always fair and impartial to all, and it was due mostly to his efforts that Muncie Union has attained its present high plane and prosperity. During his administration the scale has been increased nearly 50 per cent. While he is a union man in every sense of the word, yet he is most conservative, and never has been known to "lose his head" under any circumstances. He was also elected twice as president of the local trades council, which office he filled with great credit to himself and organized labor in general. Twice he was elected as delegate to International conventions. No. 332 and all members of organized labor wish him God-speed and success in all his undertakings wherever he may be.

Lest you forget, the product at the Hoosier printing office is still done by persons who are not members of the International Typographical Union or pressmen's union.

Arrivals: J. P. Swinehart, Lela B. Smith, J. H. Hollis, Ben J. Foy, Charles Stevens, J. F. Aughin baugh, Joseph Batch, Jack Leonard and Ray Hayworth. Departures: J. H. Hollis, B. W. McGinnis, Russell Roberts, Joseph Batch, Ben J. Foy and J. F. Aughinbaugh. JOSEPH HERDERING.

BUFFALO, N. Y.

After years of grunting, groaning and cussing, No. 9 has at last secured a good scale for the newspaper end of the business. The negotiations have been going on since the first of September, but owing to the absence of the proprietors from the city, matters did not come to a head until December. The scale went into effect December 1. The first offer from the publishers was $1.50 a week and price and a half for overtime, back pay to date from November 1. This the union rejected. The next proposition carried an offer of $2 a week raise and price and a half for overtime, back pay to date from December 1. This was rejected. The third proposition offered $2.50 a week and price and a half for overtime, back pay to date from December 1, and another dollar to be added at the end of the year. This offer was accepted. The scale in Buffalo is now $23 for day work, $26 for night work, price and a half for overtime. This makes the night scale figure up at $4.33, and 81 cents an hour for overtime. The membership is to be congratulated on the firm stand it maintained during the course of negotiations. Charles E. Kinskey presented No. 9's end of the argument and is deserving of great praise for the able manner in which he handled the situation.

It is too bad the death benefit proposition was defeated. It looked like a good, feasible plan, and I believe that it would have been a strong argument for securing new members, especially in the country districts.

The defeat of the proposition to raise the salaries of the International officers occasioned some surprise. Owing to the fact that unions all over the country are securing increases in their scales, it was thought that they might feel in a generous mood and give the proposition a good vote. In discussing the question one night, one member

raised the point that possibly the defeat was due to opposition to the present incumbents in office. In reply to this a member for over forty years de clared that that excuse had been offered every time when a vote to raise salaries came up. He said that no matter who held office, the opponents of the increase always voted the same way. He men tioned a number of different administrations that had been refused increases in salaries. One peculiar part of the vote here was the fact that the poorest paid end of our craft (the jobbers) voted to a man for the proposition. The votes against the raise came from the newspaper end. We haven't a list of the salaries paid to the executives of other unions at hand, but our membership must know that the International Typographical Union officers are the poorest paid of any large trade union in the country. We wonder how long this niggardly policy is to prevail.

Paul Auerbach is getting on his feet after a long siege of illness. George Dolan left us to accept a situation in his old stamping grounds, Wheeling, W. Va. He carries with him the best wishes of Buffalo friends. For the benefit of inquiring relatives, will state that A. L. Smith is in Buffalo. He is enjoying good health, but apparently his writing hand is not anxious to do any corresponding. Jack Smith, of Lockport, paid his yearly visit to the city and hobnobbed with the boys. Billy Conway is slated for a political ap pointment, owing to his active work in recent campaigns. Nick Buckley is laid up at his sister's home in Dunkirk. His friends hope for a speedy recovery. Hugh Wallace was caned last month. Birthday.

At present there seems to be an opening for a machinist sub in this city.

Joe Wild expects to land about the first of January into one of those appointments with which the faithful are rewarded.

The News composing room is being remodeled. When completed it will be one of the finest in the country.

"The Fourth Estate" chapel visited local headquarters during their engagement here. They are a fine bunch and the visit was enjoyed by those who had the pleasure of meeting them.

A fine race is in progress in the newspaper tournament. A number of the boys have "come back," and the excitement is at fever heat. The titles of the teams are bizarre enough for the trade and they are bowling under the names of the Em Quads, M. S. H. (will not give the definition of this, but the first time you meet anybody from Buffalo, ask them what Captain Mann's team was called), Wrong Fonts, Thin Spaces, Minions, Stereotypers, Agates, Lippincotts.

The Times chapel was so elated over the new scale that they called President Kinskey in and presented him with a tidy purse of gold.

Every meeting sees the initiation of new members. We are getting the cream of the young "jours" and will soon have them all in line. A special effort will be made to reorganize the jobbers, and No. 9 will soon be back at the old stand. W. A. COYELL.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Considerable work has been done here during the past few months in the interest of our apprentice boys, and No. 23 having subscribed for THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL for a number of them, a few words on the apprentice question in this correspondence may prove of some interest.

During the past two years there has been a phenomenal request for well-skilled workmen in the job and news branches of our trade. The public demand for printed matter is constantly on the increase. The life and success of commercial industry seems to depend more than ever upon printer's ink, and therefore those who are learning the printing trade must now drop the idea that it is merely "a lick and a rub affair."

When a young man enters a composing room to learn the trade he must size up the matter correctly. He should appreciate the mechanical and artistic requirements of the calling, and should enter upon his duties in the spirit of a student who wishes to attain success. The old way of learning the trade, with its lack of system, will not bring the apprentice very much under the exacting requirements of the present time.

The International Typographical Union has wisely anticipated the necessities of the present and future in the establishment of the I. T. U. Course of Instruction in Printing, and every apprentice who is really ambitious to attain proficiency in his chosen vocation should take this course in the fourth year of his apprenticeship. The new scale of wages of Chicago Typographical Union, touching upon the apprentice question, reads:

Section 6. Beginning with the first week of the fifth year every apprentice shall pay to the secretary-treasurer of Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 the sum of $1 per week for a period of forty weeks, $15 of which shall be his initiation fee; the remaining $25 shall be applied to the purchase of a course in the International Typographical Commission.

This law makes the I. T. U. Course obligatory. Frequently the writer, as secretary of No. 23, hears complaints from foremen of the incompetency of printers. Of course, foremen are often to blame in many ways for this condition themselves, and should consider that they have a great deal of responsibility in the matter. I wish to call attention to another section of the new Chicago scale, with reference to this subject:

The term of an apprentice shall be five years, the first year to be considered one of probation, such probationer to be possessed of the following qualifications: (a) Not under 16 years of age. (b) Graduates of the common schools of the United States or the Dominion of Canada or of some school of equal merit. (c) In good health and sound physically.

In enforcing local apprentice laws, we found a case where two apprentices in the same office had worked at the trade seven and six years, respectively. When asked to explain, the foreman stated that "both are worthless-one can scarcely read English at all!"

Chris Paulus, of the Wisconsin Brewers' Association, called upon the secretary of No. 23 re

cently and requested that the association be furnished with a list of all the union newspapers in Wisconsin. He stated that all advertising to be placed in future by the brewers in any part of the state will be given to union newspapers wherever a typographical union is in existence. The secretary corresponded with each of our thirteen Wisconsin sister unions and the desired information was promptly furnished.

ness.

The writer has called attention at different times to the advantages held out to our members by the Picas in the way of providing aid in time of sickThe Picas is the aid society of Typographical Union No. 23, and under the management of William F. Benseman as secretary-collector, it has been gaining new members very rapidly. The cost of membership in the Picas is a mere trifle, and it pays $5 a week sick benefit and a burial benefit of $50. If you are not yet a member, Mr. Benseman will be pleased to give you full particulars upon request.

James Milliken, of Chicago, one of the writer's old friends, furnished the undersigned with a copy of No. 16's new job scale, and, among other things, he says: "So you can see now that your argument, i. e., that No. 16 must have a higher scale than No. 23, can no longer be advanced." Well, it's about time. We were getting tired of trampling upon the heels of our south side suburb.

The report of the California State Federation of Labor shows clearly that the Los Angeles Times disaster was the result of an explosion of gas. Not satisfied with the death of twenty printers, a certain human, or inhuman, gas bag thought he would explode also and thereby injure the rest of us. Have you ever heard that sad little songA grasshopper jumped

Into a pail of suds?

That's what the local press club's "sacred cat" sang when she saw the current issue of "Oncea-Year." She smelled rats! JOSEPH LA FLEUR.

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.

Letters favorable to Oklahoma City's candidacy for the 1912 meeting of the International Typographical Union have been coming in at a rapid rate the past month, and the committee in charge feels very much encouraged at this time of securing the big convention for this city. A prominent Oklahoma City booster has the following to say regarding the growth and prosperity of the city, which is in every way capable of taking care of the convention:

About twenty-two years ago, at high noon, April 22, 1889, there was heard the sound of a bugle and a pistol shot that has re-echoed around the world. The famous celebrated run had started and they were off. Between two suns a trackless expanse of prairie became a swarm of human life and moving things. Oklahoma City, a city of a thousand tents, had sprung up over night, around a watering tank on the Santa Fe, a pioneer transstate railroad of Oklahoma, and with it a regiment of the regular army, detailed there by the war department.

The days and reign of the cattlemen, the pioneer, and the Indians have passed. Many of the Indians have become very wealthy and a number

of them are millionaires, largely due to oil, coal and gas found on their allotment. It is a very unusual thing now to see a blanket Indian in Oklahoma.

The spot on the great open prairie where the boomer's camp fire burned in 1889 has become the floor and sounding board for the noises and activities of a twentieth century city. Stone and steel, asphalt and concrete are massed and mingled here in street and skyscrapers. There have been no Rip Van Winkles around this part of the country. Oklahoma City has had such a wonderful growth of modern evolution that its true story is to a great extent regarded in the east as exaggerated. The true story of Oklahoma has never been told because its depths have never been fully sounded.

Nowhere in the United States have the American people accomplished so much during the past twenty-two years as the people of Oklahoma for commerce, industry, agriculture, sociability, churches and schools. The tide of the home seekers has rolled into Oklahoma because the inducements offered to them by reason of possible production and distribution. Railroads have stimulated settlement, and settlement has led to an increase in railroads and railroad facilities.

What has made Oklahoma City? The answer is, the men of Oklahoma, God fearing, Christian men, the best, the bravest, the truest that were ever brought together in one state from all over the union.

There are ten first-class hotels. One ten-story containing 450 rooms, the Lee-Huckins; another ten-story, 300 rooms, the Skirvin, and another large hotel is under construction, containing eight stories.

There are eighty-five miles of electric street railway and 108 miles of asphalt paved streets. Mean annual temperature, 60 degrees. Average annual rainfall, 31 inches. City water system, daily capacity 12,000,000 gallons. Water mains, 100 miles. Storm and sanitary sewers, 186 miles. A thirtymile boulevard encircling the city is being built.

To those who will attend the 1911 convention in San Francisco, we ask to give us just consideration in the matter of selecting the meeting place for the 1912 convention. We can say that Oklahoma City does things well in every way, and if you will give us the coveted prize we will guarantee that all who attend will be well rewarded for their efforts.

Typographical Union No. 283 will give a grand ball about the middle of January, the committee in charge having the arrangements well in hand at this writing.

The writer was sorry to hear of the death of James M. Rhodes, of Kansas City. A number of our members remember "Jim" as one of the Missouri river pirates.

D. E. Booth, for several years secretary of Tulsa (Okla.) Union, is a regular situation holder on the Daily Oklahoman now. Miss Edith Bisbee, for several years secretary of Enid (Okla.) Union, is now a regular on the night side of the Oklahoman. C. A. Burton, formerly president of Fort Worth (Texas) Union, is in the city at this writing and will probably locate here.

Victor Berger, member of Milwaukee Newswriters' Union, and first socialist ever elected to congress, made an address in Oklahoma City December 28. The local printers gave Mr. Berger a banquet. Oklahoma City Union now has eight women members out of a membership of 190.

Bert Granger, well known in Texas and the southwest, died December 14, of heart trouble. His remains were buried in Oklahoma City. Mr.

Granger had been a continuous member of the typographical union for twenty-nine years, and a better union man never stepped into a printing office. He had been in Oklahoma City about four years.

The newspaper war continues in Oklahoma City. One paper, however, the Morning Examiner, lasted only eighteen days. At this writing it is a difficult matter to predict the outcome.

A letter received from Charles Heacock in New York informs me that he is working for Oklahoma City's candidacy for the 1912 convention. Keep the ball rolling and tell all your friends in the east we want them to come and see us in the southwest. Bill Bromley will please take notice of the fact that we are in the race to win.

HOWARD M. Casler.

BAKERSFIELD, CAL.

Earl Harris, recently of the Californian, has brought an up-to-date job plant down from San Francisco and started in that branch of the busi

ness.

James Armstrong, an operator with a San Antonio card, came to this city recently, worked three days, took sick and three days later died at the St. Francis Hospital. He was a stranger in the city, without funds, and the union gave him decent burial.

E. R. Carey, formerly of the Oil World, took charge of the Union Labor Journal the first of the year. The Journal has a splendid field for' good work in behalf of the cause, and could be made a power in the community. The Carey régime will be watched with interest.

The procession of make-ups on one of the Bakersfield dailies is said to remind one vividly of a rapid-fire motion picture. An interested observer remarked that he could feel the breeze created as they came in the front door and slid out the back. This, however, is an exaggeration, as frequently one stays a whole week before discovering that he has urgent business elsewhere.

The phenomenal speed of Fred Hunter along the path from devil to foreman is a subject for remark. Within six months from the time Fred graduated and got his card he was holding down the foreman's desk on the Californian with the nonchalance of a veteran.

No. 439 has reached an amicable agreement with the local shops whereby a substantial increase in the wage scale has been gained. Day work, both job and news, is now paid at the rate of $4 for eight hours, and the night scale is $4.25. Soon after the new scale went into effect the management of the Californian, the afternoon daily, became restless and voluntarily increased the pay of the day operators to $4.25-the night scale. And now the night men are wondering where they get off!

The Kern County Labor Council recently passed, with the consent of its constituent unions, a measure requiring all delegates to display at least four union labels on their wearing apparel. The rule worked smoothly until one delegate appeared with

proper credentials but no union labels. He proved that the suit he was wearing was made by union labor, but that the tailor, through some obscure cantankerousness, refused to provide labels in it. The delegate was not seated. This so aroused the ire of E. D. Jones, No. 439's delegate, that with the consent of the union he loaded up his vocabulary with high explosives and shot all kinds of holes in the law, with the result that it is in a fair way of being repealed. An intelligent regard for the spirit as well as the letter of the law sometimes seems desirable. CHARLES C. RICHMOND.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

The December meeting received the report of its representatives to the arbitration board at its meeting in St. Louis in November. The board gave the admen a slight increase, 30 cents a night, and price and a half overtime. The Saturday overtime, while not what was wanted, is a great deal better than the old scale. The contract dated from July 1, and in consequence a whole lot of back pay had accumulated. No changes of any importance were made in the machine scale. The union warmly commended its representatives before the board-Horace Johnson and M. T. Burton-for the manner in which they handled the proposition.

The recent election in Memphis clearly demonstrated to the writer the impossibility of the unions accomplishing very much by taking political action through the old parties. The unions of this city selected delegates to a labor political convention to nominate a legislative ticket. We met. We nominated. It went to the public as a union men's ticket. That is as far as it ever got, receiving less than 2,500 votes out of a possible membership of 5,000 union men in Memphis. It showed our weakness when it comes to voting. The politicians, however, placed union men on their ticket and elected them, and when it comes to serving organized labor or their political masters, they will be found with the former, for they are all union men first. There is a lesson in this which union men should study, if we ever hope to accomplish anything politically.

Secretary Horace Johnson has announced that he will not be a candidate for that office again, but will aspire to represent No. 11 at San Francisco.

The December meeting elected that old "warhorse," Hon. W. H. Johnson, of the Commercial Appeal chapel, to represent the local at the state federation meeting at Nashville in January.

Tennessee's "apostle of sunshine," Senator Bob Taylor, who was always a friend to the union printer, was defeated by the fusion candidate for governor on account of local conditions. Mr. Ayleworth, of the Commercial Appeal, who was with him in the campaign reporting his speeches, died very suddenly at the close of the campaign. Senator Taylor offered to deliver his famous lec ture for the benefit of Mr. Ayleworth's family, and it is certain a packed house will greet him.

Sam Preston has been compelled to give up his "sit" on the Press on account of ill health, and at this time shows little sign of improvement. He is a popular member and everything possible has been

done for him in the way of attention, financially and otherwise. The managers of the Press were very liberal in their dealing with Mr. Preston, showing their appreciation of his services while in their employ.

R. H. Stahl and Hugo Weinberg, the "traveling Dutchmen," made Memphis early in December.

The boys on the Commercial Appeal reveled in wealth when the office paid off the back money accumulated since July 1. Over $2,000 was the

amount.

The entries so far to represent No. 11 at San Francisco are: Raymond Paschall, Horace Johnson, E. B. Naylor, L. L. Allen, Jimmy Igon. Probable entries (space forbids).

Frank Gray, ad foreman at the Scimitar, has announced his intention of going to Mena, Ark., next year and engaging in the paper business. Frank's love for Arkansas is well known to the craft.

A recent Sunday Commercial Appeal contained four double-page ads, and turned down two others on account of coming in too late. That is a record hard to beat in the south. This paper showed a very progressive spirit in giving a $5,000 prize to bring the aviation meet to this city, where the world's record for fast flying was made.

"Bill" Quain is dead! This statement will be received with sadness wherever printers are found, for he had a large acquaintance among the tourists. Mr. Quain was born in Memphis in 1857, and has always been identified with No. 11. In his younger and palmy days he was an active worker in the union, and the pages of the history of No. 11 will always bear evidence of the good he accomplished and the sacrifices he endured. We have a feeling almost of reverence for these old Nestors of unionism, and it is with sadness we chronicle their demise. Mr. Quain was buried by No. 11 in the union's lot in Calvary cemetery.

Messrs. Sawtelle and "Billie" Wells, furnishers of linotype matter to the trade, are installing a new machine. Their success is a source of gratification to their many friends in No. 11.

B. L. APPLEBY.

ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Every printery in the city is working full time, with overtime in most of the offices.

At Ypsilanti, which is under our jurisdiction, a couple of "comps" could find employment.

William Hart, our former secretary-treasurer, is, we are informed, holding a "sit" at Grand Rapids. We have nothing to complain of as regards the state of trade. HI A. SWEET.

THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE. An editor and his wife disagree with each other materially. She sets things to rights, and he writes things to set. She reads what others write, and he writes what others read. She keeps the devil out of the house as much as possible, and he retains him and could not go to press without him; she knows more than he writes, and he writes more than she knows.-Printing Machinery Record.

SAVANNAH, GA.

Work continues good here, with plenty of help on hand at the present time.

Several changes were recently made at the Press by J. C. Ricks leaving for Macon and Taylor Whitfield assuming the foremanship.

Arrivals are: J. H. Loyless and J. A. Conard. Departures: C. A. Cooper and J. M. Hussey.

Clif Smith came back to spend the winter here. John Frizell is confined to his home, and unable to devote his entire time to business. Charlie Cooper spent a few weeks here looking over the grand prize race.

The union is preparing to erect another monument in its cemetery lot. SID FENTON.

WINFIELD, KAN.

No. 670 is one of the most active printers' organizations in this part of the country. Its membership includes every working printer in Winfield and most of those in Arkansas City, the other big newspaper town in this county. The union meets in a handsomely furnished hall in the First National Bank building, and its meetings are always harmonious and interesting. At the last meeting nearly every member of the union was present.

George Rembaugh, formerly an expert printer and publisher, and at one time postmaster of Winfield, now one of the leading business men of this city, was elected an honorary member of the union at its last meeting, and accepted the honor with many expressions of appreciation and good will for the success of the organization.

John Williams, who had been adman on the Free Press of this city, has gone to Oklahoma City.

George Eastin, printer and bookbinder, was granted an honorary withdrawal card at our last meeting. He is to remain in Winfield, but will devote himself entirely to the bookbinding business.

The union has been of great benefit to the printers in this city. It has not only shortened the hours of labor, but has increased wages. It is also working to bring about a better understanding among the proprietors of the various printing plants, with the view of increasing the price of advertising and job work, both of which is too low here as compared with other commodities.

T. E. LEFTWICH.

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, ILL.

Work has been very good the past two months and will probably continue for some time yet. There have been plenty of men to handle the busi

ness.

Charles L. Kiser, foreman of the News Printing Company, one Sunday evening recently took the pulpit in the Congregational Church, by request of Rev. J. A. Holmes, the pastor, and addressed the audience on the subject of "Child Labor." Mr. Kiser proved to be an orator of force, and covered the topic thoroughly. Louis Schell, of the tailors' union, spoke on the question of "Legislation" at

The

the same meeting. Mr. Kiser and Mr. Schell are members of the Men's Social Service Club that meets every Sunday morning in this church. club, although in its infancy, promises to be a power in this community in putting the good things before the public at large pertaining to and to be derived through organized labor, and everything that the masses of working men and women in all lines of the industrial world of today are directly interested in and are studying.

Under the auspices of the Twin City Federation of Labor and Men's Social Service Club, Jenkins Lloyd Jones, of Abraham Lincoln Centre of Chicago, lectured at the Presbyterian Church in Champaign on December 15 on the "Garment Workers' Strike and the Conditions Arising Therefrom." The gross receipts went to the relief fund of the strikers in Chicago. Mr. Jones covered the situation thoroughly and his talk was very impressive on his listeners.

Local No. 263, Women's International Union Label League, made its debut in the Twin Cities on December 2. All the members will demand labels on their future purchases.

The Gazette Printing Company has been dissolved, Davis & Peck taking over the newspaper, and Flannigan & Pierson the job department, which has been moved to a new building on First South

street.

Charles L. Kiser, one of No. 444's tireless workers for the cause of things that are good, is an aspirant to the office of great junior sagamore of the Improved Order of Red Men, to be decided at an election to be held at the meeting of the Great Council of Illinois next May.

Col. A. C. Thomas, with a Jackson (Miss.) card, has taken the make-up situation on the Daily News. Alderman A. M. Evans, of the Gazette chapel, has been appointed deputy sheriff and has disconnected himself from that office.

Jesse Bartley, machinist-operator on the News, who made preparations to move to his Alabama farm, but did not make his getaway, is now supplying the News force with milk from his two-cow dairy. F. C. SPELMAN.

WORCESTER, MASS.

Oliver G. Fosdick has been chosen president and Frank M. McNamara vice-president, respectively, of No. 165, to fill vacancies because of removals.

The Telegram composing room employes have gone to work in their new quarters, a picture and description of which will probably appear in a later issue of THE JOURNAL.

There was some warm praise of the twenty-fifth celebration of No. 165.

We are in receipt of a neat compilation of the scale and its accompanying explanation gotten out by Hartford Union. It's a credit to that organization.

John F. Harrigan, of Harrigan Bros., has just returned from the Isthmus of Panama.

WILLIAM H. EATON.