LINOTYPE OPERATORS Who Are Operating Mergenthaler Double Magazine Linotype Machines Manufactured by the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., of New York The two best answers to the following questions will receive a cash prize of $25.00 each: Why is it that operators cannot get as much product out of the Lower Magazine as they can out of the Upper Magazine? What should constitute a fair day's work (of eight hours) 30-em measure, 8 point body and face; also 20 ems and 26% ems, same body and face, when set from the Lower Magazine. If an operator is working piece-work, should he receive an extra allowance when copy is required to be set from the Lower Magazine, and what percentage extra? What would be a fair average of time lost per day caused by stoppage of distributor, or clogging of the Matrices in the chutes; and, if the operator is working piece-work, should the office allow for such stoppages? If you were a Linotype owner who worked for the trade at a set price per 1,000 ems, would you prefer to use a Double Magazine Machine or a Quick Change Single Magazine Machine? Give answers with reasons in each case. The winning answers will be printed in the Typographical Journal. All answers must be received not later than September 1, 1908. C. W. SEAWARD COMPANY, Dealers in Linotype Parts and Supplies Corner Causeway and Washington Streets, Boston, Mass. GET YOUR LINOTYPE PARTS AND SUPPLIES FROM US WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE This is what we guarantee to save you with our new style sleeve over the old style. We are the originators and use a special grade of steel in these sleeves. A trial order will convince you of what we claim, and that we are turning out a first-class job irrespective of the price. Send us your next lot; will mail you receipted invoice if you are not satisfied. For single or two-letter 25c each. H. J. HUGHES & CO. Successors to Hughes & Hopps 103-5 So. Canal St., Chicago, III. Spaceband Excursion 15c to California To make it to your interest, to send us your spacebands, we make the following rates for repairing: 15c each...........in lots 25 or over ...........in lots 15 to 25 ...in lots 10 to 15 in lots under 10 Back Knives sharpened...25 to 350 Parallel Knives......per pair, 81.00 STATE WHETHER WANTED FOR ONE OR TWO LETTER MACHINE No fancy curves, but good strong sleeves equal to any 50c job. Done subject to your approval. We have satisfied customers from Boston, Mass., to Australia. Come be one of them. SCHUYLER & CO., Berkeley, Cal. MENTION THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. J. W. BRAMWOOD, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, AS SECOND CLASS MATTER Note and Comment NEW charters to the number of fifty-one were issued during the fiscal year, which closed on May 31 last. THERE were 618 locals affiliated with the International Typographical Union at the close of the fiscal year, May 31. Increase for the year, 42. CREDENTIALS for 345 delegates to the Boston convention of the International Typographical Union have been filed with the secretary-treasurer. THE reports of the International officers will be mailed to delegates and alternates about the middle of this month. Any delegate who fails to receive the book should notify the secretary-treasurer, who will forward another copy. HUGO MILLER was re-elected general secretarytreasurer of the Typographia, our German branch, at the election held by that body on May 20. Mr. Miller had no opposition. By virtue of his office, he is also second vice-president and a member of the executive council of the International Typographical Union. WHEN the Werner Company, of Akron, Ohio, was working under union "domination," practically its full press capacity-more than seventy in number-was in constant use. Since the concern has been warring with the unions of the printing trades over the establishment of the eight-hour day, it is declared that not more than a dozen presses have been in use at any time. The Werners are still "running their own business." SINCE extending its jurisdiction beyond the confines of the English metropolis, the London Society of Compositors has reached a membership of more than 12,000. It has also recently brought under its banner several of the great printing firms of London, including W. Spottiswoode & Co., Waterlow Bros., Layton and Clay & Sons, besides some smaller concerns. Another significant action of the society was the vote of 7,743 to 233 in favor of approaching the employers on the subject of granting a forty-eight-hour week for all its members. NUMBER ONE A PERTINENT question in a recent issue of the Progressive Printer is put forth by the inquiry, "What has become of the typothetæ, that once revered and formidable institution of brotherly love and resolutions to save the printers? There is not heard all down the pike of printerdom a sound of that great body, whose erstwhile supposed strength lay in the power to execute its will. This interested query is made with respect, born of the loss that is felt through the typothetæ stillness that prevails." ON June 9 John S. Leech was sworn in as public printer in charge of the government office at Washington. His first official act was the appointment of William J. Dow as his private secretary. Mr. Dow is a resident of Missouri, and a practical printer. He had served in various capacities in the big printery, his last position being assistant foreman in the Record division. While employed in Washington he has been an active worker in the ranks of Columbia Typographical Union. SECRETARY TUDOR, of No. 316, informs THE JOURNAI that the police of North Adams, Mass., recently solved the mystery of a robbery which occurred in that city May 6, by the arrest of Walter B. Graham, who confessed and received a sentence of sixty days in the house of correction. This man is a printer by trade, and was the cause of much trouble to the typographical unions of New England during the eight-hour strike, especially those of Norwood and Lowell, Mass. THE International Typographical Union executive council has appointed Robert E. Darnaby, of Indianapolis, Ind., a member of the International Commission on Supplemental Education, to succeed Frank M. Walker, of Houston, Texas, resigned. FOR the fiscal year ending May 31 last the av erage paying membership for the twelve months was 43,740, an increase of 1.383 'over the preceding year. FOR the fiscal year which ended May 31 burial benefits to the number of 538 were paid by the International Union. The average death rate was 121⁄2 per thousand. SECRETARY NEWTON, of Fairbanks, Alaska, writes: "We have more than enough printers and operators here at present, and a printer is very foolish to come out here without a job in his pocket." PROBABLY the decisions rendered against organized labor by the supreme court may be a good thing after all. There seems to be a determination on the part of the organized workmen to unite in the coming election. This can have no other effect than to add prestige to the labor movement with those who are seeking political honors. LAST month the non-union printing houses of Des Moines, Iowa, sought an injunction restraining the councilmen from awarding the city printing to the Register and Leader, which employs union labor in all departments. A temporary restraining order was asked for, but was denied. The union has no fear of a favorable outcome of the suit when it comes up for final hearing in September. WHEN the disaster occurred in San Francisco more than two years ago it was necessary for Typographical Union No. 21 to establish new offices some distance from the old business section of the city. Since that time headquarters have been at 312 Fourteenth street. As an indication of the general return movement of business institutions downtown, and a gradual but permanent resumption of affairs as they were before the earthquake and fire of April, 1906, No. 21 has established pleasant and commodious headquarters at Room 123, 787 Market street, which is a central location, and where mail should be sent hereafter. Secretary Will J. French has been appointed editor of the Labor Clarion, to succeed the late J. J. O'Neill, and a new secretary for San Francisco Union will be elected at the July meeting. THE June number of the Fraternal News, which is widely circulated among the Catholic societies of the country, uses considerable space in condemning the action of the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus in placing the contract for printing The Columbiad with a non-union concern in Boston. It says, in part: It The board of directors has made a mistake. is a grievous mistake and one that will be offensive to every union man in the order, and every sympathizer of union labor, which means fairly paid labor and labor performed under decent, sanitary conditions. These men aggregate fully 17 per cent of the 200,000 members. If the board of directors insist on "standing pat" on the action they have taken, they might just as well discontinue publishing the paper altogether, for the very object that was in mind when the official organ was first proposed will have been defeated. The members will have no confidence in the organ, they will not read it and they will be ashamed to show it to their friends. It will bring upon the order a scorn and derision that will be bound to hurt it in many ways. THE movement for another telegraphers' strike was ended, temporarily at least, by the action of the general executive board of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union last month. This stand was taken in view of the action of the United States senate in directing the secretary of the department of commerce and labor to investigate the wages and working conditions of employes of the telegraph companies. No doubt the high moguls of the telegraph monopolies will be able to demonstrate to the government investigators that they have good reasons for putting the thumbscrews on their employes. WHEN the convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners meets in biennial session in Salt Lake City, next September, one of the most important matters to come before the body will be the establishment of a home along the lines of the Union Printers Home, at Colorado Springs. The carpenters should find inspiration in an institution which has no superior in the world. ALL the bills demanded of the national congress by the labor organizations, with the exception of the employers' liability bill, failed of passage. Even the bill enacted is characterized as a mere makeshift. The least that can be said is that the sixtieth congress did not make itself very attractive to voters, and the coming campaign will be one of explanation and promises for the future. IT is claimed that the labor organizations will have nothing to fear from the present administration at Washington, it having been decided to grant immunity from prosecution under the antitrust law. It is now the duty of the organized workers to take a hand in the coming election and see that some of its enemies in congress are placed where they rightfully belong. THE JOURNAL is informed that the Lanston Monotype Corporation, Limited, of London, England, has received an order for eighteen monotypes, the first section of a battery of forty machines to be installed by the London Times. This order is of especial significance, because the standards of quality and typographic accuracy of the "Thunderer" are proverbial. THE twelfth annual convention of the New York State Allied Printing Trades Council will be held at Watertown during the week of July 6-11. This year's session will be held in a section of the state where the typographical union is weak, there being few union offices in Watertown and vicinity. A WRITER in the Garment Workers' Bulletin makes the assertion that the struggle during the past twenty-five years for a reduction in the hours of labor has failed in only 39 per cent of the cases involved, and that the eight-hour day is generally observed among twenty-five trades. IT is rumored that Van Cleave, of St. Louis, went to Chicago with the hope of having a compromise plank inserted in the republican platform demanding penal servitude for life for the man who goes on strike. THE eleventh convention of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the week of June 8-13. Both President Glockling and Secretary Dougherty were re-elected for another term, and it was decided to retain the headquarters of the international body in New York city. THERE is pretty good evidence that the politicians are burning the midnight oil trying to solve the "independent political policy" problem, announced by the American Federation of Labor. When more than 100 national and international unions of workingmen and farmers decide on a plan of political action to protect their interests, they ought to be able to "cut some ice" in the fall elections. THE twenty days' biennial session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ended the first week in June, to meet in Detroit two years hence. At the close of the convention Warren S. Stone was re-elected grand chief, as also were F. A. Burgess and E. W. Hurley, all of Cleveland, assistant grand chiefs. A Canadian representative was added to the list of assistant chiefs, Ash Kennedy, of Winnipeg, being elected to the new position. AFTER reading the law enacted by the Oklahoma legislature, and which was classed "as probably the most radical labor bill ever passed," in the June JoURNAL, one can readily see that the provisions of the measure are not radical. In fact, measures of a similar nature are on the statute books of many of the older states of the union. The information regarding the bill was taken from the telegraphic news columns of the Chicago Record-Herald, and this information, in the words of C. L. Daugherty, commissioner of labor of Oklahoma, "was as damnable a piece of untruthfulness as could be penned by man." That paper afterward made a complete retraction of the article. ONE of the most interesting libel litigations in American newspaper circles during the past few years was that brought some time ago by John H. Patterson, of the National Cash Register Company, against the Dayton (Ohio) News and the Springfield News, in which $425,000 damages was asked for defamation of character. Announcement has been made that the suits have been dismissed at plaintiff's costs. The newspapers involved state that there was no compromise involved, and that the result of the fight, with its decisive outcome, was a triumph for courageous journalism. Patterson evidently found it was as difficult to win a libel suit as it is to placate his dissatisfied employes. ATTENTION, DELEGATES! Section 9, article iv, of the by-laws, provides: "No delegate shall be entitled to vote in the convention of the International Union whose union has not previously paid over to the proper officers the per capita tax and all indebtedness of his union." Under this section unions must pay per capita tax and pension assessment up to and including the month of June, and all other indebtedness, before the opening of the convention, in order that their delegates may be entitled to a seat and vote in the meeting. Delegates are urged to have the proper officers of their respective unions forward all money due the International with as little delay as possible. CONVENTION ARRANGEMENTS. As heretofore stated, the Quincy House has been designated as headquarters for the Boston convention, although the manager only guaranteed accommodations for a limited number of guests. This hotel is conducted strictly on the European plan, with rates from $1 per day upward. A short distance from the Quincy House is the Daniel Sharp Ford Memorial hall, where the sessions of the convention will be held. This hall is said to be one of the most commodious and finest in which an International convention was ever called to order. What the arrangements committee of No. 13 has in store for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors has been chronicled from time to time by Herbert W. Cooke in his monthly correspondence. All indications point to one of the greatest conventions that the International Union has ever held, and every one conversant with the grit and energy displayed by the membership of No. 13 in the past knows that the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Boston Typographical Union will not soon be forgotten by those fortunate enough to be in attendance. RAILWAY RATES. Negotiations for special railroad rates for the convention have not as yet been entirely completed. Below is given a list of the several passenger associations and the rates announced by them for the convention. All delegates and visitors attending the Boston convention are entitled to the rates announced: The New England Passenger Association-Territory, east of New York state and Lake Champlain. Rate announced, fare and one-third, on the certificate plan. The Eastern Steamship Company does not join in this rate, nor does it apply from points on the Bangor and Aroostook Railway. Central Passenger Association-Territory, from Buffalo, Pittsburg and Parkersburg, W. Va., on the east, to Chicago and St. Louis on the west. No action taken. Western Passenger Association-Territory, west of Chicago and St. Louis, except Texas, Oklahoma and southern Missouri. Summer tourist rates will prevail from this territory. Southeastern Passenger Association-Territory, |