Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Testimony of Above Experts as Taken
by the Official Stenographers.
Testimony of George D. Loring q
Portland.
Examined by MI. Bakery

Examined by Mr.. Bakery
q. What is you:. business? A
Printer and bookbindar
.. For how many years have you
been engaged in that business? a. You
nhean from the time | started in to
learn the business:
Q. Yes, sir. A. 80 years: I don't
know whether l look it or not
q. SO that you ara experienced in
the art and usage of the art? A. /
think l am.
Q. Is there Il uniform usage in the
printing business in Maine as to the
printers property in and right to
'harSe composition on saved type. for
instance? A. 1t has always been the
custom since l went into the business
that the printer had the right to hold
any type that he saw TT; and if it was
used again. he got full pay for it.
Q. Were you at the beginning of this
session of the Legislature a candidate
for the place Of State binder? A.
was, and came pretty rear getting it.
Q. A little bit nearer and you would
have done it? A. | don't know. |
was so near that l thought could
have gotten IL.
Q. 1t was simply misunderstand-
ing on your part? A. Yes, sir; lack
Of judgment.
q. What do you figure, from you.
practical knowledge of the business
what do you figure 10 be the actual
cost. as near as you can state it. of
book printing per thousand ems, as
Stunning. for instance, that you had no
right tn reuse saved type-fOr ex-
ample? A. 1t is Il pretty hard ques-
ton to answer. there are so many ele-
ments entering into it I can only give
it as an opinion. I think about sixty
five cents actual cost that is. prOvid-
ing that l employ men, and pay them
Il wage of $1,000 per week, which we
have to pay because we are obliged 10
pay OF account Of the Union. 1t makes
no difference Whethe' he is a poor man
or good one. We have to pay him
Just the same because the Union says
we must-we have nothing to say.
Q. That applies to Portland where
you do your business? A. Yes. sir.
Q. Now, in the class Of printing that
is done under the State printing con-
tracts mere is there 4 large proportion
Of the work that has to be done by
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it, And job printing could not be don"
by woE.en, and the table work and the
lifting of the forms, and the press
work, and all that sort Of thing. All
that would have to be zone by men.
Q. And in this where you employ
women in many cases you have to have
man to assist them to dc the lifting?
A. Yes, sir: they could not do the
work Il man could. of course.
q. So large mass of the work done
would have been at more expensive.
rather than at less expensive rates as
between men and women? A. 1t GER
tainly would.
.. The cost of doing plain COM
position per thousand ems is sos you
estimate on The basis of mems price
applies to the same thing that the $.42
IN this state contract applies to. does
II not? A. Yes. sir.
.. In your estimated cost you have
taken into consideration all the ele-
ments. and have carefully studied the
matter: A. Certainly.
.. How about printing ahead? You
understand in general way what 1
mean: state in a general way what
the rule of printers is about that. as to
their rights and benefits. I mean If
you nave to order SO much, say, 500