Arizona republican., 1918-02-28
CITY ELECTION
 |S ALMOST OFF
 BY LAUNDERING
Official Printer Fails to
 Finish Great Register; Union Men Come to Aid Make Election Possibility

In spite of the laundering and the holding-up of the city registration. either by incompetency or design, there will be a primary election to- morrow. It looked for time yesterday as if there would nvr be one, and if it had not been for the Phoenix Typo graphical union there would be no election tomorrow, for there would be no great register.
 The first of the copy for the great register was not put into the hands of the city printer until Saturday eve ming. The city printer to whom the printing was given without asking for competitive bids has. only one linotype. To suppose that the work could be done by Friday with that equipment was absurd. It consisted of 5631 names. with columns containing such items as nativity. date of registration, | naturalization and other matters. Five slugs were required to follow instrue- tions for each name. bringing the num- Der of slugs or single lines to nearly thirty thousand.
 The proprietor of the shop was at home ill or the work would not have | been undertaken at that ridiculously late date. It was evident yesterday morning that it would be impossible to finish the printing by Friday. it could probably not be done with that equipment before the end of the week, and an appeal was made for help. The Republican was asked to finish it.
 There was serious obstacle in the way, but it was finally overcome. The work had been begun in a non-union shop. and under the rules of the union no work done in such a shop could be ,,z
 meeting of the executive committee
 of the Typographical union was calico and an agreement was made to waive
 the rules and permit the use of so
 much of the matter as had already
 been set.
 Way Out Is Found Later in the day objection was raised
 by some of the members of the print ing fraternity, who thought that there
 was a way out of the rnuddle that had been created at the city hall without the fracture of a rule that was re-
 garded by the printers as of so much importance. It was finally decided tc help the city out of hole in another way. though it was one that required hard and continuous work, night ana
 day. that the great register may be : ready for distribution tomorrow morn
 
 scribed by the election ordinance. Tht , work was undertaken last night, witt T the superintendent of The Republican 5 job shop in charge. One of the lino. 2 types of The Republican was taken of
 the paper last night for this work ant I machines in practically every otheI t shop in the city were set at work u Those who go to the polls tomorrow will understand that they owe thei . opportunity to vote solely to the unioi s printers of Phoenix
 | Another seemingly insuperable ob !; stacle was encountered. The city's in . structions required that the names O = the Great Register should be set il y ten-point type. It was found tha r there were only six magazines of ten a point in the city. anc that 19 shift = would be required for the work. Tha n seemed to leave it impossible to brin, e out the Great Register; it was DO. e slble, perhaps, to print the names bu g 1t was not possible to assemble tn $ pages and have them ready at tn X, CContinued on Page Two)