Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-15
LIST OF DOCUMENTS
SUPERINTENDENT AT BIG PRINT
cry HAS COLLECTION.
Job Room Busy-Want Square Deal''
on Leave-Notes Of the
Establishment.

It Is said at the government printing
office that II the people OF the United
States understood the value of government
publications there would be no trouble
about the accumulation OF surplus volumes
The price list of the superintendent of pup
lis document contains the names OF
nearly 5000 publications which can be hao
at prices ranging from cents to 81 the
range being principally in relation to the
variety of binding. OF interest to residents
OF the District are volumes in the super
intendents list relating to local matters
embracing practically all subjects brought
up for legislative action.
The Job room of the government printing
office is the busiest division of the big
plant outside of the night forces, and this
rush will continue, It is said, until about
the first Of June.
1t is expected that some changes VIII
soon be made in the disposition OF the job
room force, and the probabilities are that
it will be placed on the Jackson alley side
of the seventh floor, some Encouragement
Of the job press room being necessitated.
One department of the big printery
which has not been fully equipped with
modern machinery is the blacksmith shop.
Considerable interest is taken by en-
ployes of the government printing office
In the amendment to one of the appropla-
ton bills granting them the same number
of days leave OF absence are enjoyed by the
executive department dorkers. Under the
law the controller has decided that print
ing office employees are entitled TO only
twenty-siX working days vacation with
pay per year, being paid by the hour. Gov
eminent printing office workers lose every
Sunday in the period in which leave is
taken. and also any holiday which may
intervene.
Source of Complaint.
A source of complaint from workers at
the printery since the occupation of the
new building has been the narrow space
between the wash basins and the towel
racks in the toilet rooms. At noon and
evening it is almost impossible 1t Is said,
to get through the crowd, but the chief
engineer is accredited with the statement
that the towel racks were placed in their
present position on account OF iron beams
under the flooring to which they are
cured, and that It is Impractical to place
them at greater distance from the wash
bowls.
An employe Of the office who has been
continuously connected with the job room
since the establishment of the government
printery in the early COS Is Mr n Wat
klns proofreader. Mr. Watkins was en-
ployed by the firm doing the contract work
when il was brought under government
control and helped to clean up the last
job and the office when the transfer was
made.
The announcement of Mr.. John r. Berg,
president of Columbia Typographical
Union. that he soliCIts the office of dele
gate to represent the local at the interna-
tional convention 10 be held late in the
summer clears the field for the presidency.
The Year Book of the Department of Ag-
riCulture is expected at the office in about
thirty days and it will not take the COM
posing divisions long to put 1t in type and
send to the press room, and then the long
runs will begin. The bindery will be kept
busy handling the large number OF copies
required.
Considerable amusement is created at
the big prntery 10y occasional references to
government employees who have been COM
mended for not taking all their annual
leave Government printing office workers
consider II vacation given them by Con
gress that they may be refreshed FOR an
uther year Of toll, and the authorities en-
courage this impression by informing each
employee by means Of the bi-weekly pay
rolls how many days leave is yet due them.
For the first time since their inrroduc-
ton the typesetting machines have not
been running 10 their maximum capacities
the past week. The Mergenthaler opera
tors have been off and on" the machines
and the case, and the Lanston keyboard
men of the fifth division have been given a
stretch of hand composition to keep
them busy.
Mr.. a. p. Beatty Of the first division
has been on the sick list for several weeks.
Mr.. c. c. Conlee Of the night force has
resigned.