The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-28
CONVENTION OF
 PRINTERS WAS
 GREAT SUCCESS
Carefully. Planned Arrangements for Tenth Annual Carried
 Out Without Hitch.
VERMONT GETS NEXT ONE
Notable Business Sessions and Banquet at Colonnade Praise
 worthy in Every Way.

In June of 1920, the eleventh annual
 convention of the New England Typo
 graphical Union will be held in Bur
 lington, Vt., and committee up there will have as a model to work on the arrangements made by the New Haven committee for the tenth convention held i'll New Haven early this week. While wishing the Burlington committee a lot of luck, 1t IS doubtful if 1t gathers to- gether such notable list of speakers as graced the wel1-1aden tables of the Col Onnade at the banquet here, secure an entertainer for the get-together confab who can sing and puff on cigar at the same time and we are very confident that 1t cannot take the visitors on a trip through Yale University.
 The delegates and guests got ac- quainted with each other on Sunday afternoon and evening at Hermann Sons Ha11 where there was a musical treatments. The first business session was held at the Hotel Garde on Monday morning and in the afternoon there was a sightseeing trip by trolley, ending at Savin Rock, where there was banquet at the Co1onnade at o'clock. A group picture was taken of the assembly just before the dinner and the. photograph came out clear, just like new type.l
 President C. N. Ballard of the New Haven Union welcomed the guests and said he was very proud to be at the head of the New Haven organization upon such an historical occasion. The invocation was by Rev. John D. Coy1e of St. Johns Church. E. Shipman Smith, the toastmaster, had something to say about each speaker that gave cue for the oratory. President John Murphy of the Board of Aldermen, spoke for the city in the absence of Mayor Fitz Gerald, who made an ad- dress to the delegates at the morning session. The speakers were Col N. c. Osborn, editor of the Journa1-Courier; President Marsden c. Scott of the In- ternationa1 Typographical Union, John F. Murphy, secretary of the New Eng land Typographical Union; Judge Isaac Wolfe of the superior court, an honor ary member of the New Haven Local; John R Denarest president of the New Haven Ty2othetae, and President Patrick F. O'Meara of tie ConneEicut Federation of Labor. Colonel Osborn was in his usual good form, Judge Wolfe told of incidents that would be known only to an old typo like himself, and President O'Meara made splendid impression with an address that was pointed, logical and we'll expressed. showing the grasp the speaker has upon current affairs of the day. The vocal ists were Miss Irene Reilly, daughter of Joseph J. Reilly, George Basserman, jr., and Douglas Austin.
 Among the guests were John OCon- nell, secretary of Blk 6 of New York; Walter w. Barrett, first vice-president of the International; J. J: Dallas, New a former president of the New England Union, and Mrs. Alexander Troup widow of the founder of the New Ha- ven Union.
 At the convention on Tuesday, it was recommended that the wage scales throughout New England be made to expire on the same date and that ap- prentices be given better opportunities to learn the art preservative of all arts. The election of officers resulted as fol- lows:
 Frederick Durham of Springfield, president; Frank Wiggin of Waterbury. first vice-president; Albert Shaw of Me, second vice-president; s. J. McGau11ay of Concord, N. H., third vice-president; Miss Elizabeth, Mclaughlin of Rutland, Vt, fourth John F. Murphy of Providence, R. l., secretary and treas urer. The latter was the only officer of the previous year to be reelected, this being his ninth assignment to the position, although in each instance there was no contest in the balloting.