will be married to Miss Anna Moog on April 27, at Christ Church Cathedral. George R. Stone, of the Schuster chapel, was married to one of Kentucky's fairest, Miss Hattie Martin, of Frankfort, on March 4. George Washington Bradley and wife have returned from a pleasure trip to Pensacola, Fla.

C. A. Swinford, of the Star chapel, who recently vacated the Home as able to work, has been readmitted. At the time of his vacation it was thought Mr. Swinford was in good condition, but the recurrence of an aggravated case of stomach trouble caused him to break down.

The label has been granted to the following offices: Picard Printing Company, 3504 Washington avenue; John A. McDonald Printing Company, 4554 Labadie avenue.

Replying to inquiries which the secretary sent to chairmen of job offices, by direction of the February meeting, to ascertain whether or not the accumulative overtime law is being er.forced in said offices, replies were received from thirtysix chapels, all of which said that little or no overtime was being worked, and that the law was being enforced.

The unfortunate affair at Chicago, whereby a strike occurred on two of the leading newspapers owned by a man who has been a consistent friend of the typographical union, is to be regretted. The prompt action of the executive council is commendable. The whole matter should be reviewed by the next convention and the responsibility placed where it belongs.

Mike Stack says he desires to call the attention of "Long John" O'Connell, of New York, to the fact that Greencastle, Ind., went wet by a majority of 66, and that no obstacle is now in the way of O'Connell attending the baseball tournament-he can quench his thirst at the halfway post.

JAS. B. GRIFFITH.

SPARTANBURG, S. C.

The printing business of this place is keeping pace with the progress of this section in the way of improvements. The Herald, the morning paper here, has moved into its new building and added an up-to-date press and stereotyping outfit. The building is modern in design and is probably the best arranged newspaper office in this section. It is a two-story and basement structure, the press and paper storage room occupying the basement, the business offices and mailing room the first floor, and the composing room, stereotyping room and editorial rooms the second floor. The building is steam heated throughout and the sanitary conditions have been properly looked after. From the standpoint of ventilation and light the composing room is a model.

The afternoon paper, the Journal, has recently added a new No. 5 linotype, bringing its number up to three machines.

The Dockendorf Company has recently been reorganized and the capital stock considerably increased. A new No. 5 linotype will arrive shortly

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and other new machinery is being installed. addition to a general job business this firm will publish the Southern Presbyterian.

The new scale recently adopted by No. 341 is now in effect and many of our members are receiving fatter envelopes than formerly. Our relations with all employers in this place are of the most pleasant nature and no trouble was experienced in signing the new scale.

Miss Russie L. Prather, who held a machine on the Herald about seven years, surprised her friends recently by resigning her position. In a battle with Cupid the latter won. She is now Mrs. Beaudrot, and will reside with her husband at Greenwood, S. C. Thomas J. Hopkins is holding the machine made vacant by the resignation of Miss Prather.

Our membership is steadily on the increase and some applications have been coming in from unorganized towns. T. K. DAVIS.

BINGHAMTON, N. Y.

As the result of a fire on March 2 in the building occupied by the recently formed VailBallou Publishing Company and the Sunday Binghamtonian, those two concerns were temporarily put out of commission and William Squier was badly burned. At this writing (March 19) Mr. Squier is reported as improving and his recovery is expected, though he will be laid up for several weeks. Editor James A. Treat, of the Sunday Binghamtonian, has secured new quarters next to the Morning Republican, on State street, and will resume publication at once. For a time it appeared uncertain as to whether the Vail-Ballou Company would resume its business in this city, but it can now be stated definitely that work will be resumed on a scale even larger than before the fire. It is said on good authority that plans are being perfected by a local architect for a building large enough to house seventeen linotypes, an electrotyping department of sufficient capacity to care for the machine output, together with a bindery, job printing department and a large pressroom. It will probably be three months before the building will be advanced enough to permit of occupancy. In the meantime the work of the VailBallou Company is being cared for at its plant in Coshocton, Ohio. A number of the local employes have been sent to Coshocton, about ten taking advantage of the offer of employment there, the majority of whom were machine operators and proofreaders.

The thanks of Binghamton Typographical Union is extended to Thomas B. McGrath, foreman of the J. B. Lyon Company, of Albany. Mr. McGrath, under the impression that the Vail-Ballou employes would be temporarily out of employment, offered to make room for five or six operators until such time as work might be resumed here. However, those who desired to leave town had gone to Coshocton, Ohio.

Efforts to form a printers' state league of baseball clubs have not been very successful thus far.

Only four cities have signified a desire to participate. These cities are Utica, Elmira, Troy and Binghamton. Letters on the question have been sent to the secretaries of Albany, Troy, Elmira, Rochester, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Utica and Syracuse Unions. Binghamton, Elmira, Troy and Utica will arrange for a few games, just to show that they are game.

Work is not any too brisk here at present. Quite a number of handmen are idle as a result of the fire. However, when the Vail-Ballou Company resumes operations these will be taken care of and there will be plenty of work for machine operators. Under the time and piece scale here operators are averaging over $23 per week.

VERNON, B. C.

H. V. CASEY.

Within the past month the plans outlined for publication of the Weekly Okanagan under new ownership have undergone complete alteration. Publication of the paper was suspended and a portion of the plant, including the monoline machine, transferred to the Armstrong Advertiser office. The latest report, however, is that the monoline and a portion of the job plant are being installed at Enderby, where Editor Polson has a real estate office and purposes conducting a job office in connection therewith, the type for the Advertiser (now the Okanagan Advertiser) being forwarded.

The departure of members of the Okanagan chapel threatens to prove disastrous for our meetings, as with our membership scattered over seven towns the resident force is reduced almost to the number required for a quorum. This also tends to emphasize more strongly the necessity for further organization throughout the district, and perhaps a visit from the International Typographical Union representative would not be amiss. BURT R. CAMPBELL.

ALBANY, N. Y.

Matters printorial have been very quiet for the last few weeks. The March meeting was mostly of a routine nature. A delegation from the new pressfeeders' union was allowed the floor and asked for a little patronage for their forthcoming ball. Ten dollars was voted for this purpose. The details of the recent death of Edward Cronin, at Syracuse, were given and the action of the officers in turning over to Syracuse Union the Internation and local benefits, amounting to $191, was approved. No. 55 took charge of the burial of Mr. Cronin, and, as there were no relatives living, the benefits were claimed by it to reimburse the attendant expense.

Since my last letter at least three new candidates for important offices in the union have issued their cards. John H. McCann, ex-secretary and ex-delegate, is out for president in opposition to the present incumbent, Joseph E. Wiedman, who desires re-election; Harry E. Wood will oppose Richard J. Foster for re-election as recording and corresponding secretary, and Edward J. Donnelly, chairman

of the big Lyon book chapel, is contesting for the financial secretaryship against Thomas P. McMahon, of the Lyon job department.

Sickness has been very prevalent of late among the Albany printers, but the remarkable fact about it is that it seems to confine its visitations this winter principally among those who are not members of the Albany Printers' Sick Benefit Association. Foreman Kelsey is, at this writing (March 18), in the Albany Hospital with pneumonia; William H. Hicks and George A. Mills, both members of Mr. Kelsey's department, are seriously ill and have been for some weeks, and Raymond E. Stiles, of the Argus job chapel, is also laid up. Of these four, only the first named is a member of the benefit association.

The application of William H. Lamb for a pension has been rejected for insufficient membership, it appearing from his registration papers on file at International headquarters that he took out a withdrawal card some fifteen years ago. The records of the union don't show any such withdrawal, so far as it has been able to learn, but the registration must be right, for it was filled out and filed by Mr. Lamb himself more than a year ago.

The labor organizations sold nearly 50,000 Red Cross seals during the recent holiday season in Albany, netting for the C. F. of L. tuberculosis pavilion something over $400.

CHARLES H. WHITTEMORE.

DAVENPORT, IOWA.

On March 4 our scale committee, with the assistance of Michael Colbert, of Chicago, signed a new scale with the newspapers and job printers of the Tri-Cities to cover a period of four years. Our new scale calls for a minimum of $19 per week for the first year, $20 for the second, and $21 for the third and fourth years, which gives us a $3 increase on a four-year contract.

On the morning of March 7 a report came from the Woodmen office that the four machine operators employed in that office were going to walk out. No details or explanations were given as to the cause; it was just a deliberate walkout, according to the office. Later developments, however, proved that these charges and statements were not true. The men did not walk out, but they gave the office three days' notice that they were going to quit. The whole trouble was caused over section 16 in our new scale, which allows any office to work a machinist-operator overtime in taking care of his machine, such overtime to be charged up on the $2 extra compensation which he receives for the care and knowledge of the machine. The men at the Woodmen office always have taken care of their machines within the eight hours. The new scale had no more than gone into effect when this office tried to have their machines taken care of outside of the eight hours. The operators did not like the conditions under which they had to work, so they all decided to quit, after giving the office three days' notice, which they had a perfect right to do. It seems that Mr. Van Galder had entered into some kind of an agreement with the publishers of

the Tri-Cities regarding this proposition of taking care of the machines after the eight hours had been worked. The latest report from the Woodmen office is that the old condition again prevails and that the trouble has been satisfactorily settled. The membership of No. 107 is now greater than ever before in its history. At the last meeting the roll call showed that we had 147 members.

HAROLD JACOBSEN.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

All that was mortal of Percy M. F. Monroe was laid to rest in Newcomer Cemetery, on the outskirts of this city, on Thursday, March 16, 1911. Mr. Monroe died at Muncie, Ind., of heart failure, on March 14, having been in poor health for some time previous. He was a member of Muncie Union No. 332 at the time of death, being employed on the Muncie Star. The body was accompanied to this city by his brother, Edward S. Monroe, and H. A. Brown, president of Muncie Typographical Union. The floral tributes were most beautiful, conspicuous among them being those of Muncie Union No. 332 and Springfield No. 117. Together with President Brown, of Muncie, the following members. of No. 117 acted as pallbearers: B. F. Redd, John C. Mount, Edward Heinzen and the writer. Many friends of Mr. Monroe attended the funeral services, held at the home of his sister, Mrs. D. W. Seely, 538 South Wittenberg avenue, this city. Messrs. John M. Dugan and James W. Dougherty, members of Cincinnati No. 3, and personal friends of Mr. Monroe, made the trip to this city to pay their last respects. Mr. Monroe was a visitor at the last convention of the International, held at Minneapolis. He was an inveterate attendant at the sessions, and had cherished an ambition to represent No. 332 at San Francisco, which honor would most likely have been bestowed. Percy, as he was known to all, had probably as many personal acquaintances as any man in the rank and file of the International, and each of them counted himself a friend. Courteous, gentlemanly, a strong and consistent union man, he was one of those who have made the International Typographical Union the better for his membership, and all who have ever had the pleasure of his acquaintance will be saddened at his demise. Our heartfelt sympathy is extended to his bereaved relatives.

We presume the delegatorial bee is a busy insect in most localities at the present time, though to date he has not been pestiferous in this locality, nobody having come out flat-footed-guess they are a little timid about wandering so far from home. From here San Francisco is a good walk.

This brings to mind the fact that Ohio has an aspirant for the honor of entertaining the 1912 bunch. All you delegates and would-be delegates would do well to give this your serious consideration. Cleveland is the metropolis of Ohio and has a pretty wideawake bunch of typographers. When we say that Cleveland is our metropolis, that should be sufficient, for you all know that the Buckeye State is there with the goods in large bundles. Sit

uated on the shore of beautiful Lake Erie, there is practically no limit to the entertainment possibilities, and the men there know how to realize them to the utmost. And when it comes to the business end of the performance, they have an idea or two along that line also. Now, come; Ohio is entitled to a convention at this time. We don't believe in being greedy, but we want our share. Give us the 1912 gathering and we will not bother you for a while. Get busy-Cleveland, 1912!

The Ohio State Typographical Conference will meet in Cleveland on Sunday, April 9. Following its usual policy of being as progressive as its ability will allow, No. 117 will be represented by three delegates, they being President Dan P. Rodgers, Recording Secretary W. H. Morris and the writer.

Work has not been abnormally brisk here dur ing the winter, though there has been enough to keep all of the membership jogging along. When the railroad rate situation is finally cleared up things will move lively, as the largest shop in the city, the Springfield Publishing Company, depends to a considerable extent on this work.

We are having a lull in the tourist line here at present-not a card received in a month. We had out share during the winter, however, as new faces were arriving and departing every day. Don't forget that Cleveland proposition. HERBERT H. MORLEY.

ST. PAUL, MINN.

The prosperous condition of the printing business in St. Paul continues in almost every branch of the industry. While there has been some letup in the great rush that prevailed last month the trade is in a very healthy condition. This must not be construed as a sign for a general exodus of printers to the saintly city, but as a sign that the boys here have almost an assurance that they are to share in the general prosperity that prevails in this section of the northwest.

The long, steady work of the officers and members of No. 30 at the task of making union men of those employed in unfair shops is slowly but surely meeting success. During the past month four new members were initiated from this source and there are a number of others waiting to be gathered into the strong and protecting arms of trade-unionism. Bert G. Brady's assistance in this direction is sure to be a great help. Those members who have met and talked with him have every confidence in his ultimate success. On March 15, at a special meeting of job printers, he gave the boys a long and instructive talk along the lines of conciliation and organization, and if our membership will back him up with that degree of strenuosity displayed in the early days of the eight-hour strike the days of the non-union open-shop condition in several of St. Paul's largest offices are surely numbered.

Interest in our bowling teams continues at fever heat. During the month the Pioneer Press team took the lead of the Dispatch and are at present holding first honors. The Daily News boys, how

ever, are showing some form and have threatened to trim both the Pioneer Press and Dispatch during the next thirty days. The Wilner, Scherd & Roth, McGill-Warner, the Monotype and Dow & Kingston teams make up in sportsmanlike enthusiasm what they lack in bowling ability, and all told we've got as live a bunch of bowlers as there are in the city. Last month it was stated that in these teams we had the material for a baseball league, but there was not enough. Already talk is being heard of selecting a team from this embryo league to represent us in the Union Printers' National Baseball League.

No. 30 will move its offices into new and better quarters on April 1. A committee has been appointed to find ways and means of refitting and furnishing the three rooms rented. There is a feeling here that our local should show its best front at all times, and nowhere can this be better done than in neat and tidy headquarters. Our new location is in the Union block, Fourth and Cedar streets, third floor.

Among the arrivals here during the past month who have decided to stay a while are: R. C. Pryor, J. F. Ellsworth, George Burkhard, Joseph J. Guentert, W. C. Gough, Harry Schedin and L. L. Jones. Those who came and went were Albert Pearson, Thomas Connolly, Hans Grydahl, Lee Stopple and George West.

J. J. Holly, for a number of years a member of No. 30, now publisher of the Tribune at Timber Lake, S. D., was a visitor here for a few days. Joe is reported as one of the prosperous in the

new west.

Joe Coe, of the Daily News chapel, has taken his fishing tackle out of soak. THE JOURNAL should have a department for nimrods. Joe would make a star editor. C. S. BARNS.

PHOENIX, ARIZ.

On February 19 Phoenix Union secured the sig nature of the State Press manager to a threeyear wage-scale agreement. This breaks the backbone of the strike which has been on here since November 8. There now remains out of the fold only two offices, the Phoenix Printing Company and the McNeil Printing Company. The latter is still having trouble with its men. It is keeping Bowers and McNeil busy soliciting job work. Much of the printing formerly going to these firms is now being done in union offices. The label campaign seems to have accomplished wonders in Phoenix.

Sam Small, the evangelist, has bought real estate here and will make Phoenix his home. He has ordered two linotypes and a full equipment for an eight-page morning daily which he hopes to have in commission soon. Mr. Small informed a committee from No. 352 that his will be a union establishment from top to bottom. Hurrah for Sam!

A city election will take place in Phoenix in May. We are busy lining up candidates for the label on the city printing, and it's going to work,

too.

Tom Adams, a member of No. 352, has been

selected by the Phoenix Trades Council as organizer for this district. He is awaiting his commission from the American Federation of Labor. Tom is also spoken of as desirable timber for delegate to San Francisco.

The annual printers' ball is being boosted and the affair will no doubt equal those which have been given in the past by No. 352.

Ernest P. Wilson, late a member of Phoenix Union, is located in San Diego, Cal., where he will become interested in a printing and stationery establishment.

Frank Tew, sr., has returned to Phoenix after a few weeks' stay on the coast. The call of the desert seems to have him in its grip.

Theodore Roosevelt dedicated the Roosevelt dam, near hear, on March 20. Phoenix gave Teddy a warm reception. C. A. KING.

Three applications were received and one candidate initiated at the March meeting. Every meeting brings new applications for membership and we hope before 1912 to have the largest membership in the history of this union.

Michael Powell, who has controlled the destinies of the local union for the past four and a half years, announces that he will not seek re-election. There will likely be a hot contest for the presidency in May.

Owing to ill health Clifford Miller has resigned the office of financial secretary. A. H. Peffers will succeed him.

PORTLAND, ORE.

Spring work is opening very auspiciously for the Portland employers, as there seems to be a stronger sentiment against sending work to other cities than ever before. In a large measure the allied trades council and other labor organizations in the city have contributed to this happy state of affairs. Work in the typographical end of the business has not improved to any extent, but indications all point to a better than average condition. • Advertisements have appeared recently in eastern papers for printers for this city. No attention should be paid to these notices, as there are plenty of men here to meet all demands.

Confusing the present scale with the one now in course of settlement for the newspaper branch of the business led to a most unpardonable blunder on the part of this correspondent last month. The proposed scale figures were given as $5 and $5.50 for day and night work, respectively, when they should have been given as $5.50 and $6. The figures stated last month are those in effect at the

present time. The only change in hours promulgated are those as given, eliminating the two days of eight hours each week. In speaking of the proposed scale at the March meeting, Mr. De Yarmond stated that the money asked by the union was only just and fair and should have been the prevailing scale for years instead of being the present basis of negotiations. High cost of living and other similar arguments were put forward, but the most plausible one and the one which appealed strongest to the writer was the statement that the wages asked were just, because the men were earning the money. The fact that some of the jobmen in the city are nearly equaling the newspaper scale, except in point of hours, is another strong argument in favor of an increase at this time, because the employing job printer has competition to meet which the newspaper proprietor does not even consider in his business. The request of Multnomah Union is so equitable and simple that no difficulty should be experienced in securing the desired increase of wages.

At the March meeting a proposition was made by A. S. Johnson, of the Bushong chapel, to increase the job scale to the same rate as that of the newspaper scale, the contention being that the jobmen are entitled to as high wages as that commanded by the newspaper men. The resolution was passed over to the April meeting as a special order of business.

C. M. Rynerson, who has been associated with the Labor Press for the past six months, has succeeded H. J. Parkison, a member of the carpenters' union, as the managing editor of the Press. Mr. Rynerson has had considerable newspaper experience and is a first-rate printer. These qualities, coupled with his ability to keep in touch with the rapidly changing trend of affairs that every local labor movement witnesses, will enhance his worth to the Labor Press and to the cause of organized labor in the state of Oregon. With the turbulent times anticipated here on the coast this year in the efforts of the employers' association to put in effect an

open-shop policy in all industrial lines where a conflict could be conducted with any degree of success, this journal of the working people will have anything but an easy time financially. With the continuance of the efforts expended on this paper by the former editor, however, there is every assurance that there will be little if any diminution in the quality and income of the Labor Press. Will Daly was re-elected president of the Oregon State Federation of Labor for his third term by the referendum election which closed on March 1. His opponent, of the building trades, was defeated 5 to I. The work that Mr. Daly has planned and directed and his unselfishness in the cause of the working people have thoroughly endeared him to not only his active associates but the rank and file of the organization as well. "Bill" is true blue and, best of all from the printers' standpoint, he never neglects the best interests of No. 58 for the larger opportunities which the city and state work affords.

Fire partially destroyed the printing plant of the Dunham Printing Company on March 5. Three other concerns in the same building were affected by the deluge of water, but suffered little damage other than the delay occasioned by the fire

insurance adjustments. A new automatic press

for printing street car transfers was part of the Dunham equipment which was damaged and will be out of commission until eastern repairs can be had for the replacing of the fire-warped apparatus. A conservative estimate of the total loss places it at $25,000.

A. C. Turner has consented to become a candidate for the presidency of No. 58. He has done good service for this union and is one of the jobmen who is thoroughly capable of administering the affairs of the organization. Temperate, calm, farseeing and fearlessly honest, he would serve Multnomah Union as few others would be able to

do.

Between him and the present incumbent, Mr. Coburn, there is so little difference in real merit or the quality of their devotion to the cause of organized labor that it will largely be a matter of who possesses the greater number of friends, though at no time will the campaign assume a partisan nature. With either gentleman guiding the destinies of this union there will be little left undone which will admit of accomplishment. A. S. Johnson has been busy for the past three weeks or more in soliciting support for his candidacy for the delegateship to the San Francisco convention. This increases the list of active candidates to five, three newspaper men, Howell, Knight and Southard, and two jobmen, Johnson and Lawrence. No opposition has developed as yet to the candidacy of Lon De Yarmond for secretary-treasurer.

John Johnck, well known both on the coast and in the middle west, has returned to this city after two years on the sound and in the south. He has accepted a position with F. W. Baltes & Co. as superintendent.

Morgan Schrack has purchased a job printing plant in this city which has few equals in equip ment or business among the smaller outfits. He