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THE number of students in the I. T. U. Course in Printing increases with each month. The two-thousand mark has now been reached and passed.

UNDER date of May 10, President Rodgers, of Springfield (Ohio) Union No. 117, writes that the Winters Printing Company' is now working in entire accord with the typographical union, employing four members forty-eight hours per week, instead of fifty-nine hours under the old method.

AN official of the United Typothetæ informed the recent cost congress held at Portland, Ore., that his organization at the present time had fourteen experts on the road installing the cost-finding method. The typothetæ evidently has found that its efforts lie in other directions than those of fighting the printing trade unions. May it have success in its attempt to place the printing industry on a profitable business basis. Co-operation with the unions would be of value.

THE main reason the railroads are fighting the employers' liability act in the United States supreme court is epitomized in the remark of John Mitchell, “that if it would cost the corporations more money to kill workingmen than to protect them, they would not be killed." At present it costs a railroad nothing when one of its men is killed in the performance of his duty if it can be shown that the man's death was due in any degree to the act of any other employe of the same road.

THE union crushers of California are finding that the importation of strikebreakers is rather a costly pastime. The competent workmen, it is said, in many instances, desert on reaching their destination and the incompetent ones are nothing but an expense to their exploiters. The condition desired by "big business" on the coast may be farther in the future than they realize. While the movement for the "open shop" has been a concerted movement, the organized workers also remain solidly united and are stronger than ever.

PRESIDENT THOMAS, of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union, in an interview a few weeks ago, said:

The Western Union has made several important concessions, voluntarily granting nearly all the demands made during the strike of 1907, which the telegraphers lost. The eight-hour workday will go into effect June 1, and wages of the more competent men will be raised from $85 and $95 to $100 a month. The company will also furnish typewriters, which in the past the employes were compelled to pay for.

It has also been intimated that the new management of the Western Union will not object to the operators joining the union, an inhibition which had been in force under the Gould regime.

When buying or subscribing for illustrated or comic weeklies for your family or office table, always remember that Collier's Weekly and Puck actively aid our profession's aims and ideals and that Life keeps up a vicious series of cartoons with accompanying text to abuse our altruistic efforts.

The above paragraph was not clipped from a trade union organ. No, indeed. It was taken from the columns of the Medical World, a non-union monthly magazine published in Philadelphia. But what a shock to the dignity of its highly ornate and erudite readers it must be to be asked to make use of the "vicious and unlawful" boycott!

THE annual convention of the Michigan Federation of Typographical Unions will be held at Flint on June 26 and 27. Preparations have been made by Typographical Union No. 535 to entertain the delegates and visitors, and a guarantee is given that those in attendance will have no regrets in having made the journey. Delegates are expected from nearly every one of the twenty-one local unions in the state.

THE handsome increase in membership and the adding of printing concerns to the union list each month shows that there is much activity among the individual members, and indicates especially that the label campaigns of the local unions are producing enormous results.

HOW WE ARE ADVANCING

THE scale of German Typographia No. 15, of Evansville, Ind., has been increased from $18.60 to $19.20 for the year 1911, and for 1912 the wage will be increased to $19.50 per week.

THE newspaper scale of Muncie Union No. 332 has been increased from $21 to $22 per week for one year, then to $22.50 for two years, and $23 per week for three years. This is for work on morning papers. Day work is $2 per week under the

above ñgures.

SECRETARY SYLVESTER, of Eugene (Ore.) No. 496, in a letter dated May 1, says: "We had the pleasure of signing up the Yaran Printing House today. Contracts I have mailed to President Lynch. They gave us a pretty hard scrap for the last two years, but today we won our battle and Joseph Koke assured us that they would run a union office from this time on."

CONTRACTS with three of the employers of Fond du Lac, Wis., have been secured by Typographical Union No. 31. The pay of ad and job men is increased from $12 to $14 per week; foremen, from $13 to $15, and machinist-operators, from $16 to $17. However, as most of the members already received wages in advance of these figures, the increase in the scale affected but few.

CONTRACTS with all the employers under the jurisdiction of Chicago Swedish Union No. 247 have been renewed, embodying an increase of $1.50 per, week for all employes on handwork. For the next two years the wage will be $22.50 and $24 per week for day and night work, respectively, and for the period between July 1, 1913, and December 31, 1915, $24 and $26.40, making the scale the same as that of No. 16.

WRITING under date of May, 18, Bert G. Brady gives an account of a successful scale negotiation with the publishers of Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario. The scale for linotype work is the first ever made in the two cities named, as until recently the monoline had been used exclusively. The scale was fixed at $23 for day work and $25 for night work, with a bonus of 10 and 11 cents per thousand for day and night, respectively, for all type set over 30,000 in eight hours. The monoline scale was made the same as the floor and ad scale, which will be $19 per week for day work and $21 for night work, for one year, when another dollar will be added to the scale. This is a final increase of $2 per week. The contract was made for the ensuing two years.

GERMAN TYPOGRAPHIA No. 23 has negotiated a new scale with those publishers of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who employ printers of the German branch. Under the contracts, which were negotiated by J. C. Bleaken, of Typographical Union No. 191, the pay of handmen is increased from $18 to $20 a week, the wages of operators to remain $22 a week, with the provision that seven and one-half hours shall be the length of a night's work, a decrease of thirty minutes. All day work is on an eight-hour basis.

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27, Mobile Ala.-Delegate-Jolin J. Russell. Alternate-Sidney D. Ardoyno.

28, Galveston, Texas-Delegate-James P. Walsh. Alternate-John Connelly.

32, Norfolk, Va.-Delegate-Ď. I. Campbell. Alternate-Martin Brogan.

33, Providence, R. I.-Delegate-Percy J. Cantwell. Alternate-Daniel O'Connor.

36, Oakland, Cal.-Delegates-J. S. Daveler, H. A. Kletzker. Alternates-W. T. Drake, M. R. Feeney.

39, Grand Rapids, Mich.-Delegates-John Wygmans. L. C. Shepard.

48, Atlanta, Ga.-Delegates E. S. Mabry, Dan W. Green. Alternates-J. W. Armistead, J. J. Thomason.

49, Denver, Colo.-Delegates-Bert Janes, E. S. Close. Alternates, H. A. Spanogle, F. M. Chilson. 51, Lawrence, Mass. Delegate- Matthew De Grey Ripon. Alternate-Robert S. Malo

ney.

53, Cleveland, Ohio-Delegates-Charles T. Scott, James J. Hoban, A. W. Thomson. Alternates-W. T. Dickinson, William H. Cockett, John M. James.

56, Stockton, Cal.-Delegates-Harry S. Hornage. Alternate-H. N. Doty.

63, Toledo, Ohio-Delegate-William S. Brown. Alternate-Alfred Howell.

65, Washoe (Virginia City)-Delegate-W. P. Harrington. Alternate-Will U. Mackey. 72, Lansing, Mich.-Delegate-David A. Boyd. Alternate-C. Farrington.

73, Ottumwa, Iowa-Delegate-E. G. Johnson.

74, Belleville, Ill.-Delegate-August

Alternate-Julius L. Bach.

Wilhelm.

76, Terre Haute, Ind.-Delegate-James Walsh. Alternate-O. S. McNabb.

77, Erie, Pa.-Delegate-William F. Cook. Alternate-John M. Schabacker.

80, Kansas City, Mo.-Delegates-William

F.

Spang, Ford A. Allen. Alternates-Estus L. Traylor, Robert L. Alexander. 82, Colorado Springs, Colo.-Delegate-W. I. Reilly. Alternate J. E. Cheely.

87, Houston, Texas-Delegates-Charles G. Lee, Victor B. Andrew. Alternates-William E. Merritt, L. F. Bookman.

88, Hannibal, Mo.-Delegate-B. F. Brown. Alternate-R. M. Tayloe.

89, Chattanooga, Tenn.-Delegate-D. M. Jones. Alternate-W. L. Gardner.

92, Little Rock, Ark.-Delegate-Elmer Grant. Alternate Guy H. Bilheimer.

95, Helena, Mont.-Delegate-Charles J. Fisk. 97, Peru, Ind.-Delegate-John Diehl. 101, Washington, D. C.-Delegates-Oscar D. Hy

ler, B. S. Feeney, Edward W. Morcock, Robert W. Summers. Alternates-John E. Keefe, Conrad T. Vogel, Harry E. Springer. 102, Ottawa, Ont.-Delegate-Michael Powell. Alternate-Hugh H. Borthwick. 103, Newark, N. J.-Delegate-Albert T. Clausen. Alternate-Thomas R. Millin, sr. 104, Birmingham, Ala.-Delegates-John E. Bomar, W. R. Bynum. Alternates-G. F. Stewart, E. R. Calhoun.

105, Goldfield, Nev.-Delegate J. H. Appleby. 107, Tri-City-Delegate-John A. Purcell. Älternate-Everet S. Shaffer.

112, Scranton, Pa.--Delegates-Anthony J. Langan, Thomas F. Rafter. Alternates-William G. Nelmes, W. U. S. Gerhart. 115, Salt Lake, Utah-Delegates-John E. Malloy, John C. Krier. Alternates-H. C. W. Smith, Austin Davis.

117, Springfield, Ohio-Delegate-II. H. Morley. 121, Topeka, Kans.-Delegate-John W. Maxwell.

Alternate-Franklin Barnes.

123, Wilmington, Del.-Delegate-John F. O'Donnell. Alternate-Samuel Haworth.

124, Bloomington, Ill.-Delegate Julius II. Reichel. Alternate-Arthur H. Reichel.

126, Butte, Mont.-Delegate-F. E. Cleaves. Alternate-Floyd Bushnell.

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162, Jacksonville, Fla.-Delegate-Edward T. Cusic. Alternate-Charles A. Kelley. 163, Superior, Wis.-Delegate-R. E. McKeague. Alternate-M. H. Morrill.

169, New Albany, Ind.-Delegate-Daly D. Busenbark. Alternate-Joseph G. Ewing. 170, Tacoma, Wash.-Delegates-Grant McMasters, George D. Dunn. Alternates-A. H. Moor, J. H. Browne.

172, San Antonio, Texas-Delegate-Henry M. Tedford. Alternate-Sid Murray. 173, Dallas, Texas-Delegates-W. K. Thomas, Charles Woods. Alternates-H. G. Stephen

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Spokane, Wash.--Delegates-Fred Barker, H. A. Sprague. Alternates-C. Harvey, T. M. Denson. 194, Joliet, Ill.-Delegate-G. R. Bolton. Alternate-C. A. Mills.

201, Victoria, B. C.-Delegate-Robert Hunt. 202, Seattle, Wash.-Delegates-A. F. Moore, E. H. Mitchell. Alternates-Charles A. Gumaer, A. G. Anderson.

203, Council Bluffs, Iowa-Delegate-J. R. Van Horn. Alternate-D. M. Nicoll. 209, Lincoln, Neb.-Delegate-George Brostrom. Alternate-A. L. Compton.

210, Salem, Ore.-Delegate-Budd G. F. Hill. Alternate-W. H. Parker.

215, Decatur, Ill.-Delegate-R. A. Winter. ternate-George B. Garver.

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218, Sioux Falls, S. D.-Delegate-R. M. Salzer. Alternate-E. C. Bertram.

221, San Diego, Cal.-Delegate-Lucius R. Barrow. Alternate-Ferd Rising.

223, Marysville, Cal.-Alternate-E. E. Grover. 231, San Jose, Cal.-Delegate-John J. Craig. Alternate-James Marr.

236, Ogden, Utah-Delegate-W. W. Gillies. Alternate-N. C. Flygare.

242, York, Pa.-Delegate-Hammond E. Pfleiger. Alternate-Clyde E. Mummert.

243, Hutchinson, Kan.-Delegate-Art M. Ward. Alternate-W. L. Hedrick.

251, Muscatine, Iowa-Delegate-Herman

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Charles B.

raun. Alternate-Nathan Hoefflin. 254, Riverside, Cal.-Delegate-E. A. Remley. Alternate Charles E. Begun. 255, Anaconda, Mont.- Delegate Shryock. Alternate-Garry Nugent. 264, Sheridan, Wyo.-Delegate-R. M. Bell. 271, Boise City, Idaho-Delegate-Jesse C. Fleharty.

282, Sterling, Ill.-Delegate-George Phillips. Alternate-Charles Willett.

283, Oklahoma City, Okla.-Delegates--M. J. Williams. W. H. Lacy. Alternates-W. O. Wallace, J. T. Van Houten.

294, Waukegan, Ill.-Delegate-Thomas W. Daniels. Alternate-Peter W. Newhouse. 298, Massillon, Ohio-Delegate-William D. Klein. Alternate-Howard J. Moseley.

299, Tampa, Fla.-Delegate-Herman H. Regener.

Alternate-James M. Mabry.

300, Port Huron, Mich.-Delegate-Ernest H. Taylor. Alternate-F. R. Van Valkenburg. 310, Lowell, Mass.-Delegate-Charles E. Sheldon. Alternate-Fred Whitney.

313, Texarkana, Texas-Delegate-W.

II. von Tiercks. Alternate-Frank McElreath. 324, Racine, Wis.-Delegate-F. A. Parker. Alternate-Clarence G. Field.

332, Muncie, Ind.-Delegate-Wesley C. Pierce. Alternate-Carl F. Robinson.

339, Beaumont, Texas-Delegate-Charles F. Clements. Alternate S. W. Wood.

340, Nelson, B. C.-Delegate-Harry A. Falconer. Alternate-Alex. Mathieson.

348, Girard, Kan.-Delegate-Charles F. Porter. 349, Waterloo, Iowa-Delegate-John J. Fressle. Alternate-W. H. Redington.

350, Joplin, Mo.-Delegate-W. A. Myers. Alternate-Don C. Grafton.

355, Bellingham, Wash.-Delegate-Leroy Simpson, Sr. Alternate-Harry B. Hubbard. 352, Phoenix, Ariz.-Delegate-William B. Gillard. 363, Jackson, Miss.-Delegate-A. J. Seeley. Al

ternate-Franklin Heimbach.

364. Coshocton, Ohio-Delegate-John W. McDowell.

370, El Paso, Texas-Delegate-John G. Waller. Alternate-Harry Blumenthal.

376, Minot, N. D.-Delegate S. C. Sorenson. Alternate H. H. Berg.

382, Coalinga, Cal.-Delegate-D. C. Campbell. Alternate-J. J. Livingston.

389, Vallejo, Cal.-Delegate-F. W. Arnold. Alternate-Robert E. Wade.

390, Pontiac, Ill.-Delegate-Thomas S. Black. 394, Santa Barbara, Cal.-Delegate J. M. Hammond. Alternate-S. M. Robinson. 397, Greensboro, N. C.-Delegate-John B. Clendenin. Alternate-Ellis Speer.

405, Santa Fe, N. M.-Delegate-J. Ascencion Rael. Alternate Melisendro Vigal.

410, Everett, Wash.-Delegate-George E. Riggins. Alternate-Al Pelkey.

439, Bakersfield, Cal.-Delegate-Dun

Alternate-R. C. Hackett.

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444, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Delegate — A. Paris. Alternate-J. M. Collins.

449, Calgary, Alta.-Delegate-R. J. Brown. ternate-H. E. Gibson.

451, Medicine Hat, Alta.-Delegate-James Thomson. Alternates-Byron W. Bellamy. 464, Vinita, Okla.-Delegate-W. D. Spyres. 476, Hastings, Neb.-Delegate-J. E. Nau. nate Sherman Bly.

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484, Muskogee, Okla.-Delegate-E. R. Wolfenberger. Alternate-J. J. Hollingsworth. 490, Shawnee, Okla.-Delegate-E. W. Neibling. Alternate-J. Edward Sedar.

496, Eugene, Ore.-Delegate-Robert S. Huston. Alternate-Claud P. Sylvester. 507, Princeton, N. J.-Delegate-John H. Kane. Alternate-William P. Cox.

512, Pontiac, Mich.-Delegate-Frank W. Smith. Alternate-Max Lemaux.

519, Visalia, Cal.-Delegate-Thomas W. Jones. Alternate-F. L. Mitchell. 521, Palo

Alto, Cal.-Delegate-Frank Kasson. Alternate-W. F. Henry. 523, Tarrytown-Ossining, N. Y.-Delegate-Clinton M. Corless. Alternate-J. J. Reilly. 525, Amarillo, Texas-Delegate-Smith McLeroy. Alternate-Jack Garvin.

528, Corpus Christi, Texas--Delegate-George P. Blevins. Alternate-Milton W. Tinney. 537, Mineral Wells, Texas-Delegate-William C. Cox. Alternate-William P. Cameron. 546, Chicago, Ill. (Polish)-Delegate-Anton Kolodziejski.

547, Kankakee, Ill.-Delegate-Frank J. Schatzle. Alternate-Charles A. Jewett.

565, McAlester, Okla.-Delegate-Melville C. Stevens. Alternate-J. E. Cundiff.

577, Santa Rosa, Cal.-Delegate-W. S. Linsley. Alternate-Perry T. Allison.

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578, Coffeyville, Kan.-Delegate-G. lard. Alternate-Ora C. Banker. 583, Pasadena, Cal.-Delegate-J. Geary Connor. Alternate-Philip G. Gair."

588, St. Augustine, Fla.-Delegate--W. P. Bull. 589, Santa Cruz, Cal.-Delegate-Frank R. Brentlinger.

596, Houghton, Mich.-Delegate-William J. Goggin. Alternate-A. V. Rekofski. 611, Reno, Nev.-Delegate-A. J. Pritchett. ternate-Allen Eldredge.

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616, Tonopah, Nev.-Delegate-C. P. Swinn. Alternate-W. H. Farding.

624, San Mateo, Cal.-Delegate-Arthur V. Swift. Alternate-John E. Harris.

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633, Lawton, Okla.-Delegate-James
mons. Alternate-G. P. Adams.
667, Chico, Cal.-Delegate-A. A. McDonald.
ternate-O. O. Ames.

New Westminster, B. C.-Delegate-J. J.
Randolph. Alternate-H. W. Smith.

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670, Winfield, Kan.-Delegate-C. H. Albert. Alternate-Howard Woolley.

MAILERS.

1, Boston, Mass.-Delegates-Michael Brennan, Henry E. Kiley. Alternates - Daniel O'Brien, Edward J. Smith.

6, New York, N. Y.-Delegates-Daniel J. McCullough, C. J. Daly. Alternates-Richard Binninger, William A. Hickey.

9, Los

Angeles,

F.

Cal.-Delegate-Edward Campbell. Alternate-R. B. McKnight. Newark, N. J.-Delegate-George J. White. Alternate- -Charles O. Shyers.

11, 17, Cincinnati, Ohio-Delegate-Louis Mark. Alternate-Louis H. A. Esselman.

18, San Francisco, Cal.-Delegate-Ferdinand Barbrack. Alternate-Charles Duncombe. 21, Salt Lake City, Utah-Delegate-C. N. Butler. Alternate-George Leonard.

27, Minneapolis, Minn.-Delegate-C. O. Mortensen. Alternate-H. Mortensen.

NEWS WRITERS.

9, Milwaukee, Wis.-Delegate-E d mund T. Melms. Alternate-Chester M. Wright.

UNION labels in foreign countries are not in general use, in fact, very few exist, and in comparison with this country amount to comparatively nothing. But recently the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives in England have adopted a union label to be placed upon the product of its members, wherever agreements with manufacturers can be secured. The emblem to be used is a triangle within a circle, and around the outside edge of the circle are the words "National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives," and on the inside of the triangle, besides the outlines of a shoe, are the words, "Trade Union Labour."

AUSTRALIA, although conspicuous for the political influence exerted by the unions, appears not yet to have arrived at the Utopian mecca. There is now another contest on, one among many, between the cold storage employes' union and the rural workers' union over jurisdiction or "overlapping." The contention arises over the claims by both the cold storage workers' and rural workers' organizations for jurisdiction over the butter factory employes.

THE factory act of Great Britain contains a provision that women and girl employes must be allowed a certain and stipulated time for meals. Recently the dressmakers' union filed complaint against a firm that had disregarded the act in this particular and the defendant was fined 30 shillings in each case.

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION

[This department is conducted by the International Commission on Supplemental Education. Inquiries regarding the International Typographical Union Course in Printing and the work of the commission should be addressed to The International Typographical Union Commission, 632 Sherman street, Chicago, Ill.]

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CULTURAL VALUE OF LETTERING.

As was expected, printers are slow to see the cultural value in free-hand lettering. Those who have had the patience and diligence to take the lessons see the value clearly enough. An Indiana student, who is afflicted with nervousness, poor eyesight and injured fingers, and who can therefore never hope to become a proficient letterer or designer, says: "I admit I am almost a failure at lettering and designing, yet I see the benefit from it even if I never make a design. I understand the letters better, as well as design."

The mechanic who makes the tools with which he works not only has the best knowledge of them, but knows how to obtain the best results from them. So it is with the display compositor. The tools he has to work with are letters; it is his business to use them so that they will produce the best effects and present the most harmonious and beautiful appearance. To do so, he must know the value of letters in their every detail, and the only way to acquire that knowledge is to make letters. This should not be construed as meaning that some men may not get more from looking at letters than others may from making them, for that constitutional difference in perception can not be overcome. What we do say is that the man or woman who finds it difficult to understand letters will be aided materially (and it is the only way he can be benefited) by learning hand-lettering. It naturally follows that the man who is capable of seeing the beauties of a letter at a glance would be greatly benefited by adding acquired knowledge to his native talents.

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testify to the fact that whenever a condition of affairs arose that was detrimental to the union or a menace to its welfare, such problems were met ably, wisely and efficiently. Anything that stood in the road of the prosperity and progress of this gigantic organization has had to get out of the

way.

A generation ago our union was just meeting the problem of coming machine composition. At that time, no doubt, there were standpatters and progressives; standpatters for dirt, drudgery, doom and ignorance, and progressives for cleanliness, light, prosperity and education.

As the result of the broad-minded, far-seeing policy of that distant day, we have in the ma chine men at this time a class of the most efficient and highest-paid workmen in the world, who are the bulwark of strength and the stabilizing influence of our union.

In the past few years the attention of the International Typographical Union has been brought to a growing inefficiency among the membership, occasioned by the rapidly changing conditions attendant upon these progressive times.

Apprentices were becoming members of the union deficient in the experience and knowledge that should be the attributes of a proficient crafts

man.

President Lynch says, "All the means, wise and unwise, that the International Typographical Union may adopt can not save the union from the effects of inefficiency."

Scales based solely and simply on perfection of organization alone cause a soreness among employers who have to put up with the careless and indifferent workers. On the other hand, scales based upon a high average efficiency of union workers can not be undermined except by a universal industrial upheaval.

When the idea of an increased scale enters into a printer's head, he should first ask himself this question, "What have I, as an individual, done to increase the efficiency of the union workers as a whole?"

In order to overcome the decaying influence of an encroaching inefficiency the International Typographical Union established a Commission on Supplemental Trade Education. This commission has placed before us a course of technical instruction that can not fail to benefit any printer of ordinary diligence. This course does not attempt to make printers of laymen, but it does teach the how and the why, and the right and the wrong of typography; it points the road to a broader, better and clearer comprehension of our craft.

It spite of doubts and deprecations, its results have been surpassingly gratifying.

The institution of this scheme is the best move ever fostered and supported by the International. It is the best proposition ever offered by our great organization for the benefit and profit of the membership.

In a few years, when the influence of this work is more insistently apparent, it will return to the pockets of the membership more than the Home or the old age pension ever will, or ever cost.

It will create a class of craftsmen who will be a credit to themselves, a credit to the union, a credit to the trade, and a source of everlasting satisfaction to our employers, workmen more than worthy of their hire-and in these men our union will find its strength, its safety, and its power.

Such is the laudable aim of the commission, and its worthy work deserves the hearty and united support of each and every one of our 56,000 members.

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