Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-07-17
PRINTERS WANT A
 HOME IN ARIZONA
Phoenix Typographical Union Planning to Secure Resort in Territory for the Printers in Ill Health--Will Be Ia ken Before Next Convention.

A Phoenix paper has the following to say which will be of interest to mem bers of the printing craft throughout the country:
 Phoenix Typographical Union-No. 352 held meeting yesterday that is of some general interest, crystalizing a plan that is designed to be of more than local benefit to the members of the union generally and indirectly to Ari- zona, relieving it somewhat of burden that has been necessarily borne in the past. The purpose for which the local union is working is the building of a home somewhere in Arizona, auxiliary to the Printers Home in Colorado Springs, Colo, an institution maintained by the International Typographical union.
 The l. T. U. meets next August in Hot Springs, Ark, and the Phoenix union is preparing to send delegate, J. A. Ball having been already elected, whose principal business will be to fur ther the project of an auxiliary home to be located in Arizona. At yester- days meeting there was adopted long preamble setting forth conditions in Arizona, respecting the fraternity as well as climatic conditions, showing the advantages to the sick of a branch home here and followed by resolutions for the changing of the constitution of the l. T. U. so that an additional five cents per month shall be exaeted from each member of the union for the main tenanee of the proposed home. Another resolution to be submitted to the l. T. U. is that within six months there shall be expended an amount not to exceed $10,000 for the erection of a tent sanitarium somewhere in the terri tory.
 The preamble above referred to in cludes table giving meteorological con- ditions in Benson, Congress, Douglas, Globe, Phoenix and Tucson as compiled from the weather bureau records. This is for the information of the delegates of the l. T. U. who will want to know the facts before taking action and it is earnestly hoped that some action favor able to the project may be taken at once.
 For years past the union printers of Arizona have had to carry a burden for obvious reasons even greater in proportion than of most citizens, though it's nature is the same. To protest is useless unless some plan can be offered for relief, for the burden is not legal one but sentimental one, one imposed by the fraternal obligations of civiliza- tion.
 Printers as class are in the nature of things rather more wandering than most journeymen. The travelling nature is partly the survival of a custom of a regeneration ago, but it is not SD great as formerly, taking the trade as whole. However, it offers special hope to the invalids among the fraternity to get to a desirable climate and the re- suit is that very large per cent of the printers who travel through the south west are sick men. The number of printers in this sparsely settled country is not large, wherefore the number of sick who appeal to them for help, bound by the obligation of mutual interest, is proportionately large. The union has no sick benefits, payable weekly, but it is custom among printers to give each other days work when it is needed and it is an impulse with them to see that they are provided with the neces-