The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
Items, General and Personal,
Of Interest TO q. p. q. Workers

| Icing the last apprentice turned out OF
| the pressroom, and says he found very
| few whom he knew there in 1884, the
year he left the Office.
William Fantroy, messenger to the
| foreman Of the pressroom, is developing
| to be a near-rival of Hynes Terry in
his display of diamonds.
Guy McCord, of the monotype section,
| las rendered his resignation, and con-
| templates engaging in the hotel business
| near Union Station. His many friends
wish him every success.
Charles NJ. Robinson and Bob King re-
| turned to the proofroom on Thursday
| morning, having completed the work on
| the Revised Statutes. for which they
| were detailed at the State Department
The friends of NJ. ]. Hoover, a former
employe of the G. P. O., will be pleased
to learn that in the reorganization of
! the personnel of the executive force of
the White House he has received a de-
Cided advancement in compensation from
Sl,400 to $3.50 per annum as chief usher.
Members of the four unions allied with
the boohbinding industry in St. Louis
will, on April l, receive $4,000 in addi-
ton to their regular weekly pay. This
sum will be divided up among the 1000
union men and women members of the
B"okbinders' Union. the Paper Rulers
Union. The Finishers' Union, and the
Bindery Women's Union.
1t represents an increase of Is per cent
in the salary they should have received
for the four months dating from Novem-
i Der l.
On September l the union asked their
employers for an increase in wages. and
made a demand for it to be effective
November l. 1910, when the contract be-
tween the unions and the employers ex
pired. \ general committee from the
four unions acting under the Information
al Brotherhood of Bookbinders took up
tho matter with the employers. When
November l arrived no agreement had
been reached. 1t was agreed that the
workers should continue at their posts
and not strike, and when an agreement
was reached it should date from Novem-
bcr |.
The agreement. which has just been
reached. provides for an average in
crease of 10 per cent. AS the average
wage is about $50 per week, they will
receive on an average of s. per week for
every week since November l, which will
enrich each worker to the extent OF
about $40. and the aggregate will total
about S40,O0O.-St Louis Times.
The subjoined transfers from the docu-
r1cnt section, day, to the document sec
ton, night, took place during the week.
ImPoser Clarence Lewis. Compositors
Thomas L. Wade. Frank V. Capers. Pat
rick A. Rigney, George r. Gray, Thomas
4. DOugherty, Joseph W. Fritz. Clement
c. Hopkins. and Joseph T. Geraci; Skilled
Laborers David c. Serrin, Z. F. Rosen,
and T. G. Brown.
Charles w. Burnett has been trans
ferred from the night proof to his former
position, copy desk, on the night docu-
InenL section.
Sidney J. Marshall and David L. Mack
ley, the first named to be an imposer
and the latter a compositor have been
transferred from the job section to the
document, night.
The following printers have received
temporary appointments and assigned to
the document section, day: Robert F.
Simms Willard F. Peake. William G.
Clarke, and Frank Hayslip.