United labor bulletin., 1913-12-06
PRINTING TRADES
TYPOG RAPHICAL.

When the Post chapel held a meet
ing week ago last Monday, at the re-
quest of Foreman George G. McCor.
| mick, to consider an anonymous letter
written to the management, complain
| ing OF conditions in the composing
| room, committee was appointed TO
confer with Messrs. Bonfils and Tam
men on the subject The conference
was held Tuesday evening of this
week and the publishers were told OF
the actual situation and of the griev-
ances that had grown out of the fore
mans unfair and dictatorial attitude
toward men employed in that depart
ment A complete bill of grievances
was made out. The publishers thanked
the committee and assured the mem
bers steps would be taken to correct
the evils complained of. They also
stated this was the first time in the
nineteen years they had been publish
ing the Post that a committee from
the composing room had waited upon
them with department grievance,
and that. therefore. they must have
had good causes upon which to make
complaint. The committees report,
which was perhaps the severest cen.
sure ever given a daily newspaper
foreman in Denver was made at
chapel meeting Wednesday afternoon
and unanimously adopted. A motion
was similarly passed directing the
chairman to present the report in its
entirety to the union next Sunday so
that it may be made part of the Of
ficlal records of tina. organization. The
prediction is freely made that Fore
man Mccormick will soon tender his
resignation. A vote of thanks was ten
dered the conference committee, com
posed of Frank ]. Pulver, chairman:
George A. Mitchell, ]. Wander Perel,
Ernest d. Scheiman and Ed c. Da-
Wis.
A meeting of the Colorado Pioneer
Printers Association was held Tues
day evening at o'clock in the Smith
Brooks composing room to make ar
rargements for the annual banquet
which will be held January 90. The
officers of the association are: Presi
dent, Charles f. Hynes; vice presi-
dents. Angelo Noce. Halsey NJ. Rhoads
Banks Hall, George f. Hosmer. Thorn
Brown; treasurer. Sam S. Landon: his
torian, Judge Wilbur F. Stone: board
of directors. August Koester. John B.
.O'Connell, Sigmund Friedenthal. Byrd
T.. Wilson, B. r. Cogswell, ]. e. Collett,
j. X. Stewart and William Fornhoff
The editor of daily paper at Gary.
Ind, publishes each issue in six Ian
guages: Italian, Bohemian, Croatian.
Polish, Hungarian and English a mix
up Of printers like this ought to sat
isfy most any radical bunch.
Senator Harvey Garman will deliver
The annual eulogy at the memorial
services tomorrow night of Denver
Lodge No. II, B. p. o. E. The exer-
cises will be held in the lodge room at
Elks Home, corner Fourteenth and
California.
Eugene Swan has resigned as fore
man of the News ad room and re-
turned to the machine side. George
Miller is again passing out copy to
the force of ad constructors.
Gus Crawford has been given a
steady sit on the makeup force of
the Times.
Frank Morrison, unanimously re-
elected secretary of the American
Federation of Labor for the sixteenth
time, is a member of Chicago Typo
graphical Union. Some people may
have forgotten this fact.
Regular monthly meeting of Denver
Typographical Union, No. 40, tomor
row afternoon at 2 O'Clock in Horan's
hall Several matters of Importance
70 the members will be up for consid'
GRAFTON.
Tom Egan of the Egan Printing
Company is confined to his home with
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