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Q. Lafferty, box 644: reading clerk, Allan Cole; sergeant-at-armis, William Schaffer; trustees, Charles W. Penn, Pres. K. McClelland, Fred Klein; judges of election, Thomas G. Winters, Samuel Quartz, Lawrence J. Burr. Meetings first Sunday of each month.

Pittston No. 392-H. C. Hunt, 127 Parsonage st. Pottsville No. 320-E. R. Williams, 618 Schuyl kill avenue.

Reading No. 86-Ed S. Bright, 825 Weiser. Scranton No. 112-President, John M. Collins; vice-president, E. T. O'Malley; recording and corresponding secretary, A. T. Stover, box 226; secretary-treasurer, C. A. Keller, box 226; sergeant-at-arms, George Green.

Sharon No. 351-Philip Conway, Sharpsville, Pa.
Sunbury No. 400-T. J. Silvius, 453 Market st.
Titusville No. 289-Mary M. Shean, care Herald.
Uniontown No. 262-J. A. Glenn, care News-
Standard.

Warren No. 428-Fred Shutt, 5 Rankin street.
Washington No. 456-J. M. Lydic.

West Chester No. 466-R. F. McCormick, 509 S.
Church.

Wilkes-Barre No. 187-George E. Lang, box 136. Williamsport No. 141-Bert G. Hann, 830 Erie

avenue.

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Bristol No. 426-G. W. Hamlet, box 397. Chattanooga No. 89-John O'Brien, 113 B street. Clarksville No. 436-Claud Chestnut, care Leaf Chronicle.

Jackson No. 24-C. T. Russell, 132 Stoddert street. Knoxville No. 111-J. O. Sehorn, box 658. Memphis No. 11-President, H. P. Hanson; vicepresident, E. L. Holland; secretary-treasurer, Horace Johnson, box 103; recording secretary, E. C. Brookshire; fund trustee, W. H. Johnson. Nashville No. 20-President, A. E. Hill; vicepresident. O. J. Thrasher; financial and corre sponding secretary, H. J. Loser, 2116 Grantland avenue, Waverly Place; recording secretary, Ira Boylin: treasurer. W. H. Jordan; sergeant-atarms, A. G. Bostick; auditing committee, J. J. White, E. C. Linney, J. P. Thornley; chairman business committee, O. J. Thrasher.

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Galveston No. 28-President, E. W. S. Shaw, 3816 Avenue N1⁄2; vice-president, John Fourby;. secre tary-treasurer, G. H. Kunz, 1606 Tremont street; executive committee, Hilliard D. Carr, chairman, care News Office.

Greenville No. 509-B. F. Huckaby, box 133. Houston No. 87-Guy C. Harris, care Labor Journal.

Marshall No. 572-G. W. Wechtel, box 0.
Mineral Wells No. 537-H. Albert Tripp, box 764.
Palestine No. 472-Matt Welch, box 222.

San Antonio No. 172-E. G. Koerps, 706 Montana.
Sherman No. 471-W. J. Hurst, care Democrat.
Teague No. 605-Lee Satterwhite.

Tyler No. 404-G. A. Davis, 515 West Common. Waco No. 188-P. A. Richards, box 637.

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Aberdeen No. 573-V. T. Evans, box 824.
Bellingham No. 355-E. C. Jones, box 26.
Everett No. 410-T. S. Blackford, 3802 Colby av.
North Yakima No. 614-A. L. Schlosser, 704 N.
Naches avenue.

Olympia No. 142-George L. Levy, 410 Fifth st.
Seattle No. 202-R. M. McCullough, box 556.
Spokane Falls No. 193-S. A. Kennedy, box 755.
Tacoma No. 170-E. J. Leavelle, room 208, Na-
tional Bank of Commerce Bldg.

Walla Walla No. 388-H. F. Hiemenz, box 309.

WEST INDIES. Bridgetown, Barbados (foreign postage), No. 606E. Eugene De Haney, Combermere street, Chancery lane.

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WISCONSIN.

Appleton, Neenah and Menasha No. 612-T. F.
Thomsen, R. F. D. No. 11, Neenah, Wis.
Ashland No. 147-George M. Stephenson, 815
Fourth avenue, W.

Eau Claire No. 558-Miss Marion O'Neill, 306 First

avenue.

Fond du Lac No. 31-A. C. Drenning, 135 Third st. Green Bay No. 344-Olaf Olsen, 1220 N. State. Kenosha No. 116-J. B. Mayer, 311 North Chicago street.

La Crosse No. 448-A. Bergseth, 309 S. Sixth st. Madison No. 106-Herman Strauss, & North Franklin street.

Manitowoc No. 431-A. M. G. Dusold, 623 Jay. Milwaukee No. 23-Joseph LaFleur, 720 Majestic building.

Oshkosh No. 211-L. A. Bullinger, box 236. Racine No. 324-F. A. Parker, 1133 Center. Superior No. 163-J. H. Somerville, 1614 Twelfth. Watertown No. 618-Emil Doerr, 507 Division. Waukesha No. 545-E. M. Pelton, 216 E. Main st.

WYOMING.

Rock Springs No. 563--F. B. Crumley, care Miner. Sheridan No. 264-Charles Miners, box 422. Wyoming No. 184 (C eyenne)-J. Wm. Switzer, care Leader, Cheyenne, Wyo.

GERMAN-AMEI ICAN UNIONS.

General Secretary-Hugo Miller, Newton Claypool building, Indianapolis, Ind.

1, Philadelphia, Pa.-August Geis, 5453 Pearl st. 2, Cincinnati, Ohio-Ph. Koch, 2212 Calumet st. 3, St. Louis, Mo.-Jacob Eberhard, 2706 Arsenal

street.

4. Buffalo, N. Y.-William F. Beelke, 84 Grape. 5. Rochester, N. Y.-A. G. Stieler, 11 S. Union. 6, Cleveland, Ohio-B. F. Hoehner, 1008 E. Seventy-ninth.

7, New York, N. Y.-Gustav Kaphan, 14 North William street.

8, Newark, N. J.-Jos. A. Heim, 30 Ridgewood ave. 9, Chicago, Ill.-George Mueller, 446 Webster ave. 10, Milwaukee, Wis.-Christ. Thren, 653 Twentyfifth.

11, Baltimore, Md.-Adolph Richter, 631 S. Paca. 12. Louisville, Ky.-Charles Hoffman, Pewee Valley, Oldham county, Kentucky.

13, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn.-William Schonheiter, 606 Sherburne ave., St. Paul, Minn. 14. Indianapolis, Ind.-Adolph Hahn, 705 Weghorst street.

15. Evansville, Ind.-William Buesing, 1519 East

Iowa street.

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10, Indianapolis, Ind.-Dave Jessee, 4011 Byram

avenue.

11, Newark, N. J.-James A. Gibney, 215 Elm. 12, Cleveland, Ohio-E. Hayes, Grandview Terrace, East Cleveland.

13, Portland, Ore.-M. H. Clark, 1033 E. Main st. 14, Philadelphia, Pa.

16, Louisville, Ky.-Frank P. Williams, 2704 Frankfort avenue.

17, Cincinnati, Ohio-Albert Volz, 808 Main st. Barbrack, 18, San Cal. Ferdinand 1741 Blake, Berkeley, Cal.

Francisco,

19, Memphis, Tenn.-B. A. Whitsitt, 533 Leath st. 20, Providence, R. I.

21, Salt Lake, Utah-Ernest Langton, 911 West First North.

23, Milwaukee, Wis.-Paul Weislogel, box 98A, East Milwaukee, Wis.

24, Buffalo, N. Y.-J. F. Schmidt, 89 Lodge st. 25, Butte, Mont.-Leo La Reau, box 1171.

NEWSPAPER WRITERS.

1, Boston, Mass.-Francis A. Goode, care Amer. ican.

3, Scranton, Pa.-D. D. Lenihan, 231 Tenth ave. 2, Milwaukee, Wis.-E. H. Thomas, 344 Sixth.

MONOPOLY AND PRIVILEGE.

William Pitt, the English statesman, said during a speech in the British parliament:

(a) To levy a tax of 7 per cent is a dangerous experiment in a free country, and may excite revolt.

(b) But there is a method by which you can tax the last rag from the back and the last bite from the mouth without causing a murmur against high taxes, and that is to tax a great many articles of daily use and necessity so indirectly that the peoTheir grumple will pay them and not know it. bling then will be of hard times, but they will not know that the hard times are caused by taxation.

(b) is the system of taxation in the United States, and is the cause of all the poverty and distress in this land of plenty. The protective tariff and our system of taxation are the bulwarks of monopoly and privilege. How long is it going to take the people to realize this?

(a) is the system of taxation that should be adopted. A 5 to 7 per cent tax on all land values and the wiping out of all other taxes would settle the trust question, the money question, the land question, the liquor question, the labor question, the poverty question, the charity question and make this country prosper in a way undreamed of. The land tax would open idle land to capital and labor to get busy on; it would do away with land speculation, with its inflated values, and put values where they rightly belong.

In conjunction with government ownership or control of telegraph, telephone and interstate transportation, and municipal ownership or control of street railways and public utilities, it would form the basis of the best government on earth, "of, for and by the people," and is the logical, sane, honest, Christian method of bringing the Kingdom of God on earth.

Monopoly and privilege-one and the samehave this country by the throat. The people have the remedy in their own hands. They should learn to use it. Think it over. Philadelphia, Pa.

ANTHONY E. CROWELL.

The Typographical Journal

J. W. HAYS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AS SECOND CLASS MATTER
ISSUED ON THE FIFTH OF EACH MONTH

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The Library Addition.

The illustration on another page of this number of THE JOURNAL shows the library addition to the Union Printers Home in its incompleted state. Of course, work is further along than on the date when the picture was taken. A fair idea of the purposes for which the new building is intended may be obtained from the illustration. The first story is to be used for the housing of the Home's magnificent library, lately augmented by Mrs. Amos J. Cummings through the gift of the books collected by her late husband, while the basement is to contain the serving room, male employes' dining room, kitchen, bakery, storerooms, refrigeration plant, etc. The serving room, kitchen, bakery and refrigeration plant will be fitted with the latest appliances, and the new library room is arranged with a view to the highest utility, comfort and convenience.

Several appeals have been made by the International officers and Home trustees for funds with which to construct the addition to the temporary roof, and while the response has been wholehearted and generous, as is always the case with the members of the International Typographical Union, yet a considerable sum is needed to bring the new project to completion. The board of trustees would regret the necessity of leaving the addition, so much needed, in an unfinished state because of lack of funds, and it is believed that this would also be a calamity which the membership would wish to avert. But additional money is necessary, and at once.

THE label sticker accomplishes wonders.

NUMBER FIVE

The Membership Register System. Many inquiries are being received at headquarters concerning the register system of members adopted at the St. Joseph convention. For this reason it is deemed advisable to briefly outline the plan in THE JOURNAL. The law in full will be found on page 281 of the September JOURNAL. Concisely stated, its provisions are:

1. The assignment on January 1, 1910, of a number to each active journeyman member of the organization.

2. The register number assigned to a member on the first of the new year will thereafter be his card number, regardless of where he may be located or of his transfers from one union to another.

3. After January 1, when a card of any character is issued to a member his register number must be placed thereon.

Prior to the first of the new year all local secretaries will receive from the secretarytreasurer of the International Typographical Union blanks for their use in forwarding on January I an alphabetical list of journeymen members. This list, under the provisions of a resolution adopted by the St. Joseph convention, must be prepared in duplicate and forwarded to SecretaryTreasurer Hays. As rapidly as the lists of members reach headquarters the secretary-treasurer will assign the register numbers. The original list filed by each secretary will be retained and the duplicate list, with the register number of every member opposite his name, returned to the local union. It will be the duty of the local secretary, on receiving the duplicate list of the members of the local union and their register numbers, to properly record the number assigned each member and to use it on all cards issued to the member thereafter.

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retary-Treasurer Hays will furnish each member, through his local union, with a membership history blank similar to that used by applicants for the old age pension. It will be the duty of each member on receiving this membership history blank to fill it out so as to show the date of his birth, the date of his initiation, where initiated, and to establish through this report the number of years he has been a continuous member on January 1, 1910. These membership history blanks, when pleted, are to be returned to headquarters

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FAC-SIMILE OF MEMBERSHIP RECORD CARD, THE ACTUAL SIZE OF WHICH IS 4x6 INCHES.

report, in addition to showing the number of stamps received, used and remaining in the possession of the local union, will also contain a list of persons initiated or reinstated, members who have died, been suspended or expelled, and cards received and issued. The monthly reports to the International Union will supply the data necessary for the record of all members after the first of the new year.

From the foregoing it will be seen the first step in the inauguration of the new system is the assignment of register numbers. As early as possible after the numbering of members has been completed Sec

through the local union. On their receipt the executive council will determine from the report of each member how many years he or she has been a continuous member on January 1, 1910, and the International record will be accordingly arranged. The intent of the law is to have each member prove his membership up to the beginning of the new year. After that date his record is to be obtained through the monthly reports of the local union and to be kept on a card index system at headquarters. It will be readily seen that a member can easily be traced by his register number, which will always be on his card, regard

less of how often he may change his place of residence or transfer from one union to another.

Secretary-Treasurer Hays has in the hands of the printer a new membership ledger for local unions, a new cash book and a membership record book. Sample sheets of these books will be furnished all local unions at the earliest possible date. Under the new law a local union is at liberty to have its books made in its own jurisdiction, if it so desires, but it is believed the smaller unions will find it less expensive and more advantageous to use the books designed by the International secretary-treasurer. Large unions, which have local benefit features, will necessarily need books designed to meet their particular system.

It is believed that the membership record book designed by the secretary-treasurer will meet the requirements of the smaller unions and enable them to keep a record of their initiations, expulsions, etc., with little difficulty. Large unions, which have permanent headquarters, will find the card index system the better way of recording this data. The card index system is not suitable to the business of the smaller unions, where frequent changes are made in the secretaryship and which have no permanent headquarters. In response to many requests for suggestions as to the best arrangement of a card index of members for large unions, there is submitted herewith a sample card which it is believed will enable any local union adopting it to have accessible at all times the data it may want concerning any member. These cards should be filed alphabetically, and there should be kept what is known as a "live" and a "dead" drawer. The drawer of "live" cards should contain only the names of members who are then actively affiliated with the union. In the "dead" drawer can be kept the cards of members who have been granted traveling or honorable withdrawal cards and those who have been suspended, expelled or who have died. Should any one whose name is contained in the "dead" drawer again affiliate with that local union, the manner of his reaffiliation can be noted on his index card and the same

transferred to its proper place in the "live" drawer.

There are many other points in connection with the new membership register system upon which information may be desired by local officers. It will afford SecretaryTreasurer Hays pleasure to answer any questions upon the subject that may be addressed to him.

Nothing To Arbitrate.

One feature of the great labor demonstrations, or strikes, that have occupied public attention for the year has been the uniform demand on the part of the workers for arbitration of their grievances. This was true in the McKee's Rocks strike; it was true in the iron and steel workers' strike; was to be resorted to in the threatened street car strike in Chicago; was demanded in the street car strike in Omaha, and in all of these instances, except the Chicago case, has been met with stubborn refusal to arbitrate on the part of the employers.

Samuel Gompers, in one of his letters from abroad, wherein he writes of the deliberations of the British Trade Union Congress, says that the congress endorsed conciliation and arbitration. We are all agreed that the strike is a costly, two-edged weapon, to be avoided whenever and wherever possible. We are also agreed that the other fellow should be responsible for the strike when it does occur. Conciliation and arbitration are civilized methods, and their intelligent and fair use, with no advantage to either side, guarantees industrial peace. When we see other trade unions striking for the right to arbitrate, it should set us thinking. We have conciliation and arbitration guaranteed by agreement with the strongest combination of employers on the North American continent. For eight years the method has been successfully employed, and for eight years we have had industrial peace in the newspaper field. At least, we do not have to strike for the right to arbitrate.

It is well for us to remember that the real strength of a union lies in the number of its active workers.

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