Denver labor bulletin., 1917-05-05
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

are ScneQuleC. lISt, port OF me
job scale committee, ~ which S. S.
Summers is chairman. This proposi-
ton will most likely be votel upon
and negotiations at once entered into
with the employing printe-s. Second,
placing in nomination IF candidates
for two l. T. U. delegates and officers
of the local union for the ensuing year,
election to be held We lnesday, May
%. There are likely to be other i'm
portant skirmishes.
A. C. Bennett, aged &c, for eighteen
years a member of D. T. u. No. 49,
died Thursday, April rs, of heart
trouble, at his home in Aurora, having
been an invalid for some time. The
remains were cremated at Riverside,
Sunday afternoon. Deceased leaves
widow, son and daughter, both of the
latter being married. Bennett was
he learned the printers trade and
served as proof reader before leaving
for Canada, later coming to Denver,
where he Joined the union and held
position for a number of years as proof
reader on the Rocky Mountain News
In more recent years he held a similar
position with the Smith Brooks Print
| ing company.
Jack Parker returned this week from
the Matrix company silver mines,
where he has been working for several
weeks. He arrived in town just in
time to fall heir to a long string of
overtimes in the Postsad department.
Mrs. ]. D. Hurd, mother of Greer
H. Hurd, has gone to Lincoln, Neb.,
to visit her sister, and viii later visit
another printer son, Jo Hurd, in st.
Joseph, No.
James ]. (Bobbie) Burns, proof
reader on the News, has sold one of
his ranches in Weld county, near Hud-
son, for 5000 cash and expects to
leave in a day or two for a months
vacation in Galveston, Texas. Texas
papers are requested not TO copy this
item, as Burns wants 70 come back to
Denver with some of his money.
W. n. O'Day, formerly Of Colorado
Springs, Laramie, and elsewhere, has
taken up a permanent location in Den
yer according to his own statement.
Hank" is subbing on the machine side
of the Post. He has a rejuvenated ap-
pearance and continues to quote
poetry.
Joe Rodgers of the Times chapel is
dividing his time ffty-fifty these
spring days between his ranch in
Weld county and the Times ad room,
the latter being necesSsry to the ac-
quirement of farm seed. Visions of
bountiful crops and generous prices
haunt him during both sleeping and
waking hours.
Frank Willard is now enjoying the
indoor sport of chasing commas in the
News proof room during the absence
of Bobbie Burns.
Thomas E. Doty. monotype keyboard
operator. has arrived from Omaha
and fell into steady work at the
Smith Brooks Office.
Work on the city directory at Smith
Brooks has caused the conscription of
several extra men. Wiley, Tingle,
Stovall, Youngblood and Hooley are
additions to the linotype forces.
Mark Tyler has resigned his job as
makeup at Smith Brooks and this
week took position with the Carson
Harper Printing company. Charles
Fay filled the vacancy.
George B. Stovall arrived last week
from Seattle, Spokane and way points.
He at once entered the city directory
Elmer Hooley, who served his ap-
premiership at Smith-Brooks, is now
a full-fedged iourneyman operator.
Frank Graves, who recently grad
uated from an apprenticeship at the
Mcclure Printing company, is now on
the firing line at the Union Printing
company, while Otto F. Thum, super
intendent. is off on a furlough.
No. 49's board of strategy held nu-
merous sessions in Secretary Birdsalls
recruiting quarters this week to dis
cuss and dissect the selective con-
Il t.x-
After much maneuvering a decision
was reached that the regulars on the
Post should be drafted first.
Governor Lowden Of Illinois has ap-
pointed II. L. Williamson. member of
Springfield Typographical Union No.
III. as state superintendent of print
state printer expert during the admin
istration of Governor Deneen.
Thru arbitration Detroit Typograph-
ical Union No. is has raised wages 50
week for its members employed in
ule took effect March Is and the in
crease will date from that time.
A writer in the Chicago Hot Slug,
in commenting upon number of lin
otypists who have enlisted for war
service, says: "Any man who has
battled linotype may be safely pit
ted against regiment of Bavarians."
Sears Roebuck & Co., of Chicago,
employing the largest force of union
printers in that city, last week gave
notice of voluntary wage increase of
10 per cent to those receiving less than
$1,000 per year. This applies to all
employees Of the company, and means
an average boost of $3.50 per week
in the printing department,