Denver labor bulletin., 1917-07-21
NORTHCLIFFE IS
INVITED TO TALK
AT TYPOS MEET
PLANS FOR BIG I. T. u.
CONVENTION.
Governor julius C. Gunter to Speak
at Home Celebration; Intermoun-
tain Typographical Conference
Sunday, August IL, 1917.
(special Correspondence.)


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July
1.-THE local entertainment commit
tee of Typographical Union No. 80 has
about completed its plans for the en-
tertainment of delegates and visitors
to the sixty-third convention of the
1. T. U. in this city August 1918.
Among others invited to address the
convention is Lord Northcliffe, at pres
ent in the United States on an i'm
portant mission for the British gov
ernment. At one time the gentleman
was compositor and is now publisher
of the London Times and other Eng
lish newspapers and one of the largest
employers of the membership of the
London Society of Compositors. His
final acceptance of the invitation is
expected this week.
Governor julius C. Gunter has been
invited to make an address at the
Union Printers Home on Wednesday.
The official party, consisting of the
national officers and the laws commit
on August 6. The delegates will be-
gin to arrive on August 10 and II and
Saturday will be registration day, the
Acacia hotel having been selected as
the official headquarters. Here the
delegates will receive the souvenirs,
badges and entertainment coupon
books.
On Saturday night, August II,
there will be big get-together meet
ing for delegates and visitors at the
Temple theater.
Day." when the two daily newspapers
will cooperate with the arrangements
committee in giving the guests an au-
tomobile trip around the city and thru
the Garden of the Gods and Manitou.
The business sessions will open on
Monday morning, August 13, when
there will be music and addresses. At
the afternoon session Monday various
prominent members of allied crafts
will be asked by President Marsden
G. Scott to make speeches. Tuesday,
August Ia, will be Colorado Springs
day and the entertainment feature will
over the Colorado Midland
Union Printers Home Day, Wednes-
day, commemorative of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the dedication of
the Home, will be featured by big
barbecue and other entertainment at
the Home, when the visitors will have
a chance to inspect the workings of
the institution of which they all are
so justly proud.
Monday and Wednesday nights spe-
cial dances for the delegates will be
given in Stratton park pavilion.
The remainder of the week will be
spent in business sessions of great i'm
portance. These will run thru Satur-
day when the closing session will be
held
Many of the delegates will remain
in Colorado Springs for several days
and others will go to Denver on Aug
ust 10 to attend an entertainment to be
given there by the Denver Ex-Dele-
gates Association. Many of those who
go to Denver will return here following
the entertainment there.
The committee is now completing
it's work on the souvenir, the official
publication of the convention, which
will be one of the most elaborate ever
published for any convention of the
I. T. U.
President Frank J. Pulver of Den
yer and Secretary-Treasurer ]. Chas.
Deus of Pueblo met here Sunday with
w. Reilly, first vice president of the
Intermountain Typographical Confer
ence. The program for the annual
meeting of the conference here Sun
day, August ~, was practically ar
ranged, and includes business ses-
sion at a. m. at No. 82's headquar-
ltiS, ENI---- nag builtiiS, lc-
jon and Kiowa streets, an adjournment
at IL: 80 to participate in an automo-
bile drive about the city; reconvening
at p. M, at Eagles hall, where ad-
dresses will be made by President
M. G. Scott, Vice-P President Walter
Barrett, Secretary J. w. Hays and
visitors prominent in district confer
ence work in other sections of the
country.