There are four candidates in the field for the western trip, and the contest promises to be one of interest to every member of No. 112. The candidates are making a clean but earnest canvass for this greatest of convention trips in years, and every member should come out and vote for his choice on May 17. The election will be held in Eagles' Hall, Wyoming avenue, at 4:30 P. M.

Mr. Giddell, of the International Correspondence Schools chapel, has been seriously ill for the past month. He is being cared for at the state hospital, and we sincerely hope that by the time this notice reaches the membership he will be able for duty again.

Pete Carr, who has been on the sick list nearly all winter, is improving, but is not yet able to work.

A new headletter machine and a No. 5 machine have been installed at the Times office during the past month.

Mr. Potts, of Philadelphia, has been given a situation at the International Correspondence Schools as monotype machinist.

We can not agree with our New York friend, who wails at the priority law in the last issue of THE JOURNAL. There is no need to make any argument other than for the enforcement of the law as it now stands, and there should be no hesitancy on the part of any chairman to do his duty in every instance. If this law was stricken from our constitution it would be the means of demoralizing the proper spirit of unionism; it would put the management of printing establishments in a position to dictate who should be employed, no matter what the consequence might be and no matter who was to be displaced by the influence of friendship. It matters not who a workman may be, as long as he can produce, and does not antagonize his em ployer, that workman should be given the preference when opportunity occurs. We are of the candid opinion that the ones who are now devoting time and space crying down the spirit of the priority law would be the first to realize the effects of its elimination from the general laws of our organization. No matter how good you are, there's always some one who is just as good, and many times a little bit better. Forget it.

W. U. S GERHART.

KEOKUK, IOWA.

The tourists seem to be journeying northward these warm days. Recent arrivals are Ben Consbrook and H. H. Edwards, the latter from Oklahoma City, where he spent the winter. Allen Lutz is home from the south for a short visit.

It is reported that a new paper will be launched at Hamilton, just across the river from Keokuk, about May 1.

The writer and wife were present at the twelfth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Stillwell, of Quincy, Ill., April 6. Mr. Stillwell was formerly a member of No. 68, but is now president of Quincy Union.

The Gate City's baseball team will soon be in trim for games. G. W. EATON.

NOTES FROM THE UNION PRINTERS HOME. A social session was indulged in by the resi dents of the Home, old as well as young, on St. Patrick's night, and the festivities were held in the library and assembly rooms of the institution. The entertainment was varied, and consisted in the rendering of oldtime Irish melodies, Celtic story-telling, stereopticon views, and dancing (the latter embracing Irish reels and jigs by the older and more agile of the resident members) the mazy waltz and the present-day twostep affording the younger element among the employes and sanatorium patients an opportunity to participate in the enjoyments of the evening. An excellent fruit punch, together with fancy cakes in the form of shamrocks with green icing (and baked in the pastry department of the institution) were provided by Superintendent and Mrs. Deacon for this special occasion. With the exception of a few persons from the city (and specially invited to the affair), all in attendance were residents of the Home, and all voted the event an enjoyable one in every way.

The new boilers recently installed in the building constructed for that especial purpose were first used on April 2, and are ample for all necessities of the institution. The old boilers were dismantled after the above date and the vacant space, which is situated between the engine room and the present boiler department, will be utilized in an enlargement of the quarters for the engineer.

The parlor extension to the cottage occupied by the superintendent and his family was completed shortly before Easter Sunday. This addition was built with Castle Rock layer stone and is similar in design and architecture with that of the original structure completed in February, 1900.

The Sunnyrest Sanatorium, an institution for the treatment and cure of persons afflicted with tuberculosis in its early stages, was dedicated in the middle of March and opened for the reception of patients about April 1. The sanatorium is located a mile northeast of the Union Printers Home and consists of a central building for the accommodation of nurses, etc., and with wings on either side for the especial care of patients and not exceeding twenty-four persons. The funds for the establishment of this sanatorium were raised by popular subscriptions and donations during the past two years, and it was estimated that a sum of $25,000 was gathered in this manner. The original idea was to shelter the tubercular poor, but all applicants who are able to do so are expected to reimburse the management to the extent of their means.

Samuel H. Morrow, who had been a resident member of St. Paul Union No. 30 for upward of seven years, was stricken with paralysis some time during the night of April 6 and expired from its effects (and which were general) shortly after midnight of April 8. His funeral was held on the following afternoon (Sunday) in Evergreen Cemetery and in the chapel where services were conducted by Rev. A. B. Conwell, with G. H. Hoffman (Denver), Philip Corcoran (Butte),

W. O. Edwards (St. Louis) and C. A. Gallagher (New York), the officiating pallbearers. Interment was made in the new block owned by the International Union. Deceased was 78 years old and was popular with all (resident members and employes alike)-this latter fact being illustrated in the large number of persons (and which included the superintendent and family, nurses, etc.) in attendance at the chapel services and at the

grave.

Colorado Springs (which has been "dry"-save the mark!-since the spring of 1909) returned to the license system for the sale of malt and spirituous liquors by a majority of 966 in a total vote on the question "yes" and "no" on April 4. Two liquor ordinances were also voted on by the citizens; the "first" and which (on official vote) was carried by a majority of 44 in a total of 9,400, favors the licensing of fourteen drug stores for the sale of alcoholic liquors (whisky and wine) in quarts and malt liquors in pints; all hotels of seventy-five rooms and incorporated clubs of five years' standing; the "second," which was defeated by a majority of nearly 6,000, was more liberal, in that it would extend the license privilege to restaurants, all hotels, and clubs of one year's standing. The licenses range from $500 to clubs, $1,000 to botels, and $1,200 to drug stores.

Eugene M. Portner, master mechanic of the Union Printers Home, and who was a candidate for commissioner at the recent charter election, ran seventh in a field of sixteen nominées. Mr. Portner was the only bona fide trade unionisthe is an active member of Carpenters and Joiners No. 515 of Colorado Springs-in this long list of aspirants and received a few more than 1,000 votes in a poll of 10,000. The unions have a total membership of 2,000 and odd, and had this number given him their support in the election this item would have read somewhat different.

Colorado City ("Old Town") and the central city between the "Springs" and Manitou, voted within an "ace" (one vote) of becoming "dry" territory at the recent spring elections. The saloon district in "Old Town" is confined to a small area-on one block and on one side of the street-and where fifteen saloons are located. On the date of mailing this letter verbal and newspaper talk is general on the part of the "prohibs" of a contest and alleging illegal voting engineered by the saloon interests. The saloon men deny that there has been any illegal voting on the part of their supporters, and make the claim that if there is anything wrong a recount would prove it to be on the side of their opponents.

A. V. ("Shorty") Williams died in a nervous collapse, the primary causes of which were due to an affection of the kidneys and complicated with an asthmatic ailment, on Monday evening, April

tuary chapel on the Wednesday forenoon following and were conducted by the Rev. V. O. Penley, of the Good Shepherd Church (Episcopal), Manitou, with George W. Martin (Atlanta), H. A. Kessler (Easton), J. H. Kuhlman (Cincinnati), J. W. Crombie (Chicago), C. C. Clark (Philadelphia), and J. W. Twyman (New York), the active pallbearers. Burial was afterward made in the new block owned by the International Union.

It is on the tapis that the United Typothetæ of America will meet in annual convention in the "Queen City of the Plains" (Denver) in July. This report was given to the local newspapers by the secretary of this city's Chamber of Commerce, and with it another-that at least 700 delegates will be in attendance. Secretary Heath of the organization, who stopped off at Colorado Springs while en route to Portland, Ore., in January and visited the Union Printers Home, is the chamber's informant. Should the capital city be the place chosen for this annual meeting, Colorado Springs will be visited by the largest bunch of printer tourists in its history. All will take in its many scenic resorts, and but very few will overlook the fact of the near proximity of the Union Printers Home, which can be reached by the electric cars in a fifteen minutes' ride from the business section of the city.

George B. Baker, press representative of Al G. Field's Minstrels, and who is also an active member of Columbus (Ohio) Union No. 5, was a visitor to the Home early in April and met with his oldtime comrade-William F. ("Dutchy") Poland, one of the very few existing charter members of that union. Mr. Poland and his close intimate (George C. Beach, Cincinnati Union No. 3) were in attendance at the matinee entertainment given by the company and as guests of Mr. Baker. CHARLES A. GALLAGHER.

Colorado Springs, Colo.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

The reading of a circular at our April meeting, which had been issued and sent to local unions by Rochester Typographical Union No. 15, afforded our members an opportunity to express confidence in our officers-local as well as International. A committee was appointed to draw resolutions up on the subject along the lines of the sentiment contained in the Rochester letter, and the following was presented and adopted with enthusiastic approval:

To the Officers and Members of Milwaukee Typographical Union No. 23:

Your committee appointed to draft resolutions against the slanderous assault that certain members of the International Typographical Union have and are making upon International officers and the executive council, beg leave to submit the following:

Whereas, Judging by the purport of the literature already issued, the object of the proposed "progressives" is to seek control of the affairs of the International Typographical Union by electing their members to International offices and thereby changing the present policies of our grand and progressive organization, substituting instead reign of strikes, lockouts and anarchy; therefore, Resolved, That Milwaukee Typographical Union

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No. 23, in regular meeting assembled, condemns most emphatically the assaults that are being made against the integrity and efficiency of our present International officers, who always have, and who are unceasingly laboring to advance the International Typographical Union to the highest plane that a labor organization has ever attained, and through whose efforts and foresightedness the whole membership of the International Typographical Union has gained better conditions and higher wages without always resorting to that drastic and deplorable method of striking, which has caused so many other labor organizations to succumb, and without the privations and sufferings to its members which are attendant to such controversies; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we have implicit confidence in the manner in which the affairs of the International Typographical Union have been and will be conducted by the present International officers, and wish to be recorded as a body being opposed to changing the present policies or the abolition of the arbitration agreement which has secured to our membership so many lasting benefits; and, be it further

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to sister unions and to President Lynch and the executive council.

In compliance with local and International law, the election of officers and delegates of No. 23 will take place on the third Wednesday of May, or May 17. Section of article ix, local constitution, says:

Polls shall be open on the third Wednesday in May of each year, from 3 o'clock P. M. to 8 o'clock P. M., in every office in the jurisdiction of this union which has an organized chapel, for the purpose of receiving the votes of the members of this union who may be entitled to vote in such office.

As usual, the election will be in charge of three judges, who shall be in session in the secretary's office, 720 Majestic building, between the hours of 3 and 8 P. M. for the purpose of receiving the votes of chapels through the respective chairmen, and of members personally who are not employed where an organized chapel exists. Every member who is in possession of the April stamp is eligible to vote, and should make it a point to do so. The attention of the various chairmen is called to article ix, pages 15 and 16, of the local constitution, and especially to section 5. Read the article over carefully, so that errors and confusion may be avoided on election day.

The M. H. Wiltzius Company, of this city, publishers of the Catholic Directory and other religious works, has sold out, and hereafter the directory will be published in New York city by P. J. Kennedy & Sons, said to be the oldest publishers of the metropolis. Mr. Wiltzius will engage in the manufacture of sacred statuary, and the retail church goods business of the firm has been acquired by the new company. The printing of this directory each year has been the pons asinorum of poor old Barney Cannon, of the scab Cannon Printing Company of Milwaukee. The sentiment of the people of this community is against working conditions under which the publi cations of the Wiltzius Company were producedlong hours of labor, Sabbath desecration, etc.-and it is presumed that financial conditions made the change necessary.

Advertisements for printers for "open" shops inserted in Chicago newspapers by Milwaukee

"open shoppers" have inspired a number of members in Chicago to write the undersigned at different times for particulars. Let it be known that we have but two kinds of offices in this city, namely, union and scab. The union offices include about everything in town that can conduct a regular cash payday. JOSEPH LA Fleur.

SEATTLE, WASH.

R. R. Wilson, known all over the country to printer folk, has been chosen secretary of the Seattle Commercial Club. Mr. Wilson was for many years an officer of New York Union No. 6. It goes without saying that he will be busy here next August with No. 202's committee entertaining the delegates and visitors to the San Francisco meeting.

Harry Miller and Bernard Rice, of the PostIntelligencer chapel, took in the bowling tournament in Spokane last month.

Business still continues the same here--not much work and plenty of subs. The telegram from the president of Portland Union in the April JOURNAL to the effect that they expected something to hap pen fits the local situation also if it happens in Portland it will undoubtedly happen in the other northwest towns.

The proposition from Denver Union providing for closer affiliation with the other printing trades was endorsed by No. 202 at its last meeting with one change. The section providing for scales to be ratified by allied councils was changed so that scales would be submitted to a referendum vote of all unions in the council, thus giving an oppor. tunity for the membership of affiliated unions to express themselves on the question.

A request from Salt Lake Union asking No. 202 to join in a petition to the executive council to submit to the referendum of the International Typographical Union a proposition to abolish piece scales and speed bonuses was also endorsed. R. M. MCCULLOUGH.

The entertainment committee of the delegates to the International convention at San Francisco has about completed the preliminary arrangements for receiving visiting delegates, printers and their friends on their way to San Francisco, and the matter of sightseeing, banquet and ball will next engross the committee.

One thing we want to impress upon all those intending to go to San Francisco via Seattle is to demand of all ticket agents that your tickets read via Seattle and from Seattle to San Francisco over the line of the Oregon-Washington Railway and Navigation Company, as this will avoid any confusion and will give the visitors all the privileges of the palatial special train which the Seattle committee has arranged for. Otherwise visitors may have to go to Portland over some other road before they can mix up with the northwestern bunch.

And, believe me, that is going to be one of the finest specials that ever pulled into San Francisco. In a letter received from W. D. Skinner, general

freight and passenger agent of the O.-W. R. and N., he says:

We contemplate furnishing you with a special train of the very best obtainable equipment; this equipment to be an observation, buffet and smoking car, two or more diners, as many Pullmans as the size of the party warrants, baggage car with baggageman in attendance during entire trip so you can have access to your baggage at all times, and a player-piano in the observation car.

Some class to a layout like that?

Now, we have another little one to spring on the visitors. Portland wants to give the visitors a touch of real northwestern hospitality and will entertain the bunch a day and evening in the Rose Carnival City. If all arrangements are satisfactory, the visitors after the Seattle ball and banquet will entrain in Pullman sleepers on the night of August 8 and be awakened by the Portland committee on the morning of the 9th and entertained a day in that beautiful metropolis.

The Vancouver committee is hard at work and will be here in a bunch to assist and take part in the festivities. By the way, that is a live bunch. At a recent meeting the union, No. 226, voted $500 for work to secure the next International Typographical Union convention up there, and a private letter from there says that the Tourist Association of Vancouver guaranteed $5,000, in case the British Columbia town secures the 1912 convention; and in event the horse show building is not large enough the citizens propose building a hall for convention purposes and have it completed in time to be formally opened by the International Typographical Union.

The O.-W. R. and N. now has a book of fifty pages, handsomely illustrated and entitled "The Land That Lures" in press, and as soon as these are finished the Seattle committee will mail at least 1,000 copies to delegates and secretaries of unions, so that all may know of the wonderful scenery and resources of the Pacific northwest.

We notice that other cities are inviting the delegates to visit them, and simply suggest that by coming by the way of Seattle and returning by way of these other places the delegates can see more of the country and be better entertained, for there is only one Seattle, and No. 202 will have open house only from August 6 to 8, when Portland wants a chance, and Vancouver will be with you at both places.

Seattle has no axes to grind and No. 202 is putting up the money for the entertainment simply because its members want to meet the visitors, give them a good, lively time and then go on to the convention with them and help swell the crowd at San Francisco.

Secretary Ralph McCullough, of the union, shouldered his trusty winchester April 14 and, with Charles Ginter Smith of Pittsburg and Robert Fleming of Glasgow, Scotland, has gone up in the Olympic Mountains to chase cougars, water ouzel and other varmints and catch mountain trout as a side diversion. C. E. Fisk is acting secretary-treasurer during McCullough's absence.

The death of Charles Alf Williams, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, removes

one of the prominent actors in the death-dealing fire in the Minneapolis Tribune in 1889, in which many members of the International Typographical Union had narrow escapes with their lives and some were killed. Mr. Williams played a heroic part in this holocaust and received injuries which eventually ended in death, after an operation which was considered necessary to relieve his physical ailments. Mr. Williams was well known and liked by local printers, and the Times chapel sent a magnificent wreath of lilies and white roses as an offering to his memory.

At the meeting the first Sunday in May No. 202 will nominate a complete ticket of officials for the ensuing year, and already there are eight candidates for delegate in the field, with two to be elected. O. E. SHANNON.

OHIO STATE TYPOGRAPHICAL CONFERENCE. The tenth session of the Ohio State Typograph. ical Conference was held in Cleveland, on Sunday, April 9, 1911. The preliminary event, a smoker, was held on Saturday evening at the Printers' Club. Those present were entertained by a musical program, after which refreshments were served. The conference was called to order by President John E. Walker, of Dayton, and the following delegates responded to roll call: Akron, Ben F. Graves, Fred A. Miles, A. F. Osterhause; Ashtabula, Homer A. Mack, E. A. Brooks; Canton, J. C. Kling, F. J. Ballard; Cambridge, H. C. Callihan; Columbus, W. F. Donnely, P. H. Mann; Cleveland, F. W. Steffen, John B. Hogan, W. H. Cockett; Dayton, John E. Walker, John H. Chambers; Lorain, F. W. Galloway; Norwalk, Ross Locke; Portsmouth, Robert J. Barry; Springfield, H. H. Morley, D. P. Rogers, W. H. Morris; Steubenville, J. C. Bartow; Toledo, C. J. Seaman; Youngstown, J. B. Reynolds, Wick S. Flower, James Loomis; Zanesville, N. M. Beckley.

Each delegate presented a report, and organization work in general was discussed. The reports of the delegates as to condition of trade throughout the state were encouraging and of an interesting character. The conference went on record as favoring the establishment of a state printing plant. The secretary was authorized to send a letter to James Reynolds, a member of the Ohio legislature, endorsing the union label bill introduced by him. A legislative committee consisting of John B. Hogan, Cleveland; A. F. Osterhause, Akron, and H. H. Morley, Springfield, was elected.

John W. Hays, secretary-treasurer of the International Typographical Union, was present and addressed the conference. He referred to some of the reports of the delegates, and said he admired the keep-to-the-front spirit. He told of the Butterick settlement, and advocated persistency. Referring to the Chicago situation, he said that maintenance of contracts is a boast of the International Typographical Union. He congratulated the Ohio Conference on the good work done. A hearty vote of thanks was given Mr. Hays.

Max S. Hayes, International representative, also addressed the conference and reviewed organiza

tion work in the state, and particularly his work in Akron. He explained the difficulties encountered at the Werner Company's plant, and told of plans now in progress to continue the battle. A. W. Thomson, of Cleveland, was called upon for remarks, and told of how Cleveland was going after the 1912 International convention.

The following resolution was presented by John B. Reynolds, delegate from Youngstown Union No. 200, and unanimously adopted:

Resolved, We, the officers and delegates to the Ohio State Typographical Conference, in convention assembled, do hereby unanimously endorse Cleveland for the convention of the International Typographical Union for 1912.

Delegate H. H. Morley, of Springfield, speaking on the resolution, requested that all delegates try and have their delegates to San Francisco go instructed to vote for "Cleveland-1912 convention International Typographical Union-Clevelandin the center of everywhere."

The new officers for the next conference are John B. Hogan, of Cleveland, president, and A. F. Osterhause, of Akron, secretary. For the next meeting place, Akron was accorded the honor without a contest.

A banquet at the American House was held after the meeting. F. W. STEFFEN,

Secretary-Treasurer of the Tenth Conference. Cleveland, Ohio.

BOSTON, MASS.

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The March meeting of No. 13 had little of international interest. The proposal from Denver Union, criticized in the editorial columns of the March JOURNAL, was referred to a committee. recommendation that a prize be offered to the chapel having the largest pro rata attendance at union meetings for the next six months was adopted, and a committee will wrestle with a practical method of keeping tab on the attendance for this purpose. Another committee will take up the question of organization work in this city, and several communications from headquarters were referred to it. A motion by P. J. Sullivan to have the union deprecate the refusal of the central labor union to endorse a bill giving preference to Spanish war veterans in the civil service was the occasion of President Chase's first exercise of the appointing power vested in him by the new constitution. Objection being made to the motion, Secretary Curtin suggested that Mr. Sullivan be sent to the central labor union as a delegate, to take the matter up with that body, and President Chase requested "Pat" to step forward, raise his right hand, and in a minute he was a full-fledged delegate. Unfortunately for "Pat," the bill was killed before the next meeting of the central labor union.

By the death of Charles G. Wilkins on April 1 No. 13 has suffered the loss of one who has long been a prominent and energetic worker in the cause of trade unionism. Born in Glenhead, Scotland, March 31, 1846, he started in the printing business in Dundee when 13 years old. After

serving his apprenticeship he enlisted in the British army and served in India and other parts of the empire. He entered the United States from Canada, and worked for many years in New Hampshire. About 1879 he came to Cambridge to the University Press, and there met the late Frank K. Foster. Both men became active in Cambridge Union and were leaders in a successful strike in the University Press the following year. Mr. Wilkins then crossed the river to Boston, and worked in Cushing's book office, at that time located on High street, and also subbed on the newspapers for some time. He deposited his card in Providence Union in 1887 and worked on the Journal and Telegram in that city, but soon there

after returned to Boston. On the establishment of the city printing plant Mr. Wilkins took a position in the proof room, where he was employed at the time of his death. During his long connection with trade unionism he served in many capacities, being a delegate to the central labor union from No. 13 continuously for twenty years. He was also a former master workman in the Knights of Labor, former president of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor, former organizer of the International Typographical Union for the New England district, fifth vice-president of the New England Allied Printing Trades and delegate from No. 13 to the Buffalo convention in 1887. Funeral services were held at his late residence on April 5, and were attended by a large delegation from No. 13. The floral tributes were numerous.