iary applies equally as well here. With "Old 91's" membership around the 1,000 mark, why should No. 42's be less than 100? Now, "boys," get real busy! MRS. R. J. STEVENSON.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

The Sunday issue of a local paper recently printed an interesting story of the Woman's International Auxiliary, and also gave considerable space to the history of our local, No. 5. In commenting on the many admirable features, it was pointed out that our auxiliary has a flower mission; visiting and sick committees are appointed, which remember the sick with fruit or flowers, also by sending flowers to printers, or a member of his family, in

are remembered annually-Franklin's birthday, as near January 17 as possible, and a picnic on Labor day. The celebration of Franklin's birth was observed this year January 20, at the Knights and Ladies of Honor hall, with a supper from 5 to 8 P. M., after which there was a musical and literary program, concluding with a social. The affair was a huge success, both socially and financially.

A valentine coffee was given by Mesdames Hunt, Fergus, Martin, Henning, Dunlap and Cherry, at the home of the latter, February 17. The house was tastefully decorated with hearts and darts. The menu was unique, in that everything was heartshaped. The favors for the ladies were handpainted hearts, and darts for the gentlemen. Another card party was held at the Knights and

case of death; remembering our poor or unfortunate printer with a basket for Christmas, and sending a little token of remembrance to members of No. 1 who are at the Printers Home. That Auxiliary No. 5 also is interested in the good and welfare of Indianapolis is witnessed by the fact that it pledged itself for a fund of $200 to the local Y. W. C. A.'s new building fund. The auxiliary is also affiliated with the Local Council of Women, and ever stands ready to render its assistance in the many civic and municipal questions brought before that able body of women. The business meetings of No. 5 are held the first Mondays of each month, with a social meeting each month at some of the members' homes. These meetings are mostly arranged for a "coffee" in the afternoon, but they also arrange to have quite a number of social events to occur in the evening, thereby bringing the members of the families together. Two events

Ladies of Honor hall, February 16, and was largely attended.

Mrs. Butler announced a St. Patrick's day entertainment for next month. Three applications for membership were received at the last regular meeting.

ETHEL MARY DUNLAP.

CHICAGO, ILL.

It is with great pleasure that I am able to call the attention of sister auxiliaries to our new auxiliary, No. 8, in Chicago.

No. 8 gave a euchre party on February 10, and we were greatly pleased with the result, both socially and financially, although we regretted that our hall was not large enough to accommodate the crowd,. many of our visitors not being able to play. All were very anxious, especially members

of No. 16, to know when we were going to have another blowout.

We have decided that the money from our next entertainment will be donated to the fund being raised for the purpose of erecting a monument in the printers' lot in Colorado Springs.

The following were elected as officers of No. 8: Mrs. Jessie Burlingame, president; Mrs. Lasseter, vice-president; Miss L. Cottom, secretary; Mrs. Frank Allison, treasurer, and Mrs. Frank Litchfield, guide. MISS LILLYON COTTOM.

LOS ANGELES, CAL.

The members of the woman's auxiliary have been very busy trying to make the printers of No. 174 forget the rainy weather by a musicale, and dancing afterward, and it happened in the finest hall in Los Angeles, a grand edifice to organized labor-Social hall, in the Labor temple. John Holden, with his cornet solo, accompanied by his two daughters on first and second violin; Mrs. Holden, piano accompanist, rendered Dancla's "Song of the Evening Star" in a very pleasing manner, and received many encores. Ruth Howe was another of the contributors, whose selection was very fine; her piano solo was warml received. The Young sisters, daughters of Nelson Young, of the Examiner, gave a couple of excellent vocal duets, and they were heartily encored. Hugh Saxon, who is known from coast to coast by his printer friends and theater-loving people as laughmaker, has few equals. A piano solo by Miss Woodrow, another of our printer's talented daughters, was enjoyed. Miss Mabel Lynch gave a piano solo, and a mandolin solo was given by Miss Peebles. Both were highly appreciated and greatly applauded. Mr. Thomas gave some fine bugle calls, and his wife, our president, gave readings and remarks, which placed the audience much in debt to the Thomas family. The program was followed by a dance which lasted until midnight. Luncheon was served nicely by Mrs. Charles Walton, Mrs. Charles Richmond and Mrs. Joseph Rustymyer. MRS. CHARLES L. HOWE.

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LOUISVILLE, KY.

No. 12 gave its annual oyster supper February 11, from 3 to 10 P. M. The crowd exceeded all expectations. However, the ladies were equal to the occasion, but were kept on a hop and a jump from start to finish. We not only increased our treasury a goodly sum, but secured several applications for membership. Our union sent us the price of twenty-five tickets, which we certainly appreciated, but we were not surprised, being fully aware, through the different committees from the union that meet with us once a month, of the cordial feeling existing. What a great pleasure it is to see the printers and their families meet in a social way, all formalities cast aside, just mingling as one large family! We can thank the Woman's International Auxiliary for these opportunities. Our

next affair, we are sorry to say, will be of a less social nature, being a cake sale at one of our large department stores.

At our last meeting we decided to endorse all present International officers for re-election, as it would hardly be fair to elect new officers for two years, when the present officers have served but one. "Barkis is willin'," for yours truly is one of the vice-presidents. MRS. JOHN D. KANE.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.

No. 51 holds its regular business meeting each month, besides which we have started our delegate fund by conducting a series of whist parties at the homes of the members. So far, Mrs. Charles Lee, Mrs. William Carroll and Mrs. George Christie have entertained. Some of the parties have been held in the afternoon and some in the evening. They have proved most enjoyable and very successful to us.

Our membership remains about the same. On April 20 we expect to celebrate our third anniversary with an open meeting and musicale. This will be for friends and prospective members. Let us hope it will be a success and benefit us by a host of new members. MARY CARRoll.

SEATTLE, WASH.

Our Christmas bazar was a splendid success, and many printers called and had supper with us at our hall.

This year the members excelled themselves in the number and beauty of their gifts, which were auctioned off for the benefit of our treasury, and which is in quite a flourishing condition.

Our last meeting was installation of officers, and after the business meeting a dainty luncheon was enjoyed by the members present. We initiated a new member, received an application, and have two more in sight. We hope to add our pro rata of the 2,000 members desired before next convention.

We give a card party on the last Wednesday of each month at the residence of some member who offers her home for that evening, and the attendance at these meetings keeps increasing all the time, so we feel that they are successful. Our next work will be the decorating of the graves of our printer dead on Memorial day.

I was pleased to learn from our president's letter last month that there were several more auxiliaries being organized, and hope they may be successfully launched. MRS. J. O. BURDICK.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

Our social affairs of the past have been such a success, and all those attending have had such a good time, that when it was announced that Woman's Auxiliary No. 61 was issuing invitations for a mask ball to be given at Harmony hall, February 10, cries were heard on every corner for an invitation. Over 200 invitations were issued, and all those attending declared they had never had such a jolly good time before. Almost every one in at

tendance came in costume, and there were Geisha girls from Japan, Dutch girls, tramps, clowns, minstrel men, Red Riding Hoods, sunflowers, aunties, members of the Ku-Klux Klan, peasant girls, Buster Browns and many other costumes too numerous to mention. Mrs. M. C. Vance, our president, wore a very pretty costume of black with gold stars. The masks were removed at 10:30, and the cares of yesterday were forgotten as we danced away the hours to the strains of Theo. Artzt's orchestra.

It will be but a short time until we elect delegates to attend the St. Joe convention, and each local should try and send a delegate, and the very best material it affords. MRS. C. B. HARRIS.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

The meetings the past month have been unusu ally well attended, and the interest in the work of the auxiliary is constantly growing. We secured two new members-Mrs. M. Baker and Mrs. J. E. Chapler, and, now that the winter is departing, the membership committee will be "up and doing" some more. The St. Louis motto, "To the front!" is going to be carried out if hard work and enthu siasm are of any avail.

A euchre will be given on the afternoon of March 17 at Hibernian hall. Numerous prizes have been donated by the members, and the proceeds of the euchre will be given to the monument fund. A large attendance is hoped for.

No. 29 at its last meeting unanmiously endorsed Mrs. Charles Hertenstein for re-election as president of the Woman's International Auxiliary.

We are glad to hear an auxiliary has been or ganized in New Orleans, La. We wish it much MRS. R. J. LoWTHER.

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OMAHA, NEB.

The last regular meeting of Ahamo Auxiliary was held February 15, at the home of Mrs. William Ellsworth, our delegate to Boston last year. There was a good attendance and much interest manifested.

Our masquerade ball, given at Frenzer's hall, February 10, was well attended, and every one had a good time. The prizes were won by the following: Best lady's costume, Mrs. Denham; best lady's character costume, Miss Florence Cox; best lady's comical costume, Mrs. Ingalls; best man's costume, Mr. Salberg; best man's character costume, Mr. Hardman; best man's comical costume, W. H. Kellogg.

Ahamo gave a card party at the home of Mrs. Louis Kolb, February 1, with quite a large attendance, a neat sum being realized for the treasury.

It will soon be time to begin thinking about a delegate to St. Joseph. As yet no candidates have announced themselves, and we are wondering who have their eyes on those honors.

MRS. J. Y. HOOPER.

THE borrower is a slave to the lender, the security to both.-Franklin.

ST. JOSEPH, MO.

After several months of hard labor, the newspaper scale committee of No. 40 has agreed upon a scale which went into effect on February 8 for a period of five years. The old scale was $21 for day work and $24 for night. The scale just signed has a graduated increase of 10 cents a day for the first year, 15 cents for the second year, and 25 cents for the following three years, making the first year's weekly wages $21.60 for day and $24.60 for night; second year, $21.90 day, $24.90 night, and for the last three years, $22.50 day and $25.50 for

told the committee that all concessions will be free to all badge wearers. The clubhouses and beach will be at the disposal of the committee, and we expect all to bring along their best bathing suits and get a "fresh" water bath. Those who desire may put in their time fishing, as the lake has plenty of game fish for the nimrod to try and capture. There will be plenty of amusement for the ladies on the midway, and boating. The mayor of St. Joseph says that he will take good care of the ladies during their stay while they are our guests. It goes without saying that the ladies will have a

night. At time of writing the scale has been signed by all the papers except one. Chairman Cowan and his committee deserve much credit for the able manner in which the matter was handled, and although the increase seems small, it will help very materially to swell some of the members' convention fund. The committee was assisted in its negotiations by Organizer Brady, whose generalship in such matters throughout the jurisdiction is well known, and the committee is giving most of the credit to Mr. Brady for the splendid argument he used in gaining the increase.

The delegates, ex-delegates and visitors to the August convention will be entertained for one day by Palmer L. Clark, of Lake Contrary (not "Lake Country," as our ad in the Boston souvenir had it), the Coney Island of the west. Mr. Clark has

jolly good time, as our "Pet" is one of the handsomest mayors St. Joseph has ever had, and those of the craft that have had the honor of meeting him know that he "is there with the goods."

The accompanying halftone represents "Show Me," one of the fastest yachts on Lake Contrary. She has races to her credit from all the nearby waters, and was taken to Wisconsin and Minnesota last summer, where she was also victorious. You will be "shown" what she can do, when you come to Missouri in August; besides, we will have motor, canoe and swimming races.

One of the main features that has already been decided on is the street decorations, which I can gladly say will be the most elaborate that old St. Joseph has ever offered to do in its history for any convention or function. When I say there will be 60,000 blue and gold pennants stretched across our

principal streets, it will be seen. that the canopy effect it will give will be most beautiful. Working all the time, or fluttering in the breeze, they will bid a welcome that is not often seen in decorations. Our merchants and manufacturers have taken such an interest at this early date that we feel sure our stately buildings will be dressed up as they never were before. As this is the first real big convention held here in many years, any others that come here in the future will have to hustle some, as the pace that will be set on this occasion will be hard to beat. And the real old Missouri hospitality will be given with a lavish hand to all.

There are many features that I would like to mention in this letter, but if we were to tip off all the novelties the surprise in store for you would not be half so impressive. Our boys are working overtime, and even the woman's auxiliary is holding weekly meetings, perfecting plans and arrangements, and some exclusive novel ideas have been created by them that will prove highly interesting to all, delegates, ex-delegates and visitors. I sincerely hope that there will be no one afflicted in any way that will cause him to miss this fifty-fifth convention and the celebration of our fiftieth anniversary. And we will have one man who is a charter member of this local, who has carried a card for fifty long years. It is worth to any man a journey to shake the hand of such a man, fifty years a union printer. As I said before, I will say again: There is so much I would like to say that I can not, but will insist you can't afford to miss the treat in store, because, from the newsboys of our streets to the mayor of our city, all are anxiously awaiting the time to bid you welcome.

The membership throughout the jurisdiction will regret to learn of the death of Robert Prather Shields ("Bob"), who died in St. Joseph, February 2, after a short illness from pneumonia. "Bob," as he was familiarly called, arrived here last fall and engaged in the grocery business with his brotherin-law. He represented Butte Union as delegate to Washington, D. C., in 1903, and had one of the most unique and handsomest cards of the convention. It was a sheet of pure copper, card size, and is prized by many who attended the Washington meeting. Although he had left the printing business, he kept up his dues, and during his delirium, his friends say, unionism was his theme of conversation. "Bob" was president of Butte (Mont.) Typographical Union when he left there last OctoJ. E. MURPHY.

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to carry through to a successful consummation. As stated in the January JoURNAL, there is a lot of work for such an organization in Ontario. There are at least seven towns where unions should exist but do not, and those seven unorganized towns are a menace to every union in the province, for in case of trouble they invariably contribute the lion's share in breaking up a strike. In Galt we know of a town where the fact that a neighboring town was not organized has been used as a club to keep the union from raising its scale. I should like to hear through THE JOURNAL from others in regard to this matter. Let us get together, gentlemen, and make this the strongest, most enthusiastic and most progressive province or state in the jurisdiction of the International Typographical Union.

The "rat" Reid Press of Hamilton had an ad for non-union printers in a local paper recently. While this firm does a good deal of Galt printing, it can't get any Galt printers. The atmosphere of the Grand valley is considered unhealthy for rodents.

The pressmen of Galt and Berlin have organized a union, with headquarters in Berlin.

ARTHUR L. PHILP.

MICHIGAN FEDERATION OF TYPOGRAPH

ICAL UNIONS.

To union printers in Michigan in particular, and all union printers in perhaps a lesser degree, the following regarding the Michigan Federation of Typographical Unions may be of interest.

The federation was organized at a conference called by Kalamazoo Typographical Union and held in the city of Kalamazoo, June 29 and 30, 1908. The conference was attended by fourteen delegates, representing twelve unions in various cities throughout the state. Officers were elected, who were given the obligation by President J. M. Lynch, of the International Typographical Union, and Jackson selected as the place for holding the convention in 1909, the time to be fixed by the executive committee. An organization proposition was also prepared and adopted, and the secretarytreasurer directed to submit the same to each typographical union in the state for approval.

The proposition was sent out July 20, but some of the unions were slow in taking the matter up, so that all reports did not reach the secretarytreasurer until January 5 of the present year, on which date Ann Arbor, the last union to act, voted to affiliate. Jackson had been the first, taking favorable action on July 2, 1908, and Kalamazoo followed suit on July 5, 1908, several days before sending out the proposition. The complete canvass shows that of the nineteen unions in Michigan, sixteen have decided to affiliate, as follows: Adrian No. 166, Ann Arbor No. 154, Battle Creek No. 429, Bay City No. 81. Detroit German No. 21, Grand Rapids No. 39, Houghton No. 596, Jackson No. 99, Kalamazoo No. 122, Lansing No. 72, Muskegon No. 168, Owosso-Corunna No. 455, Pontiac No. 512, Port Huron No. 300, Sault Ste. Marie No. 350 and Traverse City No. 362. It is hoped that the three locals which have failed to

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