The Connecticut labor news., 1923-02-23
UNION PRINTERS HOME IS A
 MODEL FOR OTHER TRADES How the Typographical Members Take Care of Their Sick Brothes-Make Life One Pleasant Dream
 Without a Thought of Charity.

In the days when hand composition
 was the rule ill printshops, printers
 were especially liable to contact tu-
 berCuloSis. This fact caused leading printers, about the middle of the last century, to discuss ways and means ! for combating the disease among their fellows. The result of their early agi- | tation may be- found today in a $3,ooO,O institution at Colorado Springs, where virtually one-half of the tubercular patients are being
 cured of the disease.
 The Union Printers Home is today the only institution of it's kind in the world. Supported by the able-bodied
 members of a trade, always noted for
 the high average intelligence of it's
 Work1ncn, 1t furnishes an asylum for
 the disabled. No charity exists here;
 every man who enters as a patient
 or a retired worker knows that he, as
 well as every other member of the
 home, has for some years previous
 contributed to it's support. Nor is the
 veteran compositor dependent alone
 on institutional board and clothing.
 The printer who has reached the age
 of 60, and who has for 20 years been a member of the union, draws a pen
 sion of $35 each month This sum is used as he secs fit. It gives him a much desired freedom in regard to small expenditures.
 The spirit of a famous American patriot permeates the Printers Home. A statue of this remarkable man stands in the reception room of the main building, and before this sculp- turing an old makeup man. paused reverently.
 The location of the home is beauti- ful and healthful. Facing the eternal snows of Pike's Peak, 1t occupies a plateau to the east of Colorado l Springs. Looking across the north | west corner of the evergreen-dotted | lawn, the old printers can discern the l rosy sandstone piles that mark the | Garden of the Gods The clear slash | of the cog road which climbs Mount | Manitou may be seen from the stone | arch that guards the entrance to the grounds.
 The rewards that an arid country grants him who will furnish water l have been richly reaped at the Print CTS Home. Seldom in this country | can one find a wider variety and more i brilliant array of flowers. Each gar lcn IS tended W1tn pr1Qe ana care; each flower bed is the recipient of 1 many appreciative gazes from old men who have time to take pleasure in Iature's beauties.
 The home of today, valued at near y $3,ooo,ooo, grew from an 8o-acre ract, given by the city of Colorado Springs ,and about $26,ooo received oy gift and assessment from printers prominent in the unions affairs in 1889. Forty years before that time, he idea of such a home had been strongly urged, and subsequent. con- had attempted to establish it, put had failed. George w. Childs was he most prominent of the early work ITS for the home, and his unselhsh, 1ntiring efforts caused the opening celebrations to be set for his birth lay. The great day was May I2, 8o2. A poem for the occasion was written by Eugene H. Munday, the poet printer, and Senator J. H. Gal finger of New Hampshire, himself m old printer, came from Washing II on to make the principal address.
 The growth of the home since that memorable day has been solely due to he willing contributions of American