The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-21
JAMES N. LYNCH
GUEST OF HONOR
President of international Typo
graphical Union at Com
mercial Club.
BANQUET is RENDERED
BY LOCAL UNION No. 1l5
Several Pleasing and Instruc-
tive Addresses Are Delivered:
Convention in 1911.

The campaign for bringing tho con
vcujion Of the International Typograph-
ical union To Salt Lake City next year
was given start in earnest Wedncs-
dav afternoon when James NJ. Lynch
president of the International. WAS the
guest Of honor at a banquet given in
the Commercial club dining hall II
WAS attended by nearly scvcuty-fve
printers and their guests, and was one
of the most pleasant affairs of the kind
ever given in Salt Lake. The menu
was good, the addresses were happy and
felicitous aud altogether the feeling Of
good fellowship was magifcst TO the
highest degree.
The banquet was given under the
auspices of Salt Lake Typographical
Union No. 10. George Hanson, presi-
dent OF that union, WAS tOastmaster.
The tables were arranged IN ihc form OF
L. signifyiug the name of 'he State,
whose distinguished visitor Mr.. Lynch
WAS. After the banquet Mr.. Lynch
went immediately 10 the Rio Grandc
station, where he boarded tho train for
Denver aud Colorado Springs. Al the
last named place he Will inspect the
Union Printers home, IN institution in
which every printer takes a pardonablc
pride The speakers AT the banquet
wcrc Judge C.. &. Goodwin. General r.
G.. Sleaier. President Lynch, Dr.. A. c.
Bchlc. III w bennett of the local typo.
graphical union, and Joseph T.. Caine.
acting secretary Of The Commercial club.
The guests of honor were President
Lynch, w j. Tlaloran president of
the Commercial club; George :. Meal
lister, president of the Manufacturers
Association of Utah; ]. l.. Pcrkes, sec
retary OF the Salt Lake Real Estate as
sociation; DR.. 4. G. Bchlc and Joseph
l.. talne, acting secretary of the Com
mcrcial club.
First Speaker,
Judge Goodwin was the first speaker.
He was In D HAPPY mood, and related
many amusing incidents in his rccollcc-
tion. The Judge told humorous stories
about his personal experiences with
printers. good aud bad. In the old days
of journalism in Nevada. with which
Judge Goodwin was Identified. no end
Of unusual happenings arose ali of
III Judge Goodwin : mind to he drawn
upon when occasion presents itself, such
rs Wednesday 5 banquet offered
Judge Goodwin was followed by Gen
oIal i. G.. Slcatcr, a veteran in ;he
printing business. General Slcatcr was
down to talk ON "rhc Employing Print
crs, - lie told of the pioneer days Of
the craft in this section. how, when hc
came FIRST 10 Salt Lake there was only
one small office here, and how he, in
discouragcment, went away TO Calitor-
MIA. After his term OF enlistment in
lbe war Of the states expired, General
Slcator again ''tacklcdii the Utah
field and was III" founder of thc Provo
Canyon Times. He related tho hard ships
that were encountered by that ncwspa
per, and others. He spoke Of the first
printers union in Salt Lake, then
known as printers society. Brigham
Toung was its president \ few years
later No. ll5 was organized, and Gen.
cral Sleatcr was frequently bouorcd
with office, He was ono of those who
was concerned in thc establishment of
the printers home in Colorado Springs.
Then alnOWn as the Chilhs- DrcXcl homo.