Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-30
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

evening. During this week daily and
nightly conferences have been held be-
tween the newspaper scale committee
and the Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation, at all of which meetings Pres
ident Scott and i. T. U. Representative
Frank J. Pulver have been in attend
ance. At this writing the conferences
are still on and no announcement has
been given out as to the probable out
come of the newspaper scale situa
| tion.
| A copy of Flights and Landings"
paper issued by the aviation corps
of the United States expeditionary
forces in France, came to The Bulle-
/ tin Office this week. 1t contains an
article by Harold Hadley, former re-
porter on the Denver Times and a
nephew of Gene Jordan, a member of
the News chapel. Evidently the boys
in France have plenty of pep" and
their little paper is full of bright and
spicy news such as the censor permits
/ to pass.
NJ. o. Hutter, linotypist on the
Times, motored out to Grassmere,
lake on the Golden interurban route,
one day last week and brought home
ten bass averaging over a pound each.
Thus "Slim" gains the record over all
printer piscatorial competitors for the
first fish story of the season.
Horace Spanogle of the Express il
back on the job after a two weeks
vacation.
The Times chapel has elected an
entire new administrative force. not
because there was any complaint
against past administrators, nor that
the question of salary was further
involved, but for the reason that those
who go out felt that they had been
serving in the trenches long enough
to command furlough. A. E. Thor
sen is now chairman and Frank Ward
secretary of the chapel.
James VI. Lynch, former president
of the ]. T. u, has been re-appointed
a member of the state industrial COM
mission Of New York by Governor
Whitman.
Pneumococci. the prevailing fash
ionable epidemic in Denver, has en-
veloped almost the entire composing
room force Of the Denver News. This
week not less than twenty members Of
the chapel boasted Of being afflicted.
number Of subs to go round and some
Of the germ carriers were compelled
to work and sweat it out.
Fred G. Phillips, munotype operator
at Hoeckel's, left last week for Wilkes
Barre. Pa, for an indefinite stay.
Fred Rhine returned from New Ra-
mey. Colo. last week and is now en-
ployed by the Brock Haffner Press.
Thos. s. Doty was elected chair
man of Smith Brooks chapel to serve
uneHpired term Of Jos. Sieler.
John B. Thomas left last week for
frer sar ~ int Of /.
ance Oil Company, of which he is a
director.
Robert Albrook returned TO work a,
Smith Brooks Wednesday after an i'll
ness dating from December.
Lieutenant Bayard Brooks, with the
American eNpeditionary forces in
France, writes an interesting letter to
Oscar Anderson. At the date of writ
ing he had been in France eight
weeks, and is in fine health. Says
the trip across was pleasant and un-
eventful He SAYS: France, the lit
tie of il which ] have seen. is a Won
derful country, but, of course, badly
upset as result of the war. Living
conditions are quite different to those
at home. the shortage in many things
being a constant reminder of what war
means. For sugar, some of the cafes
inc, a sugar substitute, to sweeten
coffee. BY the way, coffee here is not
made like il is at home. | haven't
tasted a good cup of coffee since leav-
ing the United States. The rules of
the censor forbid us telling where
we've been or where we go, therefore
am not able to write what would in
terest you most When i get back to
Denver | viii take pleasure in telling
the boys of my experience. Please
remember me to any of the boys YOU
may see" Before entering the Off
GERS training camp, Brooks was en-
ployed as machine operator in the
News office.
George W. Ryan, an old-time Denver
printer, now publisher of the Rich
mond tCal) Terminal, makes this apt
statement in recent issue: Enemies
of organized labor should remember
this: That the best fighting qualities
are demonstrated beyond doubt in the
man who stands for his rights Our
army is alive with union men, the
first to enlist, fit physically and men
tally and can beat the Germans any
Jump in the road The U. S. army
has adopted the number system of the
Typographical Union, whose members
are registered from l to $4,000, not
a small army. Ten per cent of the
union printers are now in the service
of Uncle Sam. The Terminal editor
has two boys ut the front, and the old
man may 20 himself"
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