sion proposition with more or less success, but the International Typographical Union giving the matter consideration and standing insures a widespread international character to the movement that can have no other effect than the dovetailing and cementing of that fraternal spirit that springs spontaneously from heart to heart among printers, and which has had feasible demonstration of utility in the Colorado Springs retreat-"its bounty unpurchasable, its charity without price."

The International Typographical Union never does anything by halves. An organization of 50,000 members, scattered throughout the United States and Canada, that can begin with a working capital of $10,000 and intelligently and successfully build and conduct an institution representing every penny's worth of $500,000, can be relied upon to originate and inaugurate a plan for pensioning its aged and infirm membership that will be worthy of emulation for organizations of like character.

Many cities have pension funds in operation for the benefit of policemen, firemen, school teachers and other public servants; the United States government annually expends millions of dollars in pensions to its aged and disabled warriors. An occasional business house has been noted, that, after a service of long duration, retires preferred employees on a yearly allowance, but the practical working out of a scheme for pensioning in a substantial manner the decrepit mem-. bership of a voluntary organization, composed of a mixture of nationalities, politics and creeds, is necessarily an untried experiment. The International Typographical Union can, it is believed, be safely relied upon to solve the question in a comprehensive and practical man

ner.

A CONTEMPTIBLE PHARISEE.

A few short weeks ago, a young man in the city of Denver was arrested and thrust into prison.

This young man was the trusted employee of the Northern Coal Company of Colorado. By his faithful service and seeming loyalty to duty, he had won the confidence of his employers to such an extent that he was made assistant pay

master. He had access to the bank where the company deposited its funds. When the monthly pay day rolled around, this trusted young man hied himself to the bank and secured funds to pay off the employees who were in the service of the Northern Coal Company. He secured $3,600, and started for the depot with the intention of taking a train for the mines of the Northern Coal Company. But before he reached the depot a temptation flashed through his brain and he concocted a scheme to defraud the company. This trusted young man, who enjoyed the confidence of the company, relieved himself of the $3,600, by transferring to the care of a bootblack the sum of $2,500, and giving to a stranger the sum of $1,100.

When he had separated himself from this $3,600 he called at the office of the company and made a report that he had been robbed. A robbery in broad daylight on one of the busy streets of Denver was given but little credence by the officers of the law.

The police force got busy, and by a rigid investigation and the use of the "sweating" system, forced the trusted young man to capitulate and make a confession.

The assistant paymaster of the Northern Coal Company, under the fire of cross-questioning, was forced to unbosom himself and admitted that he had robbed himself.

The police officials secured the $2,500 that had been entrusted to the care of a bootblack, but the $1,100 that had been consigned to the care of a "stranger" is still missing.

This trusted young man had a sweetheart, and the police officials concluded that the queen of his affections must know something about the $1,100.

The sweetheart was arrested and thrown into jail, in the hope that the young man who had perpetrated robbery upon himself, seeing his loved one in jail, might divulge something more that would lead to the recovery of the money that was pressed upon the "stranger."

But the imprisonment of the sweetheart failed to bring forth any further confessions. After the closest investigation, the police force of Denver was unable to connect the sweetheart with the

transgression of the assistant paymaster, and the young lady was released from custody.

But when this young lady was given her liberty a storm arose that threatened for a time to cast gloomy shadows upon her future. She was a wage slave in a millinery store. There were seventeen other feminine wage slaves in the same mercantile institution.

The chief saleslady rebelled against the return of the wage slave who had been thrown into jail by the police force of Denver.

The chief saleslady appealed to the pharisaical righteousness and purity of her sister wage slaves to combine against the little defenseless woman who through the weakness of her affianced had been humiliated by incarceration in a city jail. There was not a semblance, iota, or scintilla of proof that connected this sweetheart with the plot of the young man, who had fallen from honor's pedestal.

But she had been in jail, and the chief saleslady declared that she could not think of working in the same place with a woman, who through unfortunate circumstances had been confined in jail, though such confinement was not due to any fault of her own.

The chief saleslady, who is known as a Quakeress, felt that mingling with such a woman in the same mercantile institution would breed contagion and would be in violation of "the tenets" of her religion.

Let it be said to the credit of the proprietor of the millinery establishment that he was able to convince sixteen of the female wage slaves that their action against the sweetheart of a dishonored man had no foundation upon any basis f justice. Sixteen of the victims of exloitation tendered their apologies to the little woman whom they almost branded as an outcast, but the chief saleslady preserved her dignity and "the tenets of her religion" by refusing to be longer connected with a mercantile institution whose proprietor desired to accord justice to an Eve of the race who had been sinned against by a heartless Christian sister. Had the proprietor of this institution felt no sense of justice and listened to the clamor that was primarily

raised against this helpless woman, there would have been a homeless, penniless victim thrown upon the street to buffet the cold and cruel waves of poverty and adversity. Who can tell but this woman, feeling that the world in its cruelty had turned against her, would gaze in the direction of the "red lights," where women sell their souls for bread?

The chief saleslady, who objected to one of her sex retaining her position on account of being in jail through the crime of another, has about as much religion in her makeup as there is angelic purity in a brothel.

Christ, whom this Quakeress pretends to follow, was hounded as an outlaw, and finally condemned to hang between two thieves. The Quakeress, like a vast number of other church members, needs a jail sentence or a prolonged siege of hunger and poverty in order that sympathy may be given a chance to sprout in a lifeless heart.-The Miners' Magazine.

NEVER HAD A STRIKE.

It is claimed for the Journeymen Barbers' Union the unique distinction of being the only labor union that has never had a strike, yet in spite of this fact the conditions of the journeymen barbers have been constantly improved. Shorter hours, better wages and Sunday closing are some of the results of organization in the craft, which now has a membership of 40,000.

NOTICE.

Members desiring to go to work in the jurisdiction of Local No. 8, first consult with the Secretary of said Local, before going.

Brother F. B. Hanbridge is still waiting to hear from Brothers Murphy and Fitzpatrick.

A parson may no faddist be
Of fashion don't you know;
Yet often matrimonially

He ties a natty beau.-Judge.

NEW ORLEANS.

To the Editor of the Journal:

As I have a few moments of leisure time again I will say something for our Journal, as it has reached me again, but I am somewhat surprised at some of the other locals that they do not send in a line or two and tell us how they are getting along. To make our Journal a success, boys, get in line and send Brother Young a line once in a while at least, for I am sure we will all appreciate it. I see Brother Eddy Coppers is a good correspondent, and I enjoy reading his matter very much. He is a wide-awake fellow, and gives us some correspondence in every issue of our Journal.

Again I have had the extreme pleasure of meeting another one of our traveling brothers of Local No. 2, Chicago, Arthur B. Drummond, 1709 Flournoy street, Chicago, and I must say he is a congenial fellow. Local No. 2 seems to be composed of a happy group, for it seems that mostly all who come here are good fellows, except there is good, bad and indifferent in all "bunches," for "we are an up-and-down bunch of elevator distructors," as Brother Fred Schmidt says of No. 2, and I am under the impression that he is about right, but he is a grand old man, nevertheless.

We are journeying along with our little body of men. Of course, our local is young yet, but just give us time and we will grow. We have three more applications to come into our ranks, and I hope it will continue, for where there is unity there is strength. I am sorry to say that our work here is getting caught up to for this season, but the prospects look very good for the coming year. New Orleans has just started a $3,000,000 hotel, sixteen stories high; the contract has been awarded to the General Supply Company, of New York, and, of course, that means a few elevators for next summer.

I am glad to hear of Dallas, Tex., getting in line and starting a local there. I was in that territory some six years previous to coming here. Now, Houston, Tex., should do likewise. There are a good many men at our business there, for

I traveled the entire State for six years, installing work for the Otis Elevator Company, and Dallas is a fine city and plenty of work there at all times. Texas is the coming State. The Otis Elevator Company has a factory in Houston, Tex., and they employ something like seventy men there in their shops.

I see by reading the proceedings of the last Convention that they intend to try to get other cities in line. Get them to come into our ranks, and I sincerely hope they will succeed, for I think Houston, Tex., should have a number, as I am very well acquainted with a number of the "bunch" there, and we must go after them.

I must say one word of Brother Bill Stanton; he and his wife made us a nice visit the other night. Your visit, Bill, was a welcome one, so come again, and all of the rest do likewise, for I do like to be friendly.

Our committee is very busy at the present time making arrangements for our second annual ball, on the 24th of December, or, in other words, Xmas Eve. J. W. MacMURDO, No. 16.

To the Editor.

NEW YORK.

Dear Sir: It may be of some importance to our members who are inclined to "invent things" to see what others have presented as their conception of an idea worth while. The other day while searching for something new in our line of work I found the enclosed, which seemed to me to be worthy of the journal. It certainly does possess some good features which can be seen at a glance. The absence of counter-weights and drum are its most noticeable features. Whether it is practical in a mechanical, electrical or commercial sense is another question. The inventor, Mr. H. R. Smith, presented the drawing with its accompanying specification, which reads as follows:

Specification.

H. R. Smith, June 11, 1896.

"A lift electrically actuated; suspended from a bight of the lifting rope-C-at

of each series, and the solenoid travels down the core, raising the cage. When it has descended a certain distance the current is automatically switched from the No. 1 coils to the No. 2, and from them to the No. 3 coils, and so on. The switch is operated by an endless rope-B -which is attached by a bar-A'-to a WM. HAVENSTRITE.

PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9, 1907.

Mr. Editor.

Dear Sir: The President of the United States, also the Governors of the several States, have issued a proclamation calling upon the people of our country to ob serve Thursday, November 28, as a day of Thanksgiving.

In our city this day is observed by a general suspension of business, services are held in churches of all denominations, the various charitable institutions, hospitals and asylums have this day set apart as Donation Day; our thanks are not merely expressed by attending some form of worship, but by substantial contributions to the needs of these places.

The Master hath said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of one of these my brethren ye have done it unto me."

Local No. 5 has much to be proud of and thankful for. This has been a year of achievement.

At the last session of the State Legislature several bills were passed and became laws in which labor was very much interested, namely: The employers' liability act and a bill regarding the elevator inspectors of Philadelphia. Local No. 5, through the influence of her business agent and financial secretary, was instrumental in having these bills passed and signed, so that they became effective.

Our parade, which was held on Saturday evening, April 27 (on wnich occasion the officers of New York local were our guests), was the means of establishing more cordial relations between us. This was reciprocated by the entertainment in lavish style of the delegation from Philadelphia who went to New York on Labor Day to take part in their grand parade.

The San Francisco Convention certainly honored our town. Look at the

record: The re-election of Brother William Young as Secretary-Treasurer, the selection of Brother Feeney as the representative to the American Federation of Labor and the choice of Brother Scott as one of the Vice-Presidents. Then, by way of good measure, decided to come in a body to be our guests in convention three years hence.

While the convention was busy, Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania, was looking for a man to represent the Commonwealth at a conference of the Civic Federation to be held in Chicago. Philadelphia was called upon to furnish a delegate, and No. 5 was honored by having the Business Agent selected. Brother Feeney is to be congratulated and Governor Stuart commended for his choice. This conference was composed of delegates appointed by the Governors of the various States, and was attended and addressed by such noted men as Samuel Gompers, W. Jennings Bryan, ex-Mayor Low, of New York; J. Seligman Banks, of New York, and others equally noted. Mr. Gompers was appointed on the Executive Committee of the Conference to present its conclusions to the next Congress.

Labor everywhere should be thankful for such wise, sagacious, fearless leaders Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell, Hayes, Ballantine, Duncan, Lemon and Keith.

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At our last meeting we were requested by the Director of Public Safety of our city to prepare a series of questions and answers to be used as a standard in the examination of applicants for positions as Elevator Inspectors. Our Executive Committee met in special session and complied with the request. This assures the appointment of thoroughly competent inspectors in our city.

The new law will go into full effect January 1, 1908, at which time probably twelve or fifteen new men will be appointed. In all likelihood some of our men will make good.

For two months we have had a great deal of kicking. Fortunately it has not been by the trade unionist, but by our football team. Old Penn played a kicking game until the Indians came to town and walloped her to the tune of 26 to 6 by a play they call the spiral forward pass.