ST. JOSEPH, MO.

"Hail! Hail! The gang's all here!"

In a few days President Lynch will rap for order, and the fifty-fifth annual session of the International Typographical Union will get down to business. Many matters of vital interest will come before this meeting, and as this will probably be one of the largest conventions ever held, it is hoped that the delegates will use their best efforts in framing laws that will keep up the advancement of our grand organization. The reports of the officers and organizers are before you, and you can all look with pride at the way the affairs of the International Typographical Union have been handled during the past year. The membership of No. 40 is truly proud of the fact that the Boston convention selected St. Joseph as its meeting place, and especially as this marks its golden jubilee, being the first union on the Missouri river to reach its fiftieth anniversary. The committee hav ing the arrangements of this convention in hand has worked overtime to have every detail in perfect order, and if any mistakes have been made it should not be blamed.

The committee was exceedingly lucky in securing the services of F. M. Walsh to look after the advertising end of the souvenir the past two months, as the time lost in arranging for the big show in the Auditorium delayed the work on the souvenir. Mr. Walsh not only placed hundreds of dollars' worth of advertising in the souvenir, but assisted the committee in many ways regarding the work. Before Mr. Walsh's departure for the west, the committee extended him a vote of thanks and presented him with a convention badge as a remembrance.

The race for the next convention city will be a hot one. Salt Lake City entering the race has Minneapolis and Atlanta guessing. All are putting up a strong fight for their city, and it is hard to tell at this writing which will be the winner.

If you don't get what you want in St. Joseph, ask for it, and you shall receive. J. E. MURPHY.

WASHINGTON, Ind.

At our June session it was ordered that the July meeting be "memorial day." In accordance with the order a memorial was prepared by a committee and read by ex-President Harris. Several members paid tribute to our departed by short remarks recalling their characteristics, and then the local stood for one minute in honor of the dead. Steve Belding, a charter member of this union, who is better known to the traveling fraternity as "Colonel," was present and gave a short talk, which was greatly appreciated by the boys.

In order to create more interest in the regular meeting, it was decided to try the plan of having a literary program occasionally, and to have all

registered apprentices attend these meetings. We hope to make the meetings a great benefit to all by having the program interspersed with practical talks on the craft's art and upon the history of the union.

No. 538 is in better condition-financially and otherwise than it has been for some time, and we hope that as we become more accustomed to the new program to have even more interest manifested. L. H. VEALE.

GLENS FALLS, N. Y.

The members of No. 96 held a lively July session, and considerable business was transacted. Organizer McLoughlin was present.

The Odd Fellows' convention, held in Glens Falls July 12-14, was largely attended. Many printers of this organization attended the convention. Major J. R. Smith, of New York, formerly chairman of the Union Bag chapel, was among the guests.

Work in Glens Falls is fair, but there are plenty of subs to look after the extra work.

It is rumored that another paper would appear here in the near future. An evening paper would stand the best chance of support. Experience is a good teacher. "That's what they all say," and it has been demonstrated in Glens Falls.

By the time this issue of THE JOURNAL appears the members of No. 96 will be enjoying the benefits of the new scale. H. D. BABCOCK.

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.

After a long period of apparent quietness, insofar as the newspaper scale of this city is concerned, the union has at last decided to open up negotiations for a substantial increase, and when the membership at large learns that the actual scale (machine) calls for only $20 and $22, it will not be wondered at, in view of the fact that Winnipeg is without doubt one of the most expensive cities to live in on the North American continent. This has already been recognized, as, to the writer's knowledge, there is none paid only the scale, from $2 to $7 being paid over. Of course, the chief reason Winnipeg Union has not gone after a decent scale before has been on account of the eight-hour fight, not wishing to ask too much at once; but the eight-hour fight is now over, and No. 191 will try and have a scale negotiated somewhere near where it should be.

The Free Press had a page writeup of the Home as a feature article in a recent Saturday issue, and it has attracted much interest in different quarters, especially so in the minds of some whose idea of a labor union is of an organization whose sole delight is to order strikes and raise "Ned" in general. The old age pension was also featured, and among those of a philanthropic turn of mind was looked on with much appreciation. Taken all

around, we know the article will do our local union great good, and we appreciate the kindness of the Free Press in giving our cause so much publicity.

A grand printers' picnic is on the tapis, and no doubt it will be a hummer. The committee is working overtime arranging a good program.

The election passed off quietly, E. Smith being elected president by acclamation. John Bleaken was elected secretary-treasurer, defeating two ambitious aspirants, yours truly being one of them; and, by the way, he is making the slow ones "come over." Guess we elected the right man, For delegate C. Watson will charm the convention with his oratory, defeating J. Bleaken by one vote. Jimmy Holden blew in from the south a short time ago, but the pace was too strenuous, and he has passed along.

Winnipeggers are anxious to see Minneapolis get next year's convention, and chances are our delegate will be given cast-iron instructions along those lines, so other aspirants shy off.

Business is fairly good here, especially in the newspaper offices, but until the scale is properly adjusted, there is not much inducement to settle here.

An event of unusual occurrence took place the past week, when the headquarters band of the Salvation Army serenaded the morning newspapers. Time was called during the rendition of several choice selections, and the boys all appreciated not only the variation from the usual grind, but music of a kind only looked for from class A bands. C. A. HAWLEY.

SEATTLE, WASH.

The International Typographical Union is of ficially represented at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition through the installation of their exhibit in the forestry building at the fair. Charles Deacon, superintendent of the Home, arrived in Seattle June 17. and turned over to the executive committee of No. 202 the exhibit complete in every detail. It is located on the balcony of the forestry building in connection with the state board of health's exhibit. Through the kindness of Dr. E. E. Heg, superintendent of the state board, Mr. Deacon was afforded every help in ar ranging for space.

The exhibit was manufactured especially for the exposition, and consists of a model tent, onefourth the size of those in use at the Home, arranged and furnished exactly the same. A revolving pedestal with screens contains a number of different photographic views of the institution and surrounding scenery, arranged so that visitors may be seated and look over the pictures by simply turning the screen as you would the leaves of a book. A large water color, mounted on an easel, gives an accurate birdseye view of the Home, the annex, the grounds and everything in connection with the plant. On a large screen are arranged blueprint plans of the tent, together with a diploma awarded the Home by the National Tuberculosis Congress during its session at Washington, D. C., last year. It is signed by Theodore Roosevelt,

president at the time, and is the apple of Mr. Deacon's eye. The executive officers of No. 202 have explicit directions to take care of this diploma and return it safely to the Home, if nothing else survives.

Two large signs announcing that the International Typographical Union has placed this exhibit in the building are hung from the ceiling by chains. They are made in the shape of the label, the wording only differing from that emblem.

A handsome library table and several chairs have been provided, together with postcards, stationery and descriptive literature, so that visitors may write their friends and incidentally spread the news that the International Typographical Union is actively engaged in the crusade against the white plague.

F. W. Fletcher, for many years a member of No. 202, was engaged by Mr. Deacon to take charge of the exhibit, under the direction of the local union. He will be in daily attendance and explain the various features to visitors.

Without disparaging the exhibits made by the various state health boards and sanatoriums which are showing at the fair, the International Typo graphical Union plant is far and away the best, from the expressions of those who have looked them all over. Nothing in the tent or house line will compare to the Home tent in principle of construction or completeness of arrangement. The ventilating features have been the subject of favorable comment, being arranged so that the patient can open or close the ventilators in the floor and at the top of the tent. The lighting arrangements and an electric call bell, so installed that inmates can summon a nurse without leaving the bed, are completely shown in this model.

The whole display is set off with the national colors of the United States and Canada, and makes a creditable representation for the strongest and most progressive trade union in existence.

Messrs. Anderson, Fletcher, McNamara, Hennicke, Clarey, Hopkins, Kilbourne, Petty, Shannon, Gassman and McCullough were in attendance when Mr. Deacon turned over the exhibit to the representatives of the local union to look after during the exposition.

An informal reception was arranged for June 21, in the Labor Temple, in honor of Mr. Deacon. "Charley" is the only International Typographical Union officer who has visited this city since 1902, and the members wanted to make the most of their opportunity to get acquainted. He was also taken over to the navy yard at Bremerton and looked over the Minnesota, the largest freighter in the world, docked there for repairs. Mr. Deacon has agreed to take the word of local members that there are mountains all around Seattle-the haze making it impossible to determine for himself.

Delegates and visitors to the St. Joe convention are particularly requested to get statements from him as to weather conditions here-you know that some of us in Seattle wanted the 1910 convention. The membership of No. 202 is at the highest point in its history, due to the drawing power of the fair. R. M. McCULLOUGH,

WASHINGTON, D. C.

J. Nat Steed, a well-known member of No. 101, is another printer who has got out of the business, having been given a clerkship in the adjutant-general's office of the United States war department. M. J. Nevius retires from the linotype section of the government printery to engage in the milk. business in this city. Both gentlemen have been issued honorable withdrawal cards by Columbia Union.

A very popular appointment was made by Public Printer Donnelly when he recently named August Donath as superintendent of documents of the public printing office. In all the years of his work as a printer (and in the years likewise since he relinquished the real activities of the trade) he has been a prominent member of Columbia Typographical Union, and twice that body honored him. by electing him its delegate to the International Union, in 1875 and again in 1888. He was one of the principal figures in the founding of the Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs. Mr. Donath has been quite successful as a newspaper editor and publisher, at different times conducting daily and weekly papers in Chester and West Chester, Pa., his writings in these and other publications always showing a high order of ability. He is also a logical and pleasing public speaker. His appointment means the recognition of an excellent citizen, a fine business man, and an able advocate of wholesome unionism. It also means good seryice to the government.

"Albert P. E. Doyle, who went from this city to Manila some months ago to accept a position in the printing office there, evidently intends to make the most of his exile," says the Washington Herald, "having accepted the position of teacher in the high school, the duties to be performed at night, and which will add about $600 to his salary."

James L. Harper, a long-time member of No. 101, died in this city on July 2, his death being very sudden, having been stricken with apoplexy a few minutes before finishing his day's work and dying within half an hour. Mr. Harper was 58 years old when he died, and came to this city many years ago from his home in Georgia. He had been employed as compositor and reader about twenty-five years, and was much esteemed by his intimates. At one time during his residence here he was private secretary to the noted Alexander H. Stephens, one of Georgia's great men in congress. He was buried at his old home in Georgia.

The Herald and Post chapels recently took out on the national game, and the Post ball players took the Heraldites into camp by the score of 25 to 5. I am told that the game took place on the monument lot at 5 o'clock in the morning.

In the recent past a fund was raised among our members for the purpose of erecting at Emporia, Kan., a monument to the memory of Edwin C. Jones, a former president of Columbia Union, and the dedication will take place at Emporia the Sunday following the International convention. President Frank A. Kidd, of No. 101, will accompany our delegation to the convention and will be the

principal speaker when the monument is formally dedicated.

Mr. Walters, who was elected sergeant-at-arms of our union at the May election, having departed this jurisdiction, Eugene Connor, one of the oldtimers of No. 101, was elected to fill the vacancy, the election taking place at the June meeting.

John R. Sturgis, one of the most widely known of our members employed in the government printing office, mourns the death of his wife, which oc curred in this city on July 8. She was a native of Illinois, and was greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was very active and useful in church and all other good works..

Delegate-elect Louis R. Taylor will hereafter serve Uncle Sam in the capacity of a field agent of the land department of the government, having resigned his place in the printery to accept that place. His change of base will not, however, prevent his serving Columbia Union at St. Joseph, as he retains his active connection with the organization.

Due to the usual summer slump in the newspaper composing rooms and to the fact that many of the indefinitely furloughed employes of the gov ernment printing office are still out, the out-ofwork contingent in this city is very large.

By a resolution passed at the June meeting of the pressmen's union of this city it was declared "that four hours shall constitute a day's work on Saturday during the months of July, August and September, and that all work performed on those days after 12:30 o'clock noon shall be paid for at the rate of price and one-half."

Ambrose O'Keefe, one of Uncle Sam's popular printers, was married in Philadelphia on July 3, the lucky lady being Mrs. M. P. Mills. Congratulations to "Keefy" and his bride.

During the month of June traveling cards were deposited here by H. L. Peden, Charles H. Haddock, David Pollock, Frank Bates. Departures were: H. B. Barnes, J. G. Crammond, H. W. Davis, E. G. Warner, E. J. Thayer, M. Barship, S. C. Ellis, Charles O'Connell, Charles Summers, Charles T. Grotz, R. V. Burnett, R. W. Kendall, C. M. Flanagan.

Dave Pollock, one of the best known printers of Washington, who has been in Georgia for the past year, has returned to this city, but owing to continued ill health (the prime cause of his recent residence in Georgia) will shortly go to the Union Printers Home, where he was once an inmate, Columbia Union having favorably passed upon his application at the meeting held on July 18.

Even though a little late in so doing, I desire to here repeat part of a notable speech delivered in this city on May 30 by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, the occasion being a Memorial day address delivered before a distinguished audience in the rotunda of the capitol building. He said, in part: It has made my heart ache to see the conditions arising from the present-day maddening chase of wealth. The knife of commercial machinery is grinding out the lives of the American people who are compelled to work from morning till night with barely enough pittance in return for their labor to

keep body and soul together. In many of our great cities young girls are working in indescribably dirty shops. Some of them work in sweatshops, some of them work in factories, thousands of them are working under conditions which are intolerable. Their pay is barely sufficient to provide nutriment for the body in order that the unfortunates may return on the following week to continue the grinding out of wealth for the slave owner. I do not blame the individual for the condition of affairs, but it is a condition which must be remedied, and remedied speedily, if this country is to go on in the way that Lincoln hoped it would go on. It is a great problem, a pressing problem, and to solve it we need another Lincoln.

Later the senator wrote a letter to Editor De Nedrey, of the Washington Trades Unionist, which is also well worth reproducing here:

I thoroughly believe in labor, its value to the individual for his development, but in the mad race for wealth our country has gone to an extreme commercialism; probably five million children and seven million women are competing with men in breadwinning occupations, when the children ought to be in school, and the greater part of the women would be happier and more useful to the world if they were sheltered and honored as mothers and home-makers. It would be quite thoughtless to charge any individual or set of individuals with the fault. It is rather a national fault, for which our combined wisdom has not found a remedy. I do not mean to condemn women who compete under present conditions; far from it. I thoroughly approve their self-reliance, resolution and industry, but I should like to see our system of government improved so as to provide a more generous and a fairer distribution of the proceeds of human labor, so that the men would make enough, as the heads of families, to care for the women and children they love, without compelling the wife to leave home without her children to work all day outside of the home for the support of the family, leaving the home a vacant, barren, neglected spot, and merely a lodging place where tired bodies may rest enough for tomorrow's labor. ductive power of today of the American citizen is enough to abundantly care for a family, to provide a home in which to shelter the mothers and children of the nation and would be more efficient under better conditions. In the conservation of our national resources, which I thoroughly ap prove, "the first great national resource" I would love to see "conserved" is our children, and the women, the mothers of the republic.

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It is only a very few years since such sentiments as these-splendid though they be-were characterized as the mouthings of "anarchists" and "labor fakers;" but with the advent into the nation's highest lawmaking body of such men as Beveridge, Owen, and a few others of the same stamp, this sentiment is showing a decided change. Even many of those high in power and wealth are paying respectful attention to the great truths that these men are teaching. Would that we had more Owens in the United States senate.

W. N. BROCKWELL.

PROVIDENCE, R. 1.

The June issue of the Boston Typographical Bulletin contains a paragraph headed "Why Not a New England Typographical Union?" When No. 33 withdrew from the New England Allied Printing Trades two years ago for other reasons, it was announced that an organization of typographical unions in New England was soon to be started. Other important matters crowded the project from the limelight then. There is not the

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least doubt that such combination could be made a valuable adjunct to the International and the local unions. Organizer Scott's report to the Boston convention pointed out some of the dif ficulties which attend organization work in New England. Providence has itself undertaken some organizing work in Rhode Island. A New England Typographical Union could take this work up in a vigorous manner throughout the section, thus amplifying the work of the organizer in the field. Then there is the label campaign-which tends to provincialism in its local phases. The New England Typographical Union could become an invaluable assistant to the effective campaign now in charge of President Lynch. With golden oppor tunities for service, the New England Union could become a great influence for good.

Even a cursory glance at the reports of International officers, just at hand, reveals the splendid business methods in vogue in the administration of the International Union. The fact is not noticeable by contrast with the past, but it is pleasant to note that from year to year progress is indicated. One who read the reports of President Lynch and Secretary-Treasurer Hays could not fail to commend both. CHARLES CARROLL.

LEAVENWORTH, KAN.

Ed. Evanson, of Minneapolis, Minn., is the ad foreman on the Times.... Bert Hathaway is now ad solicitor for the Post, and Fred Metchan is the ad foreman.

The delegate to the state federation convention is Will Shaughnessy, the alternate the undersigned.

Jack Leonard: If you read this, please write a letter as to where you are. Your mother has asked your whereabouts, so please write home.

Business is getting better than it was earlier this

summer.

work Some stickers have been plastered on lately, and a watch kept for more chances to attract attention thereby. MILTON COON.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

Springfield Typographical Union No. 117 held a special meeting on July 4 and considered matters pertaining to the straightening out of the composing room of the Crowell Publishing Company's plant. President James M. Lynch was present, by invitation of the local business committee, and "his presence acted like magic." The situation changed so much for the better that little remains yet to be accomplished until we shall be flying our banner over this, one of the nation-wide known publishing houses.

Labor day this year will be observed in this city as usual by an immense parade of the various labor organizations and a full day's pleasure at the fair grounds. The recently organized woman's auxiliary will be No. 117's guests on that day, and will be assigned a place of honor in the parade in automobiles.

By the way, we are pleased to notice that re