Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-01
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Horan hall, 1921 Cleveland place. 1t
is expected the newspaper scale COM
mittee will have something of inter-
est to report. The new scale, recently
adopted but as yet not accepted by
the publishers, becomes operative
January 25, when the existing three.
year contract expires. An increase of
81 per day is being demanded.
Bayard Brooks, who left the News
chapel few months ago for tryout
| in the officers training camp at Fort
week commissioned a second lieuten-
ant of artillery. This will be pleasing
| information to Brooks host Of friends
in Denver printing circles.
Harry Smith of the Post chapel is
| wearing a band on his arm in memory
of his former neighbor, Queen Lii of
Honolulu. While a resident in Homo
lulu a few years ago Harry and LII
dwelt on the same street, just opposite
each other Thus Harry feels the loss
of his one-time fellow townswoman-
The Bulletin is in receipt of a
| Thanksgiving card from II. c. Huber,
president of the Scranton (Pa.) Board
| of Trade. thanking members of the l.
T U. for voting to hold the 1918 con-
vention in the Electric City" The
/ CdTu Is a
a picture of Father Scranton, founder
| of the city, and one of Mr.. Huber,
| standing on either side of one of the
great electric light displays on the
Chamber of Commerce building, with
the word Welcome" over all.
Earl Scheiman is again plying his
trade as a printer, working in the ad
department of the News.
Frank f. Allen, who enlisted in
Denver and was assigned to the First
Field Artillery. Battery d, is quaran-
tined in Schofield barracks, Hawaiian
| Islands. Information comes that
Frank himself is in good health but
| the quarantine was caused by mem
Der of the battery acquiring an infec-
tious disease.
o. NJ. Ethell, makeup on the Post,
has returned from a two weeks visit
in his old home town, Topeka, Kan.
Elvin Candy, an apprentice on the
Post. has taken unto himself a wife.
| The happy event was dated Tuesday,
November 20.
Gus Koester Of the Union Printing
Company chapel is running wild" o
nights attending dances, wearing
| Tuxedo coats and otherwise cutting
clipper capers His wife has gone to
Michigan for visit with her parents.
Leonard Steinberg. son Of Harry P.
Steinberg of the Times chapel, who
enlisted in the navy over year ago,
is now at the Mare Island navy yard,
after year during which he was sta
toned at Manila. He has also spent
some time in Chinese and japanese
ports.
T. W. Mccullough, associate editor
| of the Omaha Bee. and,an active mem
Der of the Typographical union, was
appointed by Secretary McAdoo as
one of nine men from the business and
economic world to act as excess prof
| its advisors. The advisors will be in
session in Washington for several
months.
Fifty-one of the fifty-two Typo
graphical unions in New England are
now affiliated with the New England
| Typographical union. the district or
ganization in that section. A recent
report says: Hartford, Conn, newspa-
per printers were given a voluntary
| increase of 50 per week, beginning
| Nov l. which brings the day scale up
to S26 and the night rate to S29.
Providence. Conn, by the terms of a
contract signed three years ago. gets
an increase this month of 81, making
the scale s25 and S2S.
Fort Collins union is in line with a
new scale. which demands IS per week
increase for hand men-from $50
to S25.
Salt Lake job printers have received
| voluntary increase of 50 per week,
making the scale S2S per week in the
Mormon metropolis.
]. Charles Deus. 922 Lake avenue,
| Pueblo. Colo, secretary of the Inter
| rnnfarorra
reports the demand for printers, hand
and machine, far exceeds the supply.
He has desirable country situations
| listed. and any member of the l. T. U.
| desiring work in the smaller towns is
requested to correspond with him.
Colorado Springs job men have Sc
cured new contract, calling for an
| increase of SO per week from the old
scale of 500. From Oct. last to May
/. 1918, the schedule calls for S24;
May l. 1918, to May l, 1919, S25. No.
50 also has newspaper scale commit
tee drawing up new contract, which
will carry a material increase.
| A. w. Hewitt. for several months
on the machine side of the Post, has
left for Salt Lake City.
The book and job scale committee
of Pueblo union. with the assistance
of l. T. U. Representative Frank J.
Pulver, has reached an agreement
with the employers of that city. The
old scale was s24 per week. The new
scale calls for S25 per week. dating
from Oct 15 last to May 1, 1918; S26
per week from that date to the end of
a four-year contract. Machine oper-
ators to receive the newspaper scale,
plus SO per week for machinist-oper-
ators. Foremen, 50 per week over