Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-07
Printing Trades
BY FRANK j. PULvER.

meeting since september, OWING "
the "fiu" ban. The meeting was held
in the new Machinists hall, Enterprise
building, Fifteenth and Champa
streets. An immense amount of ac-
cumulated business was disposed of
and the union decided by unanimous
vote to open the existing newspaper
scale. The negotiations will be in
charge of the following committee:
E. S. Close, chairman; Frank j. Pull
yer, William Tanner, E. v. Rees, E. w:
Stewart, President Clark B. Hicks and
Secretary Frank C. Birdsall.
S. S. Sherman, business manager of
the News and the Times, requested
that No. 40 sign individual American
Newspaper Publishers Association
contracts covering his papers. The
local referred the proposition to the
new scale committee for its recommen-
dation.
While No. 40 is far from "broke,"
it was decided by unanimous vote that
an assessment of one-haf of l per
cent on the earnings of all members
should be levied for an indefinite pc
riod.
A committee of Pressmen explained
to the union the status of affairs at
the Peerless Printing Company. The
members of No. 40 employed there
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The printers voted to stand with the
Allied Printing Trades Council in this
controversy.
On the amendment submitted by the
Colorado State Federation of Labor to
repeal the existing referendum sys-
tenn of electing its officers and return
to the old plan of electing on the floor
of conventions, No. 40 voted 4SS votes
against any change. For election of
president of the state body, the union
cast 427 votes for William H. Young
for c. M. Moore of Denver. For sec
retary, Ed Anderson received the
unanimous vote of the local.
The union decided to pay l cent per
capita a month into the preliminary
fund of the Labor Temple Associa-
tion.
A Christmas remembrance of So
each was voted to the twenty-one
|. t. U. pensioners of No. 40, to its
six members domiciled at the Union
Printers Home at Colorado Springs
and to two of its members at the
Pueblo sanitarium.
W. Clyde Wolfe and Eugene d
Thompson were obligated as Journey
men members, and Floyd J. Crist and
Clay j. Hutchinson were made ap-
prentice members.
f. l.. Pferdesteller, recently pro-
NOTED to the foremanship of the Ex-
press, rendered his resignation as one
of No. 49's representatives on the
newspaper local joint standing COM
mittee. President Hicks was author
lied to name "Pferde's" successor.
The apprentice committee handed
in an interesting report. From the
tenor of the document it is apparent
apprentice boys will receive more con-
sideration in the future.
Hereafter the American flag will
be prominently displayed at all meet
ings of Denver Typographical Union.
The funeral of John Oliver was held
Tuesday afternoon, from Hoffman's
mortuary. Many members of No. 40
attended. Interment was in the print |
ers' plot at Riverside. "Jack" Oliver |
was one of the most consistent and
popular members of No. 40. Born in !
Portland, Ore, he early became an ap-
prentice in printing office and thirty
years ago joined the l. 7. U. He had
Travelled extensively, and while work
ing in Des Moines married Miss Clara
Trester. Later he went to Butte and
after residing there for year came
to Denver. Here he was for years
active in the trades union movement.
He was delegate from No. 40 to
the Colorado Springs convention in
1917, and on five different occasions
represented his local in conventions of
the Colorado State Federation of La
Dor. His wife, two sons and the labor
organizations of Colorado mourn his
departure.
Cliff H. Smith, former makeup on
the Express and Post, is now located
on the Tribune Salt Lake CITY
Corporal Alfred S. Graham of the
News chapel, stationed at Camp Funs-
ton, enjoyed a pleasant Thanksgiving
furlough with his mother and friends
in Denver.
Indicative of the fact that the big
scrap" is not yet all over "but the
shouting" and that Uncle Sam is still
sending men to the front, E. w. Bowles
of the Post chapel has just received
word that his youngest son, Winthrop,
has received his overseas equipment
and been ordered from Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, to Newport News, Va. His older
brother, Theodore, has been in France
for some time. Both are in the motor
convoy service.
Cheyenne Typographical Union No.
1874 this week signed contracts with
the S. A. Bristol Printing Company
of that city which will make an allied
office of the plant. For twenty-one
years this firm has operated on a nom
union basis, and the persistent efforts
of the l. T. U. and the Cheyenne local
have at last been crowned with sue
cess.
G. Gus Crawford, vice-president of
No. 40, celebrated his thirtieth anni-
versary as a member of the l. T. U.