BOSTON, MASS. CITTLE WONDER Pocket Seal $1.50. GIZE OF DIE 2% IN GEO. J. MAYER, SEALS, STENCILS RUBBER STAMPS, Etc., 15 S. Meridian St., INDIANAPOLIS, IND BEND FOR CATALOGUE 3 Space Band Repairing 30c. Each →→ We thank our patrons for the liberal TO NEW CUSTOMERS SCHUYLER COMPANY WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. T D O YOU WANT AN OPPORTUNITY to get into business for yourself? We have it. Small cash payment, balance on long time, without interest. Six presses and complete equipment for fine catalog work. Write for our proposition that will give you an established business at your own price. This plant will be sold April 1; write quick for our proposition. GARRETT & SIMPSON, Auburn, N. Y. GOOD THINGS TO HAVE Chicago Proof readers' Stylebook, 30 cents; Kitchen French, 25 cents; the Digraphs Ei and Ie in English spelling, 10 cents. THE BEN FRANKLIN COMPANY, 232 Irving avenue, Chicago, Ill. (In mailing postage, please use ones and twos; not larger.) SIT WHAT CONDITION ARE YOUR GALLEYS? If they are coming to pieces or giving you trouble in any way send them to us and have them rebuilt with our Patented One-Piece Indestructible Wall, after which we guarantee them for ten years and to be as good as when new. This wall is made of a single bar of brass, having no joints at the corners whatever and are riveted firmly to the bottom, which go clear through both, and the result is a brand new, guaranteed galley at half the price of a new one and absolutely the strongest that can be constructed. Price list on application. We also make a specialty of repairing linotype spacebands at 30 cents each. SCHUYLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Traverse City, Mich. ITUATION WANTED-By proofreader; experienced, educated; book or newspaper work preferred; salary not less than $25; permanent employment; married. Address PROOFREADER, care Journal. LABOR WEEKLY AND JOB PRINTING BUSINESS FOR SALE-Well equipped, doing large business in one of best manufacturing cities of Ohio. Fine opening for one or two experienced men. Price reasonable. Address "OPPORTUNITY," care Typographical Journal. LET US TELL YOU about the positions STUBBS' MANUAL. Third Revised Edition. A practical treatise on Linotype Operating, by the holder of the world's competition speed record. Illustrated with diagrams and finger movements. Points to beginners; how to increase speed and secure accuracy; what the operator should know about the machine, etc. No operator (advanced or beginner) with an ambition to become a "swift" should be without this book. Price $1. W. H. STUBBS, box 375, Baltimore, Md. have now open for competent union printers. State your qualifications, salary required and location preferred. We will send you free booklet No. 6. FERNALD'S NEWSPAPER MEN'S EXCHANGE, Springfield, Mass. ELIMINATES YOUR LINOTYPE $3.50 KNIFEWIPER TROUBLES and pays for a Pettit Improved Knife wiper. This knifewiper is of one piece, nothing to catch or wear, manufactured of Bessemer steel, and is absolutely indispensable to a first-class linotype plant. The Pettit Knifewiper pays for itself in a week's time and is essential to perfect linotype composition. Remember, WE SEND THEM ON APPROVAL, giving the prospective purchaser an opportunity to give the knifewiper a thorough trial before buying. Write for pamphlet. SUPERIOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 1208 Cherry, Kansas City, Mo. MONOTYPE CASTER OPERATOR desires to change location. South, northeast or northwest. Reference. Six years' experience. Union. Address "W," Typographical Journal. REPUTABLE PEOPLE handle the Thaler Key. board, as follows:-New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans: Mergenthaler Company. Canada: British Type founders' Agency, Toronto. -London, Sydney, Cape Town, Havana, etc.: Parsons Brothers. See ad on another page. WANTED A complete up-to-date bindery: one of the best and largest locations in the Northwest; if you have a bindery and wish to move and get next to a money-making proposition, address J. E. FANCHER, 618 West Twelfth street, Sioux Falls, S. D., for full particulars. WANTED TO BUY-Complete yearly sets, bound or not, Typographical Journal. H. L. B., suite 34, 209 Dyckman street, Nork York city. Also Menamin's Circular, Senior's The Printer, American Printer, American Bookmaker, London Printers' Register. WILL INSTALL ANOTHER LINOTYPE PLANT in office which will use part or all of output. Might buy an established business. Eleven years' experience. West or southwest preferred. State prices per 1,000 ems; amount used, etc. Address 618, this office. The Best Printers' Rollers-Van Bibber Roller Company, Cincinnati. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION THE TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL. The Typographical Journal J. W. BRAMWOOD, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Note and Comment SECRETARY HAINES, of Winchester (Va.) Union No. 519, warns union printers to remain away from that jurisdiction, as there are no union offices in that city at present. THE Typographical Union of Germany (composed of printers, pressmen, feeders and typefounders), according to its last report, had a membership of 53,807 and a treasury of 5,891,100 marks (about $1,470,000). The organization pays out-of-work, sick, old-age disability and death benefits, and also provides for the widows and orphans of its deceased members. ONLY 233 votes out of a total of 7,743 were cast by the London Society of Compositors against the proposition of the National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation to ask for the eight-hour day. From this it may be inferred that the movement for a forty-eight-hour week is to be vigorously inaugurated in London. May our British craftsmen be as successful in the struggle as the printers were on this side of the briny deep. A VETERAN printer-editor has been appointed labor inspector for the state of Kentucky in the person of Thomas A. Davis, publisher of the Maysville Ledger. For over forty years he has been a country editor, and was also a member of the typographical union, having joined at Louisville in 1857. He was a member of Columbia Typographical Society (Washington, D. C.) in 1858; Philadelphia Union, 1858 to 1865, and Cincinnati Union, 1882 to 1884. NUMBER Two IN an article supplied the labor press by the campaign committee of one of the candidates for secretary-treasurer, the following statement is made: It were, indeed, a seeming tendency to hazard the vital principles of unionism to make a sinecure and a life job of an International office, as well as being an insult to the individual competency of the membership at large. Webster thus defines "sinecure:" An office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor or active service. If the office of secretary-treasurer is a sinecure, as defined above, the laws covering his duties, bonding, etc., should be stricken from the Book of Laws of the International Typographical Union, and the office abolished as soon as laws to that end can be enacted. THE first imprisonment of a man convicted of conducting a fraudulent employment agency in Greater New York was secured by a member of "Big Six"-John N. Bogart, commissioner of licenses. When this official is not holding court to determine whether employment agency licenses should or should not be revoked, he and his office staff are kept busy investigating and disposing of complaints, which come pouring into the office at the rate of from thirty to fifty a day. Printers, when holding public office, are always "on the job," and evidently Mr. Bogart is no exception to the rule. PREPARATIONS are being made by Typographical Union No. 199 for entertaining the annual session of the Ohio Typographical Conference, which meets in Zanesville, March 8, next. Delegates are expected from every typographical union in the state, and visitors will also be cordially welcomed at the conference, so the prospects are that all former sessions of this body will be eclipsed in point of the number in attendance. THE fifty-eighth annual reception and ball of Typographical Union No. 6 will be held on Tuesday evening, February II (Lincoln's birthday), in the Grand Central Palace, Forty-third street and Lexington avenue, New York city. "Big Six" maintains free beds in the various hospitals of the city for the use of its members, and the proceeds from the reception and ball will go to the hospital fund. THE first to file articles of incorporation in 1908 in the county in which Knoxville, Tenn., is situated was the Union Printing and Engraving Company, to be controlled by Typographical Union No. III. The new concern is capitalized at $10,000, and will do a general job printing business in competition with the several "rat" establishments of the city. The company is the outgrowth of the lockout of union printers on November II last, following a request for the establishment of the eight-hour day. THE JOURNAL extends greetings to the new concern, and predicts great success for the valiant members of No. III. FOR the fourth consecutive time, Albert E. Hill has been honored with the presidency of the Tennessee State Federation of Labor, being re-elected at its annual session held at Jackson, January 13, 14 and 15. In addition to having served the state federation for these several terms, Mr. Hill has recently been elected president of Nashville Typographical Union for the fifth time, and is now serving his eighth term as president of the Nashville Trades and Labor Council. There is no more active trade unionist in the south than Albert E. Hill, and that he has "made good" is amply verified by the action of the various labor bodies in keeping him at the helm. In addition to his other duties, Mr. Hill is also editor of the Nashville Labor Advocate, one of the best labor papers published. THE Texas branch of the Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union of America has given substantial evidence of its friendship for the printers. C. W. Woodman, of Fort Worth, Texas, was instrumental in cementing this bond of friendship by having the following inscription printed between the union labels of the farmers and printers on the back cover page of 40,000 constitutions which the Farmers' Union of Texas has recently had printed: The cut above is the union label of the Farmers' Union of Texas. The one below is the union label of the union printers. All union farm products should bear the farmers' union label, for the 3,000,000 union wageearners have pledged themselves to buy union farmers' products. Whenever our union label is printed, it should always be accompanied by the printers' union label, as per resolutions adopted at the Fort Worth and Little Rock conventions. THE installation of the first linotype in Russia caused a strike in the office of the St. Petersburg Gazette. It seems that they are also afflicted with the "free and independents" in that country, for the proprietor of the paper had a gang of strikebreakers on hand, and therefore thought he could dispense with union labor. During one week he suffered all the ills that the union-smashing flesh is heir to, from the gang within and from a boycott on the outside. This word is even used in Russia, and the weapon as well. At the end of a week the affair was settled by the publisher paying a fine of 3,000 rubles to the union printers, and the boycott was removed. SECRETARY LAIDLAW, of Windsor (Ont.) Union, in a letter dated January 18, says: "Our elections were held here this month, and the sticker was worked in good stylemany of the defeated candidates will have the 'joker' on their printed matter when they run for office again." THERE is no class that suffers from the high tariff as much as the newspaper publishers do, in the constantly increasing price of print paper. Likewise there are no more active politicians in their several localities |