Denver labor bulletin., 1918-04-27
Printing Trades
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

sail has been busy this week paying
back to $50 members their proportion
of the special per cent strike as
sessment. The total in this fund
amounted to $500. Many members
received from S25 to $50 each and
this aided very materially in the sub
scriptions made by members of No.
49 to the third Liberty loan. In ad-
dition to this payment about $50 OF
| the newspaper printers are this week
receiving their pro rata share of S4,700
wages due under the new scale, dat
| ing from February 25, which is 10
cents per day for each man employed.
Oklahoma City Typographical Union
No. 2S3 has 230 members and 229
have personally subscribed for bonds
| in the third Liberty loan. c. K. Dow,
a linotype operator on the Daily Okla
homan, had refused TO purchase a
bond. neither had he taken bonds in
the two previous Liberty loans, bought
war savings stamps nor subscribed to
the Red Cross fund. The labor COM
| mittee aiding in the Liberty campaign
called on Dow at his place of employ
ment this week and urged that he
take at least $50 bond in order that
Typographical Union might report
| 100 per cent subscription. This he
refused to do and struck the commit
tee chairman. Dow was discharged
from his position and arrested for as
sault. He is said to have a snug bank
account. The union will take the mat
ter up at its next meeting.
In one night Chairman Hicks of the
News chapel sold 81 500 worth of third
Liberty bonds to members working
| in that composing room Hicks hopes
to double that amount before the drive
closes.
William Fornhof of the committee
from No. 49 to solicit signatures for
the proposed initiated bill TO permit
the state of Colorado to mine and dis
tribute coal, was the first TO turn in
his petition, filled and properly certi-
fed. 1t contained the names of
eighty-five members of the Typograph
ical Union. Further petitions are be-
ing circulated among the printers.
Irwin White. who Joined the U. S.
army when he was 13 years old, is
now a corporal, and on the way 70
France. He is the youngest member
of the forces Of Uncle, Sam in the
present war. He was born in Knox
vile, Tenn, and is son Of John P.
White, formerly member Of knox
vile Typographical Union No. III,
The scale committee having in
charge the negotiation Of o new scale
with the Daily Express reported that
an agreement had been reached with
the publishers, providing for an in
crease of 55 cents per day for hand
men. with the machine scale the same
as before The contract is to be
signed for term of five years.-San
Antonio Dispatch.
Mrs. Vincent C. Crawshaw, 20 years
old, wife of Vincent c. Crawshaw,
foreman at. the Hotel Bulletin Pub
fishing Company, died at st. Luke's
hospital Friday night of rabies as a
result of being bitten on the hand by
a stray cat six weeks ago. Mrs. Craw-
shaw, who was unusually fond of AMI
mails, picked up the animal near her
home, 1895 East Second avenue, while
returning home from the grocery store
and was carrying il into the house
when it bit her. A physician cauter-
lied the wound He also dressed it
several times and within a week the
| pain left the arm and the wound ap-
peared to be healed. Nothing was
| thought of it again until Thursday
morning, when Mrs. Crawshaw be-
came violently i'll. Several physicians
were called. but none could make
diagnosis of her case. Finally the
physicians advised that she be re-
moved to the hospital. At consul
tation it was decided that she was
suffering from hydrophobia. She died
two hours later. Funeral services
We're held Tuesday.
o. X. ("oak") Chapman of the
Times chapel is the latest candidate
to announce for delegate to the l. T. U.
convention, to be held in Scranton
next August. The election is to be
held Wednesday. May %. Chapman
has recently done some good work as
member of the newspaper scale
committee.
Cheyenne gets a raise of $3.50
week and Laramie 81 a week, and
Denver is hoping. Western
Laborer. And Denver goes Laramie
one better, Sadie
C. C. Houston, editor of the Denver
Labor Bulletin. is in New York state
walloping booze for the drys. 1t is
a common thing now to see union
men on the stump putting the boots
to booze.-WesternN nNaborer.
Minneapolis is asking for $500 and
s6.16 per day and night and seven
hours work Sioux City printers on
the two metropolitan dailies are draw
ing 81 per day-so are the teamsters
employed by the city. How have the
mighty fallen. Before the war we
were at the top, now we're at the bot
tom of the crafts standing.-SiouS
City Union Advocate.
"Jack" Scott, publisher of the Daily
Advocate of Sterling, Colo, was a
caller at The Bulletin office Monday.