the newspaper offices at the present time and for the past few years. On going into one office it may be bowling; in another, baseball; in another city it will be, "Who won the last race?" with all the attendant hard-luck stories. But printing seems to be a subject to be tabooed, sorry to say.

Al Peters, an oldtime printer in handpegging days, well known on the Missouri river and in the south, was a resident of Salt Lake all summer. Although for fifteen years he has not touched a type, he still carries an International Typograph ical Union card. He was manager of the Cullen Hotel here for awhile.

The annual delinquent tax list was awarded to the Herald-Republican, making twenty-two pages of nonpareil, eighteen ems, double price. The operators made $50 to $60 a week on it. Two years ago Elmer Garrison, a speedy boy from Boston, drew a check for $96 for one week's work on the

same matter.

Tom Reynolds, foreman of the Herald-Republican, has resigned, and John Molloy, assistant foreman of the Tribune and also our president, has taken the situation. Abner Thompson, our secre tary-treasurer, took Mr. Molloy's situation on the Tribune.

Van Witbeck, one of our boosters at Minneapolis to secure the 1911 convention for Salt Lake City, although not a printer, is known from coast to coast by tourists. He is at present the proprietor of a thirst emporium.

A. J. Moore, a proofreader on the Tribune, has made application to enter the Union Printers Home.

Dave Coleman, an operator on the Denver Post, paid Salt Lake City a visit recently. JOHN PAUL.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

The past month has brought forth some better conditions in the membership of No. 15, quite a few being added to the rolls through the efforts of John C. Daley, International representative, and through the help tendered him by the membership. Immediately after the holidays things ought to begin to pick up very rapidly, as the committee ap pointed to assist him will be more able to show nonunionists the many benefits which organization will give them after they have got through their Christmas shopping and money becomes more flush. The efforts which have been put forth in the past year will soon begin to bring results and help materially in the work now in hand, for many old sores have been healed and those who left us in the past few years are rapidly coming to see the need of again attaching themselves to No. 15. We would earnestly ask that all members of No. 15 do their utmost to assist in the reorganization work.

At the regular meeting in December, Representative Daley outlined the work he intended to give his attention to, and another matter of importance that came up was the new constitution, which was partly gone over and adopted and will be finished at a later meeting. Considerable time has been consumed in the getting out of the new constitu

tion and it is to be hoped that it will be O. K. when it is at last confirmed by the union.

The Herald contract, which has been hanging fire for the past three months, has at last been signed for two years, giving us an increase of $1 per week this year, making the machine scale $23 and the hand scale $20; and next year another dollar is added, making it $21 and $24. There is also an increase for the day men to $19 this year and $20 next on the hand side, and $20 and $21 for the machine side. This also affected the men on the Times working nights, as they also had included in their contract made last year that when the scale for night work was made for the Herald they would also receive the increase. The committee in the matter was composed of President Comerford and B. H. Bates, and they were very ably assisted by John C. Daley in completing the negotiations. The scale in this city is now as follows: $17 for jobmen, $18 for men on the floor and ads on the afternoon papers; machine, $20, night shift, $23. Morning papers, $20 for handmen nights, $19 days; $23 for machine men nights, $20 days. The Herald contract is for two years, with increase shown above for next year. The Times contract was made last year and runs out next September.

The noted American Lyceum Bureau, run by the man owning the Central Printing and Engraving Company, S. Byron Hersey, has finally come to an ending that a great many of these concerns do when they endeavor to run an "open" shop. The Central Printing and Engraving Company has been sold at sheriff's sale and the effects were purchased by the Vreedenberg Company, which, in connec tion with the Spinning, Davis & Steele Company, have formed a co-partnership and will have an immense plant at the new place of business in the Vreedenberg building on South avenue. These amalgamated firms are all non-union, and it is now hoped that they will be union in the near future.

The Christmas greetings from your newsboy will in some cases at least bear the union label, as the E. C. Gutland Company has supplied 9,000 to a news company for the boys, and it is to be hoped that next year we will still further show the benefits of the union label on these products.

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We note with pleasure that former President E. S. Kates is again able to take up his work. is put down among the officers of the Albuquerque Morning Herald as advertising manager, and it gives us great pleasure to know that he is again able to take up his work and has so fine a position. Mr. Kates went to Albuquerque early in 1906 for his health, and has since made that city his home, meeting with success even when he was in ill health. The position now held by him shows that he at least must have been successful to some degree in regaining the health which he was seeking.

The board of trustees of No. 15 is looking out for future needs, and has secured another room in addition to those now rented. It is to be regretted that more of our organizations do not have foresight to secure their own headquarters as we have done. We have in the Cox building in our city as pleasant quarters as any union would want, for

the housing of our organization and officers, and this has been so successfully conducted that we do not have to pay out one cent of rent to the landlord, getting enough rent for the hall to cover all expense of handling and equipping and maintaining it, and have a fair balance to our credit for our pains. This hall was secured some eight years ago, and was equipped by us and has been a success for the past five years, under wise management. The lodges holding meetings in this hall are composed of the best, and we appreciate the help that this has given us in keeping our tenants, none but desirable ones being admitted.

ROBERT N. CHAPMAN.

ANNAPOLIS, MD.

C. C. Rhame has returned from New York city and resumed the care of the machines in the Advertiser-Republican office. Joe Geraci, of Chicago and Annapolis, is now on the job at the govern ment printing office.

Richard Wells (better known as "Uncle Dick"), a charter member of Annapolis Union (1868), has formally retired from all labor and was granted a withdrawal card last month.

The election laws for the state of Maryland, 1911 edition, are now being printed here with the label on.

The owners of a new moving-picture show were inquiring the way to the union printing office recently. Needless to say, the proprietors found us at home.

The Southern Boatman, a new monthly magazine devoted to motor boating, yachting, etc., in the south, is printed under union conditions here. Let the southern boating enthusiasts take notice and ask for it at all newsstands. L. S. WILLIAMS.

PATERSON, N. J.

Nate Hilburn, who claims the honor of being an "old ex-sec." of No. 103, has been sojourning in our city for some time.

The United Trades and Labor Council has adopted resolutions which will hereafter make a delegate to that body union in dress as well as belief. All they wear must bear the label.

It is gratifying to note that there is one office in this town-the Morning Call-that believes in giving apprentices a chance on the machines during the last six months of their time.

Samuel J. Warry, who has been sick with rheu matism for some time past, was voted enough money (by assessment) for a first-class passage to his home in Dublin, Ireland.

For the benefit of our sister unions in New Jer sey, I will state that the Press-Chronicle Company has turned us down after ten weeks of negotiations, during which time we dropped all hostilities. No. 195 tried its best through a capable committee to square it up, but failed, and with the help of all who aided them before will renew the fight with vigor and will win in the end.

H. L. VANDERVELD.

NEWARK, N. J.

Man's "gratitude" to man was sufficiently demonstrated last month by the laboring element of Essex county to cause the Rev. E. A. Wasson, one of the state's most eminent divines, to announce that he would never again appear in public as a speaker. Dr. Wasson had arranged for a series of lectures, to be given primarily for the laboring men, and when the hall was opened there were not more than a dozen waiting to gain admittance. When the lecturer appeared upon the platform he was greeted by less than one hundred-and that in a county in which there are over 30,000 union men. In the first place, the hall selected for the purpose has a sort of perpetual "hoodoo" hovering over it; in the second place, the admission fee was placed too high for the ordinary laboring men, but at that only four printers were present. Dr. Wasson rendered heroic service to the printers back at the time of the beginning of the eighthour strike, and his words were quoted from one end of the country to the other. His activity in behalf of the laboring class generally caused some of the wealthy members of his parish to ask him to resign, among the number being the secretary for J. Pierpont Morgan. He told them that he would whenever his vestry requested him to do so, but these gentlemen had no desire to bring the matter before the vestry, and said that if Dr. Wasson did not resign they would, which they later did, withdrawing the bulk of the church's financial support with them. Nothing daunted by the move, Dr. Wasson set out to build up his parish, until his church membership had more than doubled. But it was not the kind of a membership that furnished the sinews for a siege. It is asserted by the doctor that he did not propose giving the contemplated series of lectures for the monetary benefit which he was to derive, but from others conversant with the affairs of the parish it was gleaned that it would be very acceptable. To show that it intends to requite itself and make amends for the errors of its ways, No. 103 has proposed to ask Dr. Wasson to address a body of laboring men, and has pledged itself to purchase at least $50 worth of tickets for such lecture, as well as to insure the placing of these tickets in the hands of only such as will promise to attend. The Essex Trades Council has adopted a similar resolution, and has appointed a committee to visit the various unions in the city in an endeavor to have them take like action. Unless it is possible to fill the largest hall in the city with the representatives of organized labor, it is probable that the invitation will not be extended, as No. 103 does not want to be sponsor for a second frost to a man who has served them so courageously even at his own expense.

The two weeks preceding Christmas were busy ones in the newspaper offices. The Evening News has announced having reached its possible limit of size with its present equipment, and has been compelled to refuse advertising during the Christmas season on that account. However, the progressive policy of that paper's management in the

past will perhaps obviate such an occurrence in the future by increasing its pressroom facilities during the next few months.

Joseph J. Rafter, for the past two years manager of the printing department of the Prudential Insurance Company, has resigned to take up the position of president of the newly organized Broad and Market bank, which opened for business January 3. Mr. Rafter was the prime mover in the work of organization, and it was due almost entirely to his efforts that the new financial institution was made a reality. It means that "Joe," as he is more intimately known by his many acquaintances from one end of the country to the other, will sever all active relationship with the printing business hereafter. Due to the resignation, John W. McLaughlin, who has been acting in the capacity of assistant manager, has been promoted to manager. Adam Friedrich, who held the foremanship of the composing room for over a quarter of a century, and who has been acting in an advisory capacity recently, takes charge of the proofroom. Other changes will also be made. Lee Crittenden will have charge of the lithographic department.

Three hundred leather workers have been on strike ten weeks in Newark. During the eighteen years they have been organized these men have never asked contributions from other organizations to aid them in their hour of trouble, but they are financially pressed now, and No. 103 has assessed its members 10 cents per week each for so long a period as may be necessary, one-half of the anticipated returns for the first month having been drawn from the treasury for immediate payment to the leather workers.

At its December meeting No. 103 decided that it did not want to open up anew the present agreement with the newspaper publishers, and referred the previously introduced resolution covering hours and lunch period to the newly appointed scale committee, composed of one representative from each of the newspaper chapels and three jobbers, as follows: Thomas J. McHugh (News), chairman; James C. Duplessis (Evening Star), secretary; Edward Smullen (Sunday Call), D. J. Shanahan (Morning Star), "Larry" Smith (Essex Press), H. B. Winans (Whitehead & Hoag) and John H. Daley (Prudential).

The Evening News adroom force enjoyed a beefsteak dinner at Iffland's on December 19. About forty were present to do justice to the menu. It was a jolly crowd, so what's the use of saying more?

Thirty cards are now in the Prudential chapel, nine extra men having been put on to assist in getting out the company's annual statement, a book of approximately 400 pages.

Two more of the "iron printers" are likely to be added to the present equipment of the Evening News if the latest rumor may be given credence. It takes quite some maneuvering of the present force at times to avoid missing an edition.

On Wednesday evening, December 15, the Newark Printers' Club was formally reorganized after a lapse of eleven years, during most of which time

"Eddie" Smullen acted in the capacity of caretaker of its effects, using them for the purposes of a card club with a limited membership. For a number of years "Eddie" had been anxious to turn over the effects to a reorganized printers' club, but it was not until last month that a sufficient number could be induced to assist in the work of reorganizing. An entire floor of the Story & Clark building, on Clinton street, containing five rooms, was leased and new furnishings were purchased. On the opening night twenty-six were present to partake of the spread and to sign the membership roll. Since then a number of others have become members. Officers were elected, as follows: President, Thomas Cahill; vice-president, Edward Smullen; secretary-treasurer, Sam McIlravey. President Cahill has not appointed a house committee, awaiting the completion of the membership roll to a number approximating fifty be fore making his selections. The rooms, five in number, are neat in appearance, complete in appointments, and will prove of considerable utility. A small library installed has promises of numerous additions, the buffet salon is replete with the necessaries, and the drawing room has a cheerfulness which is inviting. The membership fee is placed at $1, with dues at 25 cents per month.

While it is a foregone conclusion that No. 103 will be able to stand the strain of not more than one delegate to the San Francisco convention, a "syndicate" plan has been put on foot by some of the intending candidates, forming a pool, to insure the sending of the second representative.

T. CHARLES PRICE.

GREENSBORO, N. C.

No. 397 is progressing nicely. It is growing steadily and is in good condition financially. One member was initiated at the last meeting and two more are on the way.

All of the label offices are chock full of work all the time. There is hardly a day passes but they have to turn work away. There is a great deal of job printing here that requires the label, and, of course, the nine-hour "cheap skates" get none of that.

Kendall & Fisher, practical printers, who established a small job office here less than a year ago, have been compelled to double their floor space on account of increased patronage, which refutes the cry of our "open shop" friends (and some that are not "open") that "the label don't help my business any." Anyway, the label shops are always busy, while the others are running on short time.

Rev. Robert E. Hunt, who has just been transferred from the eastern to the western North Carolina conference of the M. E. Church, is an old Greensboro printer, having learned the trade in the Patriot office, and at the termination of his apprenticeship joined No. 397. He has been in the ministry for several years.

There is a freak publication printed here semioccasionally called "Everything," but it is misnamed. "Nothing" would be more appropriate.

In a recent issue its editor, Al Fairbrother, who began his career as a non-union printer in New York several years ago, and who has been a bitter opponent of organized labor all his life, takes a fling at the unions anent the Los Angeles Times blow-up. He heads a column article on the subject, "Where Anarchy Ran Wild," and winds up his tirade of abuse thusly: "The Los Angeles Times incident, while it presents an object lesson bought at a price that even a Tamerlane would have deemed excessive, may be the beginning of the end of anarchy on the Pacific coast-anarchy clothed in the garb of socialism and union labor." The colonel (?) did almost as well as did the Hon. (?) Mr. Kirby in American Industries. This freak is printed in a rat shop, by rats and for rats, and it has about as much circulation in this section as has American Industries.

Rev. Mr. Blair, preacher-editor-manager of the Christian (?) Advocate, who locked all of his men out Christmas, 1909, and his fellow open-shoppers have fallen out. Mr. Stone accuses Blair of enticing his men away from him, which is considered contrary to "open shop" rules and regulations. Verily, the way of the "open-shoppers" and "free and independents" is strewn with many thorns and few roses.

The non-union printshops seem to be having a time with their rodent linotype operators. Recently one of the rodents and the foreman of the Stone shop had a mixup and the former scurried for a new hole. Mr. Stone sent over to Moravian Falls, where it is said one Don R. Laws conducts a linotype "school," and secured one of the "graduates." He came, but what he didn't know about the machine was volumes. Mr. Laws is said also to conduct a jug factory in the same "school," and it is supposed the rodent got the linotype and the jug machinery mixed up. However, the thing wouldn't turn over.

Fred Fink passed through here recently on his way to Columbia, S. C. Alf ("Lydia") Pincombe tarried with us for a while also. Tourists are a scarce article in these parts at this season of the LEWIS E. BURTNETT.

year.

COFFEYVILLE, KAN.

No. 578 has a regular assessment of 25 cents a month to provide a delegate fund. It has already assumed healthy proportions, and the lucky member who is chosen to represent us at San Franeisco will have a nice trip.

Oklahoma City for 1912 suits us. The boys down there can handle a convention, and the town will more than do its part. Here's boosting for Oklahoma City.

The Fancher Printing Company has moved to the Kloehr building. This puts all the shops in town on the ground floor. The new location furnishes ideal light and ventilation. A new cutter has been installed.

Work has been fairly good this fall. We now have twenty-four on our membership roll, with three applications pending.

A stock company has been formed for the pur

pose of starting a new paper, which will be a socialist organ. S. G. Goble, one of our members, will be the editor.

At our last meeting the sum of $10 was voted to help in providing a Christmas treat for the children of the striking Missouri Pacific employes in this city. Other unions here also contributed.

The local secretary has a feed system with a convenient "hashery" whereby tourists with union cards may satisfy their hunger when broke. W. A. BRADFORD.

BUTTE, MONT.

Butte is still on the map and No. 126 is right in the center of the game, working hard and accomplishing much for the label, home industry and sanitation.

So many oldtimers have left the camp, visitors who were participants a few years ago scarcely feel at home now when they light. John Nary has left us, likewise Purnett, Dallas, "Shorty" Stephens, Mark Brannan, Jimmy Hogan, "Kid" Freeman, "Hoot Mon" Stewart, Mrs. Estep and so many others that, really, "de ole home ain't what it used to be."

Mike Donohue was with us for a short season, but he has pulled his freight. "Tex" McGinnis paid us a visit recently. Harry Gravitt, of Ogden, made his semi-occasional tour into this section and returned home not "overly pleased" with the changes wrought since his last visit. "Hi" Schneider, after holding the position of assistant foreman on the Miner for several weeks, got another attack of wanderlust and drew his card. Mike Brast spent the summer with us, but has gone to Idaho.

Eddie Noel is operating the ad machine on the Inter Mountain.

Among the bunch who aspired to political honors in November, the labor party had three printers, Geraghty, Killfeather and Lammers. The former withdrew early in the game-"scratched," as it were and the other two "also ran." 'Tother feller can beat us at politics every time; the game has his whole attention, while we have to look out for expense money. And we have to earn our

money.

F. W. Hunt ("Jiggers") has had a serious experience with inflammatory rheumatism. His experience at Gregson hot springs cost him ninetytwo and one-half pounds, but he is with us again and rapidly coming into his own.

The Home slides were recently put on at one of Butte's picture houses. No. 126 visited the place in a body. The explanatory lecture was given by P. J. Geraghty. Much interest was shown in our tuberculosis fight, and the effect of the pictures is still evident from questions asked of printers regarding the institution and its work.

After a summer spent in the wilds, resting tired nerves, "Duke" Lanstrum is at his old post on the Miner.

The Evening News has cut out its Sunday edi tion and laid off a machine, the bottom has fallen out of job work, and it sure looks like a hard win

ter printorially. One night recently I counted twenty-one men on the Miner slipboard.

No. 126 has had considerable expense recently caring for transient members and aiding them on their way.

Can you beat this? No use mentioning his name, for the poor fellow may be "daffy;" but he wrote it, in a clear, bold hand, on a Miner slip, then drew a nice three-em brace and wrote "Printer, Stenographer, Typewriter." Underneath he wrote: "Late of Rigby, Ida.; age, 34 years; blonde." He didn't work that night and moved on. Walter Hemby passed through here recently on his way to Helena, where he expected to get in on state work this winter. We always have a glad hand for the genial Hemby. He is one of the few old-school printers now on earth, much less on the road. Always a gentleman, always a man, with all his faults, we love him still.

O. G. Wood, former foreman of the Inter Mountain jobroom, is editor of the Tribune-Review, a weekly publication.

Otto Zersing is hunter par excellence among the printers, and when it comes to big game he can hold his own with the best of them. This season, however, he had an experience which was unpleasant for himself and distressing for his companions. On reaching the hunting grounds it was found a crusted snow covered the hills, making it impos sible to hunt; for the cracking of the crust is heard for a long distance in the clear mountain air. Finally snow began falling heavily, and continued for several days. Late one afternoon, as the clouds disappeared, Otto said: "If there's a deer in these hills he belongs to me." In spite of the protest of his companions, who had not the nerve to tackle the waist-deep snow, Otto picked up his winchester and started out alone. "He will return pretty soon in this deep snow," soliloquized Otto's companions. They didn't know him. He soon caught sight of a buck and two does floundering up the mountain side, sinking to their bodies at every jump. On and on he went, not getting near enough for a shot, until the fading sun warned him to return to camp. He had gone farther than he thought and when yet a mile or more from camp it was dark. The mountain was steep and beneath the snow was down timber and rocks, which would make the descent dangerous, even in daylight. "Well," said the imperturbable Otto, "I've grabbed a take off the hook which I can't print tonight," and proceeded to make himself as comfortable as possible for the night. At camp consternation prevailed, of course, and when daylight came the camping party, headed by Otto's brother Carl, started on the trail. After following it for a mile or two, what was their horror to find that another had preceded them on the trail-a huge mountain lion. However, he kept on after the deer, and doubtless proved a better hunter than Otto on this particular occasion, although the latter says the party got its full quota of game, which is doubtless true, for they had a New York attorney with them to prove it or any other statement any member of the party cared to make.

In a former correspondence I spoke, half-jest

ingly, of printers who were interested in mining matters and who had golden dreams. One of these was James Daly, machinist on the Inter Mountain. With unfaltering faith he aided his father-in-law, the late Thomas O'Connor, in the development of mining claims-in the famous Whitlach district near Helena, from which millions in gold have been taken. Upon the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Daly interested Frank J. Glenn, machinist on the Miner, in the property, with the result that the property has been cleaned up, drained and work begun on a scale which promises much. A company with a capital stock of $1,500,000 has been organized, with Attorney-General Galen, Frank J. Glenn and J. A. Ryan as incorporators. Glenn has long been identified with mining, and Mr. Ryan was for years manager of the Butte and Boston in this camp. The mine was located as the Golden, now bearing the name of the Caroline, and is located in Grizzly Park, four miles southwest of Helena. One section of the by-laws of the company is to the effect that all printing must bear the label and that all workmen, in whatever department, must be members of their respective unions. About thirty printers and machinists are stockholders, and others are buying in as fast as they can. There doesn't seem to be a chance for loss, and the boys surely have the best wishes of your correspondent as well as others.

MUNCIE, IND.

R. HATHAWAY.

Once more Death, that grim and merciless reaper of humanity, has visited our ranks and taken from among us Thad E. Reade, who was born December 18, 1884, and died November 16, 1910. He joined Muncie Union December 2, 1906. Mr. Reade was a victim of that dread disease, tuberculosis. He became sick about two years ago and went to Barnardsville, W. Va., thinking that the climate there would do him good. For a while it seemed to better his health, but he soon had a relapse and came back home. After staying at home for a few months, he decided to go to Austin, Texas, in the hope that the dry climate there would conquer that awful destroyer of humanity. It soon became apparent that the disease had too much of a grip on him to be conquered. On November 16, 1910, word was received from Austin, Texas, that he had passed beyond. The body was brought to Muncie and he was buried in Beech Grove cemetery. Mr. Reade was a good and consistent member of No. 332 and generally liked by all. He was a member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, from which place the funeral was conducted.

Muncie Union sustained another serious loss, not by death, but by withdrawal by card of B. W. McGinnis. No one was ever, in any organization, liked and respected and held in higher esteem than B. W. McGinnis. Mr. McGinnis has held every important office in this local from sergeantat-arms to president. To the latter office he was elected eight consecutive times by a unanimous vote, not having opposition either time. He was