Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-02
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

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| hearty welcome and rebate check
from the affable doorkeeper.
A special meeting of No. 49 was
held last Sunday to hear further re-
ports from the newspaper scale COM
mittee. The committee closed its case
| before the state industrial commission
Monday of this week. II is hoped an
award will be handed down by that
body within the next two weeks. 1t
| is considered doubtful if the award will
be satisfactory to either Of the con-
tending parties. However, No. i9 will
then have complied fully with the
Colorado law, and either party may
then take such action as may seem to
fit the case. A resolution was adopted
authorizing the executive officers and
scale committee to request the pres
ence of President Marsden G. Scott in
an effort to bring the two parties to-
gether. Existing contracts between
No. 49 and the newspapers expired
| February "a, and the union decided all
! hands should remain at work under
| local and |. T. U. laws, pending fur
ther negotiations.
! A member of Greeley Topographic
cal Union has been appointed instruc-
tor in printing at the Colorado State
| Teachers College in that city. A cor
respondent from No. $50 reports that
Greeley union is prospering. At its
| last meeting two new members were
initiated and three apprentices started
on their way to become union men.
/ There is now but one non-union printer
/ in that jurisdiction. The union is
elated over the fact that the contract
for all county printing. has just been
| let to the Weld County News (union)
at legal rates. Heretofore much of
/ this work has been going to outside
points at ruinously low rates. The
/ News has added two more situations
to its force.
The Loveland Herald is in the mar
ket for machinist-operator tunlonD.
Cheyenne No. 1874 has about COM
pleted negotiating a new wage scale
I covering newspaper Offices, which will
/ give that local q material increase.
Clair c. Riser, for several years
! secretary Of Ogden, Utah, Topographic
cal Union, is. now member Of Uncle
| Sans navy. He writes The Bulletin
/ from San Diego, Cal, saying: This
/ is the life. From 5:45 a. MI 90 9 p. m.
and nothing to do but eat and enjoy
! this great climate"
| R H. Alcorn. a member Of No. 563.
was in Denver this week from Rawlins.
D " w. ENANblll ltRbl - AlaH va oNblA4 4lA
his section has created a great de-
mand for printing.
A press dispatch, carrying Chi
cago date, says: james VI. Lynch,
state labor commissiorer Of New
/ York, and former president Of the In
4 ternational Topographic Union, has
| brought suit for $4,000 against Ty
| biographical Union No. Is, committee
members and others n the United
States district court here He charged
that libel had been committed in an
article contained in a trade publica-
| ton. The article is alleged TO state
that Lynch, when president of the In
| ternational Typographical Union, in
1 dicated willingness TO lend funds of
1 the organization TO other parties.
Mention was made in the last issue
of The Bulletin. by our Printers Home
correspondent, that q new icemaking
and refrigerating plant was being in
stalled at that institution. In making
the contract for the purchase and in
stallation of the plant. Superintendent
John c. DAILY inserted the usual union
labor clause that Is part Of all con-
tracts signed by him 1t appears the
concern manufacturing and installing
these machines heretofore has en-
ployed non-union pipet1tters exclusive
| ly. Denver GastltterS' Union was put
in touch with the situation, with the
result that Business Agent Chester
! Commons secured the membership of
the men employed by the installing
firm, and the work at the Printers
Home at Colorado Springs was done
by men carrying working cards from
the Denver Building Trades Council.
Thus, again, the typographical Union
has been pleased to be of assistance
to members of other crafts.
A communication from a former
Denver printer. now in Salt Lake City,
contains the following gossip: Otis
Wilson has been fighting pneumonia
for the past two weeks; II is now be
lieved he has il bested. We have lots
of subs: work only fair. Met Bill
Collins the other day; didn't say when
he was to return to his job on the
Post. A p. Hewitt. formerly of the
Denver Post, now has a situation on
the machine side at the F. W. Gardi-
ner Printing Co. A fire in the Lake
hotel on Postoffice place, Monday.
raised Ned with the Lakeside Press
in the basement, the American Print
ing Co. and Steve Busath's model s;
the firemen turned q hose on the ma
chine and soaked it for fair; every
| thing is rust: il was insured, but the
machine will never be the same. 1t
is reported the Tribune has another
linotype ordered. George Hanson,
| formerly an operator at the W. \.
U. in Denver, later foreman of the
Record in Los Angeles, is in the hos
pital in Portland, suffering with lung
trouble. The Anaconda Standard of
flee burned last week: the paper is
being published from the office of the
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