continue until the sum of $10,000 is raised. With this as a foundation appeals will be made to other labor organizations. The building as planned is to include business offices, library, clubrooms and a hall for literary and educational purposes where conventions and public meetings in the interests of organized labor can be held. The desire is to thus perpetuate the memory of the great publisher and philanthropist for the interest which he took in the cause of labor, and particularly in the welfare of the union printers.

Ownership of the Allied Label.

With the dissolving of the Joint Conference Board of the Allied Printing Trades and the formation of the International Allied Printing Trades Association, at International Union headquarters in Indianapolis, on March 6 and 7, the proprietary interest in the union label of the allied printing trades is vested in the five international unions, viz.: printers, pressmen, bookbinders, stereotypers and electrotypers, and photo-engravers. Under the new agreement which was adopted by each of the organizations interested, the typographical union will have four votes in the association and the other four crafts will have one vote each. Under the laws of the association all action taken must be by unanimous vote, and should the members be unable to agree the disputed question goes to an arbitrator, and John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, was selected to act as arbitrator in the first dispute that may arise.

The vote on the new agreement taken on February 15 last, by the local typographical unions, will be found elsewhere in this issue of THE JOURNAL. The plan was endorsed by the printers by a vote of 14,546 for to 7,732 against. Majority for the proposition, 6,814.

If any member has a copy of the Atlanta convention proceedings of 1890, or a copy of THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL of October, 1890, which he does not wish to keep, it will be appreciated if same is sent to President Lynch at International headquar

ters.

Rates to the Pacific Coast.

The Trans-Continental Passenger Association has announced the summer tourist railroad rates to California and North Pacific coast points, to be in effect from June I to September 30, 1911, inclusive, with final return limit October 31. The circular issued shows the fares authorized from the principal gateways, stop-over privileges, etc., and the rates are applicable only from Chicago and Mississippi river points and cities west therefrom. The minimum and maximum round-trip rates between points named are shown in the following table, but does not include Arizona and North Pacific destinations, for which localities corresponding low rates have been made: Rate No. 1. Rate No. 2.

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Election of Delegates.

Election of delegates to the fifty-seventh session of the International Typographical Union, to be held in San Francisco, Cal., August 14-19, 1911, in compliance with the laws of the International Union, must be held on the third Wednesday in May of each year. Election day therefore falls on May 17 this year. Local unions should bear this in mind, as the selection of delegates on any other date would be illegal. Attention is also directed to section 4, article iv, constitution, which reads as follows:

SECTION 1. Subordinate unions are entitled to representation in conventions of the International Typographical Union according to the following apportionment: Unions with one hundred members or less, one delegate; more than one hundred and less than five hundred members, two delegates; more than five hundred and less than one thousand members, three delegates; and one thousand or any greater number of members, four delegates. Two or more subordinate unions, having a membership of less than one hundred members each, may combine and elect one delegate, the certificate of a delegate so chosen to be signed by the presi dent and secretary of each of the unions he represents.

Opposition to Larkin Products.

Many merchants' associations throughout the country are taking up arms against the unfair Larkin Soap Company, of Buffalo, N. Y. One of those most active is the association at North Adams, Mass., which is opposing the Buffalo concern on the ground that it interferes with the trade of local business houses. It is on a different ground, however, that the typographical union bases its opposition to the company. The Larkin Company has never recognized union labor, and all its printed matter is made under non-union conditions. North Adams Typographical Union is co-operating with the local merchants in their fight against the soap company, and recently adopted the following resolutions:

Whereas, The extension of the Larkin Soap Company plan is apparently among the working people, we, the Typographical Union of North Adams, desire to protest against this company; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we ask the people of this city and vicinity, and most especially the working people, not to allow their children to solicit orders for

premiums from said company or in any way encourage their business; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we hope that the people will patronize such concerns only in this line of business as are fair to organized labor and when and where it will do the most good for our community as a whole.

A Union Man for Governor. One of the names most prominently mentioned for the gubernatorial nomination in Kansas at the present time is that of Frank J. Ryan, who is now filling his third term as railroad commissioner of that state. Mr. Ryan has not only been an excellent public official, serving the people of his state in a commendable manner, but in times of need, during the eight-hour strike, his services to the International Typographical Union in diverting work from struck shops were invaluable. As circuit court clerk of the Leavenworth district, his services rendered were instrumental in unionizing at least two of the large printing establishments of St. Louis. Aside from this his services to organized labor in general, and in the arbitration proceedings between the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, were of a high order. Such men as Frank J. Ryan are the kind we need in our high public offices. Mr. Ryan is, and has been for many years, a member in good standing of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.

Another Louisville Non-Union House

Bankrupt.

Right on the heels of the Nunemacher failure in Louisville came the news that on March 20 the Globe Printing Company, of that city, filed a petition of voluntary bankruptcy in the United States Court. The petition states that the concern owes $73,061.80 and has $20,820 assets. Among the creditors named are the First National Bank, of Louisville, $8,500, in secured notes, and John A. Fulton, of Bardstown, Ky., who holds notes aggregating $21,158. It is also said the Mergenthaler Linotype Company holds a mortgage for $6,000. That something would happen to the now bankrupt concern was hinted in the Louisville correspondence a couple of months ago,

some talk about the concern having been overheard in the county clerk's office, consequently the news of the failure was not surprising to the officers of Louisville Typographical Union. Two years ago the Continental Printing Company was consolidated with the Globe, and a debt in favor of the old Continental is also listed at $4,500 in the schedule of liabilities.

The Globe Printing Company was in existence for about ten years. Up to about 1905 it was a union shop, but since then effort was made to run it on a non-union basis, and the various printing trades have been resisted in the demand for the eighthour day and union shop.

A. E. Hill, of Nashville, representing the International Typographical Union, has been in Louisville several times within the last few months negotiating with Henry Bacon, president of the company, with a view of unionizing the shop in the hope of saving it, and on the day the bankruptcy petition was filed Mr. Hill was in the act of going to see Mr. Bacon again when he learned of the voluntary bankruptcy proceedings.

With Nunemacher gone, and the Globe going, the United Typothetæ of America and the non-union employers of Louisville ought now to be very near the point of realizing that it does not pay to fight organized workingmen.

Methods of the Tobacco Trust.

The cigar makers' union is active in presenting to the public revelations relative to the labor methods of the tobacco trust, especially in the manufacture of non-union cigars. It should be remembered that the tobacco trust also controls the United Cigar Stores Company, now doing business in most of the large cities of the country. As an instance of the trust's labor-baiting methods, the conditions of the employes in one of the large centers of the cigarmaking industry is thus set forth:

Large non-union factories have located in what is known as Polish town, Detroit, to be close to the cheapest kind of labor, and they are filling their factories with girls and women.

They have a school in which they claim to teach young Polish girls how to make cigars. The girl

pays $5 for tuition and gets no wages for months. Each week, however, she gets a certificate entitling her to $1 six months later, providing the payroll of the concern shows that she has worked six months faithfully for the firm.

It is declared that these same conditions of employment can be found in all trust factories, which should prove sufficient warning to the smoker of non-union cigars.

A Voice From the Lone Star State.

In making an appeal to the Texas legislature for a state provision for the care and cure of consumptives, T. H. McGregor, a member from Austin, and at one time afflicted with tuberculosis, told of the horrors of the disease, his suffering, his struggle with the great white plague, and finally of his triumph over death and his belief that consumptives can be cured. He said, in

part:

I have held onto a mesquite limb at Comfort, Texas, and felt the blood run from my mouth and saw the stars shine and wondered if I would ever see them again; I have clung to the guy rope of my tent and wondered which way the fight would go. I know the disease responds to treatment.

As an introduction to his address, he called attention to the anti-lobby law, which requires that a person speaking for a measure must tell whom he represents. Mr. McGregor spoke as follows:

I sat as a spectator in a committee room of this body and heard an eminent lawyer begin a great legal argument with the statement that he appeared for a corporation. The statement was made in observance of the law of the land and the rule which governs this body. Taking my cue from him, I shall tell you whom I represent.

I come, if you please, for the old, whose shrunken shoulders speak a long and constant pain, and whose crackling cough sounds even to the hollow echoes of the tomb; and I come for the middle-aged, too often the flower of the moral and mental manhood of the state, whose recurring temperature and quick heartbeat speaks the presence of the world's greatest enemy.

And then I come for the young manhood of Texas, the boys, the hope and promise of the state, on whose high brows is set the seal of the white plague; and then I come also for the girls of Texas, the sweetest flowers that bloom on all her prairies or blossom in all her valleys, and whose beauty and maiden purity radiate all our hopes, and yet too soon do their forms feel the touch of that destroyer and on ruddy lips comes the carmine of death.

And then I come for the motherhood of Texas, whose sunken eyes and pale face make a veritable

melody of misery as she lays her withered hands, with large ligaments and swollen veins, upon the heads of little children, whose orphanage the state could prevent. And then I come for the babes who, pillowed upon their mothers' breasts, draw infection from the fountain of life. And then I come for those who halt by new-made graves and moisten withered flowers with tears, and then I come for the strong, to make not an appeal, but a demand, looking to the health and citizenship of this state.

No medicine can cure tuberculosis, declared the speaker, but it will respond to treatment. He asserted that a fine building was not needed, but favored four camps in different parts of the state. Congeniality and being near friends is essential, said Mr. McGregor, and he continued:

It is wrong to separate friends from consumptives; they need cheer and confidence that they will recover. The disease will not yield to medicine, but to open-air treatment. A consumptive will either die or get well within a year. The treatment for a year would cost the state $250. Two hundred and fifty dollars to cure a man of consumption! That is but the cost of a mule or three bales of cotton.

Here the speaker gave the reason that was responsible to a large extent for his cure, when he declared he would sleep out of doors as long as he lived.

Mr. McGregor asserted he had urged the state health officer to prosecute the fakers who had been selling poison to consumptives in San Antonio and other cities, for he knew medicine would do no good. The speaker commended Governor Colquitt for realizing the need of caring for victims of tuberculosis and for proclaiming it over his signature.

The Stamped Envelop Contract. Protests from the thousands of employing printers, the various associations of paper manufacturers, publishers, etc., and a vigorous campaign waged by the unions in the printing industry were of no avail in the movement to have the government cease the practice of printing return addresses on envelops and selling the same to consumers practically at cost. The head of the postoffice department has settled the matter for the next four years, at least, by signing a contract with the non-union Mercantile Corporation, whose plant is located at Dayton, Ohio. The government will thus be

allowed to encroach on the business of private concerns for that period of time, but opponents of Mr. Hitchcock's methods can rest with the consolation that he will not always be at the head of the postoffice department.

Look for the Union Water Mark.

Organized labor has inaugurated a campaign against the American Writing Paper Company, of Holyoke, Mass., a corporation capitalized at $22,000,000, controlling some twenty-three mills, and associated with a number of other large paper companies who control the paper trade in what is known as the fine papers. Deplorable working conditions are said to exist in the plants of this concern, and efforts are being made to organize the employes. There is a union label water-mark paper on the market, and our members who are affiliated with fraternal, benevolent, political and religious organizations can be of immense service in the fight against the Holyoke company by tendering their influence in having the union product used wherever possible.

Percy Monroe Dead.

The death of M. F. ("Percy") Monroe, which occurred at Muncie, Ind., on March 14, will bear heavily on his scores of friends throughout the country. He had traveled extensively and cemented countless friendships in every jurisdiction of the International Union which he visited. He was a frequent contributor to this magazine, and his letters were always eagerly watched for and perused by our members. Both in his conversation and writings he had a power of expression that was the envy of all who were not so fortunate as to possess the priceless gift. "Percy" Monroe was 52 years of age at time of death and had been a continuous member of the organization for twenty-six years. The value accruing to the typographical union by the membership of those with the sterling union principles possessed by our deceased friend can not be estimated. The world is better for his having lived, and his friends grieve now that he is gone.

Second-Class Postage.

The creation of a commission composed of three members to investigate the secondclass mail question, authorized in the closing hours of the late congress, is the best solution of the controversy that could have been made. In our opinion, the commission will find that the blame for present conditions is largely with the government. At least, it is not believed that it will be found that there was a loss of $62,000,000 on account of carrying second-class mail at the present postage rates, as alleged by Mr. Hitchcock. There will now be an unbiased, careful and painstaking investigation of the whole business, including free service, the franking privilege, excessive payments to railroads, etc. It may also result in our whole postage service receiving a thorough overhauling and reorganization.

All during the campaign that has been waged by the present administration at Washington looking to saddling a great burden on the magazines of the country, which threatened the very life of the popular priced publications and menaced the existence of the trade union organs, the printing trades have been in the forefront of the battle. To assist in the fight the New York State Allied Printing Trades Council secured the passage of the following resolutions in the New York legislature by a vote of 102 to 5:

Whereas, Postmaster-General Hitchcock is seeking the approval of congress for an increased rate of postage on magazines which contain advertising matter; and,

Whereas, It is well known the magazines of the country could not exist without advertising matter; and,

Whereas, The representatives of labor unions are unanimously of the opinion that the increased rate of postage would drive many magazines from the commercial field and thereby deprive thousands of workmen of employment; therefore, be it

Resolved (if the senate concur), That the legis lature of the state of New York does hereby disapprove of the action contemplated by the postmaster-general to increase the postage on magazines and other periodicals; and, be it further

Resolved (if the senate concur), That the representatives in congress of the state of New York do all in their power to prevent the proposed action of the postmaster-general; and, be it further

Resolved (if the senate concur), That the speaker of the assembly and the lieutenant-gov. ernor transmit a copy of these resolutions to the

vice-president of the United States and to each member of the house of representatives and senators of this state.

And as a further impetus to the movement, the following resolutions were unanimously endorsed by Boston Typographical Union No. 13, at the February meeting.

Resolved, That Boston Typographical Union No. 13, in regular meeting assembled, records its earnest and emphatic protest against the proposed increase in certain kinds of second-class mail from I to 4 cents a pound, as is intended under the rider suddenly and unexpectedly tacked on to the postoffice appropriation bill, providing that, beginning July 1, 1911, the postage rate on every sheet of periodical other than a newspaper on which any advertising is printed be increased from 1 cent to 4 cents a pound.

Resolved, That we furthermore protest against the proposition to clothe the postmaster-general and the postoffice department with an arbitrary power to determine what is a newspaper and what is a magazine and other authority never before assumed by that department over certain publications now printed or which may be published later, believing as we do that the inevitable results of such policy of censorship will be to seriously handicap and endanger the financial and industrial interests of hundreds of thousands, employers and employed, connected with all the departments of the printing and publishing crafts.

Resolved, That our delegates to the allied printing trades council, the Boston Central Labor Union and other delegate bodies be instructed to urge the consideration and adoption of these resolutions, and also that similar protests be adopted and forwarded to our senators and representatives in congress, opposing the proposed increase in second-class mail rates.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Massachusetts senators and representatives and given for publication to THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, the American Federationist, and to the labor press and the daily press.

Mitchell and the Civic Federation.

Simply because he has shown the ability and possessed the brains to make good, John Mitchell has been forced out of the National Civic Federation, through the action of the miners' convention in compelling him to choose between membership in his union and membership in the federation. The action of the miners is considered a serious mistake by the conservative and thinking trade unionists of the country, and it is a question as to whether a majority of the members of his own organization were in favor of the action taken. It is at least significant that he received many