victims of the spleen of the unspeakable Otis and his crew.

Ed

Representatives from the Brooklyn Central Labor Union, the Manhattan Central Federated Union, with which No. 6 is affiliated; the Bronx Labor Council, the United Hebrew Trades, the Building Trades Council, the Women's Trade Union League and the American Federation of Labor, organized on May 10 the "McNamara Defense Fund Committee of Greater New York and Vicinity," the purpose of which is to raise funds to aid in the defense of the McNamaras at Los Angeles. ward Mead, of the steamfitters, was chairman and Ernest Bohm, of the central federated union, was secretary. Morris Braun was made treasurer. A committee to outline a program is James P. Boyle, of the Brooklyn Central Labor Union; Ernest Bohm, of the Manhattan Central Federated Union; M. Weinstein, of the United Hebrew Trades; John Snyder, of the Building Trades Council; E. Freund, of the Bronx Labor Council, and Miss Alice Bean, of the Women's Trade Union League. A similar conference is being organized by the socialist organizations of the city.

Congressman Sulzer, of New York, has introduced in the house a bill to create a department of labor, whose secretary shall be a member of the cabinet. He is to have three assistant secretaries, the first to supervise manufacturing and transportation, the second mining and agriculture, and the third building and mercantile industries. It provides "that the secretary of the department of labor shall have the power to appoint boards of arbitration and conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done. The measure You can let your congressmen of the bill by spending a 2-cent

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The lovers of the exhilarating game of golf have organized a newspaper golf club. The membership is drawn from all branches of newspaper work. ers-editors, special writers, journalists, illustrators, artists and workers in all the practical branches and this creates a degree of bonhomie which could hardly be achieved in any other way, the "nineteenth hole" being specially efficient to that end. The officers are: President, G. L. Cooper; vice-president, R. F. Foster; secretary, F. L. Hawthorne; treasurer, J. W. Ferguson; captain, H. B. Martin; lieutenant, John G. Logan; board of di rectors of fifteen, H. A. Haines (chairman), W. J. Tait (secretary); executive committee of three; tournament committee of five, F. T. Pope (chairman), James Hennings (secretary). A team of newspaper men of Boston has been invited for a match with the New York club early in the season, and a return match may be played in the fall. From this it is hoped may develop an intercity golf league such as now exists among newspaper basehall men. The winner and runner-up in each sixteen and the winner of an eight (if any) receive a prize in each monthly tournament, and the same persons by such play qualify for the Cooper cup competition late in the fall. This emblem is a splendid trophy valued at about $100.

William McDonald, the good Samaritan of Blackwell's Island, wishes me to acknowledge receipt of a large bundle of magazines from T. H. Tweeddale, of Philadelphia. I know of no field of activity in which such small effort contributes so much to the sum of human joy.

A conference on the church and the union label was held on May 12, under the auspices of the label committee of the Women's Trade Union League of New York. Among the speakers were the Rev. Howard Melish, of the Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn; Rev. John P. Peters; Rabbi Wise, of the Free Synagogue; Father White, superintendent of the Catholic Charities; Rev. Dr. Holmes, of the Church of the Messiah. Organized labor was represented by Hugh Frayne, organizer American Federation of Labor; Peter Brady, secretary allied printing trades council, and Miss Elizabeth Dutcher, chairman of the label committee of the Women's Trade Union League. After exhaustive discussion, during which the reverend gentlemen were rather placed on the defensive on the past attitude of the church in general toward organized labor, the following preamble and resolu tion, offered by the label committee of the women, was unanimously adopted:

Whereas, The condition of the working class in this city is admittedly deplorable, 45 per cent of the heads of families receiving less than $624 a year, while the Charity Organization Society and the Child Welfare Committee have, after careful investigation, determined that it is impossible to maintain efficiency for a family of five persons on less than $900 a year; and,

Whereas, There are men and women working in this city and throughout the nation in many instances seven days a week and in others from twelve to fourteen hours a day, for the bare necessities of life; and,

Whereas, The inevitable effects of such poorly recompensed labor are, under modern conditions in industry, poor food, bad housing, disease, and crime in this generation, and an exhausted vitality for the generations to come; and,

Whereas, These effects work widespread demoralization and the lowering of the standard of spiritual life in the nation; and,

Whereas, The union label as adopted by organized labor in this country, is a trade-mark, pasted, stamped, sewn or riveted on the product by the workers themselves to show that the product was made under regulations mutually agreed upon by the employer and the trade union in each industry, the regulations varying in different crafts, but all tending toward: (1) Organization of the shop in which the label product was made, so that the individual bargain is superseded by the collective bargain. (2) The living wage. (3) The eighthour day. (4) The sanitary shop and enforcement of the law; and,

(2)

Whereas, The union label is a legal, peaceful, and concrete step toward social adjustment, presupposing a trade agreement, fair to both employe and manufacturer, and of benefit to the manufacturer: (1) Through standardizing the trade and diminishing unfair competition. Through bringing about a co-operative spirit between employer and employe. (3) As a means to advertising the product. Therefore, be it Resolved, That the undersigned, recognizing that the practical endorsement of the label affords a unique opportunity to the outsider interested in social problems to register his convictions and do his part toward preventing poverty and furthering industrial peace, do so endorse the union label and recommend the purchasing of such labeled articles by the public at large.

The Women's Trade Union League has had re

turns from 223 shops in answer to the list of questions, printed in this column last month, which they sent out to get statistics on which to base demand for legislation to secure protection against fire. In these 223 shops ninety-five have windows barred and nailed; sixty-eight have doors locked; sixtyeight have doors opening in; one has no doors; fifty-nine have no fire escapes; 121 have one fire escape; fifteen have two fire escapes; one has six fire escapes; in one factory the workers are not allowed to try to find out if there are any fire escapes; one has three fire escapes; one has one on every floor; 106 have obstructed fire escapes; two have occasional obstructed fire escapes; one has a barred fire escape; 128 have dark stairways; 103 have one wooden stairway; twenty-eight one stone stairway; eight one iron stairway; one one concrete stairway; one has one iron and stone stairway; twenty-two have two wooden stairways; twenty-six two stone stairways; five two iron stairways; one has four wooden stairways; one has three wooden stairways; one three iron and stone stairways, and one three stone stairways.

The report of the state labor commissioner for the last quarter of 1910 shows an advance in wages over the same period in 1909, though the earnings of part-time workers during July, August and September were less than in 1909. The strikes and lockouts during the third quarter were fiftysix, as against fifty-three in 1909, but the number involved and time lost surpassed all records. The greatest number involved in 1910 were the cloakmakers, who comprised 60 per cent and lost 80 per cent of the time. In the last quarter the strikes numbered fifty-seven, as against forty-three in 1909. In the six months from September to February the state board of mediation and arbitration intervened in thirty-five disputes, compared with thirty-four in 1909-10. The bureau was successful

in bringing about settlements in seven cases; in fourteen they arranged conferences, and in two they butted in before work was stopped at the request of one of the parties. The report makes special mention of the success of the principle of collective bargaining in the case of the increase of the book and job scale by No. 6.

FRED E. MARTIN.

DENVER, COLO.

Denver Typographical Union Athletic Association has secured commodious new quarters in the Walbrach block, corner Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. Four rooms have been fitted up to meet the demands of the members, consisting of reception parlor, athletic and exercise room, cardroom, and general refreshment room. R. M. Hartley, of the News chapel, is president of the association and is striving hard to build up the membership, which now totals about 125 members. The association gave a reception to invited guests the evening of May 9, and the "inner man" was served with such dainties as he favored most. The association is arranging to go east in the late summer with its baseball squad and make further efforts to capture the prize offered in the baseball tournament.

Henry Anger, a former member of No. 49, but for the past five years a resident of Seattle, Wash., has a clever "write-up" in the May number of the Inland Printer.

William Fornhoff was called to Chicago by telegram, May 7, on account of the death of his aged mother, she having passed the three-scoreand-ten mark some time since. Mr. Fornhoff was compelled to cancel his candidacy for delegate to San Francisco.

L. C. Herrington (commonly known as "Captain"), of Nashville, Tenn., arrived in Denver about a month ago and is engaged at the Smith-Brooks chapel. Mr. Herrington was delegate from Nashville to the Minneapolis convention; was president of the central labor council in the southern metropolis, as well as vice-president of Nashville Typographical Union No. 20. He is well pleased with Denver's climate and majestic mountains.

Cliff Ackley is another recent arrival to swell the ranks of No. 49. He hails from Kansas City, and is mingling with the boys in the Carson-Harper chapel. He was in our city a few years ago for a season, but returned to his former abiding place "to be shown" the ins and outs of the medical profession, he having taken a course in a medical college at Kansas City. He will probably remain here until next fall.

Election results: President, King 205, Stitt 185; vice-president, Hedley 175, Crawford 143, Chapman 64; delegates, Janes 231, Close 219, Parker 189, Miss Fincher 90, Baily 30.

John Williamson, employed on the Daily News, recently returned from a few months' stay in Nevada. He reports business exceptionally good in mining circles in that state.

Fred J. Sease made application at the May meeting of our union to enter the Home at Colorado Springs. A special committee reported favorably upon his application.

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The old adage that "man proposes and God disposes" has been strikingly emphasized in printing circles in this city in the removal from midst by death, on May 13, of the genial personage of George W. Brooks, secretary-treasurer of the Smith-Brooks Printing Company. Another worker in the ranks of No. 49 in the early '80s has "passed within the vale," and we enroll his name upon the scroll of the "good and true." Mr. Brooks was born in Newark, N. J., in 1855. He came to Denver in 1878, and affiliated with Denver Union No. 49. In 1882 he married Miss Fannie Warner, of Ohio. He was an energetic worker for No. 49, and was our efficient secretary-treasurer in 1889. In 1890 he associated himself with O. L. Smith, purchased the News job plant, and with this nucleus incorporated the Smith-Brooks Printing Company. He has always been a good friend to the printers of Denver, and has led the way for the jobmen to secure a living scale of wages whenever a conference with the employers was asked for. The writer had the pleasure the past year to serve for No. 49 in conference with Mr. Brooks and other employers in adjusting and secur ing the present scale of wages in the job printing department, and he proved as affable, courteous

and reasonable in his relation as employer as in former days when he was an honored official of No. 49. He went to San Diego, Cal., last March to recuperate, and for a while was reported to be improving in health, but heart complications set in and his death was quite sudden. The SmithBrooks Company has been very courteous to its employes. For several years summer picnics have been given the employes by this firm in beautiful Platte Canyon, and a general good time enjoyed by all. Also, whenever an adjustment of wage scale was inaugurated by No. 49 this firm always came through willingly and signed up for the demands asked for. So we say, George W. Brooks was a friend good and true of the members of No. 49, and how much of the best of earthly achievement and joy is due to friendship! George W. Brooks

was a friend to the members of No. 49, and we shall greatly miss him. We shall honor his memory. Give a man one friend who understands him, who will not leave nor forsake him, who will be accessible by day and by night to him, and all the universe is changed from darkness into light. We regard George Brooks as such a friend. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a married daughter. Peace to his ashes!

At our mecting of May 7 a communication received from President Lynch was read setting forth the abrupt way in which the McNamaras were extradited from Indianapolis and taken to Los Angeles as the alleged conspirators in the explosion of the Times in the city last named. The official circular also called attention to an editorial in the May JOURNAL touching upon this matter, and soliciting funds for the defense of these men. After some discussion as to the merits of the affair, the cause of organized labor being assailed, a motion prevailed to send $50 as our mite to assist in defending the men. Without wishing to pass judgment upon the case, either pro or con, the writer thinks all organized bodies of allied trades and unions should subscribe their mite to this defense fund. In whatever light we view it, this seizure of the McNamaras is a direct blow at organized labor, and we should rally to the defense of our brethren. We note that Colonel Roosevelt immediately rushes into print, and in the Outlook for May 6 contributes an article under the caption, "Murder Is Murder," in which he lauds the efforts put forth by Detective Burns to secure the arrest of these alleged dynamiters, and in a weak way strives to accuse these men through public print before conviction, trial, or otherwise; and endeav ors to safeguard himself with the assertion that "the question of organized labor or organized capital, or the relations of either with the community at large, has nothing whatever to do with this issue." Then, again, Roosevelt says: "Whether we do or do not approve of the policy of the Los Angeles Times-and the Outlook very heartily disapproves of its policy on certain matters-has nothing whatever to do with the question." Then why does he rush into print and endeavor to pass judg ment "under cover?" If organized labor or the policy assumed by Otis, of the Times, does not enter in this question, then kindly throw on the

searchlight on your reasoning, that we may be able to read between the lines. Roosevelt must have another hobby of "undesirable citizens" hid in his sleeve. He closes by stating that "the one and only question is as to the guilt or innocence of the men accused." Who accused them? Does not Roosevelt's allusion that "murder is murder" reflect on these men? And yet he closes with the remark that "any man who seeks to have them convicted if they are innocent is guilty of a crime against the state, and any man who seeks to have them acquitted if guilty is also guilty of a crime against the state." Is not a man presumed to be innocent in law until proved guilty? Then why pass judgment through public opinion in the columns of a magazine for general circulation? In the language of the Scripture, "Who are these thine accusers?" The capitalistic class, and the antagonizers of union labor. Rev. Washington Gladden has a fifth article in the May Outlook upon the "Church and the Labor Question," and in this article he deals with the problems of labor and capital. He bases his article upon scriptural history of the days of Amos and Hosea, Micah and Isaiah and Jeremiah, and quotes quite copiously from these great prophets of the old Mosaic days, and his quotations are so apt and opportune as to this question of the McNamaras that I desire to re-quote one or two passages, as they forcibly portray the attitude of the capitalistic class toward organized labor of today, and we can see the handwriting upon the wall in this present generation. "Forasmuch therefore," cries Amos, "as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him. burdens of wheat; ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; for I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins; they affect the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right." And Micah says: "They covet fields and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Mr. Gladden closes thus: "The industrial democracy holds in it the promise and potency of a prosperous and happy nation. We mean that you shall be free. We pray you to use your freedom soberly and righteously→ never for the profit of a class, always for the common good." Along this line of industrial freedom and right, comes the United States supreme court decision in the Gompers et al. contempt case, which rules that the imprisonment of these labor men was illegal; that a fine was the severest judg ment that could have been placed upon them. Along this same line of reasoning comes the decision against the Standard Oil trust, and the command that it must dissolve in six months. Verily, old Amos and Micah in their prophecies of centuries ago are being verified! Then again the colleges of the land are beginning to see the injustice of a good deal of our present-day law, and George W. Kirchwey, LL. D., dean of the school of law of Columbia University, in commenting upon the needs of new conditions in the teachings of law to the forthcoming generation, has this to say, and it voices our sentiments as to the question at issue:

"If the justice of yesterday is the injustice of today, shall we not also recognize the fact that the justice of today will be the injustice of tomorrow, and that our courts, as the authentic interpreters of the moral sense of the community, betray their trust if they permit the traditions of the past to blind them to the new needs of the present? They are set aloft in high places where they can catch the first dawn of the new day-the new day that is ever dawning for humanity-and woe unto them if they turn their backs upon this dawn and keep their eyes fixed on the twilight shadows of the past!" WILL H. HEDLEY.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Quite a surprise was sprung at the May meeting when Robert Armstrong, president-elect, resigned. He has served the past twelve months and was reelected without opposition for another year, but claimed that he desired a rest, which was reluctantly granted him. Senator Neville Page, who had just returned from his official duties at the state capital, was elected to the position. Mr. Page is perhaps the most widely known and experienced labor man in Memphis, and his executive ability, firmness and impartiality combine to give him a peculiar fitness for the position.

Perhaps one of the most noticeable changes any former Memphian would see returning here would be at the secretary's desk. Horace Johnson has held the job down so long and faithfully that it seems strange to attend a meeting and not see him performing the duties. While it is a unanimous opinion that he was one of the best secretaries in the whole jurisdiction, none doubt his successor will prove just as efficient.

At this writing No. 11 is more excited over the Salt Lake proposition than it would be otherwise, owing to the fact that a local campaign was made here last year on the same proposition, and the pro and con of the question discussed and fought out until every one formed his own opinion, and will no doubt vote accordingly, the wire pulling and arguments of the enthusiastic followers of either side notwithstanding. The question must be settled, and the intelligence of the 55,000 members of the International Typographical Union can be depended on to settle it right.

The annual session of the Southern Child Labor Congress, at Atlanta recently, elected Henry Hanson, of No. 11, permanent secretary, an honor the membership appreciates very highly. Messrs. William Johnson, sr., and "Bill" ("Big Noise") Shaler were also in attendance from No. 11, and were very active in the proceedings of the convention. The work of this organization is a very important one, yet we believe few of our members realize it. Tennessee has a child labor law (or did have) prohibiting the employment of children under 14 years of age in mines, factories, etc. The law was passed in 1901. Very little was known of the law until Governor Hooper appointed a good union man from Memphis as state factory inspector. He could do nothing in Memphis, the courts refusing to punish the violators of the law reported by him,

who were employing children under the age prescribed. In another part of the state a conviction was secured by the inspector, but the higher courts declared the law unconstitutional, "because the body of the law covered more than the caption called for." Thus on a technicality the state inspector's hands are tied, and the little children of Tennessee are to continue to be sacrificed on the altar of greed; the coming mothers of Tennessee to be stunted and dwarfed by spending their youthful years in the factory and workshop, where long hours and insanitary conditions generally prevail. It is up to the working men and women of this state, whether organized or unorganized, to take an interest in this question and help save the babies.

Billie Holmes has returned from Arkansas, where he has been for a year. "Little Smiddy," of Vicksburg, is now operating a machine at Gaither's Linotype Company. D. H. Wilson is holding down a job at Greenville, Miss., with G. L. Eminiser, of No. II.

Raymond Paschall and Ira A. ("Kid") Cole were elected delegates, with J. L. Igou and E. H. Wainwright as alternates. The vote on the Salt Lake proposition was 67 for, 80 against.

A letter from G. I. Brayton states he is in New York, working on the Scientific American.

A great many changes have taken place in the Commercial Appeal chapel since our last. S. E. Barber resigned as head proofreader, Fritz Wigans, of Birmingham, succeeding him. A situation created in the adroom was given to Carl Barber. Charles Preston resigned his position; succeeded by J. R. Gladish, formerly of Louisville. W. E. Brown left town, giving Henry Hanson a machine "sit." Clarence Cox was given a situation on the makeup. Heck Harris resigned his makeup job, and was succeeded by Tommy Gilmore, formerly of Nashville.

J. P. McGhee, of the News Scimitar adroom, has been confined to his bed several weeks from the effects of rheumatism. No member of No. 11 has more friends or is more beloved than "Father" McGhee, and all wish him a speedy recovery.

The Press recently published a six-and-one-halfpage ad in one issue, which made the whole chapel hump some. The ad was for the famous Mr. Bowers and was the largest ever printed in a Memphis

paper.

No. 11 appropriated a good sum to defend the alleged dynamiters. There was only one argument: "Suppose it had been our International officers that had been selected as the victims?"

The good news contained in each issue of THE JOURNAL is encouraging. We are winning because we are right in our fight for a betterment of wages and conditions and a welding together of the craft.

"Jack" Appleby, of No. 17 (New Orleans), was a recent visitor in Memphis, and now they do say No. 11's part of that family is not in it with No. 17's when it comes to agitating. Being in the family, we relinquish the honors gracefully.

B. L. APPLEBY.