always will be, as it is his nature. He has served the union long and faithfully, having been a dele gate to the central labor council and the allied printing trades council, a member of the board of directors, vice-president, and now is finishing his second term as president. He ever has returned good for evil, saying nice things of those who have said nasty things of him. Robinson not only never has "backcapped" a fellow member, but he ever refuses to lend ear to the malicious mouthings of dyspeptic nincompoops who snap and snarl at their superiors. Being this manner of man, Ben C. Robinson has a host of friends, who are eager to take off their coats and work for him. True, he is not perfect-yet there are others similarly handicapped. But Ben is a "booster." And blessed is the "booster," as he scatters sunshine wherever he goes and brings joy to the heart of

man.

Now that the election is over, again let us remember that there is but one issue before the International Typographical Union between now and January 1, 1906-that of the eight-hour day. Personal spite and petty ambition must be eliminated-crushed, if necessary-in order that a solid front may be presented to the unreasonable employer. The man who attempts to stir up strife in our own ranks while the eight-hour campaign is in progress could not be of more service to the enemies of the union if he were upon their payroll. This is no year for "union politics."

If we must knock, let us knock the knocker. FRANCIS DRAKE.

WORCESTER, MASS.

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The May meeting was largely attended and much business was transacted, the most important being the election and initiation of seven members, and the nominations for officers and International Typographical Union delegates. The meeting adjourned to Wednesday, May 17, for the election of officers. This meeting was held at 566 Main street, between the hours of 3 and 9 o'clock P. M., and proved to be one of the largest held in the history of the organization. One hundred and thirty-one votes for delegate were cast out of 137, of which Freeman M. Saltus received 72, and Andrew J. Duggan 57.

Good work is being done in this city in pushing the label by the officers of the allied printing trades council and the union. The custom has been adopted, and is being carried out, that as new enterprises settle here they are approached by representatives of the organizations and the label subject broached. This has proven to be successful in every case in the past few months, and the officers are highly encouraged to further their work in that direction.

A circular issued recently by the New England Typothetæ calling for a meeting in Boston for Tuesday, May 23, has been received by employing printers who are also members of No. 165 and the pressmen's union, and some of them are planning to attend. The circular refers to the eighthour law adopted by the International Typographical Union as being the principal topic of discussion, and the printers of the country will watch

with intense interest the result of the conference, which will be attended by the leading officers and members of the United Typothetæ of America.

At the May meeting of the union several important steps were taken preparatory to work that is to be started in the interest of the eight-hour day for book and job men. One is a resolution that will be acted upon at the June meeting, that, if passed, will allow expelled members to come back into the fold without paying the $10 fine that is now imposed by the constitution. Another is, that President Lynch be requested to arrange for the presence of the district organizer January 1, if the employing printers refuse to grant the eighthour day at the stated time. FREEMAN M. SALTUS.

CLARKSBURG, W. VA.

Work is getting better all the time.

Harry Johnson, who was a delegate to the trades and labor council, has resigned, and C. M. Kinnard was appointed to fill the vacancy.

Our secretary-treasurer, C. W. Ward, has received from J. W. Bramwood fifteen eight-hour buttons, which were appreciated, there being one for each member of our union. Are we wearing them? "Well, I guess yes," and proud of them.

Harry Johnson, who has been working on the Daily News for some time, has resigned and gone to Cleveland, Ohio.

The trades and labor council has about completed arrangements for the meeting of the State Federation of Labor, which is to be held here May 18-19.

Do you know that when you ask for unionmade goods you are helping organized labor?

Do you want to work eight hours after January 1? If so, put your shoulder to the wheel and help push-and push hard.

THE JOURNAL is all O. K. Long may it live.
Boom the label!
WALTER R. WATKINS.

LONDON, ONT.

Alderman Matthews, a member of No. 133, has been acting mayor during the absence of Mayor Campbell in Toronto.

The work of the organization committee is attracting so much attention that members are being approached by reporters and editors as to their eligibility to membership. The writer was asked one day recently by the telegraph editor of one of our papers if he could be a member, and if so he would like to put in application. Two others were approached, one by a reporter and another by a city editor. The latter's application will no doubt be received, as he is a printer.

The Advertiser's new addition is about completed, and rumor has it that they are going to get out a morning edition as soon as their new press and stereotype plants are installed.

A pleasant feature in connection with last meeting was the presentation of an International button to Ben Parkinson in recognition of his services to the union.

Frank Ryan, the popular president of No. 133,

was elected delegate to International Typographical Union by acclamation. This is the first time that such an honor has been conferred on any member of this union. It was a fine tribute, but it has been well earned by our energetic president.

The writer received a sample of the handsome eight-hour button from our International president, which has been passed around among some of the members, who were quite enthusiastic over it. Everybody wants one.

Lewis Clark, at one time foreman of the Advertiser job department, has taken out his card and gone to Toronto, where he has accepted a position in a job office.

All the union machinists in the employ of the Grand Trunk Railway are out on strike for better conditions on the whole system in Canada. Every machinist employed in London and St. Thomas has obeyed the call-union and non-union, as well as the helpers.

New members have been coming in every meeting of late and more applications read at last meeting. Keep the "kettle a-boiling," boys; it's worth the candle. JOHN MCLEAN.

ATLANTA, GA.

Atlanta is a convention city in earnest this week (May 15-20), no less than four associations assembling here in annual deliberation, from Monday until Saturday. They are: Georgia Industrial Association (the cotton mill magnates who make impossible the child-labor law in this state); the National Association of Manufacturers (the selfstyled "richest organization in the world," better known as the "Parryites" or "Parasites," who will hold a Post-mortem extending over three days); the Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and lastly, but of more concern to the printers, the employing printers of the southeast, whose meeting will be somewhat similar in nature and purpose to the "Southwest" affair held last month in Kansas City. Verily, we are in the hands of the enemy.

Just to show our friends, the enemy, however, that we are serious in our efforts to secure the eight-hour day, and that we are not sleeping on our rights, plans are being made to give a mammoth eight-hour smoker, to advertise it extensively and to make a demonstration that can not fail to convince the doubting ones of the earnestness of the movement to inaugurate the long-desired shorter workday. This will be the opening gun of an active campaign to be waged in this state and section with untiring energy, and which, carried out along proper lines, as it will be, in the end is bound to spell victory.

Invitations have been issued by Charlotte Typographical Union to the unions in adjoining states to attend its anniversary on May 20. It is purposed to set on foot plans to organize this section more thoroughly and get in touch with the country printer. Atlanta Union will send two representatives to this meeting.

The Georgia Federation of Labor will meet in annual convention in this city June 17, and will be in session three days.

At the May meeting a resolution was unani

mously passed to the effect that the union secure a large portrait of Hon. James G. Woodward, the present mayor of Atlanta, in recognition of his thirty years' active service in the movement, and hang the same in the office of the union. Mr. Woodward was present at the meeting-as he usually is-and in a speech full of emotion and deep feeling thanked the union for the honor conferred on him. His words on the life of the oldtime printer were a lesson to the printers of today, and thoroughly enjoyed by all present.

"Are you the president of the union?" to which President Harding replied in the affirmative. "Well, can I go to work at 'Dobby's?" "Not and hold your card." "Well, you see it's this way: I was sent here by the monotype factory school at Philadelphia to take a job running a caster in that plant, and was told the shop was open. I am new in the union." "We do not recognize the open shop in Atlanta." "What must I do?" "Return to Philly." He did. This is a frequent occurrence. Proprietors of non-union shops here deliberately deceive printers as to conditions, one of them being quoted as saying: "We will either force them to 'rat' or make it cost the union something to send them back home."

The delegatorial handicap has passed into history. The candidates passed under the wire in the following named order: R. T. Holderby, D. W. Green, Ed L, Sutton, J. J. Hobby. The first two were declared elected as delegates to the Toronto convention, while the latter two were declared alternates. The following were elected as delegates to the Georgia Federation of Labor convention: Wade P. Harding, W. S. Wier, Jerome Jones, Press Huddleston, Earle E. Griggs.

W. S. WARDlaw.

RACINE, WIS.

On September 15 the present contract with the employers will expire, and at our next meeting the matter will be taken up and a committee appointed to work in conjunction with the eighthour committee, looking to the adoption of a new scale and an amicable settlement of the eight-hour workday. An effort will be made to have the eighthour day go into effect with the new contract, but the success of the undertaking is an uncertainty, although it is pretty thoroughly understood that there will be no objection to it on January 1.

F. A. Parker has been elected delegate and Guy Weaver alternate to the International convention at Toronto.

President Farnham has been in Milwaukee in conference with F. E. Neuman, president of the Wisconsin Association of Typographical Unions, relative to the work to be done in this part of the state on the eight-hour movement. Mr. Farnham is the vice-president from No. 324.

The Lakeside Printing Company has shown the proper spirit by inaugurating the eight-hour day. Mr. Foster, the proprietor, is one of the oldest union printers in the city, and is heartily in favor of the shorter workday.

And still they come. Three new members were initiated at the last meeting and three applications received. W. A. HALL.

THE MANUFACTURERS' MEETING.

The tenth annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers met in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, May 16, and was in session three days. President David M. Parry, of Indianapolis, presided over the deliberations of the body. Nearly 200 delegates were in attendance.

Organized labor was ruthlessly attacked from every available point; resolution after resolution seeking to destroy its power being adopted by rising, howling, hooting, shouting majorities. Never before was the fact more clearly demonstrated in unmistakable terms that the association's main purpose in view is to crush out of existence every organized movement of labor.

The convention was called to order by R. F. Maddox, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Speeches of welcome were made by Governor Joseph M. Terrell, in behalf of the state; Mayor James G. Woodward, in behalf of the city, and John Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta News. Response in behalf of the association was made by William McCarroll, of New York.

The speech of the eloquent Graves was greeted with a storm of applause; and at its conclusion it was moved to extend his time one hour. One of the things the orator told the convention was: "Gentlemen, we will stick to you as long as you can earn an honest dollar."

The mayor's speech was conservative, but he embraced the opportunity, however, to administer some wholesome advice to the association with reference to the wage-earner.

Mr. McCarroll, in his response, among other things, said: "Our organization has made a stand for the right of any and every workman to work in any place he wants to, providing he is capable and true to his trust and the interests of the work in hand."

The convention was then turned over to Presi dent David M. Parry, who came forward and stated that his address was so long he had had his paper printed for general distribution, and therefore dispensed with reading it. Mr. Parry's address has appeared generally in the daily press.

During the day's session many papers of importance were read and subjects were discussed relating to the welfare of the entire country.

Again and again expressions regarding the or ganization of labor left no chance for doubt as to the views of the speakers on this question.

Anthony Ittner, of St. Louis, in his paper on "Industrial Education," as chairman of the com mittee, attacked the apprentice system.

Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn., urged methods looking to the counteracting of labor organizations, and even suggested some very drastic measures as the only safeguard for the protection of the interests of the manufacturers. He eulogized President Parry for the stand he had taken in this same matter.

In his paper on "Government Relation to Public Franchises," Ludwig Nissen, of New York, declared municipal ownership to be un-American and futile.

At the second day's session the committee on

resolutions reported a resolution reaffirming adherence to the open-shop policy. The resolutions were greeted with tremendous applause and strenuous comment. There was no attempt at compromise nor the choosing of words. The constitution was often referred to, and instances were cited where action on the part of organized labor was claimed to be in direct opposition to the personal liberties as conveyed by the signers of the declaration of independence for the establishment of the republic. Human interest stories were also related in support of the open-shop movement, and similes and metaphors in generous numbers, so that when the resolutions were presented for adop tion they were carried unanimously amid cheers and howls. The resolutions urge all the manufacturers who have not adopted the open shop to do Ultimate success of such a policy is assured, and it is declared the death knell of the closed shop has been sounded throughout the land.

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A resolution "commending President Roosevelt's remarks condemnatory of the lawlessness in the teamsters' strike in Chicago" was adopted by a unanimous rising vote.

The convention listened to an address by Sam. uel Spencer, president of the Southern railway.

A resolution requesting the Panama canal commission to buy machinery and supplies in the United States met with opposition. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. C., moved to table the resolution, because he believed the patriotism of the commission would cause them to do the proper thing. George J. Seabury, of New York, and C. W. Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., moved its adop tion. Upon a vote, however, the resolution was

defeated.

The third and final day's session of the manufar turers proved to be inharmonious. George J. Seabury, of New York, spoke on "Tariff Revision and the Remedy." He favored a revision of the tariff. At the conclusion of his speech W. D Metcalf, of Auburn, N. Y., said he wished to brand one statement made by Mr. Seabury as false. A heated argument followed and a personal encounter was narrowly averted.

The committee on resolutions offered the resolutions in reference to the national eight-hour law, which were adopted. These commended "the impartial and searching investigation of the national eight-hour bill made by the labor bureau of the department of commerce and labor."

An anti-injunction-bill resolution was adopted without comment.

The committee on strike insurance, C. N. Fay, chairman, reported that sentiment among manufacturers on this subject had not crystallized yet, and they requested that they be continued another year.

New York city was selected as the next meeting place of the convention.

With Thomas P. Egan, of Cincinnati, the first president of the association, in the chair, the elec tion of officers was taken up. The nominating committee reported the name of D. M. Parry as president. William McCarroll, of New York, was also placed in nomination, but declined. D. A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, was placed in nomina

tion. Several speeches were made, some of the delegates contending that the association needed new men and, consequently, new ideas at its head. The chairman of the nominating committee spoke in defense of Mr. Parry. He said the committee had decided on Mr. Parry, knowing that a fight would be made on him on the floor. One delegate said it would mean suicide for the association if Parry was not re-elected. "Why, the very name of Parry strikes terror to the hearts of the labor unionists, and they tremble with fear." "Not to re-elect Parry would cause our enemies to set forth the claim that we did not approve of Mr. Parry and his methods, and that we were at war among ourselves." While the ballot was under way Mr. Tompkins withdrew in Mr. Parry's favor.

F. H. Stillman, of New York, was re-elected treasurer, and Marshall Cushing remains secretary of the association.

Under the new constitution each state with membership is entitled to a vice-president, and the fol lowing were elected: George B. McCormick, Birmingham, Ala.; H. D. Morton; San Francisco, Cal.; A. B. Bullard, Bridgeport, Conn.; A. H. Hoffeker, Georgetown, Del.; David Woodward, Atlanta, Ga.; Elliott Durand, Chicago, Ill.; E. H. Dean, Indianapolis, Ind.; F. C. Nunemacher, Louisville, Ky.; R. J. Wood, New Orleans, La.; George C. Draper, Hopedale, Mass.; B. T. Skinner, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. W. VanCleave, St. Louis, Mo.; E. H. Pike, Pike, N. H.; J. A. Jenkinson, Newark, N. J.; Ludwig Nissen, New York, N. Y.; D. A. Tompkins, Charlotte, N. C.; John Kirby, jr., Dayton, Ohio; D. E. Ripley, Pittsburg, Pa.; Patrick E. Hayes, Union, R. I.; H. S. Chamberlain, Chattanooga, Tenn.; H. S. Smith, Detroit, Wis.; G. R. Easterbrook, Marshalltown, Iowa.

The convention then adjourned.

At night the convention was addressed by Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor.

And the tenth annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers passes into history as being the most bitter and vindictive in its attitude toward organized labor of any previous session, and more determined than ever in its efforts to enforce Parryism upon the toiling masses of this country. W. S. WARDlaw. Atlanta, Ga.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

The annual election of officers of No. 167 took place on the afternoon of May 17, at Trades Assembly hall. The contest was spirited and seventy-five votes were cast. President Dennis Mahar was re-elected without opposition, as was also Edward Stack for vice-president and George E. Shannon for financial secretary. In the race for corresponding secretary Charles H. Schwartz was elected over Arthur S. Gilchrist with eighteen majority. John Horstman beat Elmer Keyes in the race for sergeant-at-arms, with a majority of twenty. The executive committee elected consists of Eugene Suits and O. E. Alberts. Delegates to the trades assembly are C. H. Schwartz, L. J. Humpf, Frank Brunell and A. S. Gilchrist. The most im

portant event of the day was the vote on delegate to the International Typographical Union convention, in which race E. J. H. Caldwell and O. E. Alberts were entered. Both candidates were hustlers, and each seemed to labor under the impres sion that he was a winner. With that bull-dog tenacity and a determination to "die fighting," both candidates were on hand at 7 o'clock, accompanied by their friends and backers, to hear the report of the tellers on the result of the election. The vote stood: For Alberts, 42; for Caldwell, 32. The meeting then adjourned for refreshments upon invitation of the successful candidate.

The Evening Union is now domiciled in its new home on Clinton street, with a new up-to-date press, new stereotyping plant and an additional linotype machine. L. J. HUMPF.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

After a quiet campaign of a couple of weeks, in which little interest was manifested, compared with former years, the election of officers and delegates of No. 39 was held May 17. There being no opposition for any of the offices except that of secretary-treasurer, it was all a one-sided affair, and the result was known before the votes were counted. A three-cornered fight, however, was on for the treasurership, which brought more or less life into the affair. Following are the newly elected delegates and officers for the ensuing year: President, William B. Wilson; vice-president, C. D. Hamill; recording secretary, John E. Gibbs; secre tary-treasurer, Dan Kelley; executive board, L. Wygmans, William Swift; application committee, J. Kroon, E. L. Crow, R. L. Griffin; sergeant-atarms, Cornelius Braam; delegates, M. H. Hearns, L. C. Shepard. C. BRAAM.

PROVIDENCE, R. I.

At the April meeting the union voted to send two delegates to the Toronto convention, one from the newspaper men and one from the book and job men. George H. Huston, Eli Alford and Edgar O. Beacham were nominated from the newspapers, and Samuel R. Macready, Maurice E. Hughes and Hugh F. Carroll from the jobbers. Mr. Carroll withdrew after the meeting. Through an oversight an election committee was not appointed, as the constitution requires, nor were alternates nominated. A special meeting held on the 10th inst. remedied the omissions. The election resulted as follows:

Newspaper delegate-Eli Alford, 47; George H. Huston, 46; Edgar O. Beacham, 42.

Book and job delegate-Maurice E. Hughes, 55; Samuel R. Macready, 49; Hugh F. Carroll, 31. Eli Alford and Maurice E. Hughes were elected. Organizer C. T. Scott, of Boston, William E. Tourtellot, of New Bedford, and Samuel S. Irvine, of the United States, were recent visitors to Providence.

The Journal Company expects to occupy its new building early in June. Soon after the moving the old building will be torn down and the new structure extended to Eddy street. Since the Journal was first printed, January 3, 1820, in the "Old

Coffee House," corner Canal street and Market square, it has moved five times. The last moving was on May 6, 1889, when it left the Barton block for its present location. Until the new building is entirely completed the composing room will be only about one-half its eventual size. It is on the third floor and will be splendidly lighted and ventilated.

The legislature at its recent session passed a law which provides that "every proprietor or publisher and every agent or employe of a newspaper or periodical who shall knowingly misrepresent the circulation of such newspaper or periodical for the purpose of securing advertising or other patronage shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000." And "every newspaper or periodical published in Rhode Island shall at least once a month publish in some conspicuous place in its columns the actual net paid circulation of said newspaper or periodical for the month preceding." WILLIAM Carroll.

Owing to the slipshod methods hitherto pursued in conducting the financial department of our union, William Carroll, superintendent of the mechanical department of the Journal and Bulletin, has demanded that in the future it shall be conducted in a more businesslike manner, and has instituted a searching inquiry as to who is responsible for this laxity. It is only fair to state that had the methods which he now puts forth been adopted years ago the body would be in a better financial condition than at present.

Frank Cushman, one of the best authorities on constitutional law in this jurisdiction, is working in the Sun job office.

The central trades and labor union has relegated to itself the power to judge of the fitness of agreements entered into by the subordinate bodies. What next?

Business in this city is very good for this season of the year.

The last office wherein hand composition was done the Weekly Visitor-has installed a linotype machine. JAMES MUSpratt.

NEW YORK HEBREW-AMERICAN UNION.

Our new scale, calling for an increase of $4 per week for floormen and makeups in machine offices, $1 per week for machine operators, and $3 per week for job offices, and the shortening of the week's hours of labor for all hand compositors to forty-six, is now practically in effect in No. 83's jurisdiction. Thanks to the International Typographical Union, represented by John E. McLoughlin, organizer, and our scale committee, with President H. Rosenson, the increase in the machine offices (newspapers) was accomplished without any friction. The organizer called the employers of the mentioned offices to a conference, and after a friendly "session" the employers agreed to the scale and on the next day they confirmed it by attaching their signatures to the new agreement.

There was, however, some trouble with the job offices. Three of the employers refused to pay the

new scale and sent our members out. For a few days they thought themselves victorious, but at the end of the week two of them were again in our jurisdiction; the third kept us out one week more, and then agreed to sign.

The new scale provides also that after one year from the date of the agreement $1 more shall be given to the operators, making it an increase of $2.

It seems that the statements of the "respectable and honest" men, the captains of industry, supported by college presidents, that the union is a halt to progress and to the advancement of the workingman, is not founded on fact, at least so far as our membership is concerned. Our union averages sixty-five members, and in the last six years it produced four doctors of medicine, graduates of the Columbia and Cornell Universities, two pharmacists and an attorney-at-law. The professional society will increase this year with another active member of No. 83. Simon Helfman, one of our old members, though young in years, will receive his diploma of doctor of dentistry at the commencement of the College of Dentistry next month. And others will follow. MAX LEVY.

A TALE OF SIX FIGURES.

"I can't say whatever possessed me to conceive the idea, nor when, except that it dates far back into the good old days when printers and 'cushions' were utter strangers, and so, for years and years, I have been watching for a railroad car numbered 100,000 or over."

The speaker was Louis Saloshin, the genial assistant foreman of the Constitution, and it required no Sherlock Holmes deductions to arrive at the conclusion that his somewhat remarkable curiosity had been recently gratified.

"Yes, sir; I had been down to the opening of Atlanta's new union passenger station, and somehow got away from the music and throng of celebrants, and wandered out into the yards. I found myself walking alongside a track on which were placed a string of freight cars, and-my old habit asserting itself-began to 'rubber' at the numbers. Of a sudden I stopped, in utter amazement, for right there in front of me, in box-car letters (excuse the joke), I read 'Erie Railroad, 100,785.' "Funny thing, isn't it?"

A word about Louie:

Every printer who has ever worked in Atlanta will recall the head makeup on the Constitution, popularly known among his fellows as the "Big Jew."

On the 25th of this month he will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his existence, and he says he's going to "blow" the boys to the time of their lives.

Thirty-two years of the half-century Louie has spent with the Constitution.

And he would, in all probability, long ago have graced the foreman's desk were it not for the fact that this splendid record of service has been exceeded by that of another, namely, Walter C. Henderson, the present foreman of the Constitution.

On one occasion several years ago one of our