The San Francisco call., 1897-07-16
MIME OGRAP PHS OF
GOVERNOR BUDD
His ExceIIency Expert
mentS in Amateur
Printing.
Surprising Results Reported
That Vanish Upon In
Vestig alton.
Convict Labor Also Utilized In the
Battle Against the State
Printer.


time ago Governor Budd made positive
recon mendation 10 the various State in
stitutions and com missions that they
procure min eographs and print their own
necessary blanks and reports. The first
10 adopt this recommendation was the
State Commission in Lunacy, which, after
six weeks trial OF the machine has en-
bodied in its report the following stale
ment:
Notices of deaths and discharges to the num-
Der of $500 were sent to the State Hospitals.
Commitment blanks under the new form. ten
pages each, to The number OF 1000, have been
printed on the mimeogreph and partly dis
tri buIed, together with $50 copies OF the
schedules for bidders, 81 pages each; 500
copies of the instructions 10 bidders, Two pages
each, and 800 circulars TO physicians, besides
various other documents, amounting TO be-
tween $4,000 and 1000 impressions. They
have all been worked OF by hand, sheet by
sheet, at cost 10 the State for labor and
material of about $64.
This report, il is claimed, was eagerly
looked forward to by the executive, as 1t
was expected to demonstrats that his
theory of retrenchmeht III State printing
was plausible and that it was practical in
its application. But this same report bids
fair 10 act as q boomerang, and will, with
out doubt, stir up complications addi-
tional to those which have already arisen
owing 10 the Governors action in closing
the State Printing Office. In speaking OF
this clause in the report relating to
mimeograph work as applied TO the work
of the commission, the deputy district or
ganiZer OF he Typogra phical Union, in an
interview, said
81 do not care 10 say that this report is
willful misrepresentation form uIated 10
meet the approval of Governor Budd for
l. Il - l..
meEdation of having the prin ing of State
Institutions performed by mimeogfaph,
but will say that it Is utterly impossible
to BUY ln=open market paper enough to
make 60 600 impressions with the sum
which II Is claimed in the entire la Dor and
material cost. namely, S64. Since the is
suance OF this report we have bean m Az
ing careful inquiry into the matter and
we find that the following supplies for
this mimeograph work have been fur
nished the commission:
81 reams of paper at so cents sl6 20
16 reams OF paper at 81 so, 10 per cent on. -
reams OF paper at 81 80. 10 per cent off,. 13 SO
10 tubes of rnineograph ink k................. 00
quiIes mimeograph sncii .............-... IL rs
SILK snee.S 70
Varnish and bcnz.ne.. is
90 halfsheet cap for mimeog rsph ......... l rs
Iotah h----.........-.. -.......--...........-.$I ~
land as there are but 500 sheets to a
ream ana there being but ftty-four reams
furnished, only 27000 impressions could
have been taken; aud there are at least
1000 sheets imprinted, so the claim that
60 900 were taken is totally erroneous.
We have been given to understand that
TIVE boys-one from Whittier and one
from Ione-were engaged in this work
and that $65 was paid 10 the lads. We
also find that the services of an exper.
were secured to prepare the first copies at
cost of $40. Ii these figures are correct,
the experlment on the mimeograph has
cost $I64 10 for 26 600 Impressions, instead
of $64 Tor go, 200 impressions, with some
thing 10 be deducted for the material on
hand.
st is our intention to ca ii an immediate
meeting of the Typographical Union, in
which the charge OF having State printing
done by convict labor will be fully gone
into, aud we will call upon our sister or
carnations throughout the State to stand
by US in our endeayor TO have an injunc-
tion placed upon the use of the mimeo-
graph in State Institutions
In an interview with ]. T. Carrere Sec
| retary OF the commission. he said: "The
charge that we have used convict labor is
not true. We have had two boys here
one from Whittier, whose term has ex-
pired, and one from lone. We have paid
the lad from Whittier 500 since he has
Deen III tne oIHce, out ne Is EN- ploYed as
an errand boy and also in clerical duties,
and has not nut in all his time on the
| MIN eograph. The other boy we have sent
away. | have always been interested in
fatherless and fricndless boys who have
been committed TO the reform institu-
tions, and have been instrumental in OBJ
taining positions for many of them. |
have made a rough estimate that in the
six weeks we had the mimeograph perhaps
three weeks work on it was done by one
boy at $5per week: SO l claim that the
Ia Dor cost but SIS. Then / often run of
a thousand impressions, as does our clerk,
Mr.. Waymire. My estimate on the cost
of the work was hurried. but am sure
that the cost was nowhere near the figures
claimed by. those who have been inves.
tipatinp the matter -