SECRETARY VENABLE, of Knoxville Union No. III, writes as follows: "We have signed up one small shop here, the Dixie Printing Company, employing two men."

WITH the assistance of John E. McLoughlin, the book and job scale of Schenectady Union No. 167 was advanced $1 per week, the scale to be $19 per week for the next three years.

ST. THOMAS (ONT.) UNION No. 459 has signed contracts with the three local employers, to run for three years, the wages for handmen to be $12.50, $13 and $13.50 for each year, respectively, and for operators, $14.50, $15 and $15.50 for the same periods. The old scale was $10 per week for handmen and $12 for operators.

SECRETARY BOND, of Herrin (Ill.) Union No. 599, writes headquarters that every office in his jurisdiction has signed a new scale which calls for an increase in wages. "When I came here, in September, 1906," says Mr. Bond, "the scale was $10 and $12 per week. Today it is $14, $17 and $20, and we now have as good a scale of wages as any town of its size in this part of the state."

THE scale of Canton (Ohio) Union No. 219 has been increased $1.50 per week all around, the revised figures being as follows: Foremen, morning papers, $24 per week; evening papers, $21. Hand compositors and floormen, morning papers, $19.20 per week; evening papers, $18. Machine operators, morning papers, $22.20 per week; evening papers, $19.20. Book and job foremen, $21 per week; journeymen, $18. All time over eight hours price and one-half.

THE following is an extract from a letter of Secretary Wolfenberger, of Muskogee (Okla.) Union No. 484, dated January 15, and addressed to President Lynch: "I enclose herewith for your ap proval signed contracts with all employers of Muskogee. They are for a period of four years, and a substantial increase in wages is granted, the minimum pay being raised from $18 to $22 per week in that time. We also put the hand and machine men on the same basis, both newspaper and book and job. No. 484 points with a great deal of pride to the strides made by her in the matter of wage scales. Eight years ago, when this union was organized, we started with a $12 per week scale; now we have signed for a minimum of $22 per week, which we think is 'going some.' But we would have to go a long way before we ever found a class of as fair employers as we have here."

BоTH the newspaper and job scales of Oklahoma City Union No. 283 were readjusted the first week in January, the newspaper branch receiving an advance from $26 to $27 for operators and from $23 to $24 for handmen the first year, a further increase of $1 the second year for handmen and an additional increase of $2 the third year for handmen. This was for the night workers. On the day side an increase of $1 per week was also given the operators, and the handmen were granted advances the same as the night men, making a final flat scale of $24 for day work and $27 for night work. This makes an increase in wages of $4 per week for all hand compositors on newspapers in the last two years. The book and job printers also received an increase of $1 per week, from $20 to $21. President Hertenstein, of St. Louis Union No. 8, assisted the officers of Oklahoma City Union in conducting negotiations.

BOTH the book and job and newspaper scales of Batavia (N. Y.) Union No. 511 received a substantial increase last month, when negotiations resulted in the hand scale on evening papers being increased from $13 to $15 per week, and the machine scale from $15 to $16.50. The scale for handmen on morning papers was advanced from $15 to $17 per week and the machine scale from $17 to $18. The wages of newspaper foremen were increased from $16 to $18 per week. Book and job men were advanced from $13 to $15. John E. McLoughlin represented the International Union in the settlement.

THE newspaper scale of Seattle Union No. 202 has been signed for 1911 by the three publishers concerned, the only change being in the addition of three new sections, the first providing for 50 cents per day additional for operators caring for their own machine, the second stipulating that when men employed on evening papers publishing a Sunday morning edition are compelled to work a double shift the second shift shall be of but six hours' duration, and the third agreeing that extras put on by the office four days or less in a week shall receive 50 cents per day additional.

CONTRACTS for three years have been signed by the three employing printers of Kenosha, Wis., with Typographical Union No. 116. The new schedule provides for a substantial increase in wages, hand compositors on newspapers receiving $14 per week; machinist-operators, $21; operators, $18. In the book and job branch the pay will be $16, $17 and $18 per week; foremen, $21, and assistant foremen, $17.

THERE has always existed an extremely low scale in Columbia, Mo., which has been a menace to other unions in that locality. However, since the visit of President Hertenstein, of St. Louis Union No. 8, early last month, matters printorial are on an entirely new basis. The wage paid members of No. 160 had been $11.40 per week for journeymen, but under the new agreement during 1911 the pay will be $14 per week; during 1912, $15.50 Another per week, and in 1913, $17 per week. concession made was in the payment for overtime, price and one-quarter being agreed to, where heretofore single price was the rule.

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THE newspapers of Lawrence, Mass., have agreed to an increase of $1 per week for all employes in the composing room, making the minimum scale for morning papers $20 per week and for evening papers $17 per week. These figures will prevail for one year. On January 1, 1912, an additional $1 per week will be granted, the agreement to remain in force for four years. Machinists and machinist-operators are to receive not less than $24 per week. The book and job scale of No. 51 was also advanced $2 per week, making the minimum wage $17. Every job concern, with the exception of a one-man plant, agreed to the increased wage. Robert S. Maloney assisted No. 51 in conducting the negotiations with the publishers and book and job employers.

WITH the assistance of Robert S. Maloney, Portland Union No. 66 was successful in securing an increase in wages of $1 per week for all book and job printers, making the minimum scale for the largest city in Maine $16 per week, the agreement to be in force for one year. Every book and job employer in the city agreed to the new scale. No. 66 has also secured the first signed agreement ever made with a Portland newspaper. It calls for an increase in wages for all newspaper employes of $2 per week. The new agreement, operative January 1, provides for $17 per week for all classes of day work and $19 for floor and hand men on night work, machine operators to receive $22 per week. On the first of next year another dollar will be added to the wages of all employes on evening papers and to hand and floor men on morning papers. The final minimum scale will be $22 for operators and $20 for other work on morning papers, and $18 per week for all employes on evening papers. This scale will remain in force

until January 1, 1916.

AN increased scale has been put into effect at Camden, N. J., President Young, of Philadelphia Union No. 2, assisting in the negotiations with the employers. The members of No. 132 are benefited to the extent of $2 per week for handmen in all offices, making the scale $16 per week. Although the operators agreed to let the old scale of $17 per week stand, it is said they will have no difficulty in securing more money as individuals. The scale for night work will be $19 per week for handmen and $20 per week for operators. The new agreement provides for the payment for all overtime at the rate of price and one-half. Now that No. 132 has a fair scale of wages in force, it is proposed to start an active label campaign and further strengthen the union.

THE Vancouver Daily World has signed an agreement with Typographical Union No. 226 which provides that at the termination of the existing contract the scale will be advanced from $25 per week to $30 for day work, and from $27 per week to $33 for night work. A gradual decrease in working hours from seven and one-half to seven per day is also provided for. The two other daily papers of Vancouver have the new wage schedule under consideration.

ALL the offices in the jurisdiction of Prince Rupert (B. C.) Union No. 413 have agreed on the following scale: Foremen, $33 per week; journey. men (either hand or machine), $30; machinist, $36; machinist-operator, $39. The wages for a night shift are based on a rate 50 cents per day in advance of the figures quoted above.

KEOKUK UNION No. 68 secured another dollar advance in its job scale on the first of the year, $17 to be the minimum wage for 1911 and 1912. On newspapers a dollar increase also took effect at the same time, the minimum pay to be $19 for night work and $17 for day work.

EFFECTIVE January 1, 1911, and to continue for three years, an increase in the newspaper scale has been obtained by Joplin (Mo.) Union No. 350, Charles Hertenstein, president of St. Louis Union No. 8, assisting the local executive committee in negotiations with the publishers. The new agreement provides for an increase of $3 per week, as follows: Night work-Foremen, $25 per week; all other employes, $23. Day work-Foremen, $23 per week; all other employes, $21.

HOLYOKE UNION No. 253 has contracts with the employers, to run for five years, beginning January 1, 1911, the first three years of which $1 per week is added to the wage each year. The final figures will be $21 per week for operators, $19.50 for handmen on newspapers and $18 for book and job men. The piping of typesetting machines necessary for carrying away the fumes of the metal is also provided for in the agreement.

SECRETARY JONES, of Lethbridge (Alberta) Union No. 551, reports that new agreements with the employers have been signed which call for a wage of $22 per week for hand and floor men and $24 for machine operators for day work. For night work the figures are $23 and $26 per week. These prices obtain for two years, when the machine operators get another dollar added to the above figures.

A RAISE in wages of $3 per week for all members of Pontiac (Mich.) Union No. 512 has been negotiated, according to advices received from Secretary Newman. The contracts are for two years and provide a scale of $18 and $21 per week for day and night operators, respectively; foremen, $18 per week, and ad and book and job men, $15 per week.

SECRETARY LEVERETT, of Gainsville (Texas) Union No. 531, sends in union contracts signed by the four printing concerns of that city, and says: "We raised the scale from $12 and $15 to $14, $15 and $17. We also raised the machine scale from $18 to $21 per week, and had little trouble in signing up the new contracts."

UNDER a two-year contract dating from the first of the present year, Halifax Union No. 130 has secured a scale of $14 per week for hand compositors, $16 for day work on machines and $18 for night machine work. This is an advance of $3 per week for hand men.

On the advent of the new year the hand scale of Edmonton (Alberta) Union No. 604, for both book and job and newspaper work, was advanced to $20 on the day side and $21.50 on the night side. This was an increase of $1 per week.

THE scale for handmen has been raised from $18 to $20 per week by Wichita Falls (Texas) Union No. 505. The balance of the scale is the same as the previous one, and all employers have signed for the year 1911.

UNDER date of December 29, 1910, Secretary Ainsworth, of Huron (S. D.) Union No. 561, writes that an increase of $2 per week over the old scale has been secured by that organization.

CONTRACTS have been signed by the book and job employers of La Crosse, Wis., providing for an increase of $1 per week in the scale. The members of No. 448 employed in this branch will now receive $16 per week.

ACCORDING to a contract with the Bristol (Tenn.) Herald-Courier, forwarded by Secretary Hamlet, of Typographical Union No. 426, the floormen employed on that paper have received an advance in wages of $1.50 a week.

ALL four offices in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, recently signed the scale of Typographical Union No. 445 for another year, which carried an increase for the hand scale to $21 per week and machine operators to $24 per week.

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UNDER date of January 16, Secretary Schwarz, of Oneida (N. Y.) Union No. 336, writes: "It is with pleasure I have to report that No. 336 has signed up all the book and job and newspaper offices in our jurisdiction, being given a $2 a week raise for all handmen, the agreement to run for three years and became operative on January 1."

LEAD POISONING-OR IS IT ANTIMONY?

In his paper read before the Royal Institute of Public Health, Dr. J. C. McWalker suggested that deleterious effects in composing rooms should be attributed rather to the antimony than the lead in type metal and dust.

He pointed out that the introduction of linotype machines seems to have lessened the amount of plumbism amongst printers, but as the smelting operations are often conducted under the same roof, and often in crowded, ill-ventilated city offices, one finds evidence of antimonial poisoning even amongst linotype operators. The dust present is also a potent source of poisoning. It has been found that analysis of the dust of printing offices showed as much as 14.43 per cent of lead. If antimony were present in the usual proportion, there should be 3 or 4 per cent of antimony-a dangerously poisonous proportion.

In a report recently presented to the German Board of Health, Faber found in the dust collected from the floor 11.51 per cent of lead; the dust on a shelf in the room contained 6.59 per cent of lead, while dust collected in the gangway between the desks in the composing room of a newspaper con. tained 4.7 per cent of lead. We have no account of the antimony present, but it is certain that it must be present with the lead in at least the same proportion of 25 to 30 per cent that it exists in the type. Can any one suggest that the presence of from 1 to 4 per cent of antimony in the dust of a room can be without effect on the health?-British Printer.

ARTICLE I.

NAME. OBJECT. JURISDICTION. Section 1. This body shall be known as the International Allied Printing Trades Association.

Section 2. The objects of this association are to designate the products of the labor of the members thereof by adopting and registering a label or trade mark designating such products.

Section 3. To that end the association shall by its board of governors adopt a label, to be known as "Allied Printing Trades Label," which label shall be used to distinguish the product of the labor of the members of the association; and the association shall exercise jurisdiction throughout the United States of America and Canada in regard to said label, and over subordinate local organizations which shall be established and maintained in accordance with the provisions of these laws.

ARTICLE II.

MEMBERSHIP.

Section 1. All members in good standing of the International Typographical Union, the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union, the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders and the International Photo-Engravers' Union shall be members of this association. But before the members of any of the said unions shall become members of this association, they shall by appropriate action taken by them at a convention, or on referendum vote or otherwise in manner approved by the respective unions, duly declare their intention and desire to become such members and agree to abide by all laws and regulations now or hereafter adopted for the government of this association, and shall at the same time provide who shall constitute their representatives on the board of governors hereinafter provided for in Article III. And any member ceasing to be a member in good standing in one of said unions shall thereby cease to be a member of this association.

ARTICLE III.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

Section 1. The affairs of this association shall be conducted and governed by a board to be known as the "Board of Governors." Said board shall also be trustees of, and hold title to, any label adopted by the association and all other property of the association; and they shall cause to be registered such label in all states, territories and District of Columbia, in the United States, and Dominion and Provinces of Canada, where registration is or may be hereafter authorized by law.

Section 2. The board of governors shall consist of eight members. For the purpose of selecting

those members, the membership of this association shall be divided into five groups, as follows:

One group consisting of those members who are also members of the International Typographical Union, who shall select four members of said board; one group consisting of those members who are also members of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union, who shall select one member of said board; one group consisting of those members who are also members of the International Stereotypers' and Electrotypers' Union, who shall select one member of said board; one group consisting of those members who are also members of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, who shall select one member of said board; and one group consisting of those members who are also members of the International Photo-Engravers' Union, who shall select one member of said board.

The selection of said members of said board of governors shall be in the manner and by the mode adopted by the several groups of members above specified respectively.

Section 3. The members of said board shall hold office until their successors are duly chosen. Should any member of said board cease to be such member, his successor shall be chosen or designated by the group who had selected such member in such manner as such group may determine. No member of said board shall continue in office after he has ceased to be a member of this association.

Section 4. The officers of the board of governors shall be a president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer and such other officers as the board may determine, who shall be elected by a majority But no two executive officers shall be members of the same trade union.

vote.

Section 5. Regular meetings of the board of governors shall be held on the first Monday in November, March and July of each year at the place decided upon by a majority vote of the board of governors, written notice of which shall be mailed to each member of the board by the secretary-treasurer thereof. At the regular meeting in March, the officers of said board shall be nominated, elected and installed for the ensuing year. If any vacancy occurs during the ensuing year it shall be filled from members of the board.

On written demand of a majority of the members of the board, the president shall call a meeting at a convenient time and place designated by the president and after written notice is mailed to each member of the board.

In the event of any member of the board being unable to attend any meeting he may delegate his power and authority to a proxy, who, however, shall be a member of the same trade union of which the member giving the proxy is a member.

Upon the filing of properly presented credentials to the board of governors, said proxy shall be accorded all rights and privileges due to the member for whom he is proxy.

When any group shall have more than one representative on the board of governors, then in the absence of any member or members thereof selected by said group, the other member or members of the board selected by such group may cast the full vote to which said group shall be entitled without having any proxy to do so.

Between meetings the secretary-treasurer may submit any questions calling for prompt action to the consideration of the members of the board of governors by mail, and the members shall vote by mail. Their votes shall be canvassed and announced by the secretary-treasurer and given the same effect as though cast at a meeting, and all such proceedings shall be reported by the secretary. treasurer at the next regular meeting of the board. All questions coming before the board of governors shall be decided by unanimous vote, except as provided in sections 4 and 5 of this article. In the event of failure of the board of governors to agree unanimously upon any proposition or propositions submitted to it, then any one or more of the members of said board may demand that such proposition or propositions be submitted to a disinterested person for decision, and such disinterested person shall be selected by the unanimous vote of the board of governors, but if said board shall fail to agree upon such disinterested person, then such person shall be selected by the president of the American Federation of Labor, and the decision of such person so selected shall be final and binding upon the board of governors. Notice of the demand to submit any such proposition or propositions for decision to a disinterested person, as aforesaid, must be given during the session in which such proposition or propositions arise, and the settlement of such proposition or propositions shall proceed to determination as speedily as circumstances permit, not to exceed thirty days from the time said notice shall be given, unless the time shall be extended by the board of governors.

Section 6. The board of governors may adopt such rules of procedure in the hearing of appeals and in the conduct of such other business as may properly come before it as do not conflict with any of the general laws of the association.

ARTICLE IV.

LOCAL ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCILS.

Section 1. In localities where there are subordinate unions chartered by two or more of the unions mentioned in Article II hereof, a local allied printing trades council shall be formed, the jurisdiction of which shall be determined by said board of governors. Within such jurisdiction no member of the International Allied Printing Trades Association shall use any trade label other than that issued by said International Allied Printing Trades Association through the local allied printing trades council, and all unions whose members are members of the International Allied Printing Trades Association shall withdraw from said jurisdiction their union label.

Section 2. It shall be composed of members

chosen by and from those who are members of said subordinate unions, three being appointed or elected from each union in the manner, and by the mode adopted by the members of the union. The selection of the three members from the membership of each of said unions shall be certified to said local allied printing trades council, and the three members of each class shall continue to be members of said local council for a term of one year and until their successors are duly chosen and certified by the members of that class. No one shall be at the same time a member of more than one local allied printing trades council.

Section 3. Each member present at any meeting of a local allied printing trades council shall be entitled to one vote. But a roll call may be demanded by any member on a question involving the raising of revenue or the election of officers, and on said roll call each member shall be entitled to additional votes as follows: For fifty (50) members of the local union to which he belongs, one vote; for each additional fifty (50) members or major fraction thereof up to three hundred (300) members, one vote; for the next two hundred (200) members or major fraction thereof, one vote; for each additional five hundred (500) members or major fraction thereof, one vote; the membership to be computed in accordance with the last per capita tax paid by each local union.

Section 4. Local allied printing trades councils shall elect as officers a president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer and such other officers as the local council may determine. And said local councils may adopt such provisions and rules for their government as are not in conflict with the purpose and provisions of the general laws of the International Allied Printing Trades Association or in conflict with the rules and laws of the board of governors of said International Allied Printing Trades Association.

Section 5. The funds of each local allied printing trades council shall be under its control, and shall be on a per capita basis.

ARTICLE V.

APPEALS.

Section 1. Appeals may be made to the board of governors from the decision or action of any local allied printing trades council. In such case the applicant must within ten days from said decision or action file notice of his intention to appeal with the president, vice-president or secre tary-treasurer of the local allied printing trades council; and within thirty days from said decision or action the appellant shall forward to the secre tary-treasurer of the board of governors ten typewritten copies of the appeal papers, serving one copy on the president, vice-president or secretarytreasurer of said local allied printing trades council. After such service said local allied printing trades council shall have thirty days in which to file with the secretary-treasurer of said board of governors ten typewritten copies of its answer. And no such appeal shall be considered by the board of governors unless it shall be approved by the local union of which the appellant is a mem