statement that it was the fault of the "ignorant printer," thereby attempting to clear himself of all responsibility. But when a sporting editor of a local paper "boiled down" to five lines a column article, headed it "Gridiron Club Elects Officers," and ran it on the sporting page, and then to see the Chicago Tribune give a very prominent place on its first page to the article giving details of the Gridiron Club banquet at Washington, D. C., he not only displayed his ignorance, but had not the "ignorant printer" to fall back on. The sport

ing editor might have gained some information by asking said printers of whom the Gridiron Club is composed.

Jack Elvoy has been working in Peoria recently. CHARLES R. ("KID") EMBICK.

HARTFORD, CONN.

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In my last letter I predicted Hartford Union would this month be working under the best flat scale in Connecticut. My prediction is now a reality, for beginning the week of December 5 a new scale went into effect in all newspaper and job offices having agreements with No. 127. original demand was for a flat scale on newspapers of $22.50 for day work and $25.50 for night work; the book and job scale demand being $18 for handmen and $22.50 for machine operators. After sev eral conferences with the publishers the scale committee recommended to a special meeting of the union that the union accept $1 a year and 50 cents a year hence. The union was to make a contract for one year at an increase of $1. The job scale, with the exception of the machine end, remains the same as the original demand. The special meeting was the largest attended since the eight-hour strike days and the closeness of the vote (but two votes to spare) showed the interest manifested. new scale, which is in force for one year, will be $22 and $25 for newspaper men and $18 and $22 for jobmen, thus giving Hartford the best flat scale in New England with but two exceptionsBoston and Brockton.

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President Lynch, at the request of No. 127, has sent Robert S. Maloney to Hartford to act in conjunction with the organization committee of this union. The two weeks' stay here at this writing has proven to the membership that "Bob" is the right man for the job. Applications are coming in and union men are fast taking the places vacated by those who are used by the employers in time of trouble.

Quite frequently we read in the columns of THE JOURNAL that union men do not read their official organ. Such is not the case in Hartford. In the December JOURNAL, through an unfortunate chain of circumstances, No. 127 was placed in the delinquent column, and from the storm of queries put up to the officers the latter have become convinced that the entire membership of Hartford Union read THE JOURNAL from cover to cover.

The revised constitution and by-laws will be ready for distribution the first of the new year, and every member who fails to receive one should

Edward Howland, one of the most active workers in the ranks of No. 127 during and since the eight-hour strike, has accepted a situation in Thompsonville. While Hartford Union suffers the loss of so active a worker, Springfield's ranks will be strengthened by a union man of the kind of which our various locals can not have too many.

One of the fruitful results of Robert S. Maloney's visit here is the placing of a charter in New Britain. For a number of years Hartford has had jurisdiction over New Britain, but the constantly increasing scale of wages in Hartford has been a hard task for the New Britain chapel to maintain. At a recent meeting the scale committee, executive board and Mr. Maloney, acting in conjunction, voted to call a meeting of the New Britain chapel and have that body decide as to its future-whether to enforce the recently adopted scale in Hartford or apply for a charter. A meeting was arranged for, with the result that the members of No. 127 working in the hardware city voted to ask Hartford to relinquish jurisdiction and signed the application for a charter, electing Mr. Penfield chairman and Robert Weeden secretary. The prospects for the new union are very bright, as the chapel now is favored by having in force one of the best scales for a city of its size in Connecticut, and can recruit its membership from the nearby towns, there being a large number of unorganized printers in Bristol.

Quite often it has come under my observation that there are individuals in the union that stamp themselves far above the average who either become intoxicated with authority or from the want of it in some cases. It is only recently that one of the unions in the New England district was having some difficulty and it was voted to send for a certain International representative. President Lynch sent on the representative as requested. This preferred representative used every means in his power and even conferred with the executive council several times in an endeavor to straighten out the difficulty. Finally it was necessary to call out the men. Then these individuals looked about to find an excuse to place the blame. The executive council and the International representative were accused of everything under the sun. They were condemned for being inactive, and if they had decided to strike the place first they would have been accused of being too hasty. What I am trying to place before the readers is, in case of trouble, where you are banded together, don't try to place the responsibility upon some other shoul

ders; place it where it rightfully belongs-on the shoulders of the organization of which you are a member. I have only to repeat that, united we stand, but divided we fall, for it is this kind of party feeling that the employer in trouble is only too glad to see prevail. Pull together and we will all win.

From the bulletins issued by the secretary of the New England Typographical Union the membership is learning that the organization is stirring matters up in New England. JOHN F. MURPHY.

HAMILTON, CANADA.

A larger crowd than usual turned out to the last regular meeting of No. 129. The "call" read: "Election of officers, after which light refreshments will be served." James G. Bonner has eviIdently made a hit with the members, as he was unanimously re-elected president for a third term, the rest of the officers remaining about the same. The "light refreshments" proved an enjoyable part of the evening, and after the members had sampled the goods, they proved to be the means of bringing out talent in unexpected spots. The meeting broke up about midnight.

The Robert Duncan Printing Company is a very busy concern these days. They landed a job with nearly 3,000,000 ems of type in it. Any one who can handle a stick is cordially welcomed, and a lot of the boys made a little extra Christmas money, which came in handy.

There has been considerable talk here of a printers' hockey league being organized. We have some good talent along this line, and the boys should get together and uphold the reputation in this branch of sport that they have gained in numerous other lines.

We were "delighted" to see the comment in THE JOURNAL on "Delighted's" letter, and as he did not sign his name, we think he deserves what he got. A man should be entitled to his opinion at all times, but he should be willing to back it with his signature.

His many friends in different parts of the country will be pleased to hear that J. D. ("Chippy") Wright is much improved after about three months' illness from inflammatory rheumatism.

The Hamilton Trades and Labor Council is starting an agitation for a provincial trades congress, along the lines of the state federations across the border. We think it would be a good thing and hope it materializes, as there is lots of work for it to do.

Some two months ago a label league was organized in this city, and some good work has been accomplished. The first edition of the Label Bulletin, a twenty-page pamphlet, has been issued, which is expected to be a monthly affair, advertising all fair and label shops in the different branches of trade. No. 129 is affiliated, and with the live label committee elected, we expect to see our label boomed as never before, although the label here gets a pretty good call at all times.

The Christmas editions of the different newspa

pers are out and certainly the managements excelled themselves, the Spectator getting out a fiftysix-page edition, with a sixteen-page art supplement, and the Herald with forty pages. H. HAWKINS.

ST. PAUL, MINN.

As the newspaper scale expires next June, a special scale committee has been created, consisting of two men from each of the three newspapers, to draw up a new agreement and present it to the union for consideration at some future time.

The forty-eight-hour-week plan, or making up time by the job printers for Saturday afternoon, comes up again at the January meeting. It will probably be defeated again.

Labor Commissioner W. E. McEwen, who retires on January 1, recommends in his biennial report that the labor bureau be taken out of politics and that civil service rules govern instead. Mr. McEwen declares his belief that the department would thus be made more efficient.

James Welch, a make-up on the Pioneer Press, has invented a mechanical toy. Two figures are made to box and either can be made to get the best of it.

A recent contest covering the return of printed matter not bearing the union label was not the success hoped for, as far as the number participating was concerned. However, Tom Howard, Andy Hansen and Charlie Dimond each secured Thanksgiving turkey as a prize.

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F. J. Block won the watchcharm and R. Faulhaver the button at the December meeting.

Mrs. Perry Starkweather, an assistant in the state bureau of labor, will try to have enacted by the legislature this winter a law providing for special police at the depots in the large cities to advise and locate homeless girls in desirable surroundings.

President Henderson and Messrs. Whalen and Haven, of No. 42, were welcome guests at our December meeting.

Bert G. Brady, International representative, who is located in Minneapolis, has been invited to appear and address our January meeting. It was also decided to ask the executive council to extend Mr. Brady's territory to cover St. Paul.

The bakers' union co-operative bakery is in operation and was a success right from the start. The bakers have $2,000 in stock and other unions all told about the same amount. JOE MAIDEN.

LABOR HELPLESS IF DISORGANIZED. Horace Greeley summed up his views in the following brief statement: "I can not forget that the laboring class, so-called, must, like any other, stand up for its own rights, or be content to see them trampled under foot; and that the strength given it by organization, superinduced upon members, is its only effectual defense against the else unchecked tyranny of capital, eager for profit and reckless of other's rights. The power developed by combination may be abused, like any other power; but labor is helpless and a prey without it."

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The charity ball on November 28 marks an epoch in the history of social affairs of No. 6. The weather was as bad as perverse combination of east wind and low barometer could possibly produce. Rain fell in torrents, and those who left for home after midnight had to navigate icy sidewalks. spite of this untoward circumstance, however, the estimated number present when the band struck up the grand march was 10,000. Colonel Smith, chairman of the ball committee, said that 5,800 dance orders were issued. There were couples in the grand march, and they made a fine appearance as they strode majestically down the arena thirty-two abreast. The dance order was ar ranged in two parts and comprised thirty-four numbers, and from the march-about 11 o'clock-until near daylight dancing was uninterrupted. There was some criticism of the floor, however, which was a temporary structure laid over the arena, and in truth it certainly was not up to standard. The decorations were simple and elegant. A row of festooned American flags circled the arena at each gallery and over the tier boxes, and bunting was stretched between the arches of the vast roof to make the effect of four immense American flags arranged to form a large blue field in the center, studded with stars. "Big Six" in a cluster of electric lights looked down on the throng from each end of the block-long arena.

Among the prominent persons present were William G. McAdoo, president of the Hudson tunnels; John Purroy Mitchel, president of the board of aldermen; George McAneny, president of the borough of Manhattan; Charles E. Hyde, city chamberlain; Louis H. Reynolds, Clement J. Driscoll and William J. Flynn, deputy police commissioners; P. A. Whitney, corporation counsel; Rhinelander Waldo, fire commissioner. Newark was represented one hundred strong; a score or more came from Philadelphia, which is now a suburb of New York; persons were present from Albany, New Haven and Boston. Among the Newark bunch was Ed Balentine, member of the state assembly. The expenses of the ball totaled about $4.900. It is not possible at this time to estimate the proceeds. Nearly all of the tickets were sold in the two hundred-odd chapels through the chairmen, and it may be months before all the returns are in.

In this connection I wish to call attention to the sentiment expressed by Charles Gallagher and Dick O'Connor, residents of the Home at Colorado Springs, in a letter to former President James J. Murphy: "Of course," writes Gallagher, "we are temporarily off the earth,' and as we can not by any possible means get to the Garden, we both thought it would be nice to be represented by our relatives on the occasion. If they can not attend, well, we will have the great satisfaction in our humble way of helping along the union's hospital fund." They enclosed a postal money order for $2 for ball tickets. These men, I believe, get $1 each pension per week; and they surrendered it all to help make the ball a success. If some of the members of the union who are working and receiving $1 each week more than they got last year-if the

Samuel D. Styles, formerly a member of the printing firm of Styles & Cash, who retired from business some years ago, died of heart disease on the train near Hudson, while en route to his summer home at Richfield Springs, N. Y., on July 2 last. A clause in his will reads as follows:

One equal eightieth part (subject to the provi sions of the next following paragraph of this will) to the person who for the time being may be treasurer of the labor union known as Typographical Union No. 6, Manhattan, New York city, to be held and distributed as to principal and income as a part of the hospital fund of said union, as the members of said union may from time to time direct, but if this legacy shall at any time be adjudicated invalid for any reason, then I give and bequeath said one-eightieth part to those individuals who may be members of such union at the time such legacy may be so declared invalid, requesting (but not directing) that the legacy be used as a part of said hospital fund.

This clause does not become effective until the death of Mrs. Styles. A subsequent paragraph restricts the amount realizable by the union to $5,000. Bequests, subject to the same restriction, were made to the Episcopal church of New York city for a fund for aged clergymen; to the P. E. Seminary in New York city; to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; to St. John's P. E. Church, Richfield Springs; to the free library at Richfield Springs. The deceased was about 68 years of age. For eighteen years he had been president of the North River Savings Bank, and was a director in the Home Insurance Company, the Lincoln Trust Company and the Madison Safe Deposit Company. He is survived by an invalid wife. For a quarter of a century, and during the whole of the time Samuel D. Styles was connected with the firm, Styles & Cash had been a union office. In 1906, however, Styles & Cash joined with the typothetæ shops in the fight against the inauguration of the eight-hour day. It is still an unfair office and is closed to union men.

A motion at the December meeting to reconsider the action of the November meeting placing the machinists' branch under the charge of the president was, after animated debate, rejected by a 2 to I vote. A committee was elected from the floor to investigate the entire controversy concerning the administration of the machinists' branch. The committee is as follows: James Duncan, John H. Kelly, John Lane, John M. Maxwell and Charles Snyder. The report of the committee of chairmen regulating one-department newspaper chapels, which was printed in full in this column. in the December JOURNAL, was adopted without change under special order. An attempt to amend the constitution to provide for the election of all permanent salaried officers of the union at the annual election in May was defeated by a 10 to 1 vote. During the debate on this measure the buzz

of political bees was distinctly in evidence. Three officers would have been affected by the proposed change, the organizer, the assistant secretary and the benefit clerk. It would have been unwise, I think, to change their status. The organizer is the president's confidential man, for whom he can now be held strictly responsible. The same is true of the assistant secretary, for whom the secretarytreasurer is responsible. Full responsibility is not possible without full control. The argument that the president might prostitute the appointments to base ends will apply with equal force in case either of these officers were elected. The temptation might exist-does exist, no matter what the tenure.

All the officers of the Times chapel were reelected by acclamation at the December meeting. They were: J. M. Fitzpatrick, chairman; M. T. McConnell, vice-chairman; T. J. Dillon, secretary.

The Herald chapel, at the annual meeting December 6, re-elected William Mounce, former correspondent of THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, by acclamation. Other officers elected: Vice-chairman, Thomas W. Stevens; secretary, Samuel McCandless; treasurer, James Murray; finance committee, George Johnston, H. H. Long and John F. Barclay; secretary athletic association, Samuel C. Landon. Mr. Murray was elected for the twenty-first time as treasurer.

The National Board of Arbitration held sessions December 15 and 16 in this city, arbitrating the Chicago newspaper scale. President Lynch, Secretary-Treasurer Hays and Second Vice-President Hugo Miller represented the International Typographical Union. President O'Brien, of Chicago Union, and W. A. Klinger, John M. McGowan and Donald Swinehart were here in the interest of Chicago Union. Herman Ridder, H. N. Kellogg and E. H. Baker, of Cleveland, were the publishers' end of the board.

Stafford Mansfield White, who had been connected with the New York Journal of Commerce chapel for the past fifteen years, and had won the regard and esteem of every member, died November 13, in his fortieth year, at the residence of his brother-in-law in Brooklyn. Mr. White was born in Richmond, Va., the son of the late Justice J. J. White, of that city, where the funeral and interment took place.

These members have died since last report: Clarence T. Schenck, November 17; Henry Schaefer, November 21; George L. Haynes, November 22; George Haynes, November 22; Francis R. Adams, November 23; John Sutherland, November 25; Robert B. Ringland, December 2; Harry Meehla, December 5.

Oscar Winburn, declared to be in the first stage of tuberculosis, and John Lindemann, said to be in the second stage but of favorable prognosis, were endorsed for the Home at the December meeting. Mr. Winburn was a member of the executive committee in 1908.

James J. Fleming, an account of whose short career was set forth in this column in THE JOURNAL for October, pleaded guilty to fraudulent use of the mails when arraigned in the United States District Court at the November term and was allowed to

go free on suspended sentence as a first offense. He is not likely to do it again.

These chapels have been organized since last report: Pyle & McLaren, 24 Stone street, four men; Laplante & Dunklin, 28 South William street, five men; Law Printing Company, 82 Beaver street, four men; Railroad Publishing Company, 503 West Forty-second street, three men; Peck & Durham, 165 William street, eleven men; Lex Press, 165 William street, ten men; Needleman & Sweetwood, Dutch and Fulton streets, five men. Four of these were nine-hour shops.

All kinds of reasons have been advanced for deserting the union, but this one, sent to union headquarters recently, is probably a new one:

I hereby hand in my resignation as a member of Typographical Union No. 6. Have concluded that I can not consistently go on with unionism in the light I have as a Christian. See II Corinthians vi:14: "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness, and what communion hath light with darkness?"

To which President Tole replied with a quotation from Joshua, xxiv:13:

"And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat."

The annual sermon to the union will be preached by the Rev. Theodore S. Henderson, one of the union's chaplains, in the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, on Sunday evening, January 8. Commissioner of Labor John Williams is also expected to make an address. President Tole will preside. The Big Six male quartet and Leon Rouse, in baritone solos, will provide music.

A Franklin day celebration will be held at the Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby avenue, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, January 17, the anniversary of Benjamin Franklin, the most famous of American pioneer printers. A program of music, songs and addresses will be rendered. The celebration is given under the auspices of the labor organizations that meet at the lyceum.

The New York Union Printer reappeared with December, after a suspension of about a year. It is to be an eight-page monthly, and is issued by Drew & Lewis, who run a shop at 95 Cliff street. Wilbur F. Hendrickson is its editor. All are active members of the union. The paper sells at 5 cents the copy; 50 cents a year.

The Union Printer announces three candidates in addition to those mentioned in this column last month. They are: For vice-president, Charles Hulbert, Sun; for secretary-treasurer, Joseph Quigley, World; for delegate, Albert Smith, American. Mr. Smith is a member of the executive committee.

Contumelious Wicked Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., who sells a compound of some cereal and asserts that it is a panacea for ills of the digestive organs, and who incidentally manages to work in an ad of the same in the anti-union tirades which are alleged to be paid for by the manufacturers' association, of which he is an official, recently made the mistake to assail a concern which had the ability to strike back, and the result was a

knockout for him in the first round. His longcontinued success in slandering unions and union men emboldened him to tackle the publishers of Collier's Weekly, which has always been fair toward union labor, and he has just been mulcted in heavy damages. Here is the New York Globe's account of the testimony of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure food expert of the national government, who has done so much to circumvent the rascals who have grown wealthy by poisoning food:

Dr. Wiley testified that grape nuts would not have any effect in a case of appendicitis. He added that predigested food weakened those who used it, for the reason that when an organ is relieved of the duty for which nature intended it, it is correspondingly weakened. He thought it dangerous not to use starchy foods. Dr Wiley was sure that one pound of grape nuts did not contain as much nourishment as ten pounds of other foods.

"There is no such thing," he said, "as a food that supplies nourishment to the brain or nerves. If it nourished the nerves it would nourish the big toe just as well."

The cross-examination by Eugene A. Philbin developed that the witness did not officially concern himself with advertisements, but merely with the question of whether the food did or did not comply with the law.

Dr. W. T. Bigelow, assistant to Dr. Wiley, said that the effect of eating grape nuts was about the same as eating bread.

FRED E. MARTIN.

Woman's Auxiliary No. 20 will give its first annual ball at Majestic Hall, 115-125 East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, between Park and Lexington avenues, Monday evening, January 30, 1911. It is the desire of the organization to make this, their initial ball, both a social and financial success, and they ask the hearty co-operation of "Big Six" members in the cause. Mrs. Charles M. Carter, the chairman, is a hustler, and she is being ably assisted in the committee work by Mrs. L. G. Burchell, Mrs. Charles Laux, Mrs. A. H. Bentrup, Mrs. P. Murray and Mrs. W. H. Watson. We consider it safe to promise all who attend a pleasant social evening. Good union music will be furnished for dancing. MRS. J. A. HALL.

GALT, ONTARIO.

The Reformer is putting in a new model No. 5 Canadian-American linotype, displacing the model A machine.

Jack Turnbull, who for the past year has filled the office of financial secretary of No. 411, departs the first of the year for Batavia, N. Y.

The typos are looming large in the bowling game this winter. Jake Lepine and Dinny Kane are with the Manhattans again this season, while "Curley" Wilson and "Lizzie" Hogan are on the Athletics' lineup.

Frank Dorschell was elected president of No. 411 for the tenth consecutive time at the December meeting.

No. 411 has adopted a system of rebate dues. This is the natural result of the persistent nonattendance of a majority of the members. It is not too much to expect a member to devote one evening a month to the advancement of his own

and his fellow craftsmen's interest. Rather than feeling hurt at being fined, the offenders should feel hurt at giving the union cause for having to pass such legislation. Trade unionism, like England, expects every man to do his duty, and his duty does not stop at paying dues.

ARTHUR L. PHILP.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

To the numerous friends who, by letter and in person, insist I lost my seat on the water wagon at Minneapolis, I wish to state I am still on the wagon. I had a thirst while in Minneapolis, but money couldn't buy it-'cause I wasn't broke. The aforesaid thirst was so great that I could have made a fortune by renting it out by the day. N. B. I still have the thirst.

Union labor fared well in the late election. Paul Burns, of No. 177, was elected probate clerk, being the only successful democrat. J. B. Weaver, of the electrical workers' union, was elected county judge. James F. Morris, a miner, was re-elected representative in the general assembly, while Harry W. Wilson, union cigarmaker, was defeated for reelection as representative. The "plumping" system was responsible for Mr. Wilson's downfall.

A committee has been appointed to investigate the cost incident to sending a delegate to San Francisco in 1911. It's a waste of time and trouble. When the time arrives No. 177 will be there with the delegate, regardless of the expense. A little economy now and then will be relished by the prospective delegate, and a small personal sacrifice on his part would help some.

The regular meeting day has been changed from the last to the first Sunday in the month. Meetings are now held in the hall on the sixth floor of the Odd Fellows building. Elevator service proved attractive. The largest attendance in months enjoyed the free ride on the "lift." Spread the news, fellows, and then we will have a 100 per cent attendance.

A movement has been started to organize a union printers' club. Two or three live ones have charge of the arrangements. Those who have enjoyed the courtesies of these clubs in other cities. can appreciate what it would mean to the membership here. Let's make it a success.

Emil Hanschen, late resident of the Home, is ill in St. John's Hospital in this city, and bids fair to be an inmate for the rest of the winter.

The label committee is busy organizing a woman's auxiliary. This, together with the other matters referred to the "label boomers," keeps the committee on the move.

The Record Publishing Company has added another machine to its already large battery of Mergs. This time it is the latest model.

Judging from the vote on proposition No. 1, the executive officers are not competent "journeymen," and will be required to serve another year at apprentice wages. Wonder if a "course in instruction," a submission of demands in writing and a request for arbitration would help?

William Hoffman, one of our popular members,