Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-22
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

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Union No. 40 with a most appropri-
ate Christmas gift. 1t is large
Service Flag, bearing nineteen blue
stars, one for each member of the
union now in the war service. The
stars are so arranged that others may
be added without marring the typo
graphical effect. The flag will be
hung out from the union office in the
Bank block at Seventeenth and Arap-
ahoe streets.
Monday evening in the Garden room
of the Metropole hotel the first BAN
ouet of the newly-organized Denver
Typothetae and Ben Franklin club
was held under most favorable aus
pices Fifty of the leading employing
commercial printers were present, and
it was announced that thlrty-elght
firms had signed the charter member
ship. paid initiation fee and dues. Or
Vile Smith of the Smith-Brooks COM
pany acted as toastmaster to an ex-
ceptionallv fine feast Of eats and ora
tory. Harry S. Stuff, known to the
bows as Hot Stuff" made the prelim-
mary Grafton, in which he paid high
compliment to Denver and Denver
printers. Hot Stuff is the Western
! field secretary for the United Ty-
pothetae of America and II was MAIN
! " due to his efforts that the Denver
branch is now fixed institution. The
main speech of the evening. however,
was made by Henry Allen of Chicago,
who has accepted the position of man
ager for the Denver branch Notwith-
standing the handicap Of having one
hand in a "sling," due TO a broken arm
received in fall. the newcomer per-
I formed nobly and made an instantan-
cons hit with the employers present.
Manager Allen was formerly national
secretary of the Ben Franklin Clubs
of America. Offices of the Denver
Tvpothetae have been opened in rooms
| 42O. 42l and 422 Chamber of Com
merce building. The main purpose of
the organization is to place the COM
mercial industry of Denver upon
more stable basis.
Frank Harris Harvey, formerly en-
ploved on The Bulletin and later in
the ad room Of the Pos. enlisted with
the technical engineerinr corps of the
United States army las- week and IS
now somewhere among the rhrong OF
10000 volunteers out al Fort Logan.
Sometimes when old staEers get
into a provincial villaEa they expose
their hand Hear this from the Salt
Lake City correspondent in the De
cember Typographical Journal: vii
liam A Collins, copy chopper on the
Denver Post. has been enjoying slN
weeks vacation in Salt Lake. the
guest of his son, grandson and great
grandson. Mr.. Collins is an old timer
at the printing business. having
worked on Bill Nye's Laramie tWyol
Boomerang before the Civil war.
Anv comment on this tribute would
be brutal.
A. II. Lee. former secretary
urer of the Trinidad Union and of later
years employed in oklahoma City,
now has a "for work ign up on the
machine slipboard at the Post.
Lou Morrell, appea-ing this week
as one of the leads " tn Potash and
Perlmutter in Society," is an old-time
Chicago printer an brother of Fred
Kasdorf on the editorial staff of the
Post "Morrell' is q stage cognomen,
his real name being Louis hasdorf.
He gave himself the name of Lou
Morrell for stage purposes when he
first begun amateurIng theatricals in
Chicago suburbs rs a camouflaCe to
avoid kidding Of his shopmates. Since
then Lou has made a decided success
on the legitimate stage. Some wears
ago he made a big hit as the China
man in "The King of the Opium
Ring" He was an expert art job
printer when working at the trade,
and continues to have fOndness for
the craft.
Somewhere on the Pacific Coast,
Katherine Williamson, the perambu-
lating plute printer. will receive a
Christmas card signed by those whom
she loosely. lovingly and sweetly re-
fers to as "the five old spavs of Den
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lett, Frank J. Pulyer, August Rooster
and Clint c. Houston.
Raw b. Arnold. who recently re-
signed his job in the Post .composing;
room. has entered the publicity field
on his own account by opening the
/ Arnold Advertising Agency, with of
fices in the Boston building.
/ France has n number of newspapers
which have passed their hundredth
wear of publication. The Journal de
/ Havre is 166 years old. the Journal de
/ Rouen 156 wears. the Journal du Cher
Ills years, L'Echo de Ia Mayenne 105
wears, the Progress de rOise 10l
wears, and the Journal du Loiret has
just celebrated its centennial.
The Chicago Tribune publishes n
daily "army edition in France. for
circulation among the American
/ troops.
According to late statistics. the
number of organizations in Great
Britain representing the printing,
/ bookbnding and allied trades is &c,
with n membership of 92,509.
Clarence W. Rhodes. former presi-
dent of No. 40, lately of Honolulu and
San Francisco, is now holding a situ-
alton on the proof desk in the Salt
Lake Tribune.
] Inn,ns L Enr..r,- for r,nnr ynnrs