Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-06-01

Annual Memorial services of Denver
Typographical Union No. 40 were held
last Sunday afternoon at the Union
Printers plot in Riverside cemetery.
There was a large attendance Of MEM
beers, G.eir families and friends.
Sixty graves now occupy the plot,
while $50 former members are in
TERED in other parts of Riverside or
other cemeteries in Denver. The SIM
pie but impressive service was in trib-
ute to all these departed members.
Arrangements were in charge Of a
committee composed of James A. Nc
Namara, chairman; Harry Wander
Perel and Fred L. Zimmerman.
In Remembrance Of the Dead.
A pretty feature was the placing
of a wreath of flowers upon each
mound by three little girls. daughters
of union members, dressed in white,
as the roll was called by Secretary
Frank C.. Birdsall.
During the ceremonies appropriate
vocal musical selections were rendered
by a quartet composed Of Mrs. Frank
Branch, soprano; Miss Gertrude Liv-
ingston, contIalto; Mr.. Clinton CASTOR,
tenor, and Mr. Frank L. Thomas, bari
tone.
The opening address was delivered
=
Otto F. Thum, made the annual Me-
mortal address. Prayer was offered
by Will II. Hedley and the benediction
said by w. H. Neighbor. all members
Of No. -. Flower girls were Misses
Ernestine Schluter, Frances Chapman
and Kathleen McFariane.
Annual Memorial Address.
Following is the Memorial address
IL A. r
the longtime active members of the
union:
Sometimes put up with the Typo
graphical Union; sometimes ! admire
il; today / am proud of il.
"Of all the benefits vouchsafed to
membership in our great organization
none are more significant than this.
that we care for our departed men,
beers and revere their memory.
I'VE call this a plot in the ceme-
terry, or n place in the graveyard. Our
language here discloses woeful pau
city. In any other language-in al
most every other language, it is Rnown
rs Gods Acre. That means some
thing Pat we can appreciate and un-
derstand.
Zone of the puzzling enigmas of
the age is that ms our civilization ad-
vances the more heartless and inhu-
man we become. The rush for de-
cent existence in life becomes so fierce
that we are quite apt to neglect those
who fall by the wayside. This human
trait Of sclfishness makes il possible
for us as an organization to display
our better side by this simple cere-
mony, fraught as it is with so much
meaning.
Pioneers Blazed the Trail.
Individually we are, in the last
analysis, either pagan or Christian.
While there is perhaps much of both
the pagan and the Christian in our
makeup, yet we have -.,uch reason for
stating that IL is SUN occasions as
this-such lessons as this-that plants
us firmly on the Christian foundation
and so laud the Typographical
Union for this expression Of fratcr-
nifty and brotherhood, both Christian
attributes.
MANY Of the men whose bones have
here returned to dust were pioneers.
They blazed the way and cleared the
obstructions in the path of progress.
Even during my brief career as n
printer the Typographical Union has
met and absorbed at least four COM
plete revolutions in the craft, in all
Of which these departed brothers have
had a part and by reason Of which
some Of them suffered.
Evolution Of Our Craft.
"Our union abolished the pernicious
and nefarious store order or truck
system Of wage payments. This deep
seated injustice was gnawing at the
very vitals Of our organization and
left us impotent and powcrless to
carry forward the benefcent objects
of the union. The elimination Of the
truck system and the substitution of
payment in cash, when finally accom-