eries for several years with a tubercular leg, and it was the cause of sending him to bed soon after his admission, where he had been ministered to for many weeks before his submission to the operation, which was performed on the day following his removal to the hospital. The affected leg was the left limb, and it was amputated above the knee, the patient rallying from the effects of the skilful operation soon afterward.

O. W. La Resh died in the hospital of the sanatorium early in the morning of August 3, and it was less than five days after the afflicted man had entered the institution, suffering from the ravages of the "white plague." Deceased was registered from Peoria, Ill., as a member of that city's typographical union. Mr. La Resh was panied to Colorado Springs and to the Home institution by a brother and the president of Denver Union. The remains were sent to relatives for burial. CHARLES A. GALLAGHER.

Colorado Springs, Colo.

VANCOUVER, B. C.

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President R. Benson and Vice-President Robb have been delegated by No. 226 to plan for another label campaign on the Canadian Pacific coast. The last $200 expended on returning non-labeled printed matter with "sticker" attached produced real results, visible to the naked eye. But label campaigns, like advertising, must be continuous to remain effective. A bona fide demand for the "little wonder" beats a local defense fund. No subordinate union can go on a legal strike without the sanction of the executive council; and the executive council will authorize no strike which it is not prepared to back financially. Let unions break into local defense funds and spend the money in creating a demand for the label. Then there will be no need of a local or any other kind of a defense fund.

The Vancouver Typographical Sick Benefit Association is now a reality, thanks to the bulldog tenacity of a half-dozen members. Its membership now numbers over one hundred. As one's name goes on the dotted line it means $1; then two bits a month is exacted. An initiatory meeting has been held and laws governing its workings are being considered for adoption at the next meeting of the association.

Local newspaper chapels are paying more attention to sanitary conditions in the workshop than hitherto, with good results. In one office the windows were cleaned for the first time in eleven years, but not yet has there resulted a case of scrubbing the floor of a composing room. Perhaps that would be expecting too much. It is wonderful what a few skylights and a little white paint can be made to do in a printshop.

The Daily World announces the construction of a new steel skyscraper for its own use. The Daily Province has also purchased its present quarters and improvements are under way. The Morning News-Advertiser is comfortably located in its own new home, completed a few months ago. Harry Cowan, ex-secretary of No. 226 and

also of the local central body, and A. A. Brookhouse have opened an up-to-date little job office on their own account and report business on the jump. "Buck" Cowan will be missed from the active list of No. 226.

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A TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL Correspondent from Baltimore, Md., last month said: "The wages of jobmen in this city of approximately 700,000 souls amount to $2.57 per day, or $15.40 per week! princely remuneration, is it not? And Edmonton, 'way out on the Saskatchewan, with its 3,000 inhabitants, signing a book and job scale for three years, the price for the final year being $21!" Comparisons are ofttimes odious. Edmonton happens not to be in Saskatchewan, but is the capital city of Alberta, with a population of nearly 30,000; has two transcontinental railways, and two more on the way through its borders; in fact, is soon to be a second Winnipeg and one of the dozen big towns in Canada. And at that, Edmonton has one of the lowest typographical scales in western Canada, excepting Winnipeg, which has at last determined to pull up to its niche of scalemaking.

The executive council's ruling in the Seattle case came just in time to serve in Vancouver. Only it was the other way round here. However, the decision works two ways. If the journeyman must accept the opening his priority entitles him to say the proofroom-instead of passing it up to a qualified man behind him, he must make good or be subjected to the verdict of the foreWe wage slaves have an awful time fixing and monkeying with our yokes.

man.

Bitter experience is teaching organized labor that no militiaman should be permitted within its ranks. In Nova Scotia, at Fort William, on the Fraser river, at Winnipeg, down in Pennsyl vania, everywhere, the lesson is the same. Militiamen are but the puppets of the ruling class to do its bidding and keep rebellious wage earners in subjection to the master's whip of hunger and wage slavery.

The socialist party in British Columbia is preparing for the pending general provincial election. Its three representatives at present in the house will be augmented by another three.

Well, the result of the convention will soon be getatable, and is anxiously awaited by an interested rank and file. R. P. PETTIPIECE.

DENISON, TEXAS.

For the first time in her history, No. 333 was represented at a convention of the International Typographical Union. This was the first time we were able financially to help a delegate out in his expense account. A. E. Clymer evidently believes that the early bird catches the worm, as he has given it out that he is a candidate for delegate to Minneapolis.

It was with regret that No. 333 failed to have a representative present at the Texas State Printers' Council, which was organized at Dallas recently. It is to be hoped that this will not occur again, as the writer believes these conferences are a power for good, and would like to see one in every state

in the union, as at these meetings the members can materially assist the International in organization and other lines of work, and at the same time exchange ideas that can not be exchanged in any other way.

The last meeting of this local was interesting from start to finish, only two members being ab sent. The election of officers was one of the most interesting that has been held in a long time, every office being warmly contested. Nearly all the present officers were re-elected. The next matter was action on some new laws for the local, proposed by a committee composed of five proprietors and one employe. The proprietor-members presented a majority report and the employe a minority report, and the fight was led by both sides of the committee. More parliamentary law was brought into play than has been up in some time, the union finally adjourning before voting on all the amendments.

It is hoped to pull off one of the biggest Labor day celebrations in Denison this year that we have ever had. The printers have better representation on the general committee than any other organization.

At the recent election of officers of the labor trades council R. M. Haley was re-elected trustee and the undersigned president for another term. F. R. LAW HON.

CHARLESTON, W. Va.

Old No. 146 has sustained a loss, or an aching void, or-but what's the use-old "Dad" Emerick has left us and gone to Wheeling, and we all feel lonesome without "Dad." We could have spared any other member easier, as he was always equal to two men and more when it came to union matters, and there was never a time when he was too busy with personal concerns to help further any interests of the union, or of any union man. He has held every office in the union excepting sergeant-at-arms, and has filled them all well. Our loss, though, is Wheeling's gain.

A. G. McKay, who has been for a number of months on the machines at Lovett's and the Mail, has accepted a situation at Red Lodge, Mont.

Jesse Boswell, operating one of the machines at the Lovett Printing Company, is a handy allround man, and makes on occasion a good amateur fireman, as was evidenced by the way he and his side partner, Wade Guthrie, got their machines under cover during a fire in the Elks building, in which the office is located, the latter part of July, when the water was coming down in torrents. They saved the machines and helped save the rest of the material, holding the loss down to a few hundreds when otherwise it would have been thousands. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water poured onto the floors and onto the coverings over the machinery, but all was in readiness to start work the next morning, not even an electric wire being parted, while overhead on the second floor the building was gutted.

Mrs. Kate Snyder was elected by a handsome majority over her opponent for the office of secre

tary-treasurer at the July meeting. E. V. Crossman was unanimously elected vice-president to fill the vacancy occasioned by the leaving town of William P. Campbell.

Work is better here now than for several months past, and the regular dull season did not seem to be of long duration this summer.

The printing commission, appointed by the last legislature, has received the decision of the attorney-general that it is not possible to have a state printing office without a change in the constitution.

The Goodrich-Snyder plant has gotten in its new equipment and is busy all the time, Mr. Snyder having built up a fine trade during the years he has been running under his own name, and the larger equipment enables it to treble the output. D. C. LOVETt, Jr.

PITTSBURG, PA.

Three letters from this place in the last issue of THE JOURNAL indicate that Pittsburg has not been removed from the map of the United States.

At the last meeting of the union a motion was made and adopted that three prizes be awarded to the members who deliver to the secretary's office the greatest number of non-labeled pieces of printed matter within ninety days. First prize calls for $10; second, $5; third, $3. Here is a chance for our members to pick up a little change and at the same time render valuable service in creating a demand for the label.

William Hill, an old and respected member of No. 7, died of pneumonia July 21. Mr. Hill was 67 years old, was as active as a man of 30 and held his own in a jobroom with the best printers of the day. Mr. Hill had many friends in the craft who will miss him.

Herbert Steele, proofreader, who came from Washington, D. C., to Pittsburg, and who remained with us six months, left for Denver, Colo., August 5. Mr. Steele made many friends while in this place and left a favorable impression upon all with whom he became acquainted.

Mark Gordon threatens to take an appeal to the executive council to ascertain whether it is right and just that Bill Cleeve gets only eight days' work per week on the Leader.

Walter McKee, who left Pittsburg following the newspaper trouble of 1900, now located in New York, visited Pittsburg friends in July. He reports that he has met many of the boys who left Pittsburg at that time, and that they are all doing well.

One member of No. 7 has brought to headquarters more than 1,100 pieces of non-labeled printed matter in two weeks; another 452, and still another 256. It is not too late to enter the contest. Gather such printed matter up, and when it is returned with a sticker it counts for something. The printers' baseball club left here Friday evening, July 13, with a determination to render a good account of itself in the contest in Chicago, where the teams of the Union Printers' National Baseball League meet to play their yearly series of games. CHARLES Q. LAFFERTY.

MAILERS' TRADE DISTRICT UNION.

At the present time I am on a missionary tour, and in some instances have met with success. With a little hard thinking on the part of our members, you will be able to guess the cities that have again come into the fold. However, don't be surprised to hear that some of your friends are again with us.

I feel sure that if you could see, as I have, the condition of our craft throughout the country, you would be greatly surprised. Without an exception, every city I have visited is far from being perfect. In Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa, the conditions are deplorable. In the Modern Woodman's plant there are about forty girls and one man. In their mailing room these girls do all kinds of mailing, stamping, wrapping, stripping of list and pasting same. But they work only about twelve days each month. On one of the dailies of Rock Island a pressman does the mailing on a monthly publication; in Davenport a compositor does the mailing. On a daily paper in the same city one mailer is assisted by the office employes. In my opinion, it would take about six months of hard work to get these cities in line.

I had the pleasure of meeting the officers and members of Kansas City Union No. 7, and wish to express my thanks for the cordial manner in which I was received. In company with the president and secretary of No. 7, I called on the publisher of the Journal and the business manager of the Star. We were received very nicely by Mr. Gaylord, of the Journal, but received no definite reply as to what he would do about the mailers' affairs. As he was just going on his vacation, he suggested that the matter be deferred till August 24. This we agreed to. We then interviewed Mr. Seested, the business manager of the Star, and he expressed himself as being very much opposed to organizing his mailing room, giving his reasons. He said as long as we were going to take the matter up on August 24, he had no objections to our calling in to see him at that time. The Kansas City situation is a very hard one, and, although I expect to make some progress, I do not expect to get full recognition for some time to come.

While in St. Joseph during the convention, I tried to organize the mailers there, but was informed that they desired to form an independent organization, so I decided that any time spent with those people would be unavailing.

Just a word about the convention: I want to say that the mailers' delegates to the fifty-fifth convention of the International Typographical Union and the seventh convention of the Mailers' Trade District Union did credit to their craft, and their locals should be proud to know that their delegates measured up with any of the other delegates at the convention. Some of them received appointments on the most important committees and did justice to the same.

In conclusion, I want to ask all members to use every effort to get their organization out of Don't forget, we have two new the rut it is in.

locals since my last report, with a membership of more than sixty. CHARLES N. SMITH. Chicago, Ill.

The Mailers' Trade District convention has made good. It was mutually understood that this convention would be a record-breaker in the amount of work done, and it was. Those who attended can testify to it and the minutes prove it. It is now up to the membership at large to show its appreciation by its votes in the referendum. It is not claimed that anything more than a beginning was made, but if that beginning is in the right direction, there is much to be thankful for. In a certain line, some opposition was manifested; that opposition was healthy in its character, and, whether we like it or not, it at least develops all sides of a question.

We have reason to feel grateful for what little opposition we encountered; at least I, as one member, do feel grateful for the reason already referred to. But what have we done, anyhow? We have formulated a practical and working constitution and by-laws-something sadly lacking-a fact which President Smith and any of our pastpresidents can ably testify to. They have consistently complained, and with good reason, I believe, that they were hampered in their work in the past by the lack of proper laws. We have tried to remedy that, and, to some extent at least, succeeded. We have been able, with the assistance of many kind friends in the main convention, in increasing our president's salary from the International Typographical Union from $50 to $100 per year, a just tribute to the worthy efforts of this officer. The proposition to increase the per capita tax to the Mailers' Trade District Union is made necessary, if we desire to spread out and become a national power. It merits the support of those who desire this attainment; it takes money to get results in this world, and, although it may be a misfortune that such is the case, the fact remains that it is so, and that is what we have to deal with. Your vote on this will settle the question whether you are for or against progress.

Several strong and forcible resolutions have been submitted looking to the further organization of the craft throughout Canada, also the book and job end in Boston and elsewhere, to which careful consideration will be given in the near future.

All in all, I believe we have reason to feel proud, and my only hope is that we will gain the support of the members when the questions are submitted to the referendum.

San Francisco, Cal.

JOHN GARVEY.

The convention this year had in attendance twelve delegates and the officers, and there was more business done, with the delegates on the job every minute. The sessions of the convention started each morning at 8 o'clock sharp, and continued every afternoon for five days, from Monday until Friday afternoon, when adjournment wound up all the business. An opportunity was there

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fore given the secretary to get the proceedings in the hands of the printer, so that the delegates and officers would be able to secure corrected copies before the members left St. Joseph for their homes. A constitution committee was appointed by President Smith to draw up a new book of laws, and this committee started its work two days before the convention opened. Although there was some opposition to the appointment of this committee by a few of the delegates, this important work had to be done, being delayed from time to time, proving absolutely necessary, and the laws committee had presented to the convention a large bunch of propositions, some of which are taken from the International Typographical Union constitution and must be inserted in the trade district union constitution. others will have to be voted on by the referendum. There were many pleasures which the delegates to the trade district union convention "passed up" so that they would be present at the afternoon sessions to do business, showing that they were there for business and not pleasure. Some new amendments to the laws provide that the secretarytreasurer make out a semi-annual report; that the secretary receive a salary; that the president appoint organizers; a resolution that the president use his best efforts in organizing mailers' unions in the different parts of the United States and Canada, and that the per capita tax to this union be increased from 5 to 10 cents per member per month. Most of these amendments and new laws will go before the entire membership for its sanction on the propositions.

It would be a good tip for all members to read carefully the doings and the business of our last convention, so that when the time comes to vote some judgment may be used in making these laws a part of the new constitution. The new laws when passed will go into effect January 1, 1910, so that the preparing of the ballots, the voting and receiving and canvassing will have to be done within the next three months.

After the convention adjourned on Saturday noon, Delegates McNichols, Kinsley, Corcoran, Winters, Mulcahy, Snapp, President Smith, Secretary Allen and Jack Cone took the 2 o'clock train for Kansas City, where a committee from the local union was at the station waiting for the visitors. At 7 o'clock in the evening we were invited to a collation, when the members of the Kansas City Union were also present and took part. After the supper was over we were ushered into special cars and taken out to Electric Park. On Sunday afternoon the entertainment committee secured five automobiles, and a splendid trip through the park system was enjoyed by the visiting delegates and the ladies, after which another feed was arranged before the visitors left the city. A hearty vote of thanks was given Kansas City Mailers' Union for the grand manner in which they entertained. The committee worked hard to make the brief stay of the visitors as pleasant as possible. The following gentlemen, who made up the enter tainment committee, deserve much praise for their hard work: Carl F. Master, E. E. Van Camp,

L. M. McAnally, Norman A. Snapp (who was the delegate from Kansas City to the convention at St. Joseph) and F. L. Smith, who was chairman of the committee.

Hyman Rosenson, more familiarly called by those who know him in New York as "Rosey," and a delegate to the International Typographical Union convention from the Hebrew printers' union of New York, seemed to be right at home with the mailers during the convention week, and was very much pleased with the entertainment given by the Kansas City mailers, as he was invited to be present by the committee.

As usual, Chicago Mailers' Union and its representatives were "on the job" when the eastern delegation of mailers were coming back. A trip was arranged to the ball park, where we witnessed the series between the Boston-New York and Chicago-St. Louis printers' baseball clubs. A visit was also made to the printers' club and a trip was taken around the city, where the principal buildings and places of interest were pointed out to the visitors. Thanks are also extended to the officers of Chicago Mailers' Union for the good time they extended to the visiting mailers.

Delegate Bangs, from San Francisco Mailers' Union, is making an extended trip to the big cities in the east, and is going as far as Bangor, Me., where he lived for a number of years before he wandered out to the coast. Mr. Bangs is also president of the 'Frisco Union, and he had an enormous supply of postcards with descriptive scenes of San Francisco, which he distributed freely to delegates and visitors attending the convention. ROBERT T. ALLEN.

Boston, Mass.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

The scale committee desires to thank the secretaries of the various subordinate unions who have complied with the committee's request for copies. of scales of wages. Many a helpful suggestion has been found therein.

Delegate H. W. Doenges and wife, on returning from St. Joe, reported having had a pleasant trip. They have nothing but praise for St. Joeites. Mr. Doenges says he received his share of committee assignments.

So it's Minneapolis, 1910. Well, if the same spirit that floated around "Old Minnie" twenty years ago is "still hangin' round" you would-be delegates better get a move on, for you will sure go some in 1910 if you land in Minneapolis as a delegate or visitor. Now boost-50,000, 1910.

The delegate bee is being groomed for 1910. Several have been stung by early grooming of the bee, but that need not keep the entries down.

The auxiliary has failed to materialize. Whether it died from overweight of membership or underweight of effort is debatable. It's too good a movement, however, to let go by default, and the union should appoint a committee to complete the organization.

Labor day will be celebrated here this year. All the exercises will be held in the state arsenal,

which will seat 15,000 people. John Mitchell will be the principal speaker. A parade will be held at 9 o'clock in the morning, and the speaking will take place at 2 P. M. In the evening a grand ball will be held in Arion Hall.

Federation of labor officials, who have had the Labor day celebration arrangements in hand, are to be congratulated for their decision in holding all exercises downtown. Heretofore it has been the custom to ask the business interests for donations and then take the crowds five miles in the country for a day's outing. This caused a protest on the part of the interests affected, and this year the crowds will be kept in the city.

It is to be hoped that the union will, in the near future, fix a penalty for jumping situations. It has reached that stage where a protest is being raised by the proprietors against the practice, they claiming the union should protect the situations. One foreman has threatened to make his employes responsible from day to day for their situations. The members make a roar when a phalanx is talked of, and then the biggest "roarer" will jump his job and help the phalanx, to the detriment of all concerned.

The new death benefit proposition that goes to the referendum looks good to us at this early date. After the "scientists" get through with their "post mortems," it may not look so good. It should carry by a big majority.

Some of the health committee's recommendations will cause a bursting of buttons when put into effect. Several burstings will take place here in a few months.

What became of priority?

FRANK C. REED.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

No. 15 is again on the way to become a large and prosperous organization, as it was before the noted strike of 1905, and everything is looking brighter from the standpoint of reorganization and the building up of the town. As most of the members of the International organization know, Rochester has had a long and bitter fight for the eight-hour day, and though it shows the marks of war, the officers have never despaired, and have been doing great work along the line of advertising the label and the reorganization of the town, and hope to have this beautiful city again in the ranks as one of the best organized towns in this state. At the time of the eight-hour strike we had a large and prosperous organization, and we again hope to have as large if not larger organization than we had at that time. As every one must admit, the only way to organize a town is to get those liv ing in it into the union. I think that the only stand for every union to take is to get the city in which they live organized, and, when you get the men in, try and make union men of them. We all have our likes and dislikes, our grievances and whims, but the only way is to try and get together and make each and every town union. Talk to those who have left your ranks in the time of strife, endeavor to make them see their wrong and make them see that organization is the only thing

that will be of material interest to the wage worker, and you will soon have them with you and working side by side for the interest of all.

During the past three years we have not had a correspondent to THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, and, as a matter of fact, we have none at present, but I am sure that anything that I may say will be of some interest to those who would like to hear from us again. A great many of our oldtime members have gone to their last resting place, in the past three years, and among them may be mentioned the names of Samuel Hays, who was for a great many years a good member in any local to which he was attached; and, though at the time of his death he had lapsed his card, he was borne to his last resting place by members of No. 15. Al Davis and James Keeler, who were of the older class of printers, have both passed away, as has Eugene (Duffy) O'Brien, who at the time of his death was running a small garden farm outside of the city. It was not learned by the members of our organization that he was dead until some weeks after, as he had a Boston card and his relatives did not notify us, which was unfortunate, as he was much liked by all of the members here, and was always on hand when any of them were in hard luck with the ready hand out that the printers are so noted for.

Edward Favor, who has had his card in Chicago Union for the past six years, is at home sick. The writer called on him where he is trying to regain his health by living in a tent and taking such nourishment as the doctor prescribes for him. He was much gratified to receive the call, and those who formerly knew him will find him at 85 Cameron street, where he will be pleased to see them.

It is to be regretted that so many of the members of the International organization have had to remove from their home towns to other pastures during this long-drawnout fight for the shorter workday. Rochester has, through this fight, lost a great many of its good printers, many of whom will probably never make this their home again; and when you think of these once good friends thrown out of employment in the town which they have made their home for many years, and have to leave to find work in other places in order that they may be "on the square," you feel that you never want to see or hear of another strike. Let us hope that we will never have to go through another fight like the one just past, but that our contracts may be gained through arbitration and mediation, which I feel can be done if due consideration can be given all points at issue by both parties.

At the last regular meeting a scale committee was appointed to take up the task of making out a new schedule of wages and submit it at the next meeting. The committee is composed of H. D. Henderson, Charles Wahl, Walter Turnbull, Charles McCann and J. W. Marshall.

The Rochester Labor Temple Association, Incorporated, has been formed, and your humble servant has been selected to serve as the secretary. We have just called for money on sub