conventioner and the vacationist is to be found in abundance.

And what else have we in Cleveland? Well, we have

More home owners and less landlordism per capita than any city of similar size. No tenement districts, so common to great centers of population, where the poor and dependent are huddled and herded together in insanitary quarters.

Over 80,000 public and parochial school pupils, with public playgrounds for all of them, to be used and enjoyed during vacation time as well as during school terms.

More than 100 municipal baseball diamonds, 'maintained by and under the supervision of the city, where only amateur games may be played.

The original and simon-pure "golden rule" police force, under direction of Police Chief Fred Kohler, who, with the late Mayor Tom L. Johnson, worked out a humane scheme of dealing with petty offenders, and used as a basis the idea of correction rather than punishment. Public bathhouses and laundries, where those not provided with such conveniences in the home may avail themselves of the comforts of ablution and may bring their family washings-free as the air you breathe.

Oh, yes, and the only metropolitan 3-cent street car system in the land. The company is a consolidated one-embraces all the lines in the cityand transfers are universal, at a cost of 1 cent. So that any line in the city may charge but 3 cents from its terminus to the public square, or vice versa, with but I cent additional for transfer to any other city point. And thus, what formerly was a 6 and in some cases a 10-cent fare, has been reduced to a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 4

cents.

All of which should prove that we are a live bunch, connected with a bunch of live wires, and we want the livest bunch of all the wires, the grand old International Typographical Union, to visit us next year.

"Cleveland-in the center of everywhere-1912."

During the past month eight new members affiliated with No. 53; also three probationary members (apprentices in their fourth year). Under the new scheme of organization the membership is steadily increasing, and prospects for the future are bright.

Work in both the newspaper and book and job branches has been exceptionally good this spring, and "hurdling" has been the rule for several weeks past. The latchstring is out for a number of ambitious printorial artists at this writing, in either branch of the trade, as conditions seem to warrant a continuance of activity all along the line.

The election of delegates to the San Francisco convention resulted in the selection of Charles T. Scott, James J. Hoban and A. W. Thomson, and this trio is looked for to do some lively campaigning for Cleveland-1912 at the Golden Gate session. All our delegates are well known throughout the International jurisdiction, and will be both seen and heard at 'Frisco on the proposition of selecting the next convention city. They're off!

The Cleveland Leader moved into temporary

quarters in the Wilshire building on May 16, to remain there pending erection of a new and modern fourteen-story building at Superior avenue and East Sixth street. Any one who has participated in the moving of a daily newspaper plant can ap preciate what vexations and discomforts attended tle operation. We are informed by "Jimmy" James that Superintendent George Somarindyck and Foreman Ed Bessette indulged in a continuous "skirt dance," and "Jimmy" himself, unable to find his favorite headletter, changed the style of headlines for one issue. "Jimmy" said the longshoremen on the moving job stood all the head cases on end-and asked, "Where do they get that at?"

The printers' club is experiencing a steady growth, a dozen new members being taken in during the past month. Committees will soon complete arrangements for the usual summer outings, clambakes, moonlight lake rides, etc. By the time the 1912 International Typographical Union session convenes the club will be located in much larger quarters, according to present plans of the officers, and "open house" will be the order of convention week. So pull hard for Cleveland-1912. FRANK H. SEFFING.

SCRANTON, PA.

At the annual election of No. 112 for delegates to the International convention at San Francisco, A. J. Langan and Thomas Rafter were the successful candidates. The meeting of the union was the largest in attendance of any ever held in Scranton-149 members voting out of a total membership of 173, your humble servant being third and W. G. Nelmes fourth in the ranks. While I felt disappointed in not being one of the successful candidates, I heartily congratulate my worthy friends, and will come back next year to win a few more friends to my way of thinking and voting. Yours for 1912.

Congressman John R. Farr came on from Washington to cast his vote for officers of No. 112. Unionism, republicanism and progressiveness are three dominant principles that our printer-congressman holds dear to his heart.

Peter Haas, printer, city councilman and allround good fellow, has announced that he will be a candidate for county commissioner this fall. Let's keep on electing union men in Lackawanna county, and then we can claim a 100 per cent union in our county officers; we have nearly 50 per cent now.

In mentioning our member in congress, the Hon. John R. Farr, who represents the Tenth Pennsyl vania district, reminds us that our union congressmen will have something to do to combat a bill that has been introduced which provides that, in the event of a strike of any magnitude, the documents and records of any international labor organization shall be subject to an investigation of an arbitration tribunal. A bill of this kind is both mischievous and unnecessary. It tries to impose conditions and limitations that, if enforced with the rigidity that the terms of this bill

imply, would drive the trade unions out of existence as organic institutions. It would be instrumental in widening the breach between capital and labor, which is already wide enough. Organized labor is strong enough to defeat any legislation of this character, but our congressmen must be up and doing lest the demon deprives us of what little liberty we have left. This bill assumes what was assumed a hundred years ago in England, that a labor organization is a conspiracy, and that it should be regarded as such. The bill Congressman Foss has introduced is not a step in advance, but a double step backward. Also let us not forget to tell John Kirby, jr., that should the legislation that he so much desires be placed on the statutes, that his manufacturers' association would be in the same category (if our union members will allow the comparison), because our constitution allows no class legislation, and all so-called labor combinations, or other combinations, as associations, would have to abide by the same law. Why has not labor as . good a right to combine for the betterment of its trade conditions as the manufacturers' or any other association? Have not we the right to say as much as they that a certain amount shall be paid for our product? The manufacturers

say you must pay so much for their product or else you can't have it. The mercantile association tells the retailer that he must pay a certain sum for his goods; and not only that, he must sell them at a certain price, or he will be boy. cotted and no more goods go into that store. Think it over, and do not lose sight of the fact that all combinations have an aim to better conditions for the certain classes that they represent; so don't try to legislate any one of them out of existence, for if you do the goblins will get you.

Charles H. Hummell is now foreman at the Eureka Specialty Company, E. H. Dove having resigned to go into business for himself.

W. U. S. GERHART.

ST. JOSEPH, MO.

After an exciting contest, F. G. Sprague, foreman of the News-Press composing room, and J. M. Arthur, employed at the Combe Printing Company, were elected delegates to the San Francisco convention. Each of the two delegates will receive $150 to cover railroad transportation and other expenses. The delegates from St. Joseph will be accompanied by a party of printers and their wives, and expect to make the trip in a special sleeper.

At the meeting of Woman's Auxiliary No. 6 Mrs. Ace Porter was elected delegate to the convention of the Interantional Auxiliary. Mrs. Porter is the young lady who raffled off the diamond ring at the St. Joseph convention, Charles Bastian, of York, Pa., being the lucky man who carried the ring home.

All those who intend making the trip to San Francisco from the east and north should have their tickets routed via St. Louis, Mo., as No. 8 will entertain for five hours; then on leaving St.

Louis and arriving in Kansas City, after breakfasting, an automobile ride over Kansas City by No. 80 will be tendered the visitors. The special will then come to St. Joseph, Mo., where five hours will be spent, and No. 40 will see that no man, woman or child will go away without saying that they had the time of their lives. The railroad people have assured the committees of all three cities that they will do all in their power to make this the banner convention trip, and every one can rest assured what they say will be carried out to the letter. Watch for itinerary from the different secretaries having the special train in charge. J. E. MURPHY.

BUTTE, MONT.

The election held May 17 resulted in the choosing of F. E. Cleaves as delegate to San Francisco. "Tige" Lyons is back in town after a few months spent in a tour of the northwest and Pacific coast cities. Tommy Walsh has finished his apprenticeship on the machines and has left for the west. The Butte Socialist is a weekly paper that has appeared since the recent socialist activity. J. A. Lewis and F. Baird, operators, from Spokane, were in Butte a few days the past month. Joe Delaney has folded his tent and silently stolen away. Hy Schneider, of Missoula, spent a few days in Butte the past month. Work in Butte is about the average, with plenty of extra men. FLOYD BUSHNELL.

PITTSBURG, PA.

The contest in the closing hours of the campaign for officers of No. 7 centered on the office of president, and every inch of the ground was thoroughly canvassed by each of the candidates and their friends. W. G. Newlon, the present incumbent, was opposed by Peter A. Grimes. The largest vote in the history of No. 7 was cast586 being the exact number. The result of the count showed Newlon to, have received 321 votes, and Grimes 258. Delegates to the International convention are Joseph M. Modispacher, Elijah J. Adams and Thomas O. Stuart. The Salt Lake proposition: For, 279; against, 172.

The election being over, let us one and all get together and labor for the unionizing of the book and job branch. If half the energy is exerted by the members who took such an active part in the election of their favorites for local officers, and used with the same vim and vigor to bring into the union ranks the non-union printers, there will be nothing to it but victory for us all.

We hope the delegates-elect will vote to take the International convention to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. Let us have a "Pittsburg day" in Cleveland in the year of our Lord, 1912, and take our wives, sisters and sweethearts over to the city on the lake and have one grand and glorious time. CHARLES Q. LAFFERTY.

You may call that your own which no one can take from you.-Dutch.

PORTLAND, ORE.

On the first of May Multnomah Union had 355 members in good standing, an increase of over fifty in the year. This is more men than the town can well carry over the dull summer season, but many of the tourists are planning for an exodus, so matters will right themselves. The open-shop sentiment has died out among the employers to a great extent, from surface conditions. There is every endeavor being made on the part of the union and some of the employers to preserve amicable relations, and undoubtedly these efforts will be entirely successful.

W. A. MARSHALL Multnomah (Portland, Ore.) Union No. 58

Some good organization work at Eugene resulted in the signing of two shops, a newspaper and a job office. These men had proven decidedly averse to changing conditions in their plants, but were finally convinced that their course was the logical one to pursue.

That the coast-wide fight of the employers' association to inaugurate the open shop is bearing fruit in many ways, is indicated in the results of the recent primary nominating election held in Portland, to decide on candidates to be placed before the voters at the June election. An organization of workingmen of the water-front trades especially, and joined by representatives from other unions, made a whirlwind campaign under the management of W. H. Fitzgerald, a cigar

maker, and elected five of the six endorsed candidates. Of the six men endorsed, four carry union cards. One of these, however, was the unsuccessful one. Two of the members of this union, Will Daly and R. B. White, candidates for councilmen, proved good people to back, for they both "landed" and will have the delightful pleasure of fighting their way through the general election in June. Outside of the gratification of having won, this thought is the one which makes the man with the best interests of the labor movement at heart rejoice. Organized labor has at last become aroused to the potential energy of its ballot and proposes now to make it active; that it can lay aside the little differences, the sin that doth so easily beset us, and join in a cause that will mean the practical alleviation from most of the distressing things that hinder the progress of the toilers.

There was genuine pleasure and regret mingled as Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Hays boarded his train after a two days' stay in Portland. Pleasure expressed by Mr. Hays, and regret from the committee that he could not longer partake of the hospitality of the Rose City. A launch ride on the Willamette, an automobile ride over the splendid roads in the vicinity of Portland, a supper at the Oregon Hotel, at which representatives of the job employers were present, and a smoker for the membership were the principal events crowded into the first day. Some whirl, too, with all the interviews to be attended to. The next morning, after a few preliminaries, such as quenching Percy Coburn's thirst-he is our president and rendered a ballad the night before at the smoker which accounted for the tickling-the committee ensconced Mr. Hays into an auto for a trip to Willamette falls. At the falls a trip was taken through one of the paper mills and a guide was detailed to explain the mysteries of that art to the men who were, in a large measure, the users of a large part of the product. A luncheon and a short rest prepared Mr. Hays for his long trip south.

At the May meeting a prize of $10 was offered the printer submitting the most artistic ad for Portland's page in the San Francisco convention souvenir. The members of the committee having charge of the contest and preparation of the copy are J. J. Price, Arthur Purdy and C. R. Miller. A number have already signified their intentions of participating.

Sunday, May 14, a number of the boys, under the leadership of President Coburn, built two tenthouses for B. C. Hendey and his wife. Hendey has been sick for some time from tuberculosis, and was being assisted by No. 58. A quantity of material was placed on a lot belonging to Mr. Hendey, and early in the morning, while the majority of us slept, the birds were frightened from their nests in the firs by the sound of hammers and saws wielded by admen and operators, and by nightfall a sleeping tent and a two-room house for Mrs. Hendey were completed ready for occupancy. The men, who are so bashful about their connection with this splendid example of brotherly love, are: O. E. Clark, George Howell, George Weiss, Percy

Coburn, Lon De Yarmond, Clayton Leitzel, F. W. Bowen, Ed. Martin, E. E. Southard, E. A. Cochran and C. R. Alexander.

A. W. Lawrence and George H. Howell will represent No. 58 at the San Francisco convention.

No. 58 sends a most worthy member to the Home this month. The application of James McLaughlin was acted upon favorably by the Home board, and May 12 he left for Colorado Springs.

In the matter of the projected newspaper and job machine scales, it was decided by the employers and the committee representing this union to waive the local arbitration proceedings and send the matter directly to the National Board of Arbitration. The scale for the job operators is continued as at present, pending the award of the board. The feeling is very strong among the membership in general that the wage scale asked is only fair and should be secured, if the board will take into consideration the cost of living and the distances required to travel, either in coming to a job or to be traversed in case work is slack. A man will content himself with two or three days a week in order to subsist rather than make the necessary outlay for traveling expenses in seeking employment elsewhere. All in all, it looks bright for the future of the promulgated scale.

A. W. LAWRENCE.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.

Announcement that a weekly paper devoted to labor interests is soon to be published in Providence calls to mind a daily paper published by Providence Typographical Union in 1889. The Evening Call was issued to give employment to and in the interest of members of No. 33 who had been locked out by the management of the Evening Telegram. The labor trouble which culminated in the lockout arose from a refusal by the Telegram management to abide by and pay a scale, already once amended at its request, to which it had agreed. First indications of the warfare to come were the introduction in the composing room of a gang of non-union printers, objectional because they were non-union, and more so because they were members of and affiliated with the P. P. F., then an organization numbering some 400, with active branches in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Louisville and New York. Strategists among the union members foresaw the inevitable purpose of the coming of the non-unionists; moreover, members of the International Union could not work with P. P. F's. When the union members left the office the Telegram management attempted to disarm criticism by picturing the trouble as arising from a disagreement between rival organizations in the printing trade; but union after union denounced the paper. Attempts to coerce union members by arrest in libel proceedings likewise failed to produce results. The Call continued to prosper under union management for some eight months, until conditions had reached a more even course, and was subsequently published for a short period under other auspices. The trouble

at the Telegram continued for several years, but the paper was subsequently the first in Providence to sign a contract with the union for an exclusively union shop, marking a new era in newspaper printerdom in Providence. In 1906 the Telegram was succeeded by the Tribune, a new management changing the name. In 1885 a weekly labor paper called the People was issued by a company headed by Hon. E. C. Pierce, now a lawyer and a senator in the general assembly representing Cranston, and Robert Grieve, also now a lawyer, then a printer. George Farnell, now one of the best-known court reporters in the east, was reporter; Joseph C. Barker, well known to printers along the Atlantic coast, was foreman, and Henry N. Burrett, a very popular member of No. 33, and for some years its treasurer, was apprentice. The People at first achieved a wide circulation, but financial difficulties snuffed its life out in 1888. Other labor papers in Providence have been the Labor Tribune, published by F. E. Corkel from September, 1886, to August, 1888; Justice, published by the Central Labor Union from September to December, 1893, and subsequently by George E. Boomer, then a member of No. 33 and now an editor on the Pacific coast, from April, 1894, to November, 1895. Recently the Union Worker, a monthly paper devoted to "the interests of labor," has been issued by Clarence E. Spooner, who is not directly connected with organized labor. In a city so large as Providence, where organized labor promises to become an important factor in municipal affairs, there certainly is a field for a conservatively managed labor paper.

Although the referendum on the salary proposition submitted by the last convention was decisively negative, the San Francisco convention has a duty to perform in this respect. Few members attempt to argue that the salaries paid the president and secretary-treasurer of the International Typographical Union at the present time are not too small when viewed from the basis of actual compensation for the effort demanded and the services rendered. The increase proposed by the Minneapolis convention was fair, although it probably seemed to many members a big advance. Had this "demand" gone to arbitration there is little question that an increase would have been granted. The San Francisco convention should submit a conservative salary increase, as nearly adequate as possible, but still not so large as to arouse hostility among the "tightwads."

Agreements with the union job offices expire January 1, 1912. The present scale, $17, will then have been in effect one year. With higher book and job scales in several smaller cities in the district-notably Hartford, Worcester, New Bedford, Brockton and New Haven-there is no doubt that Providence job printers should receive an increase. It is not too early to begin negotiations now. The last increase was contracted for eight months in advance; and a beginning now would give the employing printers ample time to prepare for an increase when the present contracts expire. What is needed is an awakening