plain the crying need there is for most aggressive organizing work in New England. Waterbury Union has already voted to affiliate, and trusts that every other union in the jurisdiction will do the same. Much good will surely come from the effort.

The Waterbury Anti-Tuberculosis League has just issued its first annual report. The results from the year's work are most encouraging; 150 cases are under its surveillance. Over $8,000 has been raised, two nurses are employed to visit the homes of the patients, and a tuberculosis class meets weekly for free advice and instruction. Organized labor in the city has been a generous tributor to its funds. F. S. GORHAM.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

"Serene, indifferent of Fate,

Thou sittest at the Western Gate;

Thou drawest all things, small or great, To thee, beside the Western Gate."

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Bret Harte saw but the old San Francisco. He saw the San Francisco of the Argonaut, of the pioneer, of the Bohemian, yet in his is an poem apothegm as well as a tribute. He realized that in the serene indifference of San Francisco there were also elements of magnetism that would make San Francisco the lodestone of the world's humanity. His poetic vision revealed that which was apparent to the clear mind of the political economist, Benton, and which, later, has been prophesied by every student of world commerce who has looked over the vast field that still lies almost virgin in the countries whose shores are laved by the Pacific.

Theodore Roosevelt, six years ago, when as president of the United States he visited California, realized with the mind of a statesman the truth that lies in the prophecy of the poem, and he realized even more than all who had prophesied before him, for he saw the consummation at hand. In his address in the Mechanics' Pavilion, in San Francisco, May 13, 1903, he clearly set down that which is as inevitable as fate itself when he said:

In our day, the greatest of all the oceans, of all the seas, and the last to be used on a large scale by civilized man bids fair to become in its turn the first in point of importance. The empire that shifted from the Mediterranean will, in the lifetime of those now children, bid fair to shift once more westward to the Pacific.

It needs but the opinion of the philosopher and student of humanity to round out the prophecies and bring them to reality. James Bryce, scholar, diplomat, author, statesman and British ambassador to the United States, here but recently, in a public address gave to the world the following:

California, moreover, great as is the diversity of hill and valley within it. is all one country, not cut up by nature into different regions, but one in its physical quality, and having its natural center at San Francisco Bay, on the shores of which we stand, and where noble mountains look down upon waters as blue as those that wash the shores of Sicily.

In these quotations we have much of prophecy and more of appreciation. To Bret Harte, San

Francisco can now say that, while in his time she was, perhaps, indifferent to fate, that indifference is a thing of the past. She is now indifferent of her past, but not of her future. There has come an awakening of the wonderful possibilities that were dreamed of by the poet and foreseen by the student, and already San Francisco is looking for. ward to the early shifting of empire to the shores of the Pacific, with the belief that it will come in the lifetime, not of children, but of those who have already reached man's estate-in 1911.

There is magic in San Francisco's history, in her romance and in her present. It is the wonderful magic of achievement, of opportunity and of beauty. The city sits like ancient Rome on her hills and looks out upon a scene unparalleled in the world. San Francisco Bay, in its infinite variety of picturesque magnificence, compels the admiration of all beholders. In addition to impressing the mind with its prime importance as the greatest harbor in the world, it delights the senses and moves the imagination by scenic charms unmatched by those of any other water. Kaleidoscopic in its natural features of scenic beauty, it yields fresh delight with each passing moment, always changing, yet ever constant in the dominant outlines of shore and wave, of mountain and mesa, its margin enriched with cities and thriving towns crowding close upon fertile field and fruitful orchard.

Arrangements are already being perfected for stopover privileges at Salt Lake.

At this writing International President James M. Lynch is in Los Angeles, attempting to unravel the tangled situation surrounding the Times fight....With the permission of Editor Hays, next month's JOURNAL will contain a halftone picture of the San Francisco Boosters Club....C. C. Schertzer, formerly employed in the government printing office at Washington, is working on the Examiner....J. C. Horn, an old and well-known member and officer of No. 21, is confined at Lane Hospital, a very sick man....George A. Tracy, W. J. French, W. A. Gallagher, J. J. Chaudet, George S. Hollis and Frank Bonnington represented No. 21 at the recent convention of the California State Federation of Labor at San Rafael.... Recent arrivals from remote points are John Ladyman and O. C. Carlin, Albuquerque; Abe Reuben, Seattle; R. W. McGlaughlin, Chicago; H. H. Horton, Anaconda; W. D. Brooks, G. W. Phillips, Phoenix; L. A. Maginnis, Denver; Guy McGreer, Tacoma; G. W. Missemer, Colorado Springs; S. N. (Si) Hall, Kansas City.... The September Monthly Bulletin of Boston Typographical Union contains the following item in the secretary's financial statement: "Entertainment, Trustee White, $2." Friends of Will John who have heard the glowing account of his eastern trip are wondering how much of the glow was produced by the two "bucks" mentioned....J. R. Wilson, of Terre Haute, Ind., who was a visitor at St. Joseph, continued his journey westward after the convention, and is now located in this city. GEORGE A. TRACY.

sand members of the organization (either singly or accompanied as above stated) were accorded this privilege during the year now drawing to its close. It is needless to remark that all afterward returned to their home cities deeply impressed with the knowledge gained of the conduct and management of the Home institution for the care and comfort of the sick and disabled membership of the International Typographical Union, and which great work of benevolence has thus been carried on upward of eighteen years-since May 12, 1892.

The Printers Home electric car is now (and has been since Wednesday morning, September 22) running to the north gates of the Union Printers Home. All differences having been settled and adjusted between the Santa Fe Railroad and the Colorado Springs and Interurban Electric Company, the latter ceased using its trackage across the yards and trestle of the steam railroad company and vacated the same since the above-mentioned date. The ride in the cars over the changed route is a most enjoyable one, and especially so after leaving the residence district and crossing the plains on Boulder to Main streets, when an unobstructed view of the buildings and grounds of the Home institution is given the patrons until rounding the terminal loop a short distance west of the massive archway gates of the Home.

Charles M. Carter, who had been more or less ill during the past two years, and which illness was due to a recurrence of the malady which prompted his leaving New York city in the fall of 1903 and journeying to Colorado for the betterment of his health, returned to the east late in September, a serious reaction in his case necessitating an immediate change. During his sojourn in the west he spent portions of the time in Los Angeles, Cal., and parts of New Mexico, but for the greater portion of the six years was in Colorado Springs, where he was employed in a reportorial capacity on the daily papers and as editor of the Labor News.

The remains of 203 former Home resident members are buried in the several plots owned by the International Typographical Union and under the care of its board of trustees in Evergreen Cemetery. One hundred and fifty-five of this total are interred in the original ground recently filled and enclosed in a handsome Missouri granite coping; thirty others are in graves in the plot located in St. Mary's Church division of the cemeteryand which plat is similarly enclosed; and the remaining eighteen graves are in the newer and larger section and lying immediately west of the older plot. It is in this section that the proposed monument is to be raised in the near future by the board of trustees, under the auspices of the International Typographical Union.

Flint Beardsley, one of Cincinnati Union's resident members, died on September 18, after an illness of four days, resulting from a congestive chill. He was one of the oldest in point of age-81 on July 15 last-and had he survived until November 25, would have been the third Home member to reach his fifteenth anniversary in the institution, two

others having passed that period of time--the first in June and the second in August. Mr. Beardsley was (and made that claim to be) the one surviving delegate from Louisville, Ky., to the National (now International) Typographical Union convention held in Memphis, Tenn., in 1855, fifty-four years ago. Despite his length of years, he was in the enjoyment of fair health during his long residence at the Home, which was broken but for a brief period last year, when he was confined in the hospital by the recurrence of an old hip affliction. Mr. Beardsley's funeral occurred on the second day following his demise, September 20, and the services conducted by the Rev. A. B. Conwell, at the Hallett-Baker undertaking parlors, were attended by a large representation from the Home, also by a nephew, C. S. Shepard, of Omaha, Neb., who, when notified in a telegram by Superintendent Deacon of his uncle's death, signified his intention of being present at the obsequies. Harry Kessler (Easton, Pa.), Joseph Crombie and John Mann (Chicago), Philip Corcoran (Butte, Mont.), and Andrew Gilchrist and C. A. Gallagher (New York city) were the officiating pallbearers.

Charles Payne Smith, deputy city clerk of Colorado Springs, and a member of the local typographical union, was a visitor of note at the Home institution late in September. He was accompanied on the occasion by his wife and visiting friends from Louisville, Ky. Mr. Smith was a resident member of the Home from Columbia Union (Washington, D. C.) in 1901.

Progress on the addition to the wing on the northeast end of the main building, wherein is to be located on the first floor the new library room. and in the basement the kitchens, bakery apartment and ovens, storage and supply rooms, etc., is continued daily. At this date (October 15) it is believed that the library apartment of the new extension will be ready for use by the first of November. Eugene M. Portner, of Colorado Springs, is the master carpenter and builder in charge of the building's construction, and has conducted all work of like nature decided upon by the board of trustees for the past ten years, and all under the general supervision of Superintendent Deacon and Trustee McCaffery.

E. II. Joslyn, proprietor of a linotype printing establishment in Colorado Springs, and a member of the local typographical union, of which he is a former president, is a member of the civil service commission of Colorado Springs, by appointment of Mayor Avery, the charter government chief executive. CHARLES A. GALLAGHER.

Colorado Springs, Colo.

IT is good to have money, and the things that money can buy; but it's good, too, to make sure you have not lost the things that money can not buy.-Lorimer.

Nor until you make men self-reliant, intelligent, and fond of struggles-fonder of struggle than of help- not till then have you relieved poverty.— Brooks.

TACOMA, WASH.

A section of our new constitution and by-laws commands the recording secretary to act as the official correspondent of THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, supplemented with the hint that he had better get busy in that respect every month. once again Tacoma will be on the map.

So

At the August meeting President Herbert Gaston resigned, and at the following meeting George Dunn was elected to fill out the unexpired term. While comparatively a new man, Mr. Dunn is both able and popular, an indefatigable worker, and a union man "from his feet up."

There is no such thing in the printing line in Tacoma as an "open" shop or a "rat" shop, and I expect that that is the reason why the booming of the label seems to languish.

E. L. Herriff, who died at Visalia, Cal., in September last, was well known in Tacoma, having been a member of No. 170 for a number of years, serving in many official capacities. He was formerly a resident of Walla Walla, Wash.

W. H. Striplin was in town a few days during October, subbing on the Ledger.

O. N. Miller, delegate to the St. Joseph convention, reports a splendid session, but a temperature that was "nearly hell beside Tacoma climate."

Printers of the northwest Pacific coast states are with San Francisco in its fight for the 1911 convention. Why would it not be a good idea for all typographical unions west of the Rockies to form committees right now to work for this end? "Early bird gets the worm," you know.

A very bad piece of business is going on in Tacoma in the fight made against two union newspapers by placing them on the unfair list of the central labor body because the publisher is constructing an adjoining building with unfair labor. The fight on the papers is backed by the building trades, endorsed by the central labor council. The newspapers involved, however, have been thoroughly union throughout for over ten years, and the mistake made has been in starting a labor boycott against the product of union labor in the printing trade. The boycott should have been levied against the building which the scabs are erecting, not against the papers which union men are printing. The whole controversy has been appealed to the American Federation of Labor.

A. W. Swenson, of Spokane Typographical Union, will represent the Washington State Federation of Labor at the approaching convention of the American Federation of Labor in Toronto.

Tacoma Union has just adopted a new scale of prices, to go into effect November 1, if all goes well. It is now up to the employers for signatures. No trouble is anticipated-but then you can't always tell. Will speak about it in my next.

The Pioneer Bindery and Printing Company has added a large Huber cylinder press 'to its already extensive plant, and numerous other additions are being planned.

For the past two months Tacoma has been af flicted with an abominable blackmailing "rag" called "Truth." It is one of those nasty muck

raking publications that sooner or later gets its owner either into the hospital, the morgue or the penitentiary. Save that it possibly gives work to a printer one day a week, it has no excuse for being alive.

At the last meeting of the local union each member was assessed "four bits" as a donation toward the library addition to the Home. The sum total will only amount to about $60, but if every union would do likewise, the library fund would be completed in no time.

"Union wages should be spent for union products!" There's a slogan for you-something for union men to let permeate all through their thinking apparatus.

It is no use for printers to come out west from towns where a union exists without a card in their clothes, with the expectation of joining a union out here, where they are not known. The last one who tried it in Tacoma was "sot" down on real hard.

Carl Cloud, who left Tacoma eighteen months ago to hold down a country "sit," got tired of his job and is once again with us. The climate had something to do with his return.

A short time ago the proprietor of one of our weekly newspapers was beseeching a local merchant for an "ad." "I don't know anything about "Where does it your paper," said the merchant. circulate?" "Circulate!" replied the owner. "Why, it circulates in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America, and it is all I can do to keep it from going to hell." "You'll like Tacoma."

A. H. MOOR.

NEW ENGLAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. Representatives of Berlin, Boston, Brockton, Cambridge, Fitchburg and Leominster, Lawrence, Lowell, Manchester, North Adams, Pawtucket, Providence, Springfield, Taunton, Waterbury and Worcester Typographical Unions, of the Boston and Providence Mailers', and the Boston Newspaper Writers' Unions assembled in conference at Boston, on September 26, 1909, and organized the New England Typographical Union. A constitution was adopted which announced the purpose of the organization to be "Promotion of all movements for the improvement of conditions of employment of union printers, and the organization and strengthening of subordinate unions of the International Typographical Union; organization work among printers so situated as to render affili ation with subordinate unions inconvenient; active work for extending recognition and use of all union labels, and particularly the union labels of the printing trades; an earnest endeavor to secure and promote publicity of the proper sort for union endeavors and purposes; and in general active cooperation with the officers of the International Typographical Union in carrying out the policies of the International Typographical Union."

The constitution provides for dues of 10 cents per member per year, payable quarterly. Representation in conventions, which are to be held annually in June at a city named by the preceding

convention, is one for up to 50 members, two for membership up to 100, three for membership up to Officers 250, and four for membership over 250. are a president, first vice-president and secretarytreasurer, constituting the executive board, to be elected from different states, and one vice-president from each state not represented in the executive board. Officers are elected at the convention. Between sessions of the convention the executive board conducts the business, by correspondence, the president having power to convene the execu tive board in emergency.

Officers were elected, as follows: Edward M. Martin, Boston No. 13, president; John F. Murphy, Waterbury No. 329, first vice-president; James F. O'Brien, Boston Mailers, second vicepresident; Harry M. Poley, Berlin (N. H.) No. 640, third vice-president; Charles Carroll, Providence No. 33, secretary-treasurer.

The first meeting of the new organization was called under the auspices of Boston Typographical Union. On the Saturday evening preceding the opening session a smoker, to which delegates were invited as guests, was held at the Quincy House, and an elaborate entertainment was provided. At 10 A. M., Sunday, President Norman E. McPhail, of Boston, called the delegates to order, and in response to his call the representative of each union voiced what was the unanimous opinion of the conference, that a New England Typographical It was thereUnion would benefit the section. upon resolved to form a temporary organization, and after President McPhail and Delegate Carroll, of Providence, had each declined, Edward M. and Martin was elected temporary chairman Chairman Charles Carroll temporary secretary. C. Martin, upon motion, appointed Trump, of Boston; Marshall G. Carr, of Springfield; Joseph R. Gelinas, of Lowell; Fred T. Irwin, of Manchester, and John F. Murphy, of Waterbury, a committee on constitution, with instructions to report at the evening session. balance of the morning session was devoted to discussion of the essential features of the constituon constitution being intion, the committee structed by the convention specifically as to dues, representation, the time of the annual meeting, officers and the general form of the organization. Adjournment was taken at noon, the delegates, with the exception of the hard-working constitution committee, attending the meeting of Boston Typographical Union at Ford Hall in the after

noon.

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In the evening the delegates were entertained by Boston Union at a banquet at the Quincy House, following which Chairman Martin called to order the final session. The report of the constitution committee was adopted, and under the constitution the New England Typographical Union was organized, with the officers named above.

Lawrence was selected as the next convention city. The constitution committee was thanked for its labors, and the convention adopted a resolution thanking Boston Union for the entertainment provided. The executive board was instructed to have the new constitution printed and sent to all

New England unions. The Boston-1915 movement was endorsed, and the officers of the new union were instructed to co-operate with the organizer in his efforts to place the Keith shop in Brockton on a union basis. After brief addresses by several of the delegates final adjournment was taken.

As might be expected of an organization started in New England and so close to Faneuil Hall, the New England Typographical Union starts out in life with a strong constitution. The enthusiasm of the delegates present and the encouraging letters received from unions not represented promise well. With assurances that one-half the unions in New England will affiliate by formal vote at the earliest session following the convention, the executive board has undertaken as its first work the perfection of the organization by soliciting affiliation, the returns up to this writing being more than satisfactory. The New England Typographical Union has been endorsed by President Lynch, and the labor papers of the east have given it large space and warm commendation.

Following is the roll of delegates of the first convention:

Berlin No. 640-Harry M. Poley.

Boston No. 13-Norman E. McPhail, Edward M. Martin, William C. Trump, James H. Brehout. Brockton No. 224-John J. Reardon, Edward Leslie Pike.

Cambridge No. 61-Max Merk.

Fitchburg-Leominster No. 623-B. M. Hartshorn, John Ryan.

Lawrence No. 51-Robert S. Maloney.
Lowell No. 310-Joseph R. Gelinas.
Manchester No. 152-Fred T. Irwin.
North Adams No. 316-Robert Tudor.
Pawtucket No. 212-Charles Bramhall..
Providence No. 33-Charles Carroll.
Springfield No. 216-Marshall G. Carr.
Taunton No. 319-John F. Fitzgerald.
Waterbury No. 329-John F. Murphy.
Worcester No. 165-Philip H. Beahn.
Boston Mailers-James F. O'Brien, Daniel Shea.
Providence Mailers-Charles Hardiman.
Boston Newspaper Writers-Augustus Seaver.
CHARLES CARROLL.

GALT, ONTARIO.

On October 8 No. 411 signed a three-year agreement with the newspaper publishers here, to commence January 1, 1910. The new scale calls for $11.50 per week of forty-eight hours for handmen and $13.50 for machine operators during 1910; $12 and $14 during 1911, and $13 and $14.50 during 1912. This is an increase of $1.50 a week all around on the old scale, which had not been revised for some seven years. Organizer R. J. Stevenson negotiated the new agreement, and the able way in which he handled the rather awkward proposition he had in Galt demonstrated his ef ficiency as an International Typographical Union representative.

The series of ball games for the championship of printerdom between Guelph and Galt Unions ended in a draw, Galt winning the first game,