Denver labor bulletin., 1915-09-18

Printers Home concluded its annual
session on Saturday, Sept H. 1t was
in almost continuous session during the
entire week and took up many important
matters in connection with the Home
and it, maintenance and management.
Among other things. the board decided
that the superintendent should dispose
of some of the horses now in use and
purchase an automobile truck for doing
hauling back and forth between the
Home and the city.
As was stated last week, the most i'm
portant matter to come before the board
was the improvements that would be
made providing the referendum voted
favorably upon the additional per capita
tax OF ) cents per month for the ben
eft OF the Home.
Plans for Additional Room
II was decided that as soon as the fl
nance committee ascertained that this
proposition was adopted, providing it re-
ceived favorable vote, that the COM
mittee should make application to the
executive council of the International
Typogrs phical Union for a loan of suf-
ficient funds to start the WORK going
properly and complete the first section
Of the proposed addition to the main
tion OF the work will cost about $780,
600. and the board believed if the Inter
national would advance the money it
could be repaid as soon as the building
WAS completed. In this manner the
money could be procured at lesser rate
of interest than would be necessary to
pay IL borrowed from any other sources.
Many on the Waiting List. \
During the week the board was in ses-
sion something like twenty applications
Were passed upon by the admission com
mite. and the waiting list for admit
tanee 10 the Home is now the largest
that il has been since the inception of
the sanatorium portion Of the institu-
iion.
The board on learning of the death OF
ex-Trustee ". J. White Of San Fran
cisco. Calf. adopted resolutions of con-
dolence to the family. and they were for
warded to Mrs. White by Secretary
Treasurer HAYS.
The action of Superintendent Daley
in carving out the instructions OF the
finance committee in making improve
ments in the main hall. putting wires
| into conduits. repainting the library.
dining room. kitchen and cottage and the
work at present being done on the
walk and the distribution of booklets
and advertising in daily papers was ap-
proved.
Approve Compensation Insurance.
| The action of the superintendent IN
conforming to the laws recently passed
| in C<a2xsdo providing for insurance
under The compensation laws was also
approved
Thereditor of the Typographical Jour
nal WAS requested by the board to pub
lish in the Journal at intervals notice
to members that when visiting the Home
at Colorado Springs they should take
special pains to meet the superintend-
spt and the matron and make them
selves acquainted in order that if any
complaints are to be made they can be
made with full knowledge of the man.
ner in which the institution is being
, conducted.
A number of requests were received
from the various residents in the instr
tuition. but very few complaints We're
brought to the board. There seemed to
be gencral satisfaction with the conduct
of tic Home under the supervision of
Superintendent Daley and Mrs. Daley.
the niatron. Between fifty and sixty of
the residents signed communication
addressed to the board of trustees com
mending very highly the present man
aycment of the Home and thanking the
board for providing people so compe-
tent as those at present in charge
Revoke Enforced Tubercuiin.
A request from Atlanta union that
transportation of one of its members
who had been sent to the Home in such
condition that he could not be admitted
b. returned was denied. owing to the
faci that one Of the rules in the book
of Jules is specific on this point and