal polishers, buffers and platers have for years held undis puted control over the dipping, burnishing and polishing branches of the metal badge, button and novelty work, and their contracts have been renewed with but few changes. The machinists have had control of another part of the work, while the metal stampers have had control of still another part. But the metal polishers are the owners of a label, and that is what the jewelry workers are trying to eliminate from the field, possibly with the idea that when the label is lost to them the metal polishers will come scurrying over to join the organization of the jewelry workers.

Newark, New Jersey's largest city, is known as the jewelry manufacturing center of the United States. In fact, over half of America's jewelry is produced in the city of Newark. Naturally one might expect the workers in the jewelry trade to be more thoroughly organized there than elsewhere. If numbers count, Newark may perhaps claim the distinction. But if methods are considered, then it is elsewhere one might look more profitably.

Newark is also the home of the original house working in celluloid on badge and button work; likewise it is the largest of its kind in the United States. Originally opened as an ordinary printing office by Benjamin S. Whitehead, who made a specialty of New Year, Christmas, birthday and other cards, it was found by continued experi menting that type could be printed upon a celluloid surface and the celluloid could afterward be highly burnished. This opened up a new field, and for a number of years it was exploited hardly more than locally. Then new capital was joined to that of Mr. Whitehead's, and the firm eventually became Whitehead & Hoag. With the application of new capital to the enterprise the company expanded systematically in all directions, and as a result of competent management it received the benefit of persistent advertising.

When the company was first organized it em

ployed two or three printers and about an equal number of pressmen, purchasing such metal parts as it needed from various stamping works, and confining its efforts to the production of printed forms. Gradually the demand for the company's product grew, and one by one new departments were established, until today there are twenty and some odd departments and nineteen unions represented in the establishment, so intimately welded together that the whole is but as a single unit.

Had it not been, however, for the expenditure of the energy of individuals and organizations, it would not have been possible to claim members of and contracts with nineteen organizations in this establishment. For a few years, or since the organization of the jewelry workers, the company had been buying such parts as came under the jurisdiction of the jewelry workers from what was practically the only concern originally using the double acorn stamp. Gradually it dawned upon the jewelry workers that the greater proportion of work which could bear the label of their organization was being sold by the Whitehead & Hoag Company, who, previous to the organization of the jewelry workers, had used the label of the metal polishers.

The products of the Whitehead & Hoag Company are circulated over most of the known world. It looked to the jewelry workers like a chance to get universal advertising at a minimum cost, and forthwith the jewelry workers proceeded to have declared unfair that factory in which they had originally placed their label, and from which the Whitehead & Hoag Company purchased the prod uct bearing the double acorn.

Believing in consistency, the company refused to deal with the concern again until such time as the double acorn stamp was returned to them, and made overtures to the jewelry workers looking to the organization of another department in their factory. The business agent of the jewelry workers laid their contract before the management. Between them it was practically agreed that the terms of the contract were not onerous, and that it would be advantageous to both parties to enter into an agreement. But it was not until the agree ment was practically reached that inquiry was made by the business agent as to the nature of work done in the Whitehead & Hoag Company's plant. Then it was discovered that the contract was specific in its terms and considered a class of work with which the Whitehead & Hoag Company had nothing to do, or was of so little consequence that the company considered it unprofitable to establish a department for the small quantity which their business required. Not to be outdone, the jewelry workers then demanded they be given the work covered by the metal polishers and two or three other trades in their contracts, but to this the company would not listen, nor would the organizations affected, because it meant the wiping out of a label which had already cost much time and money to establish.

The metal polishers attempted to reach an agreement with the jewelry workers, granting to them certain portions of the work, but the jewelry

workers would not listen to the scheme, demanding all or none. The matter went to the American Federation of Labor, and jurisdictional lines were established. Still there is a hesitancy-the label of the metal polishers must be destroyed; the work of years must go for naught. In building up one organization another must be ruined. And they call this unionism.

In the interim the nineteen organizations employed in the factory of the Whitehead & Hoag Company are being declared unfair-the firm of Whitehead & Hoag is being declared unfair, and all for an unprincipled principle. The contracts with the nineteen organizations will be preserved inviolate. Another contract will be entered into by the firm whenever the jewelry workers are able and willing to abide by the terms of their own contract. Until such time it is probable that the unpleasant squabble must continue, and the jewelry workers will continue to attempt to thwart business going to the Whitehead & Hoag Company. T. C. PRICE, Chairman Label Committee Typographical Union No. 103.

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.

When visitors to the San Francisco convention in August purchase their tickets at all points east of the Missouri river they should have them read "via Colorado Springs." On through tickets no extra expense will be incurred. No. 82 will extend the "glad hand" to all who come this way on their trip to the Golden Gate. The Chicago and St. Louis specials have planned to stop over here for a day, and it is expected that many more will avail themselves of the opportunity of paying the Home city a short visit. To view South Cheyenne canyon and its famous Seven Falls is alone worth a journey across the continent. It was in this romantic locality that Helen Hunt Jackson, the poet and biographer of the Cheyenne tribe of Indians, found the inspiration to compose many of her beautiful poems. It was here, while seeking to restore her shattered health, that she completed the novel "Ramona," one of her best known works. She died in 1885, and at her request was laid to rest near Point Inspiration. It was her wish that those visiting her grave should deposit two stones on the heap that forms her monument and take one away as a souvenir. In many sections of the United States may be viewed falls of rare beauty and charm, but Seven Falls, in South Cheyenne canyon, Colorado Springs, possess all of the beauty, romanticism and awe-inspiring grandeur that Mother Nature could bestow on humankind. South Cheyenne canyon is by all odds the "grandest one mile in Colorado."

A visitor to Colorado Springs during the past month was J. B. Stanford, of "Big Six." After viewing the Home and visiting friends here, he resumed his journey to Salt Lake City, where he expects to make his future home.

The troubles of the Waterman Press of this city came to an end recently, when it was an

nounced that the business and effects had passed into the hands of E. H. Joslyn, proprietor of the Joslyn Typesetting Company, who was its heaviest creditor. Mr. Joslyn is not planning to operate the plant himself, but may lease or sell it. A. B. Waterman, the former owner, is now located at Hot Springs, Ark.

New York and Boston printers will learn with sorrow of the death of "Matty" King, which oc curred at the Home hospital annex in the early part of March. The cause of his demise was tubercular trouble. "Matty" was well known in New York city, and for a number of years was active in the affairs of No. 6. During recent years he was employed on the Boston newspapers, and he was a resident of that city when the illness overtook him which terminated in his untimely passing away. He was a whole-souled, companionable fellow, who possessed many sterling qualities. He was, above all, a thorough union man, who was 'at all times willing to sacrifice himself to the cause of unionism. The organization can ill afford to lose such men as "Matty" King. His remains were forwarded to relatives in New York city for interment.

For the first time in the twenty-five years of its organization, the United Typothetæ of America has selected a western city for its annual convention. Secretary Heath recently announced that Denver has been chosen as the meeting place for the convention to be held during the first week of July. Hitherto the farthest west this organization has met was Kansas City.

Many interesting stories have been told about the fortunes made over night in Cripple Creek, Colo., during the early nineties. Adventurers, prospectors, soldiers of fortune, even printers, who were on the ground when the first strike was made, became wealthy in a day-and lost their chances for riches through a passion for gambling or by disposing of their mining claims before the same were developed. Some secured real estate by various means and held on to it, for the simple reason that they could not give it away-then. About the year 1892 there arrived in the gold camp one Louis Selig (ex-delegate to St. Joseph from New York city), who fetched up at the Creek while on a big game hunting and prospecting trip from Colorado Springs. He secured a "sit" on the Times, the piece scale then being 75 cents a thousand. After a few months the paper became financially involved and no money was available to pay the compositors. Louis' string at the end of the fatal week called for $40. The proprietor wanted him to accept $20 and a deed for a lot in what is now the center of town. Would he accept those terms and call it square? Louis would not. Said he needed the money. The newspaper man held on to the piece of propertyhe could not do otherwise. One year later that same lot sold for $75,000 cash to the Cripple Creek National Bank. Selig arrived at the Home from New York on March 29, and his many friends throughout the country will be gratified to learn that he is making steady progress toward a restoration to his former health. S. O'DONNELL.

from designs executed by Clarence H. Howell, foreman of the composing room. Space will not permit a detailed description of all the good points in this composing room; suffice it to say that everything is the best, including the lavatory, which contains ten hot and cold water washstands and two shower baths, and the other appurtenances in keeping.

The members of the chapel, in order to demonstrate their appreciation of the fine composing room furnished them by the Press company, sprang a surprise on Col. Oliver S. Hershman, president of the company and publisher of the Press, by presenting him with a loving cup. Mr. Hershman was invited to the composing room, and when he entered, 150 men, all of whom were in their shirt sleeves, stood before him. The pleasant expression on their faces indicated the spirit which had prompted them to arrange a surprise for their employer as their method of returning thanks for the convenience provided in the new workroom. What little ceremony there was connected with the presentation was opened by Richard Ross, chairman of the Press chapel, who greeted the colonel and his escorts. Upon mounting the platform, Colonel Hershman was greeted by Eugene Merz, who expressed the reasons prompting the employes to call the president of the company before them.

Deeply moved by the presentation, Colonel Hershman accepted the gift from Mr. Merz, and in response to shouts from the audience bowed his acknowledgment before making a few remarks.

Cheers, congratulations, words of admiration for the handsome cup, and an examination of the inscription on it followed. Engraved on the cup are these words:

Presented to
Col. O. S. Hershman
by the

Employes of The Pittsburg Press
Composing Department
March 28, 1911

In another half minute power was turned on and the great machinery was once again in motion. The men returned to their tasks with renewed zeal, while Colonel Hershman, deeply moved by the realization of the significance of the silver emblem, typifying the innermost relation of employer and employe, bore the gift to his private office.

The members of the Pittsburg Typographical Athletic Association are very much encouraged at the progress that has been made by that organization and expect to be in their new clubhouse by May 1. From the reports given out by the chairman of the board of directors, C. Will Koch, they will soon have a home to be proud of. The plans are to have a parlor, reading room, writing room, two pool tables, lunch counter, including steam tables, etc., and sideboard. The location selected is central, and as it is within one block of all car lines in the city, it is expected that the boys will get together frequently and enjoy many interesting "sessions." Negotiations have been under way, and it now seems assured that the

printers of the club will have Exposition Park, the old National League ball park, at their disposal two days each week for practice, and a printers' baseball league is being formed. As the association now has about 200 members enrolled, there is a good time in prospect. The club will hold a dance on April 25, the former having been such a social success that all anxiously awaited the music. That this club will be a benefit to No. 7 is assured, as the printers of the city have been coming out of their shells and taking an interest in the union and union affairs.

The Ben Franklin Duckpin League, made up of members of the Gazette Times composing room, enjoyed their second annual banquet April 4. The "feed" was held at the old Keating roadhouse and about forty printers were present. Harry George, with a few introductory remarks, introduced Julius Pichel as toastmaster, who was most happy in his remarks; Mr. French entertained with stories; John Gruber told how it was in the early days; George Applegarth played the piano; Wally Stevens sang a song, and several others tried; George Bradley, of the Dispatch, apologized for defeating the Gazette team, and C. Will Koch explained the aims and objects of the new printers' club. The breakfast was enjoyed and each member promised to be on hand at the next banquet. These little festivities are a good thing, bringing the union men together in a social way and welding tighter that true bond of fellowship which our organization most needs.

In company with President Newlon, of No. 7, we had the pleasure of attending the Ohio State Conference, held in Cleveland April 9. We also had the pleasure of visiting and witnessing how an up-to-date printers' club is conducted. The conference was well attended by delegates from all over Ohio, and the reports were encouraging from almost every section. The meeting was entertaining and instructive. The young men who represented the different unions was noticeable, and to these young men, be it said, that their reports were clothed in excellent language, and had the ring of true unionism in every word they uttered. We were impressed with the fact that they are wide awake to the interests of trade unionism and promoters of the union label. The training the young men are receiving in this age all over the country by members who have been in the harness for years will enable them to assume the task and take up the work where the veterans have left off and have passed to their reward.

The members of Cleveland Union are out in a body for the 1912 International Typographical Union convention, and from the expressions of the delegates present at the conference we are led to believe that the whole state of Ohio is going to assist Cleveland in landing the convention. It certainly is an ideal city to hold a convention in. I don't want any one to imagine that I am getting gay and over-enthusiastic about where the convention shall be held, but I do think that every mem ber of No. 7 should be interested in Cleveland as the convention city next year. They want it, and