Denver labor bulletin., 1916-02-26

chine operators. and Glenn Frost and
William Green. hand men. The Union
Printing company incorporated, own
err Of the Morning News, will establish
a new morning paper at Greeley. Colo.
about March !. An agreement has been
reached whereby all printers losing their
situations on the Herald viii b. placed.
either in Boulder or on the new Greeley
pub cation.
John Evans Of No. 20 is at present
employed with Balliuger & Richards in
compiling the Denver city directory Tor
1910. out OF some 800 applicants given
a tryout by the directory people, Evans
Is one Of the % retained The average
printer i versatile chaP-i he only
knew it.
Hank' O'Day i now located on the
Sheridan, Wyo., Enterprise. He writes
that the most popular indoor sport in
that thriving city at this time i about
a nity-fifty proposition between the
"movics- and attending church. Hank
Informs us that J. W. Buck Taylor,
formerly Of Denver and well known in
building trades and union circles. is now
located there and prospering. These
two old labor agitators" attended Epis-
eoIal church services the other evening.
Report has il the speaker WAS interest
ing. the choir good-and the church still
stands
The earnings OF members of No. 30.
reported TO Secretary Birdsall. for
the month of January for the past three
wears follow: 1914, S4I.57O; 1918,
$3.50 1916, s46.66o. 1t would be in
tcresting to know what the amounts
earned by this one organization would
have been had all Denver printing been
executed in Denver
A Salt Lake City correspondent
writes: NO. lis decided by almost
unanimous vote to enforce the new
minimum hour Ton piece scale machines)
and the siN-day situation laws. but have
been baked on the minimum hour law
by a few who profit very largely by
our piece scale. and one proprietor who
has secured the support of the other
two. Conferences have been on for
some time. The story published that
the minimum hour law was in effect is
incorrect, as this is the particular bone
OF contention" In regard to the state
Of trade it is said: I'VE still have
large number of idle men. altho bust
ness Is 10 per cent better than last
year. the earninrs for January tfour
weeksl, according to the secretary's
books. showing an increase of 81 900
over year ago. Out of the men who
have come here in the past six months.
twenty-four are still here. and have de
clared their intention to remain. tho a
large part OF chem are tretting less
than two days a week The new job
scale is now in full force and effect,
without hitch. Jobbers now receive
so per week, the maximum under our
present contract or 81 per week increase
over the old scale
New linotype machines have been or
dered or recently installed in the fol
owing Colorado towns; Fruita. Paonia
Nanassa, Eaton. Fort Morgan and
Greeley. A new intertype has been
placed in the Wyoming Evening Tribune
at Cheyenne, and II No. IA Merg. at Rock
Springs.
The Erie Pa-) Dispatch, the paper on
which Horace Greeley learned the art OF
priting, died a natural death February
/, after serving the people of that state
for nearly a century.
Fire in the laundry at the government
bureau of printing and engraving at
Washington Monday afternoon. accom-
panied by loud explosions, threw many
hundreds OF employees into panic and
spread reports of bomb plot, The
flames broke out in small building. de-