Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-14
MAY ADOPT LINOTYPES.
Their Use in the Government Print
 ing Office Seems Probable.

It Is not considered improbable that linotype machines will be intro Iduced i'll the government printing of. ice in the not distant future. This would complete the perfection of me chan1cal equipment for that huge printing plant for i'll all it's other branches labor saving machinery has been installed The subject will be thoroughly investigated next month ny Il subcommittee Of tl1e house com mittee oil appropriations in connec- ton with the consideration of the s,il- dry civil appropriation. bill. Mem bers Of this subcommittee have been giving the subject serious corisidcra- tion with a view to determining whether the introduction of the lino- type machine would facilitate the enorlnous work of the goveriiinent printing office which increases at the rate Of l0 per cent Il year The nc- tiou of the committee will, of course, be based on the investigations already made and tho arguments to bc sub- mitted at the bearing.
 The Washington Typographical ,iii7 ion is outspoken against any proposl- ton looking to the installation of una chimes in the government printing Of flee but in its opposition it stands alone among the typographical unions of the country. It's antagonism took, practical form when. at a meeting held on December 27. q secret commit4 tee Of twenty-five was appointed to fight the proposition in congress, The plan of campaign, it is understood, has been mapped out and will consist of a personal appeal to representatives in congress by the members of this committee. pointing out to them the political risks they would run should they favor the proposition. They will urge that 10 vott, for tho introduction of so great labor saving device as the linotype machine i'll the govern ment printing office would be political suicide, for 1t would antagonize the labor element and result if the siibse- uuert defeat for re-nomination ipi' re- election of. the members so voting. X
 Little capital can be nanHfac- tured out of campaign of intimida- ton. for tho fallacy of the argument is so apparent that it will hardly have the effect desired. Representatives are at all times thoroughly ill touch with the conditions existing in thelr districts, and are aware that 1notNpe machines not only are used n the oI1. fees Of every daily newspaper puD- lished in tho United States with one; exception but that the various typo- graphical unions, having met the ma china question as something lnevl- table. have made machine scales ana entered into contracts with publishers using linotypes This has resulted in the unionizinc of newspaper prints inc offices in various parts of the country, and members of congress feel that under these conditions q vote for the installation of machines that would promote efficiency and decrease cost in the great printing plant could not alienate the labor element, unless that clement should repudiate its own records.
 k The local typographical union will also antagonize the proposition on tlie ground that the linotype machines are not capable of producing tho high standard of work required in the gov ernment printing office. The absurd ity of this contention is apparent when a comparison is made between fhe style of work now turned out III that establishment and that done by T number of printers in the United States. whose reputation for Produee ing the highest class of-worlS is world7 wide, and whose printing is largely done by the linotype machine. They are fn use in various offices through out the country where only the best and most artistic work possible to be done in printing establishment is turned out. The linotype machines have been installed and are doing sat isfactory work N in the. government printing office in Ottawa, Canada, the jnsular printing office at Manila, the Australian government printing of fees and the state printing offices Of majority Of tho states Of the union.
 Washington Dispatch to New York Tribune.