2,000; Walsh & McInnerney, 2,000. We also printed on a press, which was donated by the Peerless Printing Press Company, for use in the display, 12,000 more. Beside the above blotters given away at the exposition we had some 10,000 or 15,000 books furnished by the International, dwelling on things of interest to all who cared to be informed on the way the International conducts its Home and hospital annex. We also had donated through their representative, Mr. Garner, three pounds of Queen City ink, which was also used during the exposition.

During exposition week we had many callers of note, among whom I mention were representatives from the state health office. Its secretary wished us to get the display back here for the convention of health officers of the state, but we were unable to do so, as the exhibit had to go on to Boston for the month of November.

I understand that Edward Favor has made application to enter the Home through Chicago Union, he still holding his Chicago card. Mr. Favor is improving, and his doctor thinks that should he be able to get into the Home and get good care he would improve much more rapidly.

R. N. CHAPMAN.

HUTCHINSON, KAN.

Secretary Vernon Gray has a card index system with a history of each member therein quite as complete as that to be adopted by the International after January 1. The individual number is the only thing lacking.

The roster of No. 243 now numbers forty members, and every one is working. The printing industry here embraces one weekly paper and two dailies (evening) with six linotypes, and two job shops, all using the label.

The new scale, which became effective November 1, is $16.50 for all floormen, $18 for day and $20 for night operators. This is an increase of $1.50 per week for all but night operators, who have $1 added. One year hence the same amount will again be added to the pay envelops.

Several of our members are also musicians, and they are planning to organize in that business. More than twenty names are on the list.

Cards received: O. E. Hardy, Art. M. Ward, Ed James, Ed Tatum. Cards issued: F. R. McCarthy, Ed Tatum, C. E. Watson, O. E. Hardy, L. B. Pogarzelski. ART M. WARD.

HAMILTON, CANADA.

The next monthly meeting it is to be hoped will be well attended. The annual election of officers is to be one of the important items of business. Now let every member show up and take an interest in what is to him, or ought to be, the most important part of his business life.

Now is the time to do good by collecting all the printed matter not bearing the union label. The competition put through by the label committee is a commendable one, and it behooves every member of the union to do his best to make it a success.

There is still a lot of non-union printing in this city, and if the union men only do their duty much if it could be brought to the right place. Remember that although an increase in salary was gained, we owe a duty to the craft by directing, if at all possible, all printing to union shops.

A new chapel was formed last month in the job office of the Reid Press. Fred Aldridge, jr., was the first man elected.

The bowling league promises to be a source of interest to the printers. Although only four teams so far have entered, the talent is all that is desired. Show your interest and be present when the teams roll; even if you cheer for a loser it will do good. Boost the label. HERBERT HALL.

WATERBURY, CONN.

Clarence Harris, of the Democrat chapel, has the sympathy of the membership in the loss of his wife, who died very suddenly a few weeks ago.

The boys on the American have been busy of late with an industrial edition, celebrating the sixtyfifth anniversary of this paper. Waterbury is now one of the most important centers of the brass industry in the country, the last census giving 72 per cent of the rolling and manufacturing of brass to Connecticut, the bulk of which is centered in Waterbury and vicinity. In the sixty-five years the American has seen the village of a few hundreds grow to a city of nearly 100,000, and the American has grown with the city from a weekly of twentyfour columns to a daily of from twelve to sixteen pages, with a composing room force of from twenty to twenty-five, and a battery of six Mergenthalers.

We understand that the unions throughout New England are endorsing the candidacy of Alexander McLean for International delegate to the American Federation of Labor, and it is expected that his friends at the St. Joseph convention will be glad to further his candidacy.

The Waterbury Anti-Tuberculosis League is soon to have a mass meeting in one of the theaters, at which the principal speaker will be Dr. Darlington, the New York health commissioner, and a great authority on the prevention of tuberculosis.

F. S. GORHAM.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.

Knoxville is still on the map, and No. 111 is still doing business at the same old stand. Two years have now elapsed since the lockout of the union job printers here to obtain the eight-hour day. Of the six shops involved, only three of them remain, and they are running with reduced forces and doing very little work. The Tennessee Printing Company, established soon after the lockout, is making good.

The Sentinel last month published its fall trade and industrial edition, consisting of eighty pages. The Journal and Tribune is preparing a big edition for the Christmas trade. By the first of the year, or soon thereafter, there will be another daily paper in the field here. It will be democratic in politics and will start off with the label at the masthead.

A New York man, who has had long experience in the newspaper business, is behind the movement, backed by local capital.

The International Pressmen's Home is to be located about sixty miles from this city, at Hale's Springs, one of the most beautiful spots in our whole southland. We welcome the pressmen to east Tennessee, and feel sure they will never have cause to regret having selected this ideal spot as a home and resting place for the ones under their

care.

T. J. Smith has removed with his family to Atlanta and is "doing time" on the Constitution. W. B. Hudson, formerly secretary-treasurer of No. III, is now foreman of the Bristol Herald.

E. M. Gillenwater, chairman of the label committee, never loses an opportunity to boost the label, which now appears on more work in this city than ever before. DEADERICK L. MILLION.

ANDERSON, IND.

The work toward the organization of a state conference of Indiana printers has long passed the preliminary stage and the formation is fast reaching a tangible state. Circular letters have been mailed to every secretary in the state, and while all have not replied, still the writer has been so much encouraged by the word of cheer from those who have written that extra efforts have been put forth to overcome the many obstacles. SecretaryTreasurer Hays has written a personal letter to each of the local unions commending the work instituted by Anderson Union, and which no doubt has had much bearing with the members at large. The whole success now lays entirely with the individual membership, and it devolves upon each one to do his or her share toward making the first meeting of the Indiana State Conference of Printers a success. Each union is entitled to as many delegates as it may wish to send, and they will be made to feel as welcome as one. The date decided upon is January 16. It has purposely been made far ahead that every one may have plenty of opportunity to consider the matter, and that each union will have at least one meeting and appoint a delegate. A subscription of $1 is asked of each union to defray the cost of printing, postage and a few other necessary expenses. A banquet at which good cheer will reign supreme will be a feature. The Ohio conference is now in its third year and has had seven meetings, and the benefits of the semiannual gatherings have long ago been manifest, and much good can as well be accomplished by the Indiana printers. One method of the Ohio conference has been to arrange for a future meeting in some city in which union agitation may be at a low ebb, or where some publishing firm particularly antagonistic to unionism is located, and then to make a special fight on that one thing. Another plan of theirs, and which has been quite beneficial to the label work, is to endeavor to throw patronage toward those who are already friendly and to win those who are not. This has been one of the strongholds of the success of the conference. Indiana is blessed with a variety of non-union

employers in nearly every branch of trade, and it behooves the printers to get busy. Anderson Union will expect to see every union in the state represented, and with the excellent traction facilities which center in this city, it will be easily reached from the farthest point, and no one will be compelled to lose any time, and accordingly it will keep the expenditure to a minimum. Remember the date, Sunday, January 16, 1910, Anderson the place, and booming the label the reason.

At the last meeting of Anderson Union a communication was received from the president of the Woman's International Auxiliary, requesting that some action be taken toward the formation of an auxiliary here. After some discussion the matter was referred to a committee composed of the three woman members-Mary Casey, Ethel Davis and Mrs. Benham-with instructions to report at the next meeting.

Business in the job shops continues to be brisk, especially at the Herald. In a statement which they recently published concerning the work they have done in the past year is quoted: "The business for the year just closed exceeded $28,000. Yet right now that department has orders ahead aggregating $12,000. The business of that department has been increased five-fold in as many years, and as a large part of it comes from the larger cities, its opportunities have not been reached yet. The development of this department is another of the evidences that the larger cities are at a disadvantage when it comes to giving prices on printing. The result is that printing is going out to the smaller cities. The service is just as good, and the prices are considerably less." There is also a great difference in the scale of prices, and that is something that may be touched upon by the conference the adjusting of scales to meet such contingencies.

The Bulletin is now running an extra machine steadily and has increased the number of pages to ten daily, with twelve on Friday. Business is on the boom in the adrooms all over town. The Herald is also running an extra machine, using it half a night on the newspaper and the balance of the time on job work. K. C. WOLFE.

SPOKANE, WASH.

The Review has added a new No. 4 Merg. that sets a twenty-seven-em slug and a thirty-six-point letter. They use it mostly on heads.

The Inland Printing Company had a fire the fore part of November that put it out of business for two days. The fire originated in the stockroom, and a $3,000 damage was the result.

George Hill, late of the Empire Printing Company, has gone back to his old job at the Review. S. J. Downey, of the Review chapel, is now foreman at the Washington Printing Company, Carl Evans, the late foreman, taking a position at the Empire Printing Company.

No. 193 has raised its initiation fee from $5 to $10, and endorsed Frisco for the 1911 convention. A. W. Swenson, of No. 193, attended the con

vention of the American Federation of Labor at Toronto, he being one of the officers to represent this district.

Another effort, according to report, is being made to start that everlasting new daily. We're all from Missouri.

We were sorry to see the second proposition of the last referendum vote carry. This will have a tendency to keep quite a number of towns in the northwest out of our ranks. They could possibly scare up seven for a charter-but ten? Never!

The Quick Print has just installed individual motors in its pressroom and equipped the composing room with a complete new lighting system.

J. A. Gardner, of the Review chapel, has purchased a cigar store and will put on a sub for awhile until he stocks up with label goods.

President Lynch has advised No. 193 that he will "light" among us some time in December. A committee has been appointed to receive and properly entertain the visitor.

F. B. Gregg, of the Quick Print, spent Thanksgiving at his home in Wisconsin. Before leaving he left an order with the butcher to supply all his help with a big, fat gobbler.

The cold weather has had a chilling effect on arrivals here. In fifteen days only nine have had the courage to deposit cards.

The allied printing crafts will rent new quarters, where meetings can be held and its officers have desk room. As it is, they are scattered in different portions of the city.

The allied printing trades council has a committee working up a smoker for the near future. Good way to create harmony and get better acquainted with one another.

The following cards have been deposited since my last letter: Fred Baker, Mrs. Henry Schulze, F. A. Meyers, Walter L. Sutherlin, J. F. Powers, Roy A. Bost, Lee Tomblin, J. H. Dillon, A. C. Shoemaker, N. V. Thurston, Alfred H. May, James Hartnett and Fred Fenn. Withdrawn: T. J. Connelly, J. W. Stephens, W. A. Lee, T. W. Ashe, Fred Baker, Walter L. Sutherlen and Thomas F. Murphy. SAMUEL A. KENNEDY,

CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Five new members were admitted at the November meeting of No. 53.

The club dance held on November 19 at the Pythian Temple, Fifty-fifth street, was a grand success the second of the season of 1909-'10. The third will be held at the same location on December 15. Music by Barth's orchestra.

The sick committee is working on plans to build up a fund for the support of those of our members who have been incapacitated for so long that they have drawn the limit from the constitutional sick benefit fund, are not eligible for admission to the Home, and can not go on the pension list. These members must be cared for in some way. One proposition is to establish a fund by special assessment of $1 on each member of the local, as the local mortuary benefit is maintained, and a regular weekly allowance to be paid to those who have no

other source of income, being incapacitated to earn anything.

W. D. Sayle, an active member of the manufac turers' association, and always opposed to organ. ized labor, was defeated for re-election to the city board of education, on account of the fight made against him by the local unions.

While there is a moderate amount of extra work being given out at present, there is an abundance of subs and extra men to do the work, with nothing very startling in view in the way of work for

the future.

Dick Doelke, of Detroit, Denver and the coast, is now with the Britton Printing Company here.... Clint Stimmel, one of our stanch members for many years, has located in Chicago.... Gene Wells, of here, there and everywhere, went to Chicago last month.

President Lavallee, of La Crosse Union No. 448, with his son and two daughters, as the "Tossing Lavallees," presented one of the best attractions seen in vaudeville this season, at one of the local theaters last month,

The Werner Company of Akron has been forced to come out in the open and use its own name on the encyclopedia published by that concern, through legal action of the real publishers of the Encyclopedia Britannica of Chicago-the owners of the copyrighted name. Unionists and their friends will not buy the Werner encyclopedia.

Sunday, December 19, from 3:30 to 9:00 P. M. is the time set for our annual eight-hour smoker and entertainment, to be held at Trades Council Hall, 717 Superior avenue, northeast. A variety of vaudeville turns will be given and some good speakers and monologue artists will take part. Refreshments (solid and liquid) and cigars will keep all in good humor.

Owing to the action taken at the November meeting in cutting off the greater part of the expense account of the label committee, it is now up to the individual members to take up the work of assisting the members of the committee, whose work is given gratis. Turn in to headquarters through a member of the committee or your chairman all non-label printed matter and boost the label in every way possible. WILLIAM J. EVANS.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

The union at its September meeting authorized the creation of a committee to devise a uniform interpretation of the priority law. President Tole appointed the following chairmen: Albert W. Smith, American and Journal; James J. Kenney, Evening Telegram; John H. Maxwell, Herald; Charles J. Marquart, Brooklyn Citizen; John McCormack, Tribune; John M. Fitzpatrick, Times; T. J. Rooney, World. These gentlemen presented their report at the November meeting. They unanimously recommended the abolition of separate departments and submitted the following:

(1) That a man who has held a situation continuously holds prior rights over the man who has been laid off at intervals, and the priority of members shall date from time of receiving present position.

(2) Priority of all others will date from time of depositing cards in office.

(3) Your committee further recommends the strict enforcement of that part of section 113, International Typographical Union law, which reads: "In no case shall a foreman transfer a person to a department he is not familiar with and then declare him incompetent. When departments are not recognized by agreement with the local union, no employe shall be discharged to reduce the force or for incompetency while there is work in the office he is competent to do, and to which his priority entitles him."

(4) A member does not lose his place on the priority list by refusing to take a position which he is not competent to fill.

It was at once apparent that nearly everybody had an opinion of the subject-or thought he had, which amounts to the same thing when a subject is up for discussion-and the report was made a special order for the December meeting.

Of course,

no one can forecast what will be the decision, but I believe the union will do a wise act if it does abolish departments, from the standpoint of the men, as well as that of the management. When a man deposits his card with the chairman he should be eligible in his turn to any place in the office he is competent to fill; and he should not be compelled to climb a fence to get to it. The presumption is that he wants a situation. Now he is compelled to declare the department in which he wants priority. He may be an all-around man, capable of filling any job; but he is restricted to one division. And he may after months have elapsed find that he put himself out of the running through lack of knowledge of conditions in the office. A free field is fair for everyone.

The committee appointed some months ago to consider the possibility of the construction by No. 6 of a building for a permanent headquarters, notice of whose recommendations was given in this column in the September JOURNAL, made its final report on November 7. Chairmen had been asked to find out how many members of the union would subscribe to the $75,000 bond issue in denominations of $10. Scarcely any interest was manifested by the membership. Only $3,300 was subscribed. Reports were received from only twenty-seven chairmen of the two hundred-odd chapels which had received the lists. The members of the committee expressed the keenest disappointment. They had worked hard and faithfully and believed their

plan was feasible-and in truth it did look well in print. But printers are not financiers, and it looks as though Big Six would continue to pay rent.

Forty members were initiated at the last meeting. This is the high-water mark for the year. Eight of these were reinstatements. One of the Washington bunch who in 1906 thought their political pull and T. R.'s "open" shop order would keep them in the government printing office, and concluded it was not necessary to pay the 10 per cent assessment, was an applicant for reinstatement. When the ballot box was opened its lining was as black as the ten of spades, which is nine times blacker than the

ace.

The membership committee secured the passage of a resolution authorizing it to withhold proba tionary cards from apprentices who are not regularly employed in a union office, as it was found that such a condition greatly hampered a boy in his efforts to perfect himself in the art preservative. There is very little chance for a two-thirder on the outside to break into a union office.

The union, on motion of Chairman Smith of the American and Journal chapel, unanimously indorsed the following:

Whereas, Walter H. McKee, a member of the American and Journal chapel, has announced his candidacy for the office of trustee of the Union Printers Home; and

Whereas, Mr. McKee's sterling qualities, willingness, unblemished record as a member of the International Typographical Union, general integrity and capacity, qualities peculiarly well known to us by reason of the intimate and daily intercourse with him as a member of this chapel, render him, we are convinced, singularly fit for the office of trustee; therefore be it

Resolved, That the American and Journal chapel, in regular meeting assembled, heartily endorses the candidacy of Mr. McKee; and further

Resolved, That the chairman of this chapel shall request at the next regular meeting thereof the endorsement of Mr. McKee by Typographical Union No. 6.

Steve O'Donnell, of the Brooklyn Eagle chapel, who was a delegate from this union to the Hot Springs convention, is suffering from the great white plague and will be sent to the Home.

Seven new double-decker Mergenthaler headletter machines have been installed in the Herald. This increase makes a total of seventy-seven machines, and is probably the largest plant in the country, if not in the world. One of the machines will set a thirty-six-point line.

Frank Craven, a well-known member of No. 6, passed away on Tuesday, November 16, from paralysis of the brain, after an illness of but two weeks. For some time he had complained of ill health, but when he was stricken his friends and associates were dumfounded. Mr. Craven was prominent in union affairs for many years, having been chairman of the Martin B. Brown chapel for several terms and represented No. 6 as delegate at the International convention held at Milwaukee in 1900. At the time of his death he was a member of the Herald chapel. Services were held November 18, were presided over by the chaplain of No. 6, the Rev. Mr. Henderson, and were attended by about fifty of his shopmates and members of No. 6, His remains were taken to Albany for interment,

accompanied by David Moon, as a representative from the Herald chapel. Other deaths since last report: Fred Minshull, September 26; Thomas Brazell, October 3; Sarsfield Kirwan, October 11; Michael Hughes, October 11; John A. Staunton, October 13; Patrick Scully, October 17; J. L. Welch, October 18.

The eighth and last ramble of the year of the Printers' Rambling Club took place on November 9, and closed what has been a most successful season. The objective point was the Hotel Belleview, Fairview, N. J., and the ramblers have to congratulate the chief of the occasion ("Jake" H. A. Peters) for guiding them to an ideal spot, and one that no doubt will be visited again in the near future. The party met at the Fort Lee ferry, One Hundred and Thirtieth street and Hudson river, and after crossing into Jersey indulged in a threemile walk through the woods. Forty-four sat down to dinner, after which the usual "good time" was indulged in till late in the night, songs, recitations, stories and "liquids" serving to pass the time away most pleasantly. New officers for next season were elected as follows: President, Alex. McEvoy, Morning Journal; vice-president, "Bill" Grimes, Tribune, and secretary-treasurer, "Jack" Barclay, Herald. The new "layout" will be inducted into office at the midwinter reunion, which will be graced with the presence of the ladies.

In furtherance of the campaign against tuberculosis, President Tole presided at a meeting on Sunday night, Novemmber 14, at the Hanson Place M. E. church, Brooklyn. James W. Sullivan, "the father of direct legislation," talked on "The White Plague;" the Rev. Dr. Theodore S. Henderson, one of the chaplains of No. 6, made an address on "The Religion of a Master Mechanic." A musical program was rendered. Quite a number of members of the union attended. More meetings of the kind are planned.

After a year of agitation by the officers of Big Six, the board of estimate and apportionment has inserted in the police budget an item allowing $6,573 for the employment of compositors, $1,252 for pressmen and $834.67 for feeders in the police department printing office. Policemen have heretofore been detailed to do this work.

These offices have been added to the union list: Edgar Printing and Stationery Company, 68 West Thirty-ninth street, New York; New York Ticket Company, 415 West Broadway, New York; Flamberg, Meerow & Co., 47 East Eighth street, New York; Brooklyn Publishing House, 375 Broadway, Brooklyn; Acme Press, 46 Wolcott street, Brooklyn.

The sixtieth annual entertainment and ball will be given on January 25 at the Grand Central Palace. Besides President James M. Lynch and other International officers, Public Printer Samuel B. Donnelly, state and city officials, the officers of the Printers' League of America (employers) and the various newspaper proprietors and managers will be invited guests. The proceeds go to the hospital fund. Last year's ball netted $1,255.57.

The Woman's Trade Union League of Greater New York, whose headquarters are at 43 East

Twenty-second street, Manhattan, maintains debating, gymnastic and singing classes during the winter months. They are free to members. The league has issued a circular in three languages stating "why every girl should join a union" in the following language: "Because the man she is going to marry is having his wages lowered by the girl who will work for less than he will; because if you don't marry, your own wages will be lowered by the girl who will work for less wages than you will; because everyone knows in a trade without unions the hours are long and the wages low; because everyone knows in trades with unions the hours are shorter and the wages higher; because everyone knows the trade union is the only way to raise wages and to shorten hours."

The New York University has announced a special course in the curriculum which it says will be "an exposition of the topics which the daily progress of the labor movement brings to public attention, such as industrial accidents, employers' liability, introduction of machinery, strikes and lockouts; mediation, conciliation and arbitration; immigration, old-age pensions, distribution of labor, the labor markets, injunctions, wages, trade agreements, the trade unions, etc." Let us hope that the learned gentlemen on the hill will approach this subject in the proper spirit. The average professor studies a workingman in about the same way as he does a bug or beetle. Conscious of his own superiority, he is generally satisfied with an outside view through a glass; and if the subject is destroyed through his meddling, he calls it an interesting manifestation. FRED E. MARTIN.

HOT SPRINGS, ARK.

Just a word about Hot Springs. We have conditions here which confront but few unions in the country. To begin with, we have but fourteen regular situations in the city and an average membership of eighteen-plenty to handle the work. Our scale is low and a family man here is required to work rather steadily to support himself, so there is not a great deal of work given out, of necessity. While living here is not much above the average, that living must be paid for, because credit and charity are worked to death by the thousands of sick and indigent that come here yearly. The boys here are not a miserly set and give as freely as the members of any union on earth, but with so many applicants it will not go around. To any members who intend to visit us I want to advise that they bring money with them -borrow it (it is easier to borrow money at your home than here), get it some way and do not come here with the intention of having this union support you, for it can not do it. If, when you arrive, you would come to the secretary or any other member, we will advise you as to the cheapest way to live, the course to follow, and help you all we can, but to support all the members that come here would take more than the entire salary of all of No. 574.

J. B. Scudder, an old Hot Springs boy, is now foreman of the day side of the Pine Bluff Graphic.