Denver labor bulletin., 1916-06-03

Annual memorial services of Denver
Typographical Union No 40 were held
late Sunday afternoon in Horan hall,
Cleveland place, with large attendance
OF members. their families and friends.
Earlier in the day the graves of departed
members in the Typographical plot at
Riverside cemetery were decorated with
/ flowers by a committee of the union.
The program consisted of musical
numbers and two short addresses. Presi-
dent Frank }. Pulver delivered the open
ing address. He said:
Again are We assembled to pay n
tribute of love and respect to those mem
bers OF our organization who have passed
on. 1t is fitting. perhaps, to say word
III praise OF the labor union that not only
takes keen interest in the welfare of
its members while living, but has adopt
ed this plan of revering their memory
when their labors on this earth are over
1t is q source of some pride to know
that on this day our brethren in nearly
500 local unions are meeting quite as we
are and for the same purpose.
L have no doubt most OF you know of
that magnificent institution at Colorado
Springs-the Union Printers Home
where are domiciled more than 200 of
paired that the reading public may have
its daily newspapers and other litera.
ture. 1t is said of this home-and q
home it really is-that to our members
Its bounty is unpurchasable, its charity
without price" All members are en-
titled to its beneficence.
Denver Union a Pioneer.
For our aged, we have established a
pension system that gives, under certain
conditions, to all Union printers over 60
years of age, pension OF So per week
for the remainder of their lives.
Then, finally, when the Grim Reaper
gathers in one of our own, this Union
has system of mortuary benefits tina,
insures a Christian burial and provides
in way for the widows and orphans
Denver Typographical Union was one
of the first that followed the custom of
observing Memorial day. And in this
connection it might be said that the alb
sence of a uniform burial service was
noticed here. At our last convention n
resolution was adopted providing for II
committee from this Union to prepare
such a service This committee has
completed its duties, and at our conven-
tion in August the result of its delibera-
tions will be presented for ratification.
''To all brothers-whether present OF
absent--we ask that divine blessings
may rest upon them and their loved
ones; to the relatives and friends of de-
parted brethren, we say that our
thoughts on this day go out to them;
We revere their memory and cherish
kindly recollectons of their activities
among u.s."
Neighbours Memorial Address.
w. II. Neeghbor, member of No. 49's
Board of Trustees, and an active member
of the Union, delivered the memorial
address, which was pronounced by all
present one of the most appropriate ever
made on a similar occasion. The ad-
dress follows:
The idealist is the dreamer. Tn,
dreamer is the salt OF the ages. He has
ever been found loIling his favorite
change of conditions. wishing that the
whole world would come to his views,
and that really the benefit to the human
race so universally desired is only to be
found in the plan he has produced from
his own brain and generated from his
own enthusiasm. The dreamer as a rule
is oblivious of the practical side of life,
generally speaking from the position of
narrow circle of affairs, and his con
clusions are lacking in their conception
of the environment in which he or the
l
situated.
''The old saying, to hitch your wagon
to star is euphonious to degree, but
when the hitching is going on it will be
found there is some difference what star
you should happen to select. One star
differs from another in glory, so if the
wagon be connected up with one of the
millions OF stars that only reflect an i'm.
measurable quantity of light, tho wagon
is soon lost sight of, swallowed up in
the maze of surrounding circumstance
current events that are forcing them
selves in on the public mind. If the
dreamer never arouses from his self
complacent. self satisfied position, any
one who undertakes to foist upon public
affairs the dreams of the dreamer finds
out quickly the utter infutility of
changing the surface of things by one
dream.
| Evolution of the Dreamer.
| destroy the dream? Oh, no. Make
way with the dreamer? BY no mean,.
Only take the musings of the enthusiast,
Gull out the chaf that is selfish and
narrow, adapt what is beneficial to
common humanity in it's large sense. and
then seek to show how the whole world
may be counted in on the program. The
international Typographical Union is the
evolution OF the dream and the dreamer.
Not the whole complete organization in
its entirety as it now stands was the
mind of the first dreamer; not the pres
ent circle of its beneficence was thought
of in the earlier days of the forming
period, nor was it in the mind of the
dreamer the many interests that arc
now part Of the woof of the whole.
"Some one saw the vision of better
wages, better conditions, just recog-
milton of the employe as factor in the
development of the printing business