Denver labor bulletin., 1918-09-07
Printing Trades

Strother S. Summers, one of d. T.
U. No. 49's two delegates to the /. T.
u convention, returned home Monday
| night. o. X. Chapman, the other
delegate, decided to remain in the East
and locate in his old home, Charleston,
w. Va. Summers made the round
| trip in Ford. car, accompanied by
| his wife and two sons. Says it was a
delightful experience, with not a sin
gle mishap, and they had an un-
| usual opportunity to view the cross
continent country. The party camped
out at night, and all were much bene-
flied by this mode of living. The
return trip from New York City to
Regarding the convention, Summers
says it was rather dull, there being
comparatively few delegates present.
Only two matters of Importance were
transacted, they being abolishment of
conventions for at least the war Pc
riod, and displacing Hugo Miller of
the German Topographic from the
third vice-presidency. This was a
compromise when a movement was
started to divorce the /. T. U. from
the German branch of the printing in
dustry. Otherwise, readers of The
Bulletin didn't miss anything worth
while in not receiving reports of the
daily proceedings
Word has reached Denver this week
that an agreement was entered into
between the Kansas City daily news
paper publishers and the union, where
by the scale is raised rs cents per day.
Henceforth the scale is $3.50 for day
work and S5.75 for night work The
agreement was signed to February,
1921. Kansas City union now has
fifty mine members and seventeen ap-
prentices in the national army. The
web pressmen are asking for a scale
of Sc and $3.50.
A cash gift likely to amount to 5000
or $500 was voluntarily pledged to
the Denver Liberty loan publicity
committee this week by a committee
from Denver Typographical Union No.
40. The gift will be equal to the
wages paid all members of the union
for their times in setting up adver-
tising matter in connection with the
Fourth Liberty loan drive in Denver.
and will 90 into the campaigns pub
licity fund
Howard F. Sciple. member of the
News chapel. left Friday with the lat
est draft contingent for Fort Riley.
Kan, to enter the limited service
branch OF the army thursday nght
during the lunch hour Sciple was
presented with a handsome soldiers
kit by his shopmates in the compos-
ing room. Altho Sciple does not know
what he will be called upon to do, he
expects to be in France soon, as
] 500 other men also qualified for linn
tied service have been ordered TO re-
port at the Kansas fort FOR orders.
E. p. Wilson. former well known
Denver printer. is now engaged in the
real estate and insurance business at
Durango. Colo.
+. G. Speakman of the Times ad
room this week announced his retire
ment from active printing and will
retire to a ranch for a more profitable
and easier mode Of living. Speak
man is 62 years old and has been en-
ployed on the several Denver daily
papers for many years.
John S. Evans, a livewire member
Of ID. T. U. No. 80, now in charge
Of weekly paper at Akron, Colo.
came in to march with the boys on
Labor Day. While in town he visited
The Bulletin Office and paid a years
subscription. saying he just couldn't
get along without his favorite labor
paper-the paper that prints the la
Dor news.