died June 6, in his forty-third year. Just in the Greater love hath no man than this- COLUMBUS, OHIO. Memorial services were held by No. 5 on the evening of May 30, and a very appropriate program was rendered. Every minister in the city, together with proprietors and non-union printers, were invited, and each class was notable for its absence, as were about one hundred and seventy-five members of No. 5. The address of the evening was delivered by the Rev. Joseph Clark, a member of Denver Union No. 49 for many years, and who is now general secretary of the Ohio State Sunday School Association and a good man, both in the pulpit and composing room. Charles J. Kroetinger, for many years connected with the advertising department of the Columbus Dispatch, and at various times holding high offices in No. 5, has associated himself with B. C. Schmitt and established the Victor Illustrating Company, a job printing plant. On leaving the Dispatch Mr. Kroetinger was presented with a beautiful emblematic ring by composing room friends. The West Side Record and the North Side Review are new publications. C. M. Howle will represent No. 5 at St. Joe. The retiring officers, headed by M. J. Lynch, have worked well together, accomplished much for No. 5 and step down with the consciousness of labor well performed. E. F. Heinrich, the new president, is said to be the first jobman ever elected to that position. Columbus papers have recently been giving union labor unusual space, the memorial observ ance being well presented to the public. The Dispatch ran a two-column cut of E. F. Heinrich, the newly elected president, on its first page. Work is progressing on the new Dispatch building and before winter that publication will probably be well housed. The Lancaster Eagle Company has bought one of the linotypes of the defunct Columbus Sun. Two Columbus proprietors, one running a union shop and the other a rattery, met recently and got into an argument over the amount of work' turned out by each concern. The books were finally produced and the discovery made that the square establishment did considerably more work the preceding year with seven regular printers than did the rat dump with fourteen of the near species. This story is so true and illustrates the difference so well that comment is unnecessary. Another story with a point is that a union proprietor of this city is using good postage stamps returning printed matter without the label, on which he places stickers. And yet there are job printers and others of the craft who pay no attention to this important method of providing themselves and others with more work. Progress, a magazine issued by the board of trade and formerly issued by a rat shop, is now being printed in an artistic manner by the Berlin Company. A move of importance in the newspaper field of Columbus was the recent organization of the Columbus News Company, which intends taking over the Press-Post plant and establishing a state democratic organ. It is stated that the change will occur soon and a new deal will be forthcoming. J. J. Harper, now editor of the Register at Washington C. H., is president of the new company. Among the incorporators are many heads of the party in Ohio, including exGovernor Campbell, while Governor Harmon is also said to hold an interest. The new sanitation scheme at the Journal is the best to be installed so far, and removes practically all poisonous gases and bad air from the composing and stereotyping rooms. The Home and its treatment of consumptive inmates will soon receive a writeup in the Medical Journal, published in this city, which has a national circulation among medical men and others. This is the kind of advertising that pays, and it's free. It is claimed that Columbus rat shops are not having a great deal of work, but why have they as much as they have and why are there any here? If eradicated No. 5 would have more members than at present and all union men would be employed. The Crescent Printing Company is trying to do business without the label. Look for the label on all patent medicine literature, and if it is not present turn the matter over to your chairman. A big effort is being made to get some of these manufacturers in line, and the sticker process is the only way. The machine which went through the late fire in the Catholic Columbian office has been overhauled and is again working. This makes a battery of two linotypes for that establishment. a The Colortype Company is contemplating move to some location where a light composing room is possible. For good results the sanitary committee takes the palm for the time of service. Many changes for better composing room conditions have been and are to be made, and the committee is not yet one year old. The Midland Druggist, an important monthly magazine, which has been printed by rats, is soon to be issued in a workmanlike manner from a union office. The foreman of a certain Columbus rattery starts to his labors at 6:30 in the dewy morning and does not return home until long after union men have dined and smoked. Evidently he has a good job. That State Printer Sullivan is all right, even though not a member of the International, was, proved recently when several bookbinders at the state bindery became in arrears for dues to their union and did not seem inclined to settle. They were informed by Mr. Sullivan that it would be well for them to get square and stay so if they wanted to work for the state, and the hint was sufficient. Union men can be assured that so long as Mr. Sullivan and his able assistant, M. E. Fornshell, have charge of the state printing it will be done by square people. Cards received: George A. Merritt, James L. Outcalt, Gertrude Holycross, R. E. Haughton, J. J. Schmitt, T. A. Boullt and Frank W. Willis. Cards issued: J. J. Schmitt, W. B. Howe, Charles H. Scherer and James M. Cannon. HOWE WOODRUFF. GALVESTON, TEXAS. If my At the last meeting of No. 28 a request was received from the newspaper publishers' association for printers to sign petitions to their congressmen to have paper pulp put on the free list. The matter was referred to the chapels, to have petitions prepared and signed therein. memory is correct, at the session of the International Typographical Union in 1880 representatives of the workers in paper mills appeared be. fore the union asking its aid to have a duty put on paper pulp. It was claimed that books were cast in matrix with paper pulp and sent to this country and printed from plates taken from matrices and used to print these books in order to save composition in this country. The union took action against that form of paper pulp importation. The union endorsed J. H. Fricke for appointment by the governor as labor commissioner of Texas, an office created by the last legislature. Mr. Fricke is at present president of the Texas State Federation of Labor, and is popular throughout the state. Galveston Union issued a blotter, which was distributed among the business houses of the city, asking those who have printing done to patronize houses using the allied printing trades label, and giving the names of the firms entitled to use it. The blotter contains a calendar for June and is ornamented with a cut of the Union Printers Home. Another edition is to be issued bearing the July calendar. The printer delegates to the state federation of labor met at its last convention and took steps to organize an association to be known as the Texas Printers' Council. A meeting is to be held in Dallas on the second Tuesday in August, for the purpose of perfecting an organization, to be composed of one delegate from each union. The prospects are that there will be a good representation, Galveston and many other unions voting to partici pate. It is proposed to hold annual conventions in conjunction with the state federation of labor. R. B. SPANGler. CINCINNATI, OHIO. The firm of S. Rosenthal & Co., operating the largest union printing establishment in Cincin nati, on Decoration day followed out their custom by chartering traction cars and taking their employes and their families for an outing to Westwood, a suburb of Cincinnati. The firm had a bountiful luncheon prepared, to which about two hundred and fifty persons did full justice. A stringed orchestra furnished music for those who wished to dance, and the baseball diamond was utilized by the men and boys who delight in the national game. This was certainly the most enjoyable outing ever given by the firm, and still further tends to maintain the harmonious feeling that has always existed between the proprietors of this establishment and the employes. The Commercial Tribune chapel adopted resolutions in favor of cheaper tariff on wood pulp and paper and forwarded copies of them to Senators Burton and Dick. A reply was received from Senator Burton, saying he was favorably inclined in the matter....Howard Werle was appointed office committeeman by President Cobb. The bowlers of the chapel are preparing for the coming season and expect to make a better showing than fourth in the next tourney. CHARLES V. WAGNER. TROY, N. Y. The June number teemed with interesting reading regarding the three principal topics before the membership-insurance, priority and pensions. The subjects were handled in a manner which showed that much thought and time were being given to these highly important adjuncts of the International Union. Insurance example-$1,000 policy; premium $12 per year; life of policy twenty-five years; invested at 6 per cent; number of deaths in eighteen months, 857. Where would the grand old International Typographical Union be in a short while? George H. McMurray was elected delegate to represent No. 52 at St. Joe. He is well equipped to perform this duty, for he has served this city for several years on the board of aldermen, and has always been prominent in the affairs of No. 52. The election was hotly contested, Mr. McMurray winning by one vote over John Delaney, who was named alternate. Memorial Sunday was fittingly observed by No. 52 on May 30. A large number of the members journeyed to the printers' plot in Oakwood cemetery, and listened to addresses by Edward Keyes, John Bennett, John M. O'Hanlon and Charles Riordan. A large urn, filled with beautiful flow ers, had been placed in position and added much to the beauty of the plot. Much newspaper comment is given this annual feature, and the union thereby secures publicity which gives to its cause strength and friends. The Labor Advocate, published and edited by John M. O'Hanlon, in its issue of June 12, contained a picture of the Home and hospital annex, with a brief description of each. David Demers, one of the charter members of No. 52, died after a long illness on June 3. He had served the union in several offices and was its president in 1870. A delegation attended his funeral. Edward Green, who was on the honorary roll of No. 52, was added to the mortuary roll June 4. Mr. Green was the proprietor of a job shop, to which his two sons, who are members of No. 52, have succeeded. Mr. Green had been in ill health for a number of years, and his death is regretted by a large number for the many kindnesses extended during his lifetime. The Transit, published by the students of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, bore the label with its publication this year. The members of organized labor are prone to forget that there is any other label but that of their own organization. What a whip lies within the reach of us all, if we would demand the union label first, last and all the time. Get wise, fellow members, and demand the label. The hatters are in a fair way to win their battle, for those who have returned to work can assist their less fortunate brothers. But did you notice the press reports sent out? "Open Shop Wins," etc., but they barely mentioned that clause effective after ninety days. Persistence and fighting for a principle have won this for the hatters' organization, and they are to be congratulated on the magnificent showing thus made. Assist your label committee and push the labels. JOHN L. HARTNETT. NORTH ADAMS, MASS. P. H. McMahon represented No. 316 at the New England Allied Trades convention, which was held in Lynn June 9-10. Mr. McMahon was re-elected secretary-treasurer for the eleventh time, which speaks much for his ability. No. 316 feels proud of President McMahon. E. O. Cooke was elected to represent No. 316 at the International convention at St. Joseph, Mo. A committee, consisting of D. J. Finnegan, Terrence Dooley and E. O. Cooke, was appointed to arrange for the entertainment of all former printers during "old home week," to be held in North Adams, September 5-11. The committee extends a hearty invitation to all former North Adams printers, and assures them a rousing time. Among the most notable events of the week will be a marathon race, balloon races, Hoosac Valley fair, musical events, and scores of others. Come one and all. The members of No. 316 responded willingly to the appeal for aid sent out by the hatters' union. ROBERT TUDOR. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. J. Luther Langston, a member of No. 283, has just been re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Oklahoma State Federation of Labor for the third time. When Langston took charge of the secretaryship of the federation there were but twentyodd locals, mostly miners, affiliated, but now there are more than one hundred and twenty-five locals paying dues to the state body, and seventy of them are from the miscellaneous crafts. From the time Langston took the office in 1907 a storm of abuse has been heaped upon him because he opposed the old ring methods employed by some of the former officers, but his friends have never forsaken him. Today there is not a more prominent officer in the labor movement in the southwest, and, if nothing happens, Langston will be an important factor in national labor circles before many years. Langston is the first printer that ever held an office in the Oklahoma State Federation of Labor. It is now planned to make the next Labor day parade by far the largest and most elaborate in the history of Oklahoma City. The celebration also will be more extensive than heretofore. It is planned to have a large number of floats in the next parade; the marchers representing each craft will be headed by a float typical of their various trades. Committees from the different unions are hard at work now devising ways and means for the big event. No. 283 will be in line with nearly one hundred and fifty members this year. Charles L. Daugherty, state labor commissioner, was in Buffalo, N. Y., in June, attending the conference of labor commissioners. At the last convention, held in Detroit, Oklahoma was honored by the election of Mr. Daugherty to the vice-presidency. The new label committee, composed of Jack Howard, H. D. Correll and Secretary-Treasurer O. S. Wilson, is planning an active campaign for the label in Oklahoma City. All members of the committee have had experience in the work, Mr. Howard formerly being a member of the aggressive label committee of No. 8. Everybody has the convention fever, and at the present time it looks as if subs would be in demand along about the first days of August. The Times will move into its new home in a few weeks. The Oklahoman building is also rapidly progressing, and it is the hope of the bunch that the building will soon be ready for occupancy. Both offices are putting in a large amount of new equipment. James A. Markwell, chiropractic-printer, a member of this union, recently departed for Jacksonville, Fla. From all reports received here, he is doing well.... Lester Baker, late from the sunny clime of Cuba, is holding a Merg. on the Oklahoman....J. A. Robinson, late of St. Joseph, Mo., machinist on the Times, has moved his family to Oklahoma City.... Newt Willett has resigned as machinist on the Oklahoman and is doing the "m.-o." stunt at the Times-Journal Printing Company. Harry Smith is the new machinist on the Oklahoman....E. R. Sims, formerly of St. Joseph, Mo., is holding down the double decker at the Warden-Ebright Printing Company....Umpire Winscott, working in the Texas league, of which Oklahoma City is a member, is a linotype operator. He is also the best umpire in this neck of the woods....Hardly a day passes that Secretary O. S. Wilson doesn't have from one to five calls for printers for small towns in the state, both operators and handmen. The Daily Pointer, the largest free daily in the world, has added the third Merg. to its battery. HOWARD M. CASLER. BUTTE, MONT. Organizer Glenn, of the American Federation of Labor, who, by the way, holds a card in the International Typographical Union and is the machinist on the Miner, is lending his good offices toward the amalgamation of the international unions now allied with the Western Federation of Miners and independent unions under the head of the Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly. And this is surely needed. Think of a city of 60,000 or 70,000 people, with probably 90 per cent of the men carrying union cards, and not a cigar factory in the town! One lone cigarmaker exists here. A nice record for such a population of union men. Miners' Union day was celebrated on June 14 with an immense parade. The printers were not represented. The Montana Press Association will hold its convention in Hunters' Hot Springs some time in August. The association sets forth as one of its objects a closer relationship and understanding of employer and employe. A delegate is requested from each typographical union in the state, and presumably all will respond. The boys have lost Horace Pickens-for a time, at least. He was married to Miss Hickox. They spent their honeymoon at the Seattle exposition. No. 126 is pardonably proud of the decision of the National Board of Arbitration in the HoganReynolds case, reinstating Mr. Hogan, who, it will be remembered, was discharged from his position as proofreader on the Daily Miner for permitting an ad error to go through. Mr. Hogan is one of the oldest members of No. 126, and has always been in the harness, standing ever with the boys, bearing the brunt of battle at all times, with no thought of flinching, and his reinstatement will be welcomed not only by his Butte friends, but by those who, having known him here, are now in other fields. Jim is the proprietor of a thirst parlor, and the festive comma has no charms for him at present. "The Miner's Jimmie Reynolds and his bride have been heard from. They are at present enjoying the breezes of Salt Lake, and, with the perfect weather there at present, are having an ideal time."-Miner, June 13. Fact. Jimmie and Miss Beulah Brinton were quietly married. They played it fine on the bunch, too, and got away without the rice, old shoes and other jokes. But a Miner lightning jerker happened to be on the train with them, and he did his best to anticipate the wishes of Mr. Reynolds' Butte friends. One of our boys is an enthusiastic baseball fan. He has a bet with a restaurateur whereby he gets his ham and for nothing when he wins and pays 80 cents therefor when he loses. R. HATHAWAY. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Resolutions discountenancing any violation of law and denouncing the illegal sale of liquor at Labor park were adopted by No. 1 at its last meeting. This union will dispose of its interests in the park if the violation continues. Organized labor has been severely criticized, both by the press and the ministers' association, as the result of the actions of the park committee of the central labor union in allowing liquor to be sold on Sunday. Thus the action of our union. The News, the leading paper in this section, commented on the action editorially, of which the following is a part: We do not think that the typographical union has any duty in this matter apart from that which rests on all citizens. And yet a declaration from it, and from all the other unions, against the lawlessness of the saloon would have an excellent effect. But whether they go thus far or not, the members of this union have done well to say that they at least will not be partners in any lawviolating enterprise. Labor park belongs to the laboring men of this city, and they are responsible for its management. If they permit lawbreaking in the park they become lawbreakers themselves. But our friends have done well as far * * * as they have gone, for the effect of their action is to array them on the side of law and order, and to commit their union, at least by inference, to the general policy of law enforcement. If other citizens would make their position thus clear we should soon have a body of public opinion that would be controlling, one which no city administration would dare disregard. We ought to try to realize that the citizens of Indianapolis are as much bound to make the city decent and lawabiding as the laboring men are to make their park decent and law-abiding. For the city belongs to the citizens as truly as the park does to the laboring men. We ought to be as jealous for the good name of the city as the typographical union is for the good name of the park. The example set by the union is, therefore, one that we should all follow. It is reported that Van Cleave spent $500,000 of the manufacturers' association's good money in his effort to annihilate labor unions. How well he succeeded, we all know. Perhaps his co-workers figured it would be cheaper to give him $10,000 and a ruby pin and get rid of him than have him serve another term as president. August Smith, formerly a makeup on the News and Sentinel, and a native of this city, who went to New York about three years ago, has been appointed assistant foreman of the New York Herald. The printing department of the Winona Institute "graduated" sixty-two printers, five bricklayers, five tilesetters and five ironmolders this season. 'Spose the boys are awful proud of their diplomas. The Scott Miller plant has been sold at receivers' sale for a consideration of $10,015, and dismantled. At least three members of No. I have hoisted their lightning rods and are out making an earnest campaign for nominations at the coming mu nicipal primary. Joe Turk is out for city clerk; Andy Hansen for councilman, and Fred B. Ropkey for police judge. The latter still retains his active membership, though a practicing attorney. Fred Mitchell and Bill Shaler were among us for a short while....Marquis De Lafayette Shrope, of Easton, Pa., dropped off last month to say "howdy" to old convention friends....The label committee will be expected to get busy. There is much to do....Work is none too brisk, with plenty of help.... Of course, Bob Darnaby is going to St. Joe. B. F. WHITAKER. MOBILE, ALA. Mobile is to be the meeting place of the next annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans in 1910. The boys in gray will be royally entertained by the people of Mobile. It was the home of the gallant naval captain, Admiral Semmes. Some of the bravest fighters who wore the confederate gray went from this beautiful seaside town. She is up against a big proposition, but will prove herself a successful hostess. The job printing house of W. B. Delchamps, thoroughly union, is making commendable strides. It is enlarging its quarters and has installed a new Harris automatic offset lithographic press. The progress of this enterprising house is very gratifying, No. 27 presented the commercial club with a nicely framed picture of the Union Printers Home. It occupies a suitable place in the club rooms. In a letter to John J. Russell, secretary of No. 27, Grand Master H. T. Ormond, of the Alabama I. O. O. F., writes: I am just in receipt of your souvenir postcards and folder of Union Printers Home, which I ap preciate very much. Your people are engaged in a great work, and one which grows grander with time. Mobile No. 27 endorsed Atlanta as the place for the convention of 1910. Atlanta is the logical place for the next convention. It was there, under President Plank, that the Home movement took tangible form and the location was decided upon. This year Mobile Union decided to hear a memorial address from one of its own members, and Eyre Damer was invited to speak in the hall. He was listened to with close attention, and gave a discourse replete with beautiful and inspiring thought. ant. JOHN J. RUSSELL. OMAHA, NEB. At the meeting of No. 190, Sunday afternoon, May 27, when the new officers for the ensuing year were installed, the retiring secretary-treasurer, V. B. Kinney, was presented with a beautiful gold watch, the voluntary gift of nearly the entire membership of the organization, as a token of their faith in his integrity and ability as a servT. W. McCullough made the presentation speech, closing with the statement that, as Mr. Kinney had worked a great deal of overtime on the job and had not given it out, he was entitled to the timepiece on the ground that he should know when to commence and when to quit work. The meeting adjourned about 4 o'clock and proceeded in a body to the First Congregational church, where the pastor, Rev. Frederick T. Rouse, delivered a memorial address that was both interesting and instructive in the extreme. Dr. Rouse took his text from Isaiah xli, 6-7: "They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, be of good courage. So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, *" He encouraged the organization of wage workers not only as a right, but a duty, bringing out the economic phase of religion or the religious phase of the labor question in a very compre hensive way. He declared that the time will come when every man shall have remunerative employment, and when the "graft of the corporations" will be cut off. There are now thirty job shops in the city on the union's list, and all the daily newspapers and practically all the weeklies are fair. The sentiment among the business men of Omaha seems to be largely in favor of the union's plan for a contract with the arbitration clause, but there are a |