Denver labor bulletin., 1917-12-08
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

| typographical Union NO. was
largely attended, as usual
One new member, Lena NJ. Scroggs,
was initiated.
The newspaper scale committee re-
ported progress, and was authorized
to continue negotiations with the pub
fishers, as the existing three-year
contract does not expire until Janu-
ary %.
A communication was read from
the joint committee Of the Letter Car
riers and Postal Clerks Association,
requesting endorsement of their drive
in Congress for a wage increase. This
| secretary instructed to officially noti-
fly Colorado senators and congressman
to this effect.
A proposed amendment to the local
laws which would cancel all accumu-
lated overtime at the end of each
month was defeated.
During November there were six
teen travelling cards deposited and
| twelve received. Total membership
of the union at the close of the month
was 527.
From the per cent defense fund
assessment there is now on hand
s4,53O.61.
The union voted to purchase IS
worth of Christmas Red Cross seals.
Fred Girton, former member of No.
49, whose parents reside here, was a
visitor in Denver this week and called
at The Bulletin office in his brand new
| lieutenant uniform. He came up from
| Florida, where he gained his commits
sion last week in an officers training
camp. Fred's friends feel proud that
he made good in a camp full of college
graduates, thus establishing that an /.
T. u. member can compete success
fully with all comers. Fred expects
to leave in a few days for service in
France.
| Four young members of Denver
| Typographical Union No. 49 this week
enlisted for service in the Technical
Engineering Corps as linotype opera
tors with the army headquarters.
This quintet of union printers con-
sists of Vice President Leo Cuth-
bertson of the Carson & Harper
! chapel, Cydric c. Adair and c. W.
| Gilmore Of the Western Newspaper
Union Chapel, and F. R. Mccarthy Of
the Post Chapel. They passed the
preliminary examination successfully,
and are now at Fort Logan, ready to
be transferred either 10 France or to
an encampment somewhere in Ameri-
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lishment Of considerable size is being
shipped to France. which will do the
printing for the great American army
being modified
Allen c. Phelps, member of No. 40,
recently commissioned at Fortress
Monroe. Va, lieutenant in the Unit
ed States army, was married Sunday
at Fort Morgan, Colo, TO Miss Esther
Warner. Both are graduates of the
Colorado University. They will leave
next week for San Antonio, Texas,
where Lieutenant Phelps is ordered to
report December Is. He has been as
signed to the aviation corps. Phelps
was reading clerk of the State Senate
during the last regular and special
session.
B. v Bedell. master mechanic OF
the Brooklyn linotype factory, was in
Denver for few hours one day this
week, en- route to California to spend
vacation. NJ. H Ropkey, Colorado
representative of the company. took
the visitor for tour of the mountain
parks. Then Bedell said if he hadn',
paid for round trip ticket to Frisco
he would stop in Denver for an indefi-
mite period Your climate, scenery
and hospitality sure are captivating
he kept repeating as he hustled &c
catch a train.
Ben and Charles Radford have pur-
chased the Lafayette Leader. and
took charge last week. These broth
ers are members of the Typographical
Union They ought to make a sue
cess of their new venture.
]. Albert Robinson. makeup and
small ad linotyper on the Post for
some time past, is now going to con-
meet with a real job" Next Monday
he becomes foreman of the Union
Printing Company.
Miss Hortense Tamplin, sister OF
Ben Tamplin, of the Post, has returned
after three months visit with rela-
tives and friends in Iowa and South
Dakota.
Mrs. C. r. Breidenstein, wife of the
well known makeup on the Times
was operated upon Tuesday at st
Joseph's Hospital for appendicitis
Attending physicians report that she
has passed the crisis and is now on
the way to complete recovery.
A. w. Thompson of Sterling Typo
graphical Union was in Denver one
day this week. giving the big print
shops the once over. He carried away
some big ideas.
Roy Young of Pueblo was visitor
in Denver and called to give The Bull
letin office the once over, pronouncinI
it O. X. For fifteen years he conducted
linotype plant for trade work in Pu-
eblo. but sold out n year ago and has
been absorbing some of the joy OF
real living.
Clifford II. Smith, makeup on the
Post. was able to return to work this
week. after wrestling with an attack
of rheumatism. Cliffs son, c. NJ