mittee of three from the Employing Printers' Association and three of No. 16 are to be appointed to work together for the betterment of the trade, to help in unionizing the non-union shops of Chicago and in bringing the scales in surrounding territory up to an equabie basis. No. 16 is to be congratulated on the outcome of these negotiations, and the thanks of every one is due the members of the committee who so ably and amicably conducted the negotiations. The committee, in closing its re

port, says:

Your committee wishes to express its great appreciation of the patience and forbearance of the membership during a rather long and tedious wait, and also to thank President Knott for the splendid support and assistance he has so ably and willingly given your committee throughout the course of these negotiations.

George W. Day died at the Alexian Brothers' Hospital July 20, of gangrene. Deceased was 56 years old. Mr. Day had been quite active in No. 16's affairs, having been elected delegate in 1887 and 1899; vice-president in 1896 and president in 18971898. At the time he was president, Mr. Day was considered one of the most popular men in the union and was known as the best single-handed politician in No. 16. He had an influence second to none. At one time he seriously contemplated entering the practice of law, and to that end studied for and was admitted to the Chicago bar. The funeral services was largely attended by friends, and the body was cremated at the Graceland Cemetery crematory. The ashes were buried at Morris, Ill. Suitable resolutions were adopted and ordered published in the Daily News chapel, of which Mr. Day was a member for many years.

Members of the International Typographical Union belonging to fraternal organizations should remember that the Knights of Pythias News, the Standard Journal, Mystic Worker, Columbian Herald, United Forester, National Record, Columbian Messenger, Bank Man, Woodman Recorder, Select Knights News, International Congress Journal, League Journal, The Beaver, American Equity, Forester Gazette, B'nai B'rith News, American Patriot, Royal Achates Herald, The Yeoman, The Sentinel, F. B. L. Record, The Shepherd and The Booster are printed by a non-union concern at Mount Morris, Ill. The Popular Mechanics is now being printed by a notoriously unfair office. The "sticker" has been very effective in the past and could be used to good advantage at the present time. Get busy!

"Belmont poolroom, James W. Pappatheodorokoummountourgeotopoulos, proprietor." It is unnecessary to state that this card did not have the union label on it.

G. R. O'Brien has been elected chairman of the American and Examiner chapel. L. A. Greenlee was his opponent.

M. C. Milady was showing the "prints" in St. Paul and Minneapolis how to get out a twentieth century newspaper while spending his vacation in those cities.

Chicago feels grateful for recognition on the laws committee in the convention just past, and no better man for the position could have been

found in all No. 16's membership than R. L. C. Brown. A student of the conditions existing in the jurisdiction of the International Typographical Union and the needs of the membership and his active participation in the eight-hour fight peculiarly fit him for a position on that committee.

The decision of the National Board of Arbitration on the point at issue between the local National Publishers' Association and members work

ing on newspapers in Chicago-that work performed part day and part night should be paid for at the night scale for extras as well as regulars-was in favor of the men.

At the July meeting of No. 16 a great deal of business was accomplished, and many tangles straightened out. Sedgwick Parry was reinstated in his position on the Daily News by President Knott, Foreman Adair taking an appeal to the International Typographical Union. Albert H. Brown,

a former president of No. 16, Thomas Cromlish and N. B. Gray were placed on the pension roll. Organizer Harding was instructed by the executive committee to prefer charges against F. C. Childs of the Drovers' Journal chapel. The case of Keating vs. Greenlee was decided in favor of the defendant. The board of trustees turned down the proposition to buy bonds of the Daily Socialist. Charges were preferred against George M. Hesse, head machinist on the Examiner and American, and Sherman Linn, a former machinist on those papers, by Ralph Bassler. No. 16 decided to take part in the Labor day parade and the officers were instructed to make the arrangements.

In the Springfield correspondence, in THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL for August, mention was made of the extortion bill, that was introduced during the last session of the Illinois legislature. To the layman the matter was passed over with no thought as to the actual meaning of the bill or what it would have meant to organized labor, and had not President Wright, of the state federation of labor, discovered the "nigger in the woodpile" and exposed the true meaning of the measure, it undoubtedly would have become a law. The bill was cleverly drawn, and the intent of the measure was covered up with a lot of verbiage about other things, but on close inspection it was found that it took away from unions any power to control its members. Under the provisions of this act a man could have "ratted" and the organization would have been powerless to fine or expel him without laying itself liable to heavy punishment. It would have made the calling of a strike a crime and laid the officers of any union calling a strike liable to fine and imprisonment. The labor lobby has stopped many vicious bills from passage in the past, and this last one was the cap sheaf of them all.

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First Vice-President George A. Tracy, of San Francisco, has been looking up many of his oldtime friends around Chicago the past month. attended the July meeting and gave the boys some advice in a short talk.

The delegation that went to St. Joe on the Chicago special was a good-sized one, and was taken care of by the Great Western officials in exceed

ingly fine style and without mishap or delay. Everybody who went by the Maple Leaf route reports its service O. K.

H. G. Hyskell died July 22. He was to have been admitted to the Home....Jim McDonald, the genial headman on the Examiner, has returned from an extended tour of the northwest, taking in the Seattle exposition and visiting old friends in Denver....H. J. Koltenbach had the misfortune to break a leg August 7.... Horace Theirault is not a believer in race suicide, he having become the father of another son August 8. It is the twelfth child. Quite a good-sized chapel? Yes! ....Johnny Moran has returned from a trip through the east and reports a fine time. New York and Boston were the principal attractions for John....Joe Wiley has put on a sub for the summer and, with a tent and bathing suit, is enjoying the hot weather digging for clams on the Fox river. He is showing some very nice pearls as a result of his labors....The St. Joe convention is now a matter of history. Chicago typos had the pleasure of entertaining a large number of the delegates on their way to the convention and a great many on their way back. Judging from the words of praise showered upon the Salt Lake delegation, and especially the nominating speech of H. W. Dennett, the delegates from the Mormon city must have been "corkers.".... Dan Sullivan, of the Examiner, is taking in the sights along the "Gay White Way."....The list of Chicago printers enjoying vacations this month would be as large as the membership of any one of half of the unions in the International Typographical Union jurisdiction. CHARLES L. COLMAN.

LOS ANGELES, CAL.

By the time this letter appears in print readers of THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL will very probably have been advised as to some matters of importance regarding the union affairs of our fair city of Our Lady of the Angels. I do not purpose to burden the readers by entering into a long and detailed discussion of printing trade conditions in this city further than to say that they are rotten, and that this is putting it none too hard at that.

The members of this local should reflect that some things which to us appear to be of paramount importance do not have the weight that would cause a convention to lose much of its valuable time. The action of the convention in refusing to grant extraordinary power to a local was not the least bit of a surprise to me, as in fact no other course is possible-with due regard to safety. It

now up to the members of this union to get themselves out of the rut into which they have fallen, and, by working together for the greatest good for the greatest number, endeavor to recover some of the ground lost in the past.

Fearing that I may become too prolix on this subject, I will switch over to something a little more personal-state of trade. Business is just fair here at the present time, arrivals are numerous and departures about equally so. Subbing is

fair, not enough, however, to warrant a very long journey to "slip up." Looking at the map one will notice that long journeys are the rule out here. Salt Lake, 781 miles; San Francisco, 485 miles; El Paso, 800 miles, and Denver, 1,495 miles. Riding on the "cushions" is hard enough, but walking is out of the question and the police and railroaders are hardhearted; and our stockade down in the river bed is not a good location for a printer at any time.

For any one contemplating a journey for the pleasure of the trip, we will say that we have everything here to be desired in the way of scenery and climate, everything, in fact, except work. As I am in the weather bureau service, I can speak with some degree of certainty in regard to the climate and weather, and as for the scenery

and amusements, no one but a blind man could miss seeing them, and even the blind see well in the great southwest. Work, however, will require the aid of a telescope and microscope to locate its whereabouts.

The Elks convention in July brought a few visiting printers to our midst, and it goes without saying that they all enjoyed all the display and other features. I had the pleasure of meeting Messrs. Davenport and King, of Phoenix, Ariz.; Walters, of 'Frisco, and Wilkinson, of Kansas City. A big delegation of the migratory tribe have paid their respects and gone their way rejoicing.

Ed McLoughlin, of the Herald, has departed for our sister of the south-San Diego. C. H. Gilman, formerly of Indianapolis, Seattle and other places, has also gone hence the past month.

Charges were preferred by Mr. Truax, of Port

land, Ore., who has been here for some time looking for an opening to start in business, against the proprietor of a large union office (and who also has an active card), in which it appears that the proprietor in question has purchased a non-union office and has announced his decision to conduct it as a non-union office. At the request of the board of directors, Mr. Truax held his charges in abeyance for one month.

Los Angeles' dream of extending from the mountains to the sea is near realization by the annexation of San Pedro and Wilmington, which, with the "shoestring strip," makes Los Angeles extend from the city proper all the way to the broad Pacific. And, wonderful to relate, the Times did not oppose this measure, as it has nearly every other measure looking to the good and welfare of this city. But the printers' dream of annexing some of these many "free and independent" shops here are still a long way from being realized. Just think of it, only 174 non-union offices! However, I am just optimistic enough to think that an awakened public sentiment against the Times will in the end do that which a large amount of money and effort on our part has so far failed to do. That is, if we are wise enough to make good use of the public sentiment. The "Buzzard Slimes" and Harrison "Greed" Otis, as they are characterized by the Express, have been handed some very hard bumps in the past year. But not many of the bumps, let me hasten to add, have been in the direction of placing a union force in the Times composing room. Otis still goes merrily on, slurring union labor, every utterance bearing unmistakable evidence of prejudice and malice. Most of the articles are trivial, and even ridiculous, and are so regarded by a great host of people who have no common bond of sympathy with union labor or its followers. Nothing but the worst is ever taken for the subject of its tirades, which of itself ought to be enough evidence for any fairminded man.

In conclusion, let me say that it is the earnest endeavor of No. 174's new administration and every member having its interest at heart to leave no stone unturned in the effort to make Los Angeles what it ought to be and must be a good union town. WILLIAM J. CARSON.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

Business has been fair during the past two months, and prospects are bright for every one being employed next winter.

Non-union offices in this city did not grant the eight-hour day here. They still continue nine hours, with five on Saturdays, making a fifty-hour week.

All our contracts run till January 1. With the increase of cost of living and signs of prosperity in our midst, there never was a better opportunity to boost the scale. One office in the city is paying its operators $2 over the present scale.

Rev. W. Irving Maurer, pastor of the West End Congregational church, has extended an invitation to the central labor union to attend services

on the Sunday preceding Labor day. The dele gates reported to their locals and favorable action was taken. No. 252 will be well represented, as Rev. Mr. Maurer was a former member of a Wisconsin union.

The demand for the label continues, and union offices have been busy, while fifty-four and fiftyhour shops were working short time. One of the latter proprietors admits a great loss, and a committee was appointed at the last meeting to talk matters over with him and bring about union conditions again.

A proprietor of a suburban printshop floated into the Herald office to hire a good, all-around man, one who could set jobs, print, wash rollers, sweep up, and, in fact, do anything connected with a first-class job plant. He was willing to pay $12 per week, nine hours a day. He is still on the hunt. EDWARD BENNETTO.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

Minneapolis-1910.

Thank you, gentlemen!

We have always entertained a very high regard for International Typographical Union delegates, but to the delegates to the St. Joe convention we wish to doff our hats and extend sincere thanks for the good judgment shown in selecting this city for 1910 convention honors. We have told you through these columns of the many advantages this city has for successfully handling con ventions, and no doubt No. 42's boosters in St. Joe have sung the praises of Minneapolis to you so incessantly and consistently that you are look ing forward to something just a little better than you have experienced at other conventions, and we are not going to abuse your confidence. Every member of No. 42 will start in right now to devise ways and means to make your stay in Minneapolis one long to be remembered, and we want you, by your presence, to help us make the 1910 convention the largest, most profitable and enjoyable ever held. Make preparations to get here in August, 1910, and we will do the rest.

What do you think of our Katzenjammer kids (Getzendonner and "Buster" Brown)? Ain't they the real live wires?

"Shorty" Hanrahan is wearing a smile as broad as a "nigger" in a watermelon patch, since he returned from the convention.

George Moore, for the past five years an operator on the Daily News, left the city with his family, August 15, for Portland, Ore., where he will locate permanently. Mr. Moore will stop at Salt Lake City and other intermediate points en route, to visit old Minneapolis friends, and enjoy a few weeks' fishing in the trout streams of Oregon. George has a host of friends in this city, was one of the most popular members of No. 42, and takes the best wishes of all with him.

Collector Holcomb, of the Printers' Relief, reports the following on the sick list: F. F. Stone, erysipelas; Robert McCurdy, rheumatism; V. E. Olson, Bright's disease; C. T. Shane, rupture; H.

E. England, eye trouble; C. N. Brown, locomotor ataxia; George M. Reade.

W. H. Williams, late state labor commissioner, has installed a brand new printing office in this city, which, of course, gives us one more label office. Every printer in town wishes "Windy" every

success.

Walt Z. Kline, the popular treasurer of No. 42, held forth in the secretary's office during the lat ter's absence in St. Joe, lining up the delegates for Minneapolis.

Organizer Devereaux was a visitor at our last meeting. F. N. GOULD.

ELIZABETH, N. J.

The New Jersey State Printers' League held an interesting session at Hoboken on July 18, and a large number of typos were on hand.

No. 323 Let's all

did the entertaining stunt in great style. be present at the next meet, to be held in Orange in October.

There are a number of members who would like the honor of representing No. 150 at Minneapolis next year. A small assessment would serve to send a delegate. Nothing like being in the "swim." "Jack" O'Donnell, formerly of this city, is now up with the "ponies" at Saratoga, N. Y., pounding a Merg. on the Saratogian.

A "rat" shop made its appearance here recently, and has spoiled our 100 per cent standing.

Messrs. Capron, Ficken, Jolly, McKee and Martin will represent No. 150 at the Union County Central Labor Union for the ensuing six months. Make use of the sticker. WILLIAM MARTIN.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

James Monroe Kreiter, one of the most widelyknown members of the craft in this country, and for a long time a very active member of Columbia Union, paid a visit to family and friends here recently. "Jim" is now located at Panama, being assistant superintendent of the canal commission's printing establishment. He likes his position there, which he accepted about a year ago, and expresses the belief that a man who takes care of himself will enjoy as good health on the Zone as he will in Washington. He returned to Panama on August 17.

As finally passed by the recently ended session of congress, the census bill makes it certain that all of the printing for that great bureau of the government will be done where it belongs in the government printing office. This ending of a matter which caused quite a controversy in congress and in official circles here, is largely due to the activity of Columbia Union in the matter, and to the intelligent and effective work of its officers.

Charles E. Young, a prominent and well-known member of No. 101, and for years past an official of the government printing office, has sustained a great sorrow and heavy loss in the death of his estimable wife, that event occurring in this city on August 17.

The number of visitors from this city to the St.

Joe convention was the smallest to an International Typographical Union meet for many years. Cause-dulness in business and failure of railroads to help out by making cheaper rates.

July 24 the Law Reporter Company's employes had their annual outing at Chesapeake Beach, near this city. The affair was a pleasant one for all concerned. Easily one of the foremost printing establishments in this city, managers and men show a commendable spirit of co-operation in play as well as work, and this latest day of pleasure even exceeded in enjoyment and successful management the several excellent ones that have preceded.

George P. Fleischell, a well-known local craftsman employed on the Herald, has the sympathy of many friends in the death of his wife, which occurred in this city on July 22, after a brief illness. She was an excellent woman and will be sorely missed by her loved ones.

Emmett L. Adams, who has been the business representative of the machinists of this city for many years, and otherwise actively prominent in labor matters, has resigned his position as agent, and will be president of a company which will manufacture cigars, and job tobacco and cigarettes. The products of the company, as well as all goods ha uied by it, will bear the union label. Washington printer baseball fans-and they are almost, it often seems to me, as numerous as chapel members-were greatly delighted at the election of John A. Heydler to the presidency of the National League of Baseball Clubs. Mr. Heydler carries an active member's card in Columbia Union and conducts a linotype office here, doing work for the trade. He was for a while an employe of the government printing office and was a regular on the Star for a number of years. The baseball people have made an excellent selection.

The reception to be tendered Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, on his return to this city from his European trip, promises to be a great success. He returns about October 15, and it is entirely proper that trades unionists should make the reception a big thing, for Samuel Gompers is a big man in the labor world.

Charles Morris Warren, a well-known member of Columbia Union, died in this city on July 29, 1909, after an illness of about two months, aged 44 years. He was born in Kentucky, but came to this city in childhood, his father (who represented Nashville Union in the International Typographical Union years ago) having been at that time an employe of the government in this city. Mr. Warren had been in the government printing office for many years, and among the members of the craft there was well known and much esteemed. He leaves a wife and seven children.

Secretary George G. Seibold and Timothy M. Ring were among the local printers who followed the Washington printers' baseball club on its trip to Pittsburg, Chicago, etc. Both are directors of the ball club. Although the Washington boys failed to land the pennant, all returned happy and reported an excellent time on the trip.

M. J. Nevins and G. W. Crane have deposited

honorable withdrawal cards with the secretary of our union, while to J. L. Thompson and Delos M. Carter honorable withdrawal cards have been issued. Departures for the month: L. L. Stopple, J. J. Clark, E. H. Crocker, J. T. Hanrahan, C. C. Schertzer, Winslow Lewis, W. C. Pershing, J. E. McDonald, Kane Mahony, F. W. Brandt, J. J. Gaub, Fred Norris, George W. Cameron, Steve Shanks, J. D. Stewart, G. William Crane, G. E. Smouse, W. S. Crowdis. Traveling cards have been deposited by D. J. Lynch, A. M. Butler, G. E. Walters, P. W. Fawley, A. V. Gowen, J. W. James, J. D. Stewart, Charles C. O'Connell, Mark E. Towers, H. B. Hickman and Jack Linn.

W. N. BROCKWELL.

HARRISBURG, ILL.

W. T. Mercer, after suffering for some time with a cough, has departed for Denver, hoping the change in climate will benefit him.

Work has been extra good, considering the time of year. All members of the union are employed. No. 562 voted at its last meeting that, owing to the union only being a few months old and that it would compel an assessment on all members, we had better not send a delegate to the convention, and it was voted to send a telegram of greetings to St. Joe, which no doubt will be appreciated after learning the conditions. ROY H. SHUP.

LONDON, CANADA.

Labor day celebration in London will be of a different nature to what has been the custom in years gone by. In former years much expense has been incurred in connection with the parade and sports, but this year there will be a procession of vehicles containing the representatives of the dif ferent unions in the city with emblems of the various trades, and at Queen's Park it is hoped a program of motor car races and the like will be carried out, speeches given by prominent men, and something altogether new and attractive for those who attend and uphold the celebration will enliven the proceedings.

Port Stanley, on Lake Erie, is the favorite resort for many printers this year for their holidays. Indeed, some journey daily to and from work to the lakeside; and, as fishing is a favorite sport with many members, the spot is visited frequently in the hope of securing "a good mess," and many a good catch has been made.

In spite of the hot weather experienced lately, the attendance at the meetings keeps up fairly well; but with such a president as Mr. Drennan wielding the gavel-well, the next order of business is soon taken up, and in consequence business is carried on as it ought to be.

The fortieth birthday of No. 133 will be cele brated in November in the style of '69, the year the union was chartered, and it is hoped that Senator Coffey, our first president, and M. J. Brierly, of the Montreal Herald, one of the founders, will give addresses.

Mike Powell, of Ottawa Union, called on his

Fortunately, it is near the close of the summer season, otherwise some of us might be tempted to form an "out-of-work" league. Business has been unusually slow in this vicinity, especially in the job line, and a majority of the shops are employ. ing only a small percentage of their regular forces. Now that the extraordinary session at Washington has expired, we may expect "something." True, both parties plunged into the cockpit with protruded talons, and flouted the spirit and text of their party antecedents; the game was played like a Mexican monte swindle or the trick of the cup and ball fakir, and after all was over -after bitter and protracted wrangling-the bill was left pretty much as Nelson Dingley left it. Nevertheless, the fact that business belief is universally buoyant, crops excellent, money for com mercial use plentiful, and that we are a nation of such extent and resources, there is a cocksureness of our prosperity in spite of the tariff, and it is perfectly safe to prophesy that within a year or two the Payne-Aldrich phalanx will be lauded with trumpet and timbrel as nation saviors in view of the auspicious times. A writer on one of our papers made the appropriate remark: "A huge mountain brought forth and a ridiculous mouse squeaks as the abortion."

No. 424 is to have the honor of entertaining the state printers' league at the regular quarterly convention in October. Already plans are being made for the event.

If the priority law can be applied in all instances, Secretary Percy A. Miller will be our representative at the next convention, for he has just announced his candidacy for the honor.

The date for our smoker has been set-Monday, October 4-and from present indications the affair will be a success. Atlantic City-1911.

FREDERICK G. JOHNSON.

WE should preach to the world the sublime faith and aspiration of labor. We should practice its precepts and make them the daily rule of life. -Ex.

Ir union men would stop boycotting one another's union label products, labor unions would be in a stronger position than they are today.-Ex.

MANY acts of charity are simply contributions to the conscience fund.-Ex.