bor, and pressmen seceded and took out a charter in the new organization. To strengthen their position they became organizers in Toronto, and when the binders' shorter-day campaign assessment became irksome to some they also applied for a charter. And so they keep on growing, and while the material of which they are constructed is not all of the best, nevertheless great harm can be wrought at critical times by the existence of this organization.

Technical Education Commissioner James Simpson arrived home from St. Louis, Mo., just in time for the Christmas holidays. He reports having called at headquarters in Indianapolis on his way home.

Not the least interesting feature of the most instructive meeting of No. 91 in many moons was the "impromptu" of James Simpson while the scrutineers in an election contest were busy. Mr. Simpson cited many instances of the remarkable progress made in the industrial field through the perfection of machinery which had a tendency to do away with the present-day apprentice system, employers preferring the handy man to the longterm apprentice and skilled mechanic and the resultant higher wage. Mr. Simpson believed the time had come when organized labor should cooperate with the trade schools advocates to the advantage of the toiler. Many other features of the trade schools' effect on the industrial field of the future were dealt with by the speaker in such a manner that those who listened were confirmed in their opinion that organized labor had made no mistake when the Dominion congress had recommended James Simpson to be their representative on the Royal Commission on Technical Education. The report of the relief committee showed a remarkable state of immunity from sickness in a membership of over a thousand, and was a tribute to the policy of the International in the past in reference to sanitary working conditions. To the retrospective oldtimer the composing rooms of today are a revelation. Duncan McDougall's remarks on the work of the delegates to the trades and labor council were highly appreciated, and the announcement of the election of a member of No. 91, Norman Williams, to the presidency of that body was warmly acknowledged. Samuel Hadden, John T. Edworthy and W. R. Steep were elected to represent the union's interests at the meeting of shareholders of the Toronto Labor Temple Company. President Sam Hadden made a hit with his report on the improvements in the secretary's office. Provision had been made at previous meetings of the union for the adoption of a more liberal policy in reference to local headquarters, and the president instructed to carry his plans out immediately on entering the new suite of rooms secured. Meeting with some opposition on the grounds of economy from those directly interested, he brought the matter to the attention of the union. His attitude was endorsed by the members present, and hereafter committees, and others having business with the secretary's of fice, besides having their comfort looked after in furnishings and upholstery, will have a telephone,

typewriter and stenographer at their disposal. The delegates to the allied printing trades council drew attention to the engraved label. The membership at large know who are entitled to the use of the label and that all labels are numbered. The engraved label is illegal. This label seldom escapes the stereotyper, but why should it get that far? Mention was also made of the "handy-man" manipulation of the paper cutter in many composing rooms. It was pointed out that the bookbinders were taking a little more interest in this phase of the allied situation. James Simpson, Norman Williams and the writer were appointed a committee to devise some means of suitably perpetuating the memory of the late John Armstrong.

Walter Williams, the veteran statistician of the printers' bowling league, has given out his averages for the first series, which was completed last month. Jimmy Booth, of the Acton Pub, leads, his splash ball getting him 185. In class B, Haram, of Acton's, leads with 163. H. Cameron, of the Daily World, leads class C, averaging 150. The championship of series 1, morning section, goes to the Sunday World, while the Toronto Typesetting Company's team grabbed the honors in series 1, evening section. Records established-Single game, E. Parkes, Toronto Typesetting Company, 267; three games, L. Findley, World (1908-9), 663; team total, single game, Maclean Pub, 1009; three game team total, News (1908-9), 2664.

The concert committee has completed its labors, and it is now up to the membership to see that every seat in Massey Hall on March 11 is filled. A glance at the array of talent leads one to believe that that will easily be accomplished. Here they are: Ida George Elliott, of Detroit, soprano; Harold Jarvis, tenor; Grace Merry, elocutionist; Donald C. McGregor, baritone; Francis Wright, entertainer; John Kelly, ventriloquist; Will J. White, comedian; Will Moor, tenor; Doric male quartet; Charles E. Bodley, accompanist; Fortyeighth Highlanders Band, John Slatter, conductor. The program will be under the direction of Will J. White. The committee worked under the chairmanship of Bob Elliott, with Tom Stevenson as secretary.

R. R. Elliott, formerly chairman of the executive committee of No. 91, and secretary of the Toronto District Labor Council, is now located in Alberta, as editor of the Strome Despatch.

W. T. Yard, A. E. Ford, C. E. Sevier, E. J. Stephenson and William King blew in, while S. H. Cox, W. R. Willard, A. E. Reef and W. H. Bulkley departed. JAMES STEVENSON.

U. C. McLean has moved from the Confederation Life building to the new Nicholls building on King, west, and will in future do his own composition and presswork. A new American linotype has been installed.

Frank Hyland met with a serious accident while tobogganing on the High Park slides. A severe fracture of the kneecap will likely lay him up for some time.

Things are beginning to warm up for the next

election. Already several names are mentioned for the delegateship to San Francisco, including that of your scribe. Calgary is also receiving attention for the delegate to the trades and labor congress.

The Star composing room will shortly be moved up another story. It is being equipped with all the latest improvements and will be one of the finest workshops in America.

The seceding pressmen's label was noticed on several of the election candidates' cards. Rather rough on this town.

"Jimmie" Simpson, as a member of the technical trades commission, will leave shortly for a six months' trip in Europe.

The ending of the Hunter-Rose dispute was very unsatisfactory. It is not very long till the next scale comes up, and the employers will certainly take advantage of every weakness that has been shown. MILTON E. POOLE.

SEATTLE, WASH.

No. 202 has signed a scale with the publishers for 1911 that is practically the same as the 1910 schedule-$5 and $5.50 for seven hours day and night. Three new sections were added, providing for payment of 50 cents per day extra to oper ators who take care of their own machines and which applies generally in job offices; that members who are compelled to work a double shift shall work but six hours on the second shift; and that extras hired by the office for four days or less each week shall receive 50 cents per day extra. The last-mentioned section was granted by the publishers after it had been shown them that the newspaper business was the only one that could depend on a supply of skilled help being available from day to day over and above the number required to handle the ordinary amount of work in their plants. When they were convinced that the men who show up day after day were protecting the office when any rush of work was on, they readily conceded the 50 cents per day extra for those working four days or less for the office.

Harrison Gray Otis, John Kirby, jr., and J. B. Bird, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, president of the National Manufacturers' Association, and general manager of the association, respectively, were guests of the local metal trades association at banquet at the Arctic Club on December 14, 1910. The speeches made by these gentlemen, who were apparently on an organizing tour for their own union, the manufacturers' association, were fully reported in the local press. As far as can be learned at this time their mission was not helpful to their cause; in fact, it reacted in favor of the striking machinists and other unions in the iron trades in Seattle. No one could read the reported speeches of these gentlemen without being impressed with the absolute one-sidedness and selfishness of their arguments and claims. one of the speakers presented a thought, an argument or a conclusion that could not have been refuted by any intelligent member of a union, had

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the opportunity afforded. The National Manufacturers' Association of America is reputed to be the largest organization of its kind in the country, possibly in the world. Undoubtedly such an organization needs and has at its head the very best man it can secure. Judge of J. B. Bird's ability, of his fairness and of his conception of the intelligence of his audience (more than 300 prominent business men, merchants and manufacturers, according to local papers) when in the course of his speech he said, speaking of the late J. W. Van Cleave: * and I know as well as I know

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I am here that if there are any unions in heaven, James W. Van Cleave is fighting them. And if there are no unions there, which we must believe, and which we do believe I know that J. W. Van Cleave stood at the gates and welcomed those twenty souls whose lives departed in Los Angeles." This is the message that the general manager of the National Manufacturers' Association gave to members and others in Seattle. Mr. Bird did not talk of his association or its needs or work. He talked of heaven and expressed admirable sentiments, as the above will show. John Kirby, jr., president of the association, contributed the following: the prosecution

of the foreign-born boycott, condemned by all reasonably disposed people throughout Christendom, and which can only be carried out by violence and vandalism, or by methods that are too contemptible for civilized beings to tolerate." Of course, when Mr. Kirby said this he was referring to the unions. He was not applying his indictment against boycotters to the merchants' and manufacturers' association in Los Angeles, in Seattle or elsewhere. If Frederick Palmer in the January Hampton's is to be believed, the merchants and manufacturers of Los Angeles are some boycotters themselves. In this connection, it might be well to say that Seattle printshops that are known to be union are boycotted by a certain firm that is quite prominent in the local association.

Dr. Sydney Strong, of the Congregational church, commented in part as follows on General Otis' speech in the Post-Intelligencer of December 19:

I read General Otis' speech before the manufacturers' association. It breathed neither peace nor good will, but defiance and insistence on certain rights as to property. This is Gen

eral Otis' Christmas message, one that would make the angels weep, not sing: "Control is the supreme question-control, absolute control by the owners of their own affairs, of their own property." It is a message from the jungle.

Many business and professional men expressed themselves as being disappointed in what they heard, while many of those who were not present, but who read the speeches, said they were glad that circumstances had kept them away.

The newspapers carried a story with a Los Angeles date on January 6, 1911, that the special grand jury investigating the Times disaster had returned indictments against twenty-one in the explosion case. On January 9 the same papers had a story from the judge of the superior court in Los Angeles who summoned the grand jury to the

effect that the grand jury had made no report and would make none. The judge ought to know, and these two stories are simply additional proof that some of the news agencies are willing to give all the publicity possible to anything that will injure unionism in connection with this Los Angeles matter in the general public's mind, before the facts in the case are established. Should it happen that the explosion was caused by gas, as the telegraph operators in the Times suggested in their testimony (and for which they were discharged), it would seem to the writer that several newspaper publishers throughout the country who published stories charging the explosion to labor unions should be prosecuted for libel.

R. M. MCCULLOUGH.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

In keeping with the spirit of progress which the Indianapolis News has always manifested, it has recently completed an addition to the mechanical building by raising it up two more stories, giving ample room for the composing room, stereotype room, art engravers, job printing, mailing room and pressroom. A large and commodious room is also given over to the newsboys for recreation and practice room for the Indianapolis News newsboys band.

The whole building is now a model of its kind, and for sanitary arrangements is not excelled by any office in the country, barring none.

The composing room occupies the entire upper or fourth floor of the building and contains 5,400 feet of floor space, with an additional 500 feet on a balcony which is used as a storage for matrices, cuts, etc. The ceiling is twenty feet high, large windows afford good light, and with the ventilating system, consisting of a series of pipes and fans which draw all impure air and gas fumes from the room while another series of pipes and fans, connected with a filter for purifying air, force a steady current of absolutely fresh, pure air into the room at a hight of about seven feet from the floor. This ventilating system is the same as is used in several of the large new buildings of the city, notably the Masonic Temple. By it the air in the entire building can be changed completely in less than three minutes. No foul air can possibly remain in the building, which is of great benefit to the welfare of the employes and also obviates any danger of a gas explosion.

The News has a battery of twenty-six machines. Two of them are double-deckers; one late model double-deck head letter machine, and two of the late-style model No. 5's. The balance of the battery is made up of the regular news machines. The adroom is probably one of the largest and finest equipped in the United States, every modern improvement and labor-saving device being installed. The make-ups also have ample room.

The stereotyping room is on the third floor, being connected with the make-up by an electric lift. This does away with steam tables in the composing room, which aids much in keeping a pure air in that section of the building. The electric wiring

throughout the building is by conduits, and in the composing room no overhead wiring is to be found except in the make-up department. There large groups of 100-candle power tungsten lights drive away any semblance of a shadow.

The toilet rooms for both men and women are complete in every particular. Individual steel lockers are provided, the toilet furnishings being all marble, and include three shower baths. The building is equipped with a large passenger elevator, which is the only part of the entire structure that was erected with non-union labor, all others employed in the construction of the building being affiliated with some local trade union. Ed D. Donnell, whose picture appears here, a member of Typographical Union No. I, and well known to the craft in other cities, was appointed purchasing agent for the Indiana legislature, which is now in session. Mr. Donnell represented Cincinnati Union No. 3 at the Toronto convention, and also will be remembered by those who attended the golden jubilee convention at the Queen City in 1902, when he was one of the local entertainment committee. The position he holds with the Indiana legislature is a very important one, the buying of every bit of printing and other supplies for the body being under his personal direction.

During the past month the Barnes-Waterman Printing Company and the King Printing Company were unionized. The first-named concern employs two journeymen and the latter is a one-man shop. KARL C. WOLFE.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Since the last issue of THE JOURNAL several letters have been received commendatory of the position I have taken with regard to making it obligatory upon members working at the book and job branch to put the label on all the commercial product they turn out. A law to this effect is nec essary, for we have got to hammer it into the heads of our own members first to get the habit of placing the label on their work. The manner of manufacturing labels has turned "dirt cheap" since they put a machine in at headquarters, and it may be made a whole lot cheaper if our secretaries will keep the old labels until they have, say, twenty or more pounds, then send them back to the machine room, the value of the lead to pay the return express charge. Under such arrangements as we now have it is not a hardship for any allied printing trades council to furnish all the labels that are needed, and returning the metal may enable us to cut at least one-fourth off the present price. But the argument is the necessity of having our men place the label on all their work. What if the garment workers or the shoe workers placed their label only when requested by the customer? Where would their label be? They put it on all their product. Why should not we? We will see our

label more generally used if we have the law on the book to answer the "row" that will come from the "front office" about the liberties the men are taking in the free use of our labels on the work turned out. The union shops do not try to use the label. I know this from nearly four years' experience at the head of No. 1o's label committee. On to San Francisco, boys! Let us have that compulsory label law, but the lease numbers are not wanted.

In the Mergenthaler linotype ad work contest the Courier-Journal ad force, under the direction

ing more news of a greater variety of character. The Courier-Journal has long been acclaimed the democratic organ of the south, fighting the battles of pure and undefiled Jeffersonian democracy.

Edward Gottschalk, of the Standard Printing Company, had an unsolicited honor thrust upon him early in January when the republican city and county committee, without his knowledge, elected him a member of the party's advisory committee, a position of much-sought-for honor; but Ed, having been elected as one of the people's choice on the new school commission, declined the honor, stating

of Superintendent Binford, who was, until a little over a year ago, for seventeen years head of the ad department, won third prize in class C-that is, in offices having more than twelve Mergenthalers and has received a check for $100 from the Mergenthaler company. Since the first of the year there have been several changes in the editorial force of the paper, the most important of which was the placing of Harrison Robinson in the managing editor's "boots." Mr. Robinson and "Marse" Henry Watterson, known all over the world for his editorial writings, are making the paper a great improvement over past years, print

that he was elected on the commission as a nonpartisan, and that he could not consistently maintain party connections while giving the people his services on the school board. Mr. Gottschalk certainly was born under the lucky stars, for when the new commission organized on January 2 the five commissioners drew lots to determine which two of them would serve the two two-year terms. He drew a four-year term. No member of a trade union in Louisville has ever been shown a shade of the honor our brother printer now enjoys. All the members of No. 10 are proud of Edward Gottschalk, and wish him further glory

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Sid Gilroy, formerly foreman of the Nashville American and lately connected with the New York Times, is now foreman of the Herald. When John C. Shaffer, of the Chicago Post, became connected with the Herald over a year ago, the newspaper appeared to be "on its last legs" and a receivership was sought by the bondholders. Mr. Shaffer paid the debts and assumed full ownership and control of the paper, changing its policy from republican to independent, but a supporter of the national administration, and reduced the price to I cent. The Herald has made good and it now claims the largest circulation of any morning daily in the state of Kentucky. Changes and improvements have been too numerous to mention, and Mr. Gilroy's appointment to the foremanship is the latest of importance.

They got soaked! Surely those bondholders did. F. C. Nunemacher's debts amounted to about $65,000; his plant sold for $15,500, and other items brought the amount up to $23,000, and when the settlement was made the general creditors received 5 cents on the dollar and the holders of the $39,000 worth of bonds got only 14 or 15 cents on the dollar, so the daily papers said recently. The Nunemacher failure stung moneyed men so hard that there is something now going on in financial circles, said to have been overheard at the courthouse, regarding non-union printshops-that's all we know at the present time. It is reported that Mr. Nunemacher has accepted a position in a printing house in New York to begin life anew.

Early in January an agent of the Standard Accident Insurance Company, of Detroit, Mich., tried to invade our printing offices. We "spied" the name of "D. M. Ferry, jr.," among the company's officers and notice was posted telling of the attitude of the D. M. Ferry Seed Company, of Detroit, toward Detroit Typographical Union, with the result that the young agent received some disappointment in old Looeyville. He promised to write the main office about his experience.

At the recent election of the United Trades and Labor Assembly H. A. Meckbach was re-elected the vice-president from the printing trades section and James H. Watson elected recording secretary. Both are members of No. 10.

The Kentucky State Federation of Labor met in Lexington four days, beginning January 9, and Max Traut, our secretary-treasurer, was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the state body. Many matters pertaining to printing trades were acted upon by the convention, among which are resolutions on the Cambridge University Press eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Larkin Soap Company, the Saturday Evening Post, the Ladies' Home Journal, the D. M. Ferry Seed Company, the Butterick publications and patterns, the Wine and Spirit Bulletin, and strong resolutions opposing the candidacy of Joseph C. Van Meter, head of the Bradley & Gilbert Company, one of our "rat" houses, for the nomination for the office of state treasurer on the democratic ticket in the pri mary to be held May 27, 1911. Secretary-Treasurer Hays was present and addressed the delegates at their banquet.

At our January meeting President Stack addressed the union and reviewed conditions in this jurisdiction during the past five years and outlined the work for the future, and also told about the I. T. U. Course in Printing, after which the union voted Robert Irick a scholarship in the school "in recognition of his valuable service in connection with label work." So your correspondent becomes the first student in No. 1o's jurisdiction. No. 10 adopted a resolution against Joseph Van Meter's candidacy, as stated above, and proposes to fight the gentleman to the finish.

A petition in the matter of the Tou Velle-Nelson bill, which seeks to prohibit the government from printing corner cards on stamped envelops, was signed by every union and non-union printing house in the business part of town. The passage of the bill will be a matter of common good, and no harm can be done if all the label committees should do as our committee did. Everybody is for the bill, and in being asked to sign the petition, which was typewritten on No. 10's letterhead, not a question was asked by any of the non-union shops.

The Louisville Herald and the Evening Post recently conducted "booklovers' contests." The Herald's prizes amount to over $3,500, one of which is to be a lot in Eastleigh, one of the swellest residence sections of the city.

As announced some time ago in THE JOURNAL, the non-union forty-eight-hour week went into effect January 1 in some of the non-union shops. It was joy to the "rats" until they had to work overtime one week recently; and as the non-union arrangement requires fifty-four hours' time to be put in before overtime can be paid for at price and a half, only straight-hour time was paid for the overtime work put in. Rodentville is in an uproar now-watch for the break to the union at first opportunity.

The many friends of Albert E. Hill, of Nashville, an International representative, and well known all over the south, will be pleased to learn that Mayor Howse, of Nashville, has appointed him as a member of the board of education in that city; and we all feel like Nashville has a really people's mayor. He is certainly making good on his campaign promises-and more, too.

And the friends of "Cap" Herrington here and elsewhere wish to congratulate him upon his elec tion as president of the Nashville Trades and Labor Council. "Cap" is a Louisville product, and was one of the Nashville delegates to Minneapolis last year. ROBERT IRICK.

HAMILTON, CANADA.

There passed from earth on December 19, 1910, in his eighty-fifth year, William Cliff, the dean of the craft in this city. Almost two generations of Hamilton printers have known "Billy," and to know him was to grant him both respect and affection. Away back in 1854, on March 6, when Hamilton Typographical Union held its initial meeting, Mr. Cliff was its first president, and through the long intervening years, during which