Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-12
DEMhNDANOTHER HOME FOR SICK
 PRINTERS
So Many Come to Arizona That Generosity of Local Brothers Is Strained to the Breaking Point,

PHoENIX. July 1O.-Phoenix Typo graphical Union No. 352 held meet ing yesterday that is of some general interest, crystallizing a plan that is designed to be of more than local benefit to the members of the union generally and indirectly to Arizona, relieving 1t somewhat of a burden that has been necessarily borne in the past The purpose for which the local union is workingis the building of home somewhere in Arizona. aux Hilary to the Printers Home in Colo rado Springs. Colo, an institution maintained by the International Typo graphical Union.
 The I. T. U. meets next August in Hot Springs, Ark, and the Phoenix union is preparing to send delegate J. A. Ball. having been already cleo ed, whose principal business will be to further the project of an auxiliary home to be located in Arizona. At yesterdays meeting there was adopt ed a long preamble setting forth con- ditions in Arizona, respecting the fra ternity as well as climatic conditions showing the advantages to the sick of branch home here and followed by resolutions for the changing of the constitution of tine I. T. U. so that an additional five cents per month shall be exacted from each member of the union for the mainten- ance 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 SIO,0O0 for the erection of a tent sanitarium somewhere in the ter ! Titory.
 The preamble above referred to in cludes a table giving meteorogical conditions in Benson, Congress, Doug 1 las, Globe. Phoenix and Tucson as compiled from the weather bureau records. This is for the information | of the delegates of the I. T. U. who will want to know the facts before taking action and it is earnestly hop ed that some action favorable to the | project may be taken at once.
 For years past the union printers of Arizona have had to carry a bur. den for obvious reasons even greater in proportion than of most citizens though its nature is the same. To lprotest is useless unless some plan l den is not a legal one, but sentimen tai one, one imposed by the fraternaI obligations of civilization.
 Printers as a class are in the ma ture of things rather more wander ing than most journeymen. The trav cling nature is partly the survival ot a custom Of a generation ago, but Il is not so great as formerly. taking
 the trade as whole. However. il
 offers special hope to the invalid'
 among the fraternity to get to a de
 sirable climate and the result is tha
 very large percentage of the print
 CTS who travel through the south
 west are sick men. The number O
 printers in this sparsely settled coun
 try is not large, wherefore the mum
 ber of sick who appeal to them fo
 help, bound by the obligations of mu tual interest, is approximately large
 The union has no sick benefits, pay
 able weekly, but it is a custom amoni
 the printers to give each other days work when it it needed and l is an impulse with them to see tha they are provided with the necessar ies Of life and attention when sick so that while there is no legal Obli gation on them there are other req
 sons even more binding.
 The situation has become so stren
 uous that the printers of the south west feel that the union as a who'll
 should take some action, which vii
 relieve them and at the same tim
 be the best possible help to the sicl
 men. he home in Colorado Spring
 is maintained for this purpose but
 is filled to overflowing and beside
 the climate there is quite differen
 from Arizona, and there are man
 cases not suitable to that climate tha
 would do much better here. It is bt
 lieved by the local union that thi
 project may be easily carried out am
 is one that should be undertaken a
 once.