Arizona republican., 1907-07-08
AN AUXILIARY HOME
 FOR UNION PRINTERS
Project Conceived by Members of Phoenix Typographical Union Will he Presented to the |. r. U.

Phoenix Typographical Union No. g52 held a meeting yesterday that is
 ,f some general interest, crystallizing a plan that is designed to be of more -han local benefit to the members of the union generally and indirectly to Arizona. relieving it somewhat of a 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, aux Hilary to the Printers Home in Colo rado Springs. an institution maintained bv the International Typographical Union.
 The I. T. L. meets next August in Hot Springs, Ark. and the Phoenix union is preparing to send a delegate, J. A. Ball having been already elected. whose principal business will be to further the project of an auxiliary home 10 be located in Arizona At yester- days meeting there was adopted a long preamble setting forth conditions in Arizona respecting the fraternity 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 the l. T U. so that an additional five cents per month shall be eXacted from each member of the union for the maintaiDance of the proposed home. Another resolution to be submitted to the l. T. L. is that within six months there shall be expended an amount not to exceed s10.000 for the erection of a tent sanitarium, somewhere in the ter ritory.
 The preamble above referred to in cludes table giving meteorological con- ditions in Benson. Congress, Douglas, Globe, Phoenix and Tucson, as com piled from the weather bureau rec Ords. This is for the information of the delegates of the I. T. |. who will want to know the facts before talk ing action and it is earnestly hoped 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 burden for obvious reasons even greater in proportion than that of most citizens. though its nature is the same. To pro- test is useless unless some plan can be offered for relief. for the burden is not a legal one. but a sentimental one. one lIllpOStO DN tIe tions of civilization.
 Printers as a class are in the nature Of things rather more wandering than most journeymen. The travelling nature is partly the survival of a custom of generation ago. but it is not so 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 a very large percentage of the printers who travel through the southwest 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 obligations of mutu- al interest, is proportionately quite large. The union has no sick benefits, payable weekly, but it is a custom among the printers to give each other a days work when it is needed and it is an impulse with them to see that they are provided with the necessaries of life and attention when sick. so that while there is no legal obligation on them. there are other reasons even more binding.
 The situation has become so stren- uous that the printers of the southwest feel that the union as a whole should take some action which will relieve them and at the same time be the best possible help to the sick men. The home in Colorado Springs is maintain ed for this purpose but it is filled to overflowing and beside the climate there is quite different from Arizona,