Evening star., 1915-07-25

of work to be handled, will be COM
PEELED to leave Tuesday for Indianap-
oils. where he will join the I. T. U.
officers in their journey to the coast.
The Washington party will cover
more than 1000 miles in the journey
to the coast and return, including the
| side trips. requiring about thirty days
| in all.
| Among the propositions to come be-
| fore the convention in which the rep
| resentatives of Columbia Topographic
| cal Union will be especially interested
| is one having for its purpose the en-
| larging of the Union Printers Home
may be more readily admitted, and one
proposing an increase in the old-age
| pension.
Local Old-Age Pension Roll.
The local union has on it's old-age
pension roll more than seventy men
| to whom is paid SIS per week, while
| every member who has been connected
| with the international body for five
years or more is protected by a mortu-
| airy benefit of $500, with 500 addi-
| tiona1 in case he has been connected
with the local continuously for one
year During each year approximately
| $25,000 is paid into this city on ac-
| count of these benefits. The system
of financial benefits is further aug
| mented by the Union Printers Home,
where sick and incapacitated members
are cared for. At the present time Co
| lumbia Union has two members in this
| institution.
| One of the most important commit
tees of the local union is the commit
tee on prevention of tuberculosis,
made up almost wholly of physicians,
which looks after the sanitary condi-
| tions in printing offices. The efforts
| of this committee have resulted In
| many improvements being made for
| the welfare of the members of the
union, until at the present time but
few esta blishments have failed to
profit by the suggestions offered by
this committee. Legislation looking to
the piping of typesetting machines in
ord, to carry of gases and fumes in
all printing Offices in the District of
Columbia, which failed for lack of con-
sideration at the last session of Con-
gress, will be urged by the committee
at the coming session.
Is Native of Virginia.
Charles P. Johnson. chairman of the
delegation from No. 101 to the 1. T. U.
convention. was born in Virginia May
20, 1870, and served his apprenticeship
at the printing trade in offices in Vir
ginia. Coming to Washington in 1897.
he evinced lively interest in the af-
fairs of Columbia Typographical Union,
serving on various committees. the
most important of which was the COM
mittee negotiating a new scale with
the newspapers of this city in 1912, the
result being a substantial increase. The
last election of the union marked the
first effort of Mr.. Johnson for an cleo
tive Office.
F. c. Roberts learned the printing
trade in Savannah, Ga, and became
charter member of Savannah Typo
graphical Union, representing the
Savannah local in the boston conven-
tion of the l. T. U. in 1891. He received
an appointment in the government
printing office in 1895, where he has
been employed ever since. with the
exception of short intervals. Mr.. Rob-
erts assisted in the formation of the
Central Labor Union of this city; was
elected a delegate from No. 101 to the
l. T. U. convention held in Colorado
Springs in 1906; elected president of
Columbia Union in 1911 and reelected
in 1912; in the 1. T. U. election Of 1912
was elected agent of the Union Print
ers' Home. He is well known among
the union men of the country, having
Travelled as organizer for the American