to New York....It is rumored that F. J. (Doctor) Losee is headed this way. Welcome, Doc., welcome. Telephone directories will soon be ripe.... "Chick" Stewart, linotype demonstrator, is "over 'ome"-Vancouver...."Hokey" Kendall has gone to San Jose, Mexico...."Rud" Ruddy is said to be anchored in Spokane.... Val ("Ruff Stuff") Hassmer is "showing up" on the Examiner. Says he feels right at home in this place.... Business in the job offices shows signs of a relapse. Work on the papers still continues good, especially on the machine side.... The Citizen has installed a machine of the latest model, and has increased the size of the publication to twelve pages. Grant Jenkins, late of the Express, landed the situation. ....The Examiner has finally installed all its new machines, and now has twenty-nine of them. The Examiner's classified advertising section now overtops that of the Times, and as for circulation, well, what's the use of "rubbing it in?"....Even the "little old" Record offers to bet good (real) money that it has a larger city circulation than has the Times. This is not presumed to make the "Gin'ral" feel hilariously happy, but is safely warranted to be the truth, nevertheless....Three Times printers were recently held up at the end of the same building in which the "plant" is located. The "stick-up artist" realized $2.70, and got away after being shot at by another employe and a railroad watchman. Query: Why do the Times printers "pack" guns?.... Mr. West, of the Herald force, suffered the misfortune of having his leg broken, and is confined to the hospital as a result.... Billy Switzer departed for Salt Lake City....Clifford Jones is back on the Examiner, after several months' absence from the business.... Willis L. Hall and Dan Long nearly sacrificed their lives recently at Monrovia as a result of fondness for mushrooms. They were mushrooms, too, not toadstools, but a fungus growth upon them placed the gentlemen named on the sick list for some time.

Saturday night, April 15, witnessed the monster eight-hour parade, the greatest turnout ever held here in the interest of labor. It is asserted that 30,000 persons marched in the parade, which was four and one-half miles in length. The women were in evidence, and the banners carried excited much favorable comment. Organizer Stein acted as chief of the allied trades (fourth) division, while Claude Sheckels guided the second division, ably seconded by Sid Green. No. 174 turned out 120 men, which was a good showing considering the large number at work. A feature of the parade was the carrying of a copy of the Record by every marcher. The first page carried an eight-column head announcing the settlement of the brewery strike, which was both pertinent and apropos. The streets were blocked for hours, and all street car traffic was suspended down town. Not one untoward feature marred the occasion, notwithstanding it was deemed necessary to turn out 192 policemen for the event. This parade certainly made a profound impression on the men and women of Los Angeles, and the advocates of "open shop industrial freedom" now have an idea of what is in store for them-if wise. Banners were censored

as usual, but if the herculean efforts to be put forth to capture the city hall in the next election succeed, as we are sure they will, this censorship will become distinctly de trop, and the censor will seek pastures new-and greener.

Don't forget "Houston, 1912." Los Angeles, 1915, will come in later, but will come in, you bet. WILLIAM J. CARSON.

DETROIT, MICH.

The local election campaign is now in full swing, and is arousing much interest, the April meeting, at which nominations were made, having a better attendance than any other meeting in many months; and it might be said in passing that if the same interest should be displayed by the members throughout the year, it would not be necessary for those who do attend regularly to try to figure out some sort of "bonus system" to get the boys out one Sunday in the month. Strange what interest the average member takes in Lis fraternal society and the time he will give to same, while with the organization that has so much to do with his livelihood and his working conditions he is always willing to let the "other fellow" do it.

Vice-President Thomas B. Gloster was nominated for president, and is opposed by F. J. Gregory. William J. Smith, at present a member of the executive committee, received the nomination for vice-president. He is opposed by H. Callins. "Old Reliable" James H. Walker, for many years secretary-treasurer, was again nominated and is unopposed. The writer is once more a candidate for recording secretary-no opposition. The delegate question aroused much discussion as to whether the local should send only one or the two to which it is entitled. It was decided by an overwhelming majority to send two, and a lively campaign is now on, five men desiring the honor of representing the local. President Clarence Neely, William T. Finn, John C. Ryan, Edward M. Schillinger and James Cant are the nominees. For election to the executive committee, two to be voted for, Maurice Gloster, William B. Kay (present incumbent), George C. Jacobs, William H. Barber and Edward Walthers are the candidates. For board of auditors the present members, John J. McLogan, Otto Sprunk and Edward Dixon, are unopposed. A lively battle is on for the position of sergeant-at-arms, Charles S. Johnston, for many years bank man on the News; L. H. Kessel, operator on the Free Press, and the present holder of the office, Bion Hough, being out for the job.

President Lynch and the executive council have been highly commended locally for the action taken in the unfortunate Chicago affair, the Detroit members feeling that it has aided not a little in sustaining the high opinion of the International generally held by the employers throughout the country, and that the firm hand of the president has again carried the organization safely through a rather precarious situation.

The local bowling season is now over, and as a windup to its first tournament the allied printing trades council gave a banquet, participated in by

teams representing the various crafts, at which a splendid silver cup was presented to the printers' team as their reward for leading all competitors at the close. Norman Cook, John Higgins, Maurice Gloster, Peter Cosgrove, Leo Higgins, Frank McManis and Edward Schillinger represented No. 18. The championship of the printers' club tournament, twenty-two teams participating, was won by the team composed of Maurice Gloster, Richard L. Drake and Al Le Fevre. Individual silver cups go with this honor, in addition to other prizes offered by the club directors.

The state of trade has been excellent recently, and bids fair to continue, the linotype job offices all being "snowed under," and, with the News again booming its morning edition, the subs are in clover. RICHARD L. DRAKE.

ALBANY, N. Y.

May 17 will be a busy day with union printers in some 700 cities and towns. In Albany the local officers are elected on that date also. It appears now that Financial Secretary Taylor will have a clear field for the lone delegateship this year, as Martin A. Cox has retired from the canvass, announcing that fact at the April meeting. This leaves all the excitement to the election of local officers, contests being on for president, recording and financial secretaries, as already announced, with possibilities for others to develop at the May meeting, at which time all candidates must be announced.

The boilermakers and helpers were made glad at the April meeting, when No. 4, in response to an appeal from a committee of the men on strike for patronage for a dance to be given, voted them $50. No. 4 also donated $10 to the striking button workers of Muscatine, Iowa.

The capitol fire made business rather dull at the big Lyon printshop for a week or two, as it stopped the legislative work, and it was not policy to take up other work for the short while that was likely to elapse before the legislature was again at work.

The Printers' Benefit Association re-elected the old board of officers at its annual election, April 15. The association year closes with the month of April, and the annual report will be issued before the middle of May. It will show that the year 1910-11 has been the most favorable, so far as sickness or disability goes, of any year in its twelve years of experience. The death rate has been heavy, however.

The various printing crafts in this city made a concerted effort to get the union label before the thirty-third session of the Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum, held in Syracuse, N. Y., April 25 and 26, by sending to the grand officers and representatives resolutions asking it to adopt the label and to present the same request to the supreme council for unionizing the Official Bulletin, published in its non-union plant in Boston, Mass. CHARLES H. WHITTEMORE.

THE end must justify the means.-Prior.

CHICAGO, ILL.

The label committee is making a showing that will be remembered. During the past month special efforts have been made to cover the amusement parks and pleasure and excursion boat lines. It has been very successful. From present indications, the union label will be in evidence on most of the printed matter for these concerns. Successful work has been done by a campaign among theaters also. Pressure is being brought to bear on the larger ones to ask for the union label. On the printing of many of the smaller theaters the label is used. The records of the committee for the last ten months show an increase of about 25 per cent in the use of the label. This is estimated from the amount of printed matter handled by the committee and from reports made to it by shops using the label. All label committees should get together and take action to force our own members to use the label on printing jobs as freely as they now use the imprints of employers. If this were done, the trade mark of the printing unions seon would become as well known to the public as the non-union "57 varieties."

J. D. McDowell has taken charge of the Post adroom (day side), vice Mike Gans, resigned, Mr. Gans going to work on the night side.

The candidates are: For president, G. R. O'Brien (incumbent), Walter W. Barrett; for vicepresident, Edward A. McGrady, John M. McGowan, Frank Peters; for organizer, William J. Boener (incumbent), John C. Harding; for secretary-treasurer, W. R. Miller (incumbent), John Canty. Local headquarters reports eighteen candidates registered for International delegate, William E. Koch, Benjamin Aykroid, James Hunter, George Koop and Edward J. Ford not having been previously mentioned; about thirty are unofficially reported to be out. Paul J. Berry, Mark M. J. Mitchell and F. L. Thompson are candidates for re-election to the executive committee; Oscar J. Hazel, Ben W. Swift and E. B. McGivney are new aspirants for the same committee.

L. A. Hornstein (ex-delegate to Washington, 1903), now with the publicity department of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Tribune building, New York, was in Chicago early in April.

Louis

is looking prosperous, and his many friends are glad he is doing well. He extended a cordial invitation to the boys to call on him when in New York. He worked on the Chicago Tribune several years prior to going with the Mergenthaler con

cern.

Perry J. Massie, foreman of the Inter Ocean adroom for several years, has been for some weeks. in the Alexian Brothers' hospital. He is suffering with cirrhosis of the liver.

At the March meeting of No. 16 President Lynch said that neither the local union, the publishers nor the International officers could decide that the contract had been broken or the scale of prices violated; that no one had authority to so decide except the arbitration tribunal; that under the agreement there could be no legal strike or lockout (or, in effect, there could be no strike unless one

party had refused to abide by the decision of the highest arbitration board). This seemed to be news to most of the members, who believe that when a union has no control over its scale it has no scale the scale existing by sufferance only. The foundation of a trade union is its ability to fight, to maintain its rights by the strong hand; its existence generally depends on its ability to fight. Take or give away this power or right to fight and you take away the only logical foundation for a trade union. Tying the hands is not regarded as the wisest preparation for a struggle; turning the left cheek after being smitten on the right is not a policy that appeals strongly to redblooded men or women. Advocates of any but a militant policy of preparedness for fight may succeed for a time, but all our gains have been won by battle or the willingness to battle-almost all our losses have been made by diplomacy. The arbitration agreement itself would not have been offered to us if we had not been able to take care of ourselves without it. At least one other organization in the printing trades that adopted a "nostrike" policy found it could not live; it was unable to protect its members against aggressions by its conciliatory method, and whenever a test came it lost. There is no use of fighting for the sake of fighting, but the mailed fist is the only argument understood by many people, who mistake forbearance for cowardice. The party who is willing and able to fight for its rights generally has little fighting to do. Keeping out of a fight and giving up the right to fight are two widely variant ideas.

Our present system is a Frankenstein created by the mild resolution reported out of the laws committee as a substitute for proposition No. 87, introduced at the Milwaukee convention as a protest against Frederick Driscoll's request that amendments to laws affecting the American Newspaper Publishers' Association be submitted for their ap proval by a committee of that association, and also that we surrender jurisdiction over linotype machinists and proofreaders. (P. 13, Proc. 1900 Con., Milwaukee.) It is as follows:

Proposition No. 87 (Aston, Danville):

"Whereas, The American Publishers' Association has seen fit through its representative, Mr. Driscoll, to make certain recommendations regarding the legislation of this convention; and,

"Whereas, The document is of great importance and of an extremely important nature; be it therefore

"Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chair for the purpose of considering the recommendations, and that their report be made a special order for Thursday morning at 10 o'clock."

Committee reports unfavorably.

Mr. Jones (Washington, D. C.) moved to amend by substituting the following resolution offered by Mr. Hays (Minneapolis) during the afternoon ses

sion:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of the International Typographical Union that subordinate unions should adopt conciliatory measures at all times when changing their scale of prices, and that before any change in scale of prices is adopted it should be submitted to all publishers who are interested. Also, that the International Union, when requested, shall allow a representative of the American Publishers' Association to be heard on important changes in the laws affecting their interests.'

Mr. Bandlow (Cleveland German-American) opposed any proposition giving the publishers power over our legislation. Mr. Howell (Portland) and Mr. Wyatt (Pittsburg) spoke in favor of the substitute. The substitute offered by Mr. Jones (Washington) was then adopted. Mr. Bandlow (Cleveland German-American) asked to be recorded as voting in the negative. (P. 55, Proc. 1900 Con., Milwaukee, Wis.) Mr. Jones was chairman of the laws committee and has since died in the Philippines.

Great oaks from little acorns grow; the publishers have been heard.

The following was offered at the January meeting of No. 16 and was laid over; at the adjourned March meeting it was taken up as a special order:

Whereas, Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 believes that the arbitration agreement at present existing between the International Typographical Union and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association has proved ineffective to secure the objects for which it was made; and,

Whereas, Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 believes that if a negotiatory or arbitration agreement is to continue, no such agreement should be binding

scale made a subordinate union longer than any

thereunder, together with such time extension as hereinafter provided; and,

Whereas, Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 believes that the sixty days next preceding the expiration of a scale and contract is sufficient time for reaching a decision locally, and that the sixty days next following the expiration of said scale and contract is sufficient time for the national board to reach a settlement, and if no decision is reached by the national board in sixty days the proposed scale should revert to the local interests concerned and the provisions of the agreement shall be null and void and of no effect after the expiration of the said sixty days consumed by the national board; therefore,

Resolved, That Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, in regular session assembled, hereby expresses its disapproval of any proposed national agreement that does not embrace the aforesaid provisions for the identical expiration of scale and contract and adjudication and the reversion of jurisdiction to the local interests.

The following was also offered by Wayne M. Goodwin:

Resolved, That Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 is opposed to a national arbitration agreement of any kind with employers; and, be it further

Resolved, That Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 believes the question of arbitration should be left wholly to subordinate unions to deal with as each may deem best for its own interests.

On motion, both propositions were ordered sent to the referendum at the regular election in May. The first proposition contemplates the continuation of a national agreement, if fairly administered; it provides for a period of 121 days (sixty days preceding and sixty days succeeding the expiration of a scale) in which to agree to a scale, and on failure to agree in that time automatically sends the matter back to the locals interested without any restriction-they are free agents to act as they think best. Surely if men who are capable of transacting the business involved can not agree in 121 days, it seems reasonable to believe they never will agree on that subject, and the locals should not be hampered by their inability or unwillingness to agree. If the employers want an agree ment let them show they deserve it by acting in good faith when a scale is presented; our experience in the last four years shows that they only

wish the benefits without assuming their share of the burden of carrying out the present agreement -they sidestep and delay until the patience of the union is worn out. If any agreement is to be made with the publishers' association or the printers' league, or both of them, they must have some guarantee of action in a reasonable time or the membership will have none of it.

Mr. Goodwin's proposition recognizes local arbitration only and that at the discretion of the local unions.

Both propositions can be voted for without nullifying either-being merely first and second choice as expressed by the vote.

Both propositions embody the idea of freedom of action on the part of the local unions-the first by recalling the jurisdiction after giving the International Typographical Union and newspaper publishers' association representatives a chance to settle the matter, and the second by not allowing them to have any authority in the matter at any time. Liberty may run into license; centralization always runs into despotism. The nearer the holders of delegated power are to the source of that power the closer they will reflect the sentiments and the better they will obey the wish of the people they represent. HENRY J. WYNNE.

Prior to the negotiation of the arbitration agreement ten years ago, contracts were made between publishers and local unions and these contracts were intended to and usually did provide that strikes should not occur during the period for which they were made. This is true today as to local contracts. The arbitration agreement is a contract and is intended to eliminate strikes and their cause, otherwise it would be valueless to either party to it. The correct history as to the initiation of our arbitration pact with the American Newspaper Publishers' Association is not as our correspondent outlines it, but appears on page 41 of the proceedings of the forty-sixth session of the International Typographical Union, held at Milwaukee, and is as follows:

The following resolutions, introduced by Mr. Hays (Minneapolis) and acted upon in secret session, were ordered printed in the minutes:

"Resolved, That the executive council be instructed to confer with the secretary or commissioner of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, with a view to arriving at an agreement providing for the amicable adjustment of all differences that may arise between any member of said association and the typographical union and its affiliated bodies; and, be it further

"Resolved, That if the American Newspaper Publishers' Association shall agree to submit to arbitration all disputes, pending and future, between the members of said association and the typographical union and its affiliated bodies, then the council is instructed to prepare laws governing such agreement, submit them to a referendum vote of the membership, and use its influence to the end that they may be adopted by popular vote of the members of the International Union."

The laws committee reported favorably with the following amendment: Insert between the words "agreement" and "submit," "have the same printed and sent to all subordinate unions, and if endorsed by fifty subordinate unions, shall."

The recommendation of the committee adopted.

was

That two propositions, both opposed to arbitration--for in event of their adoption internationally that would be the real outcome-should be submitted to No. 16 at this time is not surprising, but it is doubted that the vote taken will represent the real sentiment of the union, any more than would a vote taken on any proposition during a time of misrepresentation and excitement such as has been the rule in Chicago since the executive council negatived the illegal strike. Those responsible for the submission of such resolutions at this time but poorly conceal their real object and deceive no one. The executive council is negotiating a new arbitration agreement with the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, and this tentative agreement will be submitted to the San Francisco convention, at which time the benefits or nonbenefits of such an agreement will be discussed in the light of the record that has been made under the arbitration policy, and not judged by the action of the officers of one local union in violating its provisions, violating a local contract, and violating International law.-[ED.

MOBILE, ALA.

Secretary B. B. Cox, of the Mobile Commercial Club, recently received a letter from President Grellet Collins, of the Delaware paper mills, of Philadelphia, Pa., replying to a proposition from the Commercial Club looking to the establishment of a wood pulp paper factory at Mobile, in which it was stated that, owing to the abundance of material in that section, the company could not consider any change in location, at least for the present. President Collins called attention to the union label on the Commercial Club letter head, and stated that in every town in the country in which the unions are strong there is little, if any, progress, and advised Secretary Cox to have the Commercial Club printing done by firms which do not employ union printers. In answering President Collins' letter Secretary Cox put forth a strong defense of the unions in this section and stated that President Collins was not conversant with conditions existing here with reference to labor and capital. Secretary Cox's letter in part was as follows:

Our labor unions are made up of men who have the interest of our community at heart, and who work hand in hand with capital for the betterment of conditions, both for themselves and the community. A strike is very rarely heard of in this part of the country. The very best type of men have the management of these unions and they always wield their influence for the betterment of conditions and not for destruction. I am not a labor union man myself, but am giving you exact conditions.

It is gratifying to learn that the coming International convention at San Francisco will be one of the largest in the history of the organization.

Recent arrivals: C. C. Fortson, E. L. DeJarnatt, H. H. Bose, A. A. Tatum, E. E. Vail, W. D. Bastable, Charles Frohlich, D. J. Crowley, R. W. Burke. Late departures: Sanford J. Williamson, E. E. Vail, Charles Frohlich, R. W. Burke. JOHN J. RUSSELL.

PORTLAND, ORE.

To the newest arrival we extend our heartiest greetings. Welcome, Astoria Typographical Union No. 682.

Very serious developments have confirmed the information and suspicions of the local officers that they had relative to the activities of the typothetæ in establishing the "open shop" in this section of the country. The action taken by No. 58 at its April meeting in refusing to open up the scale for jobmen at this time has apparently upset the immediate plans of the "open shop" agitators sent here from the south and east. The wisdom of the course taken by the union will be better understood in a year or two than it is today, especially by the more radical element. The attempt of the employers in one or two instances to hasten their day of reckoning has been abortive, and will be a boomerang so long as the wiser counsels of our union officials are upheld. Portland has one extremely useless citizen in the person of a purveyor of slabwood, "Lord" M. C. Banfield. The writer is authoritatively apprised of a recent episode which occurred between this Banfield and one of the employing printers, which is a straw to show the tendency of the wind. In a special meeting of the employers called by the employers' association the two came to an argument over the matter of conducting a printing business. The next day the citizens' alliance agitator called on the employing printer to continue the conversation with the hope of teaching the printer man his business-at least, as a slabwood peddler would run it. Some are unkind enough to insist that physical violence was an aid to the exit of the crestfallen "Lord," who came out second best, and very hurriedly. Those of the employing printers who are practical printers, and who thoroughly understand that $1.25 to $2 laborers are in no sense of the word competent men to place in charge of expensive machinery or highly technical work, such as is the routine in the printing industry, for that and other reasons are in no haste to put into effect the conditions suggested by the union smashers.

Under the direction of the local executive committee much organization work of a substantial nature is being accomplished. The small shops and the unattached individuals working in this and nearby towns have been thoroughly canvassed as to their leanings, and the report made at the April meeting was a surprise to those who had considered themselves conversant with the situation. To the average journeyman it was a revelation. But two shops in this city are desirous of being known as opposing in any way, shape, manner or form the printing crafts. These two have for years made loud and repeated boasts of their stand as against the organizations, so the report on them was no surprise. That the little men, those running card machines and bedroom shops, should, with one or two exceptions, announce themselves as unqualifiedly in favor of the union and union conditions speaks well for the management of affairs locally.

If one desired to "spread" there would be am

ple opportunity to do so with regard to Will Daly in this month's news, but we will pack him into one paragraph (if he will stay "packed") and have it over with. To begin with, "Bill" has gone into business for himself by purchasing the monotype machine plant from the Portland Linotype Company. He expects to do only such work for the trade as is most adaptable to his especial equipment. As for quality, it will be of the Daly style-the best is none too good. Naturally his resignation as International district representative was sent President Lynch for his acceptance. In passing, with due deference to past organizers and to those to come, if any of them can hold a candle to Mr. Daly for efficiency and the other hundred virtues that the successful organizer must possess, this member of No. 58 wishes to announce that he hails from the "show me" state. Lastly, our friend William seeks municipal office. Just ask any member of organized labor in Portland who he is going to vote for for councilman-atlarge in June, and the ready response is "Will

Daly." And organized labor in Portland has become awake to the power that lies in the ballot.

Another victim of the white plague has succumbed. Elmer Adair, a member of No. 58, passed away at Salem, March 19. The funeral services were conducted by Salem Union at the residence of State Superintendent of Instruction Ackerman. The young man was but 20 years of age, and is survived by his parents. His father was one of the hand compositors on the Oregonian for a number of years, and still treasures his membership in No. 58.

W. A. Marshall has been appointed by President Lynch as district representative of the International Typographical Union, vice Mr. Daly, resigned. Certainly the appointment is a happy one for both Multnomah and the International movement. Mr. Marshall has been closely attached to the big doings in this union, has served faithfully as chairman of the local executive board, and will attend to the duties of the office imposed on him wisely and well. Mr. Marshall says congratulations are in order, for he fairly loves hard work; it can't come up to him too fast.