Denver labor bulletin., 1917-02-24
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

A meeting of the Denver EX-Dele-
gates Association will be held tomor-
row Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock in Secretary Birdsall.s office,
301 Bank block. All who have attend
ed conventions in the past or hope to
gain this honor in the future are re-
quested to be present. Plans are be-
ing made for entertaining delegates
to the /. T. U. convention and twenty
fifth anniversary of the founding of
the Union Printers Home to be held
in Colorado Springs next August.
Thomas P. McAndries, for many
years machinist on the Denver Post,
resigned this week and left for San
Francisco to accept a position with
the branch office there of the Mergen-
thaler Linotype company.
Charles NJ. Smyth of the Western
Newspaper Union chapel is off duty
entertaining a tunlor on the thumb of
his left hand.
R. D. Gesmer. an old time member
of No. 40, now engaged in the gro
cery business, is reported on the sick
list of the Allied Printing Trades
Union Benefit Association.
John Tierney, secretary to Senator
Shafroth, has written letters to chair
men of the various chapels urging
them to send in their orders for gar
den and flower seeds before the big
supply at Washington is exhausted.
When visiting the Post chapel this
week the writer observed two lists
posted on the bulletin board, upon
which the names of more than fifty
applicants for seeds had been written.
No. 49 has more white collar farmers
than any other similar organization
of men in the United States.
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of No. 49, was married this week to
Miss Mayme A. Valley. The Bulletin
joins host of friends in extending
fluctuations to the bride and groom,
both popular young residents of the
Highlands section of the city.
Barney Slack, former president of
Cheyenne Typographical Union, later
editor of the Wyoming Leader and
now publisher of the Casper Press, is
prominently mentioned for the job of
labor commissioner under the law es-
tablishing this department passed by
recent legislative session in that state.
The position pays $4,000 per year
Barney stands well with everybody
many Colorado friends would be
pleased to learn that he had been
appointed to the position.
L. E. Ericsson. employed on the Re
publican during Perry Barnes regime
and later on the Post, is publishing
the Register at CokevilIe. Wyo., said
to be the distributing point for the
greatest cattle and sheep raising sec
ton in the United States.
Ogden, Utah, has thrown its hat in
the ring as meeting place for the
1919 convention of the l. T. U. A
new municipal auditorium will be
erected the coming season and that
enterprising Mormon city will be in
the market for international conven-
tions in the future. A delegation of
trip TO the Colorado Springs conven-
ton next August.
Typographical Union No. 236 of
Ogden, Utah. has presented a new
scale to newspaper publishers and job
offices in its jurisdiction. The pro-
posed scale calls for a seven-hour day
on newspapers-time hands to receive
might work. as follows: Foremen,
S6.26 per shift; assistant foremen,
S5.T5; journeymen, $3.50; machinists,
S5.75; proofreaders, $3.50. Day scale,
fifty cents per shift less than night
schedule. A piece scale governs ma
chine work, calling for (nights)
agate, II cents per 1000 ems; nom
pareil, II cents; minion, 1Sls cents;
BREWER 15l2 cents. Day piece scale,
one cent less per 1000 ems Job scale
provides for an eight-hour day and
$3.50 per shift for hand men, and
machine operators in job plants shall
receive for eight hours, day work,
$3.50. and night shifts, Sc; foremen in
job offices, not less than So per day.
neutrality-suspicious. are to get so
cents per shift additional for each
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one-half for overtime in all cases.
Apprentices are to receive from 40
per cent of journeyman scale for their
third year up to 75 per cent in the last
six months of their fifth year.