....E. R. Babb is at present the foreman of the Daily News here, taking Mr. Meyers' position when the latter left for Chicago....J. G. Lepper has left the hospital and is fast improving....We had to take "Dad" Lindsay out and sit on him when he heard he had been awarded a pension.... C. M. Millar, George Harvey, "Nuts" North and the undersigned arose at 3 A. M. one morning recently and hied across Arkansaw hills to the banks of the Ouachita river after ducks-or any. thing. In spite of an insistent rumor to the contrary, we brought our guns home.

H. R. STEWART.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Local unions are on the boom in this city at present, and almost all the members of No. 10 are working. The subs are making as much as the regulars on the papers, and the book and job printers are busy. The carpenters' union took in seventy-five new members the last month, and they have positions for more and are advertising for carpenters to join their local, guaranteeing steady work, eight-hour situations and the union scale of wages--which is an innovation in this town. The local bakers' union has signed up the Bachmann bakery, the largest rye bread bakery in the south. The meat cutters have had their hours reduced from ten to nine with ten hours' pay in all the packing houses in the city, without the inconvenience of a strike.

The label committee of No. 10 is "getting busy" again on the Wine and Spirit Bulletin and the National Model License League, whose printing is done in non-union shops, under the direction of George R. Washburne, secretary of the league and editor of the Wine and Spirit Bulletin. It has made every effort to place this work in union offices for over a year, and it is said that 90 per cent of the printing is now being done in nonunion offices. The matter will be laid before the label committee of the united trades and labor assembly and then referred to the printing trades section of the assembly for adjustment, at the next regular meeting.

J. H. McManus, formerly assistant foreman of the Louisville Herald, has been promoted to the foremanship, in place of R. K. Van Pelt, who was transferred to the day shift. Henry DeGaris, an old Louisville boy, is now foreman of the Jobson Printing Company, in place of C. Fred Vogler, who, after having his leg amputated, is now confined in the Beechhurst sanatorium.

Four members of No. 10 have announced themselves as candidates for delegate to the Minneapolis convention: Ex-Delegate W. H. Stanley, of the Times chapel, and George B. Johnston, of the Courier-Journal chapel, are from the newspaper end; and H. D. Meckbach, of the Standard job office chapel, and Max Traut, our rotund secretarytreasurer, also a book and job printer.

One of the best propositions adopted at the St. Joseph convention was the report of the committee on mortuary benefit (see pages 244-247, convention proceedings, September JOURNAL), which will

be presented to the membership in February, and on their approval it becomes a law. It dates from the time a member joins the union, and, like the old age pension, appeals to continuous membership. The member not only is interested, but the wife, family or beneficiary are also, and they will see that cards are kept up, thereby strengthening the union by holding our membership intact. The present per capita tax will be reduced, and onehalf of 1 per cent will be assessed on earnings, the same as the old age pension. If out of work it costs nothing; if working the money will not be missed. If doing extra work it will cost little; if working regular it will cost a little more. Why patronize insurance companies whose printing is the product of non-union labor, when you can have a company of your own using our label on the printing, and also not be worried about lapses?

Delegates to the Minneapolis convention will meet an old Louisville boy, H. W. Dennett, who was chairman of the laws committee at the St. Joseph convention, "booster" for Salt Lake City, 1910, also for Minneapolis when Salt Lake City was beaten, erstwhile "yellow ribbon" vocalist, and all-around good fellow. I see he has been made chairman of the Salt Lake City convention committee for 1911, and it would do No. 115 a world of good to have the convention meet there. Salt Lake City is 4,260 feet above sea level, located in a beautiful valley, and Great Salt Lake affords the finest bathing in the world. The temperature during the month of August ranges around the eighties, the nights are cool, and one can always sleep under cover. A cry from No. 115: "Come and help us double our membership." The answer: "Salt Lake City, 1911." W. R. HICKMAN,

COFFEYVILLE, KAN.

Work is not very good here, and printers are advised to cut Coffeyville from their visiting list until further advised.

The Brown plant, which was used in printing the Democrat, Record, Chronicle and Bee at variOus times in the past, is closed and locked, awaiting the next victim who thinks that running a daily in Coffeyville is the road to fame and fortune.

The Fancher Printing Company has added a lot of new type and equipment and is hot after the business. The company pays $1.50 over the scale and employs only union men.

Frank F. Misch & Sons, who have been oper ating a bookbindery here for a year or more, have lately installed a neat little job shop in connection. Everything is brand new and up to the minute. They will use the label, of course.

The membership register system, which will go into effect January 1, 1910, is one of the best things ever adopted. And it went through at St. Joe without a dissenting vote or a single word of comment. The time was ripe for it and it means a forward step for the International Typographical Union. W. A. BRADFORD.

CEREMONY is the smoke of friendship.-Chinese.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Accompanying this letter to THE JOURNAL is a picture of the San Francisco Typographical Union Boosters' Club, organized for the purpose of bringing the 1911 convention of the International Typographical Union to this city. If anybody has entertained a serious doubt about the desire of No. 21's membership to secure the convention, the picture ought to be convincing evidence of their mistake. We not only want the convention, but we expect to get it; not particularly for sentimental reasons, but because we are entitled to it. San Francisco Typographical Union stands sixth in the list of unions affiliated with the International Typographical Union as regards membership and taxation, and this fact alone should entitle us to a fair measure of consideration. But the fact that a convention of our International has never been held on the Pacific coast is an unanswerable argument. No other section of the country which compares in importance, as far as the printing industry goes, has been overlooked when convention cities have been selected. Aside from the fact that we have never enjoyed a convention of the International Typographical Union, the incomparable advantages that are offered by California and the city of San Francisco are such that, when the local committee on entertainment gets down to the business of arranging a program for the week, their greatest task will be that of eliminating points of interest that can not be included in the official list for lack of time.

From all points up and down the coast, and from many unions in the intermountain country, letters have been received by members of the local boosters' club, giving assurance of support for San Francisco, and we confidently expect to move on to Minneapolis next August with a practically solid phalanx of western unions supporting this city for the 1911 convention.

One feature of the entertainment that will be afforded the delegates and visitors to San Francisco in 1911, is the fact that they will be officially received and tendered the freedom of the city by a union labor mayor and an administration controlled by union labor men. This object lesson alone should appeal strongly to those who will have a voice in making the selection. Of course, it is well to keep in mind the many minor attractions that will unfold along the route to San Francisco from the east, especially including Denver, Colorado Springs and the Union Printers Home, the trip over the Rocky mountains to Salt Lake City, where a few hours will be profitably spent, if the weather isn't too hot, in visiting the Mormon Tabernacle and the bathing beach, both of which have a passing interest for the traveler while waiting for train connections for the last lap of the trip across the continent.

A. L. (Bert) Fulton, well and favorably known to the membership, died on October 26, aged 45 years, after an illness of almost three years' duration. He joined No. 21 in 1884, and was one of

the best known jobbers in San Francisco. A widow, five daughters and one son mourn his loss.

George H. Pettis, of the Phillips & Van Orden chapel, was married to Mrs. Clara A. Berean on November 6. His fellow workmen presented the happy couple with a handsome case of silver, containing twenty-four pieces. Congratulations are numerous and hearty.

On November 8 the press assistants put into effect their new scale, calling for an increase of $3 per week. Many establishments refused to meet this demand, and as a consequence a large number of job printers are taking an enforced vacation. The contending parties have had several conferences, but at this writing (November 15) no settlement has been reached.

Seventy cards were deposited and fifty-eight withdrawn during the month of October. Wanted-Names in full of all members affiliated with No. 21. Give your secretary the desired information as early as possible.

GEORGE A. TRACY.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.

Look who's here! Oklahoma City, 1912. Don't that listen good to you fellows who desire at some time in your life to visit a "zoological garden of cranks?" We know, however, that we have a real constitution and real labor laws, that are being enforced by real union men, and we can overlook such slanderous statements, even if they do come from the president of the United States.

I may be able to announce in the next issue of THE JOURNAL that Oklahoma City will be in the race with both feet for the 1912 convention. A committee, composed of A. H. Lee, Mont R. Powell and Mike Williams, was appointed at the November meeting to make a report on the matter a month hence. The union will possibly take final action at that time. Oklahoma City is becoming noted as a convention city, and the local union, with a membership now of 175 members, and growing rapidly, will be in shape two years from the Minneapolis meet to show you the time of your lives.

The sympathies of Oklahoma printers are with Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison in their fight for justice. Too bad that their cases can't be tried in this state, where the judges are elected by the people and the right of trial by jury is allowed in injunction cases.

An election has been called for the naming of a board of freeholders to write a charter for this city. Mike Williams and Mont R. Powell, working members of No. 283, are favorably mentioned as possible candidates.

An open meeting and banquet by the Oklahoma City Trades and Labor Council was one of the pleasing features of last month's entertainments. Our members were well represented on the program. M. R. Powell, president of the trades council and one of No. 283's valued members, presided as toastmaster. Addresses were also delivered by Charles L. Daugherty, state labor commis

sioner; J. Luther Langston, secretary-treasurer of the state federation, and your humble servant, representing the Oklahoma Labor Unit.

The label committee of this union has been increased from three to fifteen members, and an aggressive label fight with the sticker as the principal weapon is now being waged, although this city is practically 100 per cent organized.

Our new scale will be presented on January 5 for ratification by the employers, and we are getting ready for the fray. T. E. Blesh is the chairman of the new committee.

John B. Addis, for many years a member of this union, died October 11, of tuberculosis, at the home of his father at Rusk, Texas.

The Peerless Press has added a monotype machine to its composing room. This makes the third monotype in this city. OLLIE S. WILSON.

DENVER, COLO.

C. F. Bickett, for the past ten years employed in several of our large job printing offices as foreman of platen presses, has fallen a victim to tuberculosis, and is at present in the Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, located in this city. In conversation with physicians, the writer is informed that a recovery for Mr. Bickett is very doubtful, though he may hang on to life's thread for a year

or more.

J. J. Milks, an old resident printer of Denver, has made application for admittance to the Union. Printers Home at Colorado Springs. A committee reported favorably upon his application at the November meeting.

J. Buford Surber, a member of Denver Union, who has been domiciled at the Home for the past year and more, was a visitor at the union meeting of November. He looks quite improved in health, and thinks he is on the road to ultimate permanent recovery.

John E. Collett, one of our former local presidents, and for a number of years employed in the News-Times chapel as proofreader, went to Loveland in September to take charge of the Daily Herald of that bustling town. He was so in love with Denver and the News-Times chapel that he was overtaken with a severe case of homesickness, and consequently returned to his "first love" the first of November, and is again chasing commas in the Times proofroom as of yore.

By the way, rumors are as numerous now as bees around a molasses barrel that the Post will soon start a morning daily and run it in connection with its present afternoon paper. The Post Printing Company has reincorporated for $1,000,ooo; has purchased a controlling interest in a Kansas City newspaper; has added a new linotype machine to the Denver composing room; four new situations have been given out in the adroom, and other evidences of material prosperity are manifested.

In consequence of all this, Dame Rumor has it that George C. McCormick, at present foreman of the Denver Post, will be transferred to Kansas City; Harry W. Carstarphen, a former foreman, will be given the foremanship here, while

the foremanship of the new morning daily is still in doubt, though rumor has it that the plum may fall to the hands of James M. Burnell, who has returned to Denver, after an honorable withdrawal from No. 49 in 1886, and made application to be transferred to the active membership list, which request was granted at our November meeting. Mr. Burnell was in former years part owner of the Rocky Mountain News, but sold his interest and left Denver in the early nineties for South America, where he embarked in mining pursuits. His luck took a turn downwards, and he has come back to Denver to make another start in life. He is chock full of snap and vim, in spite of the vanishing of his former fortune.

W. J. Reid, for a number of years publisher of the South Denver Tribune, and who put the first monotype machine in a Denver job office, has disposed of his interest in the Tribune, and is again employed as a journeyman job printer.

Bryan A. Tuttle, for several years a job printer at the Kistler plant, but for the past year employed as a linotype operator at Smith-Brooks, has retired from the printing business and purchased a drug store, located at 1129 Nineteenth street, this city, and extends an invitation to all his friends to call and say "Howdy!" He is a thorough and well-trained pharmacist, as well as printer, and will surely succeed in his new ven ture. He has our best wishes to that end.

A. L. Koops, for the past four years foreman at the Merchants Publishing Company, has resigned, and has accepted a similar position at the Williamson-Haffner plant. Adolph Rinne, stoneman at the Merchants, has been given the foremanship left vacant by Mr. Koops.

Five new members were voted in at the November meeting, while three presented themselves for obligation. Let the good work proceed.

Death has again invaded our ranks and removed from us William C. Waters, who died October 19 and was buried the 22d. He was employed on the News-Times.

Another death to record is that of Mrs. Ada Canfield, beloved wife of John G. Canfield, general superintendent of the Carson-Harper plant. She died October 22. We extend fraternal sympathy in his great loss. Besides her husband, she leaves one son.

The local headquarters of our union have been moved to room 301, Bank block, corner of Seventeenth and Arapahoe streets, entrance being upon the Seventeenth street side. Secretary Birdsall has secured two commodious rooms, and has fitted them up for his private office, as well as lounging and reception room for members and visitors. They are centrally located, being but one block east of the main postoffice.

The clause appearing in the trades assembly constitution relative to our sending a delegate to the chamber of commerce has been stricken out by a vote of sixty-seven ayes, with no dissenting ones.

San Francisco Union is hustling the good graces of sister unions for their support and endorsement for the 1911 International Typographical Union convention. Our union decided that it was

too early to pick a winner for the prize at this early date, and with fraternal fellowship so informed our sister union on the Pacific coast.

The allied trades council has raised the per capita tax 50 per cent, in order to secure a large revenue to extend the benefits of the label campaign in this city and adjacent country. An affirmative vote was given the proposition at the November meeting. The label committee can now spread its field of usefulness.

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The writer had the pleasure recently of forming the acquaintance of R. S. Allen, an oldtime printer, who came to Denver in 1868. He worked on the Denver World in the early seventies. lished the Central City (Colo.) Herald in 1872. Also published the Leadville Democrat during 1874-75. He left Denver in 1883, going to New Mexico, where he engaged in mining, and has followed that calling ever since, doing some editorial work occasionally as a side issue. He is now getting out an illustrated edition of the "Mogollon Mines," a publication to boost the mining resources of the town of Mogollon, in Socorro county, New Mexico. He now has his residence in Silver City, N. M., and attends to all mining matters pertaining to Mogollon from Silver City. The mining town is ninety miles by stage from Silver City, and just now he is boosting the project for a railroad from Silver City. Many of our old resident members will no doubt recall Mr. Allen. E. F. Russell, one of our old members, remembers Mr. Allen being here in the seventies.

WILL H. HEDLEY.

WASHINGTON, PA.

With William D. Saxon becoming a member at our last month's meeting, makes every printshop in Washington union.

Upon invitation, your correspondent addressed a well-attended meeting of the local branch of the Women's Progressive League last month. The subject was "Progressive Movements," advocating woman's responsibility of directing Our public schools, and favoring women on the local school board.

Red and Black, a new weekly publication here, gotten out by students of Washington and Jefferson College, bears the label.

President Lynch informs us that, until the Christmas holidays, he will have very little time to devote to his wife and five children, having to cover a large part of the country, going as far as Winnipeg, Manitoba. In this connection, let me say that it takes a whole Sunday morning with "Jim" Lynch, like we had at Columbus, Ohio, last month, to know the president of the International Typographical Union.

After a seventeen years' absence from Columbus, Ohio, we attended, upon solicitation of President Merz, of Pittsburg No. 7, the golden jubilee fiftieth anniversary of Typographical Union No. 5, and will never regret it. I wish to congratulate through these columns the members of No. 5 upon the way they handled the crowd.

WILLIAM CLARK BLACK.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Yet another Christmas is upon us, and presently we shall have crossed the threshold of 1910. And just at this season of the year it is customary for the possessors of well-governed minds to take a glance backward into the past and thus learn, by comparison with the present, what has been accomplished-what has been done, what has been left undone; where mistakes were made, where successes were achieved, and, above all things, where blunders were committed. This is not only wise, but profitable, for past experience is the only guide which can be depended upon to prevent us from blunderingly following wrong paths in the days to

come.

It is doubly wise for us as trade unionists to look back for inspiration and wisdom, for the road we are traveling has never been trod before. There are no sign posts to guide us-there is not even a blazed path which we can follow with safety and the surety that it will take us to our ultimate goal. We must be our own pioneers and roadmakers, our own guides and pathfinders; we must work out our own salvation.

Peering into the past, what do we see? An allpervading and overmantling gloom through which, at times, no light seems able to penetrate. Buffeted and betrayed, cruelly crushed to earth, forever paying the tribute of the tears and blood of sacrifice, inconceivable and almost unbelievable is the record of anguish and pain and torture those workers who have gone before endured in the slow steps upward from the brutal slavery of the past to the semicivilization we now enjoy. Down through all the ages, we see the cross, the gibbet and the stake claiming their countless victims, the guillotine and the headsman's ax being dyed thousands and thousands of times with the life blood of those who were sacrificed that man might be free. We see laws unequal and unjust, and their administration most barbarous; all business transacted for the benefit of the privileged few, and the bulk of the people wrapped in hopeless misery and unfathomable ignorance.

Then came into existence the new force, trade unionism, and the greatest of all social revolutions began. Gradually we see the worker becoming less brutal, the laws less severe, privilege becoming weakened and the seeds being sown that were eventually to bring forth a brighter and better des tiny for the toiling many. Society is regenerated. The brute becomes a thinking creature, the slave a man; old things pass away and a new time and a new world begin. The first step is taken in the direction of true humanitarianism and the world movement toward complete democracy.

Viewed from any standpoint or measured by any standard, judged by its fruits, by its works, by what it has accomplished and what it contemplates doing, trade unionism is the most beneficent bond that ever bound mankind together. Its aim has always been to improve, its only object the betterment of the many. Benevolence and brotherly solicitude are among its predominating characteristics, and it is the cementing factor that binds the workers together in their continuous struggle to