Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-09
PAPERS COMBINE
SALT LAKE PRINTERS RECEIVE
SHOCK AND LOSE JOBS.
Herald Republican. Morning Daily,
Taken Over by Evening Telegram;
Published From Latter Plant
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial Correspondence
SALT LAKE CITY, March An
its issue of March /, the Salt Lake
Herald Republican run a box on its
| first page, as follows:
ITO the Public: The HeraldRepub-
lican Publishing Company makes the
announcement that it has leased the
Herald Republican and its property to
| the Telegram Publishing Company;
that the Telegram Company will, on
March /, 1918, and theseafter issue,
publish and deliver the Herald-Repub-
| iican to each subscriber every morning
as heretofore.
HERALD REPUBLICAN PUBLISH
ING COMPANY"
This was the first intimation the
employees had of the contemplated
change.
The Herald Republican has been is
suing from twelve to twenty-four
pages daily, with a large Sunday
morning edition.
Friday morning, March l, it ap-
peared as an eight-page paper, issued
from the Telegram plant, where seven
of the machines from the Herald-Re-
publican had been moved.
One-half of the old force of the
Herald Republican was eliminated.
putting some twenty-five or thirty
men on the street. Foreman Malloy
of the Herald is reported out, and Mr..
Whitehead is the new night foreman
of the combined plant, with former
Foreman Ficks of the Telegram now
acting as superintendent.
This leaves two union daily news
paper offices in Salt Lake City-the
Tribune Cmorning) and the combined
Telegram tslN-day evening and Sun
day morning) and the Herald-Repub-
lican former seven-day morning..
One Sunday morning issue will be
dispensed with by this latest consolI-
datIon.
General Manager James p. Casey
had the following valedictory as
leading editorial in the last issue Of
the Herald Republican:
Thirty may not mean much TO the
average reader, but il means lot TO
the boys who get out the paper II
is the time-honored signal that the
dead line on copy has been reached
and the forms closed. This very beau
tiful issue Of the Herald Republican
is the last under the present manage
ment The box on page one tells the
story Of the change in management
and every one of these twenty pages
tells the story of loyalty, love and
AbuIAEt WHICH l4ANt kt'AA NALN nv .a't-
spirit in this office. When the sudden
news came that today's issue would
be our last the council. from managing
editor down to the office boy, voted to
make il better than any previous issue,
if possible. There was not n Stacker
OF coward in the organization, and
the spirit of doing things well did not
slacken its pace. So, here is your
Herald Republican this morning
bright and clean fair and square.
We are as proud of it today as we
have been for the past year. and while
thirty has sounded, we wish the dear
old sheet bon voyage and happy
home.
Personally. am proud of the Her
aid Republican and the boys and girls
who were part of it We kept II
clean as ribbon and lived up to the
motto, Fair and Square and we are
all proud of the good men and women
of Salt Lake who warmed us to great
er effort with substantial appreciation.
In return for that appreciation we
gave them the best we had in the
shop. So we give you today volume
1888. No. % of the Salt Lake Herald
and volume 20, No. "a. of the Inter
mountain Republican, and turn the pa
good luck attend you.
per over to its new management.
Goodbye, old sheet, and may all
JAMES p. CASEY"