Denver labor bulletin., 1917-10-20
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

A referendum vote thruout the i.
T. u. jurisdiction was taken Wednes-
day on four propositions submitted by
the Colorado Springs convention. The
sion funds by fixing 80 cents per month
as the minimum to be paid by each
member. The second amendment pro
poses to increase salaries Of /. T. u.
president and secretary-treasurer to
$4,000 per year by gradual process.
Proposition No. 8, if adopted, will re-
quire Endorsement of $50 local unions
to gain submission to a referendum of
any initiated project. The fourth
subject voted upon has to do with
caring for members who have entered
the war service, paying dues, pension
and mortuary assessments.
A letter was received in Denver this
week announcing the death in Topeka,
Kan. of T. B. Brown, a long time
member of the /. T. u. and known to
hundreds of printers thruout the West.
Brown was a delegate to the l. T. U.
convention in Denver in 1889, which
selected the present site in Colorado
Springs for the Union Printers Home.
For many years he was foreman of
the Kansas state printing Office in
Topeka He attended the recent sill
yer jubilee celebration of the Union
Printers Home. Brown was a life
long friend of A. E. Thorson of the
Denver Times chapel.
T F. Dolan of the Union Printing
Company chapel and Ed. Randall of
the Times have made their last fishing
expedition of the season up Platte
canon. They report fair success, not
withstanding most of the trout have
gone into winter quarters.
George Frey, several years an ac-
tive member of Grand Junction Union.
has moved his family to Denver and
is working in the Post ad department.
Members of the Post chapel and
makeup editors are mourning the de-
parture of the ''two best bank men in
the world" Emil Klunker quit last
week and Raymond B. Arnold handed
in his resignation this week.
Albert Lindquist, mechanical sup
erintendent of the Portland (Ore.)
Telegram. was in Denver this week at
tending the funeral of his father.
Says the si1-day situation law has
just been made effective in Portland
and created fifteen additional situa-
tions on the Telegram.
The Dallas (Texas) correspondent
in the October /. T. U. Journal makes
this important comment: Dallas al
ways leads, even TO going dry first.
On September 10 Dallas county voted
for local option by nearly 1000 ma
jority. This gives Dallas the distinc-
tion of being the largest city in the
United States on a dry basis except
where the whole state went dry. There
were many reasons contributing to
this. among which were these: Dallas
has more real Americans to its size
Cff in hn snI
States; the saloon interests have
sought to control the politics of the
city and state and also the acts of the
trade unions, and many people voted
for prohibition to break up the ring,
even tho they themselves were not
teetotalcrs: many drinking men saw
what whisky had done for them and
voted to get rid of its influence. 1t
will no doubt be surprise to many
but il is believed rs per cent of Dallas
printers voted TO make the county dry.
Whether wet or dry, Dallas will al
ways go forward. Business of all
kinds is good. A hotel just finished
is about as large and as fine as any
in the United States. II is big enough
to furnish convention hall. rooms and
eats for the 1919 convention of the
International Typographical Union,
which will be about the right time for
the boys to get together in Dallas, the
leading city of the leading state in
the world"
Walter NJ. Merrill. an active men,
Der of the Grand Junction Union, was
this week elected grand high priest
of Odd Fellows at the state conven-
ton held in Pueblo.
Clinton CASTOR has resigned his sit
uation in the ad room of the Post to
become connected with the Hover Ad-
vertising Agency.
G. Gus Crawford and Frank V. Tay-
lor have come down from Leadville to
spend the winter with their families
in Denver. Ray Wilson, foreman of
the Herald Democrat is offering n
bonus for printers in the two-mile high
city.
Charles Mcclure, for many years
assistant foreman on the Boulder
News Herald. has decided to locate
permanently in Denver.
A. d. Dunn, formerly of Kansas
City and later of Secretary Birdsall's
chapel. has accepted situation in
Durango. Friends predict within two
months he will join that long list If
printers who "at one time in their
lives worked in Durango"
BOOKBINDERS.
Denver Bookbinders Union No. %
has signed n new three-year wage