Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-17
PRINTING OFFICE.

The various chapels in the govern
ment printing office and the chapels In
the offices of the daily press and book
and Job shops In the city voted We'd
nesday for four proposed amendments
to the laws of the International Typo
graphical Union. Voting on the amend
ments also took place at the same time
in all cities under the jurisdiction OF
the 1. T. u In this city the first prop
osition, to increase the per capita tax
S cents per month for the purpose of
extending the Union Printers Home and
for the support thereof at Colorado
Springs. Col. received vote of 461 for
and SIS against. If this amendment Is
adopted the home fund will get 90 cents
of the total per capita tax instead OF
Is cents, as under the present law, and
members will pay As cents per month
as per capita tax, cents as subscrip-
ton to the journal and L per cent on
earnings as the pension and mortuary
assessments. and it will make possible
an extension of the home SO that
larger number of members can be cared
for than is possible at present The sec
ond proposition. to provide for the cleo
ton of one delegate to the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada, received 563
votes, with AIS against; the third prop
oSition, to increase the executive coun-
Gil from three to five members by max
ing the first and third vice presidents
members of that body, 622 for and 440
against; fourth proposition. to add to
the priority law a proviso giving local
unions the right to make such regula-
tions governing the filling of situations
and the disposal of extra work as Is
deemed necessary to meet local condi-
tions, received 646 votes. with 413
against. AS it will require some time
IN n ia In
the various cities, it will probably be
more than a week before the general
result will be known.
Announcement cards have been re-
ceived by printer friends here of the
marriage the evening of October IA, at
the residence of the brides parents. in
Baltimore, of DIR. Furmidge King Mich
OILS and Miss Helen Marienne Spangler.
The groom. who is the eldest son of
George P. Nichols, member of the board
of directors of the Union Printers
Home. is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
University and member of the Medi-
cal Reserve Corps.
finishing section of the bindery left
Monday for Springfield, ILL.,. where he
will spend months vacation, and in
cidentally cast his vote at the Novem-
Der election.
Miss May D. White of the day proof
room has been granted a months leave
of absence, and left Thursday to spend
her vacation with relatives in her
former home, Jewell, Kan.
The regular monthly meeting of CO.
lumbia Typographical Union will be
typographical Temple. Among other
business there are two applications for
full membership, one for re-instate-
ment and one for apprentice member
ship.
Frank c. Colville. Aaron Goodloe and
Samuel G. Bullock of the electrical sec
tion are taking part of their annual
leave.
Uriel c. Hays of the monotype key
board room has been acting instructor
OF the monotype school during the abb
sence of Charles NJ. O'Connell, who at
tended the worlds series base ball
games.
Miss Ida Van Arsdale has returned to
duty In the press division, after serv-
ing a detail of several days at the
State. War and Navy branch.
Copy Editor Joseph E. Cotton of the
day proofroom and Mrs. Cotton left last
night for New Orleans. La. where they
have been called by the serious illness
of Mrs. Colton's sister
Howard J. Gaylor and Harry W. lei
gler of the night proofroom are on
brief vacations. the former going to
Albany, n. Y, and the latter to Brook
1yn, n. Y.
Leonard F. Butsch of the monotype
keyboard room left today for Roanoke,
Va, where he will spend a week.
ment (hand) section. was among those
who took in the Philadelphia Boston
worlds series games in Boston.
Frank B. Cowden of the specifications
proofroom left today for a three-week
visit in northern New York.
Reviser Vincent F. Howard of the day
proofroom is filling the position of form
reviser in the document (hand) section
during the absence of NJ. ]. Hess, who
is visiting his home in Illinois.
DIR. William ]. Manning, medical Of
f1cer, reports the following more i'm
portant injuries that were received in
the line of duty during the past week:
Percy c. Elicit, seventeen years of age,
messenger boy, division of public docu-
ments, both hands and forearms crush
ed and lacerated, as the result of at
tempting to guide a misplaced one
inch cable into it's slotted position upon
a moving elevator cable drum; John c.
Paul, hfty-one years of age, folding
machlne operator, pamphlet binding
section. crushed and lacerated wound
of second finger. right hand, as the re-
suit of the finger being caught in the
mechanism of folding machine; Robert
Williams tcolored), thirty-three years
OF age. unskilled laborer. buildings di-
vision, severe confusion of left instep,
the result of heavy piece of ma
chfnery that he was moving falling
upon the foot: Howard I. Jones Color
ED. thirty-five years of age. skilled
laborer. press division, laceration of
right eyeball. as the result of flying
sheet of paper cutting the cornea while
he was depoSlting ream of paper on
feed board of press: Katherine v. Tay-
Tor, press feeder, night press division,
severe confusion of dorsal surface of
right hand. the hand being caught in
the mechanism of a job printing press;
John H. Gattis (colored), thirty-fiva
years of age, unskil1ed laborer, en-
gineer division, who suffered a partial
fracture of his spine February S, as the
result of a fall backward from ladder
over the edge of an iron wheelbarrow,
has resumed his duties, and was as
signed by Supt. Chisholm to light work
in the pamphlet binding section.
editorial section o. the day proofroom the
past week William w. Frye, Joseph w
Mccain and John D. Lyon were detailed
to that section.
George Terwilliger, inposer in the doe
ument (hand) section, left yesterday on
a nineteen-day vacation. which he will
spend in Poughkeepsie, n. Y.