unexpected. "Sunny" was elected grand marshal of the Labor day parade here when we were in the midst of our eight-hour fight, and represented No. 53 in central bodies and committee work. The union has lost a stanch member by his untimely taking off. He was 39 years old. He had spent some months at the Union Printers Home and left there for San Francisco, where his health failed him again.

At the June meeting of the club the new secretary, Dell Barnes, reported a substantial net increase in the income for the month. The entertainment committee is arranging for a picnic at Luna Park, as well as the annual clambake, which will be held during the season. Seven new members were admitted. An error in last month's letter made the monogram, "D. & C.," read "Detroit and Chicago." It should read "Detroit and Cleveland."

The following transpositions will be of interest to former Cleveland printers: "Ike" Cohen is in business in Omaha, Neb. Joseph F. Keary, formerly of the Britton Printing Company, has taken charge of the composing room of the Caxton Company. Frank Krueger, formerly of Britton's, is now in charge of the Enterprise composing room. Gus Beckman is assistant foreman at Corday Gross', with "full power." William Reidle, formerly of the Enterprise, is assistant to William L. Doyle at Britton's.

The drawing for a gold watch netted Joseph F. Smith a nice pickup, and the watch went to John Stampfl, of Davis & Cannon's. Joe has been sick for more than a year with a complication of ailments. He is a son of the late J. Jackson Smith, one of the charter members of No. 53.

WILLIAM J. EVANS.

JERSEY CITY-BAYONNE, N. J.

One hears a great deal of talk about the nonunion offices in this vicinity and the large business they are doing. If we would consider that, by turning all non-labeled literature that we receive over to the label committee, it would tend to throw a great part of this work into the union shop and the non-union office might become a thing of the past. We should get together and help the new label committee all we can.

From all accounts the Labor day parade will not be held this year in Hudson county. This is to be regretted, as it tended to bring, at least once a year, the labor men of the county before the public eye.

According to the local press, Cornelius Ford, president of the state federation and Hudson County Central Labor Union, will seek an assembly nomination at the coming primary election.

An assessment of 10 cents per week for four weeks was levied on the members at the last meeting to assist the striking hatters.

The membership in general will be somewhat surprised to learn that our genial financial secretary, Kenneth M. Forbes, is at present trying his hand in a managerial line, Mr. Forbes is man

aging the local office of the Union Service Corporation. The purpose of this association is to direct trade to certain stores that are favorable to organized labor. It is hoped in this way to create a greater demand for union label goods.

The writer is in receipt of the souvenir book issued by Minneapolis Typographical Union No. 42, entitled "Minneapolis-City of Parks and Homes." It is a very fine specimen of printing and engraving, and from a perusal of its contents it conveys to one's mind that Minneapolis would be a most desirable city in which to hold the 1910 convention.

It was with regret that we learned of the death of Edward Sweetwood, who died in this city on May 15, in his forty-third year. Although at the time of his death Ed held a No. 6 card, he was one of the charter members of No. 94. PERCY L. ANDERSON.

TORONTO, CANADA.

Arthur W. Hardy, for the past five years in the composing room of the MacLean Publishing Company, has been appointed traveling advertising representative of the different trade publications and magazines published by that firm. Mr. Hardy will have eastern Ontario and the New England states for his territory.

The Carswell Company, city printers, are moving into the building of the Southem Press, occupying the whole of the ground floor. This will make a splendid up-to-date printery, being conve nient in locality as well as of commodious dimensions. Incidentally it might be remarked that the old premises, where city printing had been done for years, was altogether unsuitable for a printing office, and it was pretty nearly time the work was done under more sanitary conditions-especially as the allied label which they carry is supposed to guarantee them.

June was a fairly busy month in printing circles, several shops running double shifts, but from now on till fall there will likely be a slump, and some of our members will be able to take holidays. It is up to our new executive to devise some means of getting the membership out to attend monthly meetings of the union. Of late years these meetings have been poorly attended. Unless there is something of vital interest to either the news or the book and job men they do not evince sufficient interest in matters appertaining to their union to sacrifice one night in the month. A man comes, is initiated, and takes the obligation, and that is often the last time he is seen at the meetings. The writer does not believe in coercion, or in a system of fines for non-attendance, but something must soon be done to insure a larger turnout for the monthly transaction of the union's business and for the better support of the executive officers.

It is rumored that the seceding pressmen and assistants' unions are getting out a label of their own in place of the allied printing trades label, which they relinquish rights to. Altogether this is a sad state of affairs and renders the labels use

less in effect, besides troubling employing printers who desire to do what is fair to various branches of the printing craft, but are mixed up between rival unions of pressmen, and don't know where they stand.

The quarterly statement distributed at the June meeting showed our finances, etc., in a most satisfactory condition and our membership slightly increased over the preceding three months.

The Labor Gazette, the official paper of the department of labor of the Dominion government, is, of course, obliged to bear the union label, and, as the government printing bureau at Ottawa has no right now to that label, the Gazette is printed in an outside office. Organized labor should use its influence with the newly created minister of labor in an endeavor to have the printing bureau use the label and get the seceders from No. 102 into the International fold again. It seems ridiculous for the department of labor to get its printing done in an outside office because it has to bear our label.

In a paragraph in last month's JOURNAL with reference to the contract for the Ontario government printing, the writer expressed satisfaction felt by Toronto typos at the Methodist book room securing the work. Now, the book room is one of the fairest shops in the city-there is no gainsaying the fact-but no reflection was made or intended to be made on any other office where government work had been done. I think it was the Kentucky colonel who said there was no bad whisky-only good whisky and best whisky. The contract might have gone to an office not so satisfactory as the great establishment over which the Rev. Dr. Briggs presides. FRED H. THOMAS.

PITTSBURG, PA.

A Wheeling man presented No. 7 with a Pittsburg scale of prices of 1836-Pittsburg was one of thirteen cities that formed the National Typographical Union, later changing to International. Miss Pendleton and Mr. Burns, of the Pittsburg Civic League, addressed the June meeting on plans for city sanitary betterment. Miss Pendle

ton felt the subject would be interesting to union printers, as the typographical union was nationally recognized as foremost in the advancement of health conditions. She said physical and moral improvement should coexist, and urged neighborly friendliness. It's a lonesome community where unfriendliness exists.

In assuming office for the third time, President Merz said it was with the hope and purpose that much progress be made in the organization and betterment of the job branch.

The Pittsburg printer baseball team will play St. Louis, Chicago, New York and Washington. No. 7 has made its second $25 donation to the troubled hatters.

THE JOURNAL will be mailed to all apprentices in Pittsburg union offices.

Peter Grimes and Clarence McClintock, two Pittsburg boys who have been working the past year in New York city, are home again, the former

employed on the Gazette-Times and the latter on the Labor World....Edward F. Kennedy, looking well and hearty, who has been working in Indiana in the interest of the Order of Moose, is home on a visit....Kid Harkins has volunteered to show the Dispatch baseball club how to play ball.

Six applicants were elected to membership at the last meeting. We are growing.

The June meeting of the union was addressed by Ex-President Prescott on the I. T. U. Course in Printing. Mr. Prescott handled his subject in a masterly manner, and clearly demonstrated to his hearers the importance of getting in touch with the valuable ideas to be derived and imparted through a correspondence course. Expressions from a number of members indicate that quite a large class from Pittsburg will be the result of Mr. Prescott's able address. C. Q. LAFFERTY.

HOUGHTON, MICH.

The copper country is now in the midst of its many conventions and there is something doing here all the while. The Eagles' and Elks' conventions have passed, and the down state visitors all report the copper country people as being excellent entertainers. Harry S. Scott, of No. 596, who is exalted ruler of Calumet Lodge B. P. O. E., was elected president of the State Elks' Association at the recent state convention in Calu

met.

At the last meeting of the local it was decided to send a delegate to the meeting of the Michigan Federation of Typographical Unions at Jackson, and the writer was elected. He was instructed to try to have the next state convention held in Houghton.

The Keweenaw Miner, published in Mohawk, which is just out of our jurisdiction, recently installed a new No. 5 Mergenthaler, and several of the local operators have taken a trip out to see it, as it is the first of this model in the upper penin

sula.

No. 596 is experiencing its first strike since its organization. The trouble is in the Paivalehti office in Calumet. This is a Finnish publication and the officers of the company did not see fit to grant the men union conditions after they had been admitted into the union, hence the strike. M. R. LEMAUX.

SAVANNAH, GA.

Atlanta, 1910? Why, certainly! Braid & Hutton put on a night force June 14. Work at this shop is extra good, and the other shops have plenty to do.

L. B. Wheeler, who has been in Statesboro, Ga., for a couple of months, is now back at his old job in town.

W. F. Reed has returned to Savannah after touring the country. He wouldn't come back until Georgia went dry. SID FENTON.

HE that won't be counseled, can't be helped.Franklin.

In Memoriam

ROBERT HOLLOWAY.

Victoria (B. C.) Union No. 201, at its regular meeting, held May 30, passed the following resolution:

On the 22d day of May, 1909, Robert Holloway, a highly esteemed member of this union, answered the summons of his Creator and passed to his eternal rest.

Mr. Holloway was a member of this union for twenty-five years. He was a loyal, consistent and intelligent member, true to his obligation and the principles for which it stands. As fellow crafts

reaching the age of manhood has been a most loyal and true member of the typographical union, ever zealous in the advancement of those principles upon which our grand organization is builded; therefore be it

Resolved, That in his passing away Mobile Typographical Union No. 27 has lost a stanch and true member, and his family suffers an irreparable loss.

Resolved, That to his family and relatives we, as a body of co-laborers with him, tender our deepest sympathy and regard.

Resolved, That the charter of this union be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days; that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the union; that a copy be engrossed and presented to his bereaved widow, and that they be published in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

ERNEST HERITAGE.

At a special meeting of the Federal Press day chapel, New York city, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, Our worthy brother, Ernest Heritage, has entered that bourne from which no traveler returns; and

Whereas, During his life he honored the craft of which he was a respected member, and won the esteem and good will of his associates; and

Whereas, In all matters pertaining to unionism and the International Typographical Union in particular, he evinced a keen interest, always cheerfully rendering whatever service lay within his power without ostentation or vainglory; therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of the Federal day chapel that in the death of Ernest Heritage the craft loses a valued member, and that it is with profoundest regret we record his untimely demise; be it further.

Resolved, That the sympathy of the Federal day chapel be extended to the deceased brother's family and relatives, and we trust the Father of All will vouchsafe to them a full measure of His sustaining grace in this their hour of need and sor

row.

ROBERT HOLLOWAY.

men, united by a solemn tie, we deeply mourn his loss, and with feeling of keenest sympathy extend to the members of his family our condolence in their hour of sorrow.

Resolved, That the above be adopted as the expression of this union, and that the same be engrossed on our minutes, the charter draped for thirty days and a copy of same be forwarded to the family of the deceased and to THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL for publication.

FRANK PHILLIPS, JR.

The following resolutions were adopted by Mobile Typographical Union No. 27 at the regular meeting held June 6, 1909:

Whereas, On April 20, 1909, God, in His mfinite wisdom, called from among us our fellow worker, Frank Phillips, jr., aged 45 years, and who since

GEORGE RAYMOND DUTCHER.

For the third time within eighteen months Death has invaded the sanctum of Typographical Union No. 167 and removed one of the oldest printers of Schenectady. Mr. Dutcher was 69 years of age and "held down cases" in the Leader office until within a few months before his death. He was an old soldier, having served with honor during the civil war. He joined the typographical union in 1886, and was a member for twenty-two consecutive years. He was at one time a justice

of the peace in Scotia, and had many friends on both sides of the Mohawk. Schenectady Union No. 167, at its last meeting, adopted the following resolutions on his death:

Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from the ranks of Typographical Union No. 167 our late brother, George Raymond Dutcher; and

Whereas, Our late brother was found, to be a sincere, good, tried and true union man who possessed good qualities of mind and heart, quiet and unassuming in manner, generous and unselfish in his conduct toward others and faithful, loyal and true to every obligation of his union and his employer; and

Whereas, We keenly feel the loss of our late member, who was a devoted brother in the cause

of labor, a man and citizen, friend and neighbor; therefore, be it

Resolved, That in the death of Brother Dutcher Typographical Union No. 167 gives expression of its sincere and heartfelt sorrow; that we tender to the bereft wife and children and other relatives our deep sympathy in their loss, and bow with them in submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well; and he it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved family, that they be spread on the minutes, and that our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days; also, that these resolutions be published in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL and the Schenectady Leader.

J. P. BARKDOLL.

The following resolutions were adopted by Wallace (Idaho) Union No. 617:

Whereas, Death has taken from among us our friend and fellow craftsman, J. P. Barkdoll; and Whereas, Mr. Barkdoll at an early age became a union man, and all his life remained a stanch supporter of unionism; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the members of Wallace Union No. 617, express our deep sense of the loss sustained by us and by the union cause in the death of our friend; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and also printed in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, and that the charter be draped for a period of thirty days.

HARRISON M. HUEY.

At a special meeting of Reading (Pa.) Union No. 88, held May 11, to take action on the death of Harrison M. Huey, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, Death has again visited our union and removed from among us our esteemed fellow member, Harrison M. Huey, a member young in years, but great in promise, whose genial disposition and straightforward manner won many friends among us; be it therefore

Resolved, That Reading Typographical Union No. 86 does hereby deplore his early departure, and that as a mark of respect to his memory this resolution be spread upon our minutes and published in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, and a copy sent to his sorrowing parents, and that our charter be draped for a period of thirty days.

JAMES H. BULLARD.

Resolutions adopted by the New York Tribune chapel:

Whereas, Death has removed from our midst an honored and respected member of this chapel and of Typographical Union No. 6, in the person of James H. Bullard, who passed from this life on May 13; and

Whereas, His sudden and untimely death came as a shock to his shopmates and friends, who had learned to honor and respect him for the sterling qualities he possessed; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we, the members of the New York Tribune chapel, in meeting assembled, while bowing in humble submission to the will of an allwise Providence, take this means of expressing our heartfelt sympathy to the widow and members of his family in the loss they have sustained, and also to show in a measure the respect and esteem in which he was held by those with whom he had labored for many years; and be it further

HENRY T. OGDEN.

Resolutions adopted by Cincinnati Typographical Union No. 3:

Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the chapel, that a copy of same be sent to the family, and that they be published in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL.

Whereas, Since the last meeting of this union, Henry Thomas Ogden, for nearly sixty years a consistent, faithful member of No. 3, and our first president, has gone to the reward of an unusually prolonged life of good deeds, dying in his eighty-sixth year. Mr. Ogden was a thorough printer, and for more than thirty years was superintendent of the printing department of the Robert Clarke Company, a strictly union office, and many of the members of No. 3 graduated into the union under him. He attended the Christian church, and during the last half of his life was an ardent prohibitionist, and at almost every election was selected by that party to stand for some office to represent their principles; and he always made

the race with the exalted courage of the soldier who goes forth to battle knowing he can not possibly win. Liberal to a fault, no one worthy of help ever appealed to Mr. Ogden in vain. No. 3 had in the membership of Mr. Ogden, his two sons and his grandson, the unustar distinction of having three generations of one family in her ranks at the same time, and they have all been a credit to our organization. Be it, therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of H. T. Ogden Typographical Union No. 3 recognizes that not only our union, but all organized labor, has lost a hearty and lifelong advocate and supporter, and the community at large a big-hearted, open-handed Christian gentleman.

Resolved, also, That these resolutions be incorporated into the minutes of this meeting, and that the charter of this union be draped in mourning for thirty days; also that these resolutions be pub lished in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, and a copy sent to his children.