Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-07-06
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

Regular monthly meeting of D. T.
| u. No. AZ tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock in Koran hall, 1921 Cleveland
place. The new president, Clark B.
| Hicks, will be pleased to have you
come with smile. Doorkeeper Alon-
| 20 Wiley continues on the job as
usual and will hand out rebate checks
to all who show proper credentials
and enter.
John W. Heating of the Times
| chapel and wife departed this week
for their annual six weeks summer
outing at the foot of Pixies Peak.
Get this one: On the other hand,
| the new general secretary of the Y.
! NJ. c. A. at Pontiac, Ill, A. Lohr Case,
| is not a printer So Avon's distin-
guished citizen was half right.
The Los Angeles Morning Tribune,
one of the papers owned by the Edwin
Earl interests, suspended publication
with Thursdays edition. A state
ment made by the owner was to the
effect that the demise was due to
war economies, and that the paper
might be resurrected after the war is
over. Several former Denver typos
held situations on the Tribune, and
among them Dave Coleman and
James A. Conkle, the latter being
! chairman of the chapel.
Al S. Andrew, delegate from Pueblo
| Typographical Union No. IT'S, has
been named by President Scott as a
| member of the laws committee at the
Scranton l. T. U. convention next
month. This committee meets week
in advance of the opening session to
consider proposed changes in the l.
T. U. laws.
The will of the late James Gordon
Bennett, owner and publisher of the
New York Herald, who died recently
in France, was filed in New York
City this week 1t creates a corpor-
alton to be known as the James Cor
don Bennett Memorial Home for New
York Journalists in memory of the
decedent's father. This corporation
will provide and maintain a home for
and give pecuniary aid TO newspaper
men connected with newspapers pub
lished in New York City. This asso-
citation will control and publish the
New York Herald, thus perpetuating
the Bennett name and influence.
Harry Hagadorn. a former Denver
printer, but who has been a resident
Of the Union Printers Home at Colo
RADIO Springs, is again able to work
and is back in this city.
The International Typographical
Union has issued a second bouchere
entitled Somewhere in France" 1t
shows that up to June 20, according
to records then at headquarters, 4,0Sl
members of the /. T. u. and CSC APP
prentices had enlisted for service over
seas with the United States and Ca
madam forces. OF this number II
have been killed on the battlefelds
of France. To the relatives of these
soldier members who lost their lives
fighting for freedom of the world
from Prussian militarism, 500, $50 has
been paid in benefits.
The Centralia, WASH. Topographic
cal Union has just negotiated scale
for SIS so per week, demonstrating the
effectiveness of the Northwestern con-
ference organization work. Some of
the printers did not think there was
enough money coined to pay that scale.
In the three Liberty loans the exec
utive council of the |. T. u. has in
vested 500, 900 from the general fund,
and with reports incomplete local
unions and individual members have
purchased Liberty bonds in excess of
SO ,000. 900. This is a record of 10y
atty to be proud of. For the fiscal
year ending May 81, 1918, the l. T.
u. paid old age pensions amounting
to S354.020 TO 1901 pioneer men,
bers; $312,426 in mortuary benefits,
and sl67. 626 for maintenance of the
Union Printers Home at Colorado
Springs. During the past year the
total expenditure for strikes was only
Sl,237. 1--WE stand by President Will
son. There should be no strikes or
lockouts during the war;" is a signifi-
cant statement accompanying these
figures Another paragraph worthy of
attention reads: Every dollar ex-
pended by the International Typo
graphical Union for its beneficial fea-
lures is paid by its own members in
the form of regular dues and assess
ments. No contributions solicited from
anyone" Small wonder that the
grand old l. T. U. holds such COM
handing position with employers and
the American public.
Company C, Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment Engineers, at Camp Devens,
Mass. is almost 100 per cent union
lied. Fifty per cent of the company
are members of the International Ty-
biographical Union who enlisted from
different parts of the country.
According to William ]. Hedger,
writing in the Hot Slug on the pass
ing of the Chicago Herald, that once
great national daily began to hit the
toboggan soon after the Pullman
strike in 1894, the Herald having OPP
posed labor in this controversy, and
concludes with this comment on the
men who sponsored its publication and
the final catastrophe: flames w.
Scott died. broken in spirit and heart.
John r. Walsh spent his last years in
a federal penitentiary. James Kelley,
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