Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-05
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.


by attending the initial 1918 meeting
tomorrow afternoon in Horan hall,
1921 Cleveland place. Come sur
rounded with the proper cheerup at
mosphere and mingle with other good
spirits who are by no means wraiths.
There's going to be lot of things do
ing you will want to know about, so
get them first hand by being on the
spot. There's only one place where
your views, good, bad or Indifferent,
can be expressed to effect, and that is
in the union meeting. Curbstone crit
icism never corrects an evil nor con-
verts big idea into valuable asset.
Report to Doorkeeper Wiley promptly
at 2 o'clock and President Pferdestel-
Ter will greet you with that Happy
New Year smile he is wearing over
time for the occasion.
Denver's four daily papers, the
News, Times, Express and Post, each
printed handsome and prosperous New
Years editions Printers, pressmen,
stereotypers and photo-engravers all
piled up additional overtime, but every
man or woman met the emergency IN
fine shape and the big papers came
out on schedule time.
The annual banquet of the Colorado
Pioneer Printers will be held the even
ing of Monday, February 4, at the
Metropole hotel. This date is one day
following the birthday of Horace
Greeley, one of the patron saints OF
the printers. At meeting Of the eX-
ecutive committee with President Tom
Egan Thursday night, it was decided
to make this years banquet memoir
able occasion in Colorado printerdom.
A fine program of entertainment and
GOOD cats will be arranged
There will be a Together" din
ner of newspaper and commercial
printers. members of d. T. U. No. 49,
at the Albany hotel, Sunday. January
l3, 1880 p. m. Discussion of the pro
posed newspaper scale will form the
chief business of the gathering.
I Tickets are rs cents per plate, and can
be secured in any of the chapels.
Writing from St Louis his present
abode. Allan Gray. a former we'll
known Denver printer, says: "En-
closed find three bucks for past dues
and some future obligation 20 The
Bulletin. which is n letter from dear
] old Denver each week. How about the
old scouts on Chnmpa and Welton
streets7 Tell "Slim" Hutter they
have been playing the deuce IN the
Globe Democrat composing room, and
.
gcther even he would have a hard time
sparing between or TO find room for
his long legs. As for Fatty Mar
shall IL brings me back TO the good,
old DAYS Of long ago every time / think
of how from early Cheyenne days
of cowboys and faro games TO the
later times in Denver. And tell him
II he runs for delegate again to send
for me"
Sidney Eastwood Of the Eastwood
. Printing company threatens to become
an oil magnate of high order. He
holds n few thousand shares of stock
I in a company which has just struck n
gusher in Wyoming flowing 300 bar
rcls per day. And "Sid" says he can
use the money.
Roy Shattuck. for some time proof
reader at Brock H affncr's. has been
promoted to street salesman, succeed
/ iny Bill" Guild. resigned TO accept a
position with an automobile company
w. J. Ashley. proofreader at the
EXPRESS office. has been unable to
work for about three weeks, being
{ threatened with n nervous breakdown
B. s. Marshall. linotype operator at
the Times, who has been in failing
health for over n year, and ordered TO
lower altitude by his physician. put
on a sub Saturday and disappeared.
/ He is supposed to be making the same
search pursued so ardently and per
sistently by Ponce De Leon in the dim
and misty past.
Colorado Springs Typographical
I Union No. 50 has signed up n new
wage scale with daily papers, the Ga
zettc and Telegraph. The scale calls
I for SOS day work and $50 night, seven
and n half hours. effective January l..
A postcard from "Cid" Adair this
week. dated Atlanta, Ga. says the
Denver quartet of linotype operators
who enlisted three weeks ago in the
technical engineering corps, are near
I the Atlantic coast. having been trans
ferred quickly from Vancouver, where
they were mobilizeJ. The boys will
probably next be heard from in
| General Pershing's army headquarters
printing office.
Los Angeles Citizen: Harry NJ.
Rapp. who for fifteen years has held n
situation as linotypist on the Denver
/ Post. has deposited his card with the
local union, intending to make Los
Angeles his future home.
The forces of the government are
gradually driving down the price of
paper; that is to say, the department
of justice and the department of COM
mcrce and labor, working in co-opera-
ton. There is perhaps nothing so vi
tai to the interests of the printing in
dustry as fair, reasonable and stable
price on paper coupled with sure
and adequate supply.
PRESSMEN.