Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-28 | Page 5 | Tramp Printer Still Here, but New Style

Tramp Printer Still Here But New Style INDIANAPOLIS Oct 28 AP Ap I I The tramp printer tel tha that colorful character of great wanderlust has not disappeared in the opinion of James M bL Lynch president of the International Typographical Union and he offers records to prove it The type has changed but the boomer is still with us said Mr I Lynch The difference is that the traveling t type pe who once rode the brake rods and the blind baggage I now spins blithely along long in his own automobile and Is seldom fi financially anci- anci I ally embarrassed Scarcely a a. day passes that a I newspaper somewhere in America does not solemnly record the passing passIng passIng pass- pass Ing of the last of th the j time old-time i tramp printers printers' Some one is always I trying to rob the of or the I Iu picturesque u in orde t reflect gla gla- mor on the past t deT The fact is tact th I more traveling cards ards are being is issued issued ISM is- sued to union printers today I than I we were e issued at any time In the I part pa par f The tramp printer of the old days was highly Useful as well as romantic He carried the printed word into the dark places of Jt the earth He came into contact with the best minds of the age and travel broadened his outlook Unfortunately un- un atel his mode of life Ute tended to enlarge his Imagination and his travelogues sometimes extended to free handed fiction but he was a genial lovable type and practically never vicious The traveling printer of tod manages things much better He Heis Heis Heis is seldom without money and he usually usually su- su ally studies conditions of business before motoring into new and untried untried untried un un- un- un tried fields His union card establishes establishes establishes lishes his competency and he is assured of work as a sub when he arrives in a union town Mr 11 Lynch was asked if he believed believed be beM lI lIed ed the traveling propensity of t printers was good for them N No not as a continuous performance perform perform- ance Thrift and steadiness are virtues virtues virtues vir vir- tues tha that outweigh all others a a craftsman may possess but the ex exchange exchange exchange ex- ex change of ot ideas on on- craft cratt methods is undoubtedly good for the trade 0