Show FINE HOME OF UNION PRINTERS institution of which organization has right to be proud NEARLY THIRTY YEARS OLD beneficent work done in palatial abode at colorado springs would be hard to overestimate union has glorious record in the car 1850 there was a path erang of union printers in the city of bew bork composed of represents thes from a dozen different cities and the foundation was there laid for what was destined to become lie worlds greatest labor organization from this modest little meeting alie international typographical union was called into being and ever since that time it has been the purpose of union printers to spread the gospel ot trades unionism throughout the world in the early das of its existence the international typographical union met with problems eliat threatened its very life but those self sacrificing pioneers of the trades union movement through patient and painstaking efort overcame the perplexing union printers home bullies encountered and launched a movement that since lias taken root in every industry in the lind in fact the union printers were the first to appreciate the necessity of a national rody and were primarily responsible for organizing the american bedera ion of I 1 abor the history of the international typographical union Is one of achievement among the more progressive and humanitarian measures adopted and put into force anny be mentioned the workshop a living wage lie eight hour work da arbitration and conciliation woman suffrage one davs rest in seven initiative and ref eren dum equal wages for men and women prohibition of child labor old ago pensions mortuary benefits supplemental plem trade education a home for old members and a tuberculosis sana corium for victims of the white plague of all the beneficent features con necked with he international typographical union the union printers home perhaps has given the alon more publicity than any other one activity this unique institution was erected and if maintained by the membership ot the union it ans dedicated in 1802 since that time hundreds of old printers hav e passed their clos ing davs in this haven of rest many members who have fallen v to the dread white plague have been nursed back to health at he tuberculosis bercu losis sana corium and returned to their families as useful and self support ing members of society it Is the bost ot union printers hat their members do not become public charges overtaken by ago and adversity they have their own home to go to a home for which in the days of their earning power aliey have bild a home which it as a matter of right and not ns a matter of charity everything that Is necessary to comfort and con tenement tent ment Is supplied without cost the member at work pay tho bills the home Is located at colorado springs colo and has been visited by over a quarter million people in the past as arv and these r journeying from all countries and rep resenting all claws and walks of life have paid their v balth of compliments to the home james J hoban in the cleveland sunday leader magazine |