MEMORIAM on the death of Brother MORRIS J. BECK With hearts bowed with anguish over the loss that has befallen our Brotherhood in the sudden death of our Auditor, Brother Morris J. Beck, we, the members of the General Executive Board of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paparhangers of America wish to give expression of our profound respect for his character, his worth, and his work. For twelve years he served our organization as Organizer and Auditor and the manner in which he did his work proclaimed his ability as a valuable asset to the Brotherhood. We have relied upon the vision, the judgment and the perfect honesty of the man and have learned to lean upon him more and more, confident that truth, courage, justice, entire consecration to duty, were attributes of his great spirit. The value of that work to this Brotherhood is inestimable. It was not of a kind to attract marked attention; to draw him into unusual prominence; rather the opposite-a thankless and unpleasant undertaking. In almost every instance where books were to be examined, the officers of the Local having been found lacking added insult to injury. Brother Beck having the interest of the membership at heart, accepted the situation without a murmur. While all of us keenly feel the great loss that has come to our Brotherhood, we thoroughly understand as understand we must, because death will eventually invade the family of each and all of us-that the family of the departed will seriously suffer the loss of a true and faithful husband and loving father. BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That the General Executive Board on behalf of the entire membership of our Brotherhood, at its meeting on January 8th, as its first official act, desires to express the understanding of the membership of the great loss that we have all met with at his death and that we desire to express to the family of the departed, our great and heartfelt sympathy, which goes out to them freely, in this, the hour of their great loss and bereavement; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution properly engrossed be presented to the family of our late departed friend. MORAL OF ST. PAUL LABOR TEMPLE If You Believe in Movement, Invest in It N December 5, 1919, the custodian of the Trades Union Hall, a painter by the name of Robert Earl, member of Local 61, called the attention of the Assembly to the fact that in two years the present lease of the labor hall would expire and asked what was going to be done to secure new quarters for the labor movement. This brought on the general discussion which ended in the chairman appointing from each organization one delegate to be known as the Labor Temple Committee. After quite a few meetings and a great deal of debate, an executive committee was formed with power to devise ways and means to procure some suitable location for a permanent home for the labor movement. The Mozart property on Franklin street, consisting of 137 feet on Franklin and 60 feet deep, composed of one building four stories high and another building three stories high, was selected. The purchase price was $40,000. The magnitude of this undertaking must be considered due to the fact that the committee had absolutely no money towards the purchase price, but within ten days from the time that this location was accepted, $1,000 earnest money had been paid. The balance of $39,000 to be paid within one year. In nine months, by subscribing one day's pay, the labor movement of St. Paul had paid for the entire property. Then came the general depression and the "open shop" movement, and for over one year nothing was done to raise further finance with which to remodel the property. On the first of March, 1922, the committee, now incorporated into what is known as the St. Paul Labor Temple Association, com prising 59 different organizations, started remodeling to the extent of $45,000. This is being rapidly subscribed by the same method that was used in paying the property; namely, a day's pay. When the remodeling is entirely done the St. Paul Labor Temple Association will have the finest labor temple in America; centrally located, off all the noise of car lines, but within four blocks of all the loop lines of the city. Truly, brothers, some achievement! Why not take pattern after St. Paul? Stop paying rent and build a home of your own. The best answer to the open shop advocates is that we not only believe in our labor movement, but invest our money in it as well. This beautiful edifice represents a worthy achievement of St. Paul Labor Movement enthusiasts. T ARE YOU SERVING YOUR LOCALS? By Leolie Mennell, Sec'y L. U. No. 227, O my way of thinking, I never found out how hard it was to write an article until I started this one, and in the words of our teachers who tell the students that you get out of a thing only what you put in it, I choose to make that the subject of this article. I hope to "put something in, so that the brothers who read this will get something out of it. For the past three and a half years, it has been my lot to be secretary of a local in a town where true unionism is very conspicuous by its absence. A place where such men as Casidy, Armstrong, Russell, Prichard, and a few other notables in the labor world have made very little impression on the worker. Such is the state of things in a good number of places. Various reasons have been put forward for this state of affairs, such as the war, the Winnipeg strike, the economic condition of the country and the law of supply and demand. While to my mind a certain amount of these have something to do with it, you must get at the root cause, the effect we have with us in the shape of reduced wages, longer hours and bad conditions. The cause to my mind and the root of the evil, is the worker himself, and as this is aimed at the worker in our craft, especially to those members who belong to locals who are in distress, let us consider what they have done, as individuals, to help our locals along. You! brothers, who belong to dying locals, ask yourselves the following questions: 1. Have I paid my dues? 2. Have I done anything to elevate the trade and its members? 3. Have I attended the meetings to assist in keeping the local together? 4. Have I, as an officer of our local, kept faith in the trust that was placed in me by my fellow workers? 5. Have I said, "Let George do it?" 6. Have I put off till tomorrow what I could have done today? 7. Have I done things to cause our secretary lots of work juggling his books, in order that I may be kept in good standing at the expense of my fellow members? 8. Am I hanging on the other fellow's neck and choking him? 9. Have I always put the excuse, "I can't pay my dues this month?" 10. Have I made any effort when work was good to pay two months' dues, so that when my slack time came around my dues would be well advanced? 11. Am I responsible for my local being behind in our per capita tax? 12. What is my resolution for 1923: Shall it be a RED LETTER or a DEAD LETTER? Perhaps you may think I am hard boiled and a whole lot of hard things, but I am sure that such thoughts will not emanate from the brothers who have done their share to keep from going under-the only thing that is worth while to the true worker and union man. That is a high standard of living, reasonable working hours and conditions. The aim of this article is to get each member to analyze himself, to sum up the evidence of the questions and ask himself: Was I failure in 1922? If the answer is against you, try the following resolution: "I resolve during 1923 to bring my local a new member, attend all its meetings, pay my dues regularly and promptly, assist in every way to fulfill the trust that is placed in me by my fellow members." I trust, fellow workers and brothers, that you will accept this message with the best spirit at your command and in the friendly spirit it is sent to you. Keep the good start you have made in 1923 by attending all your meetings. I wish you brothers the best of luck, prosNineteen perity and happiness during Twenty Three. WEALTH OF EXQUISITE GLASS IN YORK MINSTER. London, Dec. 31.-The exquisite mediaeval glass in York Minster is worth £73,000, 000 (about $350,000,000 normally). This stupendous estimate of its value was made by the Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, the Dean of York, who bases it on the price fetched in America for similar English glass. At a sale in New York a piece of stained early English glass measuring 30 inches by 31 inches was sold for $90,000. "I told the Archbishop of Canterbury of this sale," said the Dean in an address at Hull recently, "and from it I estimated the value of the glass in the Minster, which is being releaded and cleaned." "'But no one buys old glass in such quantities,' said the Archbishop. "I replied: 'All the money in the world could not buy the Minster glass. It is not for sale."" Success in business turns on knowing what other people in the same line of business are doing. We grow by elimination; we have to know everything that will not work. We also have to know everything that is a success in our particular line of business. We Express Our Regrets for an Unfortunate Accident R ELATIVE to an article which appeared in the January issue of the Journal entitled, "The Proper Use of the Spray Gun," the editor hastens to explain to the entire membership that the appearance of this article was the result of a very unfortunate accident. The article in question was clipped, not for publication, but for the purpose of having it on file so that its very outrageous contentions could be disputed. In the rush of things, however, the article became mixed with a batch of other stuff and in this way reached the printer's hands. The editor was very much distressed to find that through this unfortunate mischance that the article appeared in print in the Journal. Therefore, the Painter and Decorator wishes to rescind the article in question and to state in positive terms that it is vehemently opposed to the use of the spray gun and regards it as a grave menace to the workers and the industry. It is needless to say that this unfortunate circumstance is regretted beyond measure. CHARLES J. LAMMERT, 32 G. S.-T. → THE BROTHERS' COLUMN Open to Our Readers for the Marketing of Ideas, Suggestions and Opinions-The Painter and DESIRED TO BE FIRST IN OFFER ING AID. Miami, Fla., Dec. 1, 1922. Brother Lammert: As I view the bickering and shortsightedness of the rank and file of the organization, this old hymn refreshes my careless memory: "Must I be carried to the spies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize And sailed through bloody seas?" I know its a little out of form, but I want to be the first private in our ranks to offer a weapon of defense for the blind men of my trade. I do not send a sword, gun, or dynamite, but an humble dollar to pay for the Journal, and to agitate and aid this movement for a better defense fund. I am not looking for selfish aid, but for emancipation of my fellowmen. Since I must fight, If I would, win, Increase my courage.-Lord. Respectfully, R. R. DOTY, Box 90-C, Rt. A, Miami, Fla. GREATER PROTECTION FUND IS URGENT NEED. Beaumont, Tex., Dec. 31, 1922. General Executive Board, Gentlemen: Pursuant to instructions, introduced in a resolution adopted by Local Union No. 243, of Beaumont, Tex., on Dec. 28, 1922, at a special meeting, the undersigned committee, appointed for this specific purpose, submits for publication in the January issue of our Journal, the following statements expressing the sentiments of this organization relative to the constitutional amendment: i. e., the charge of subscription for the National Journal heretofore issued free: We, the members of the above mentioned local, undoubtedly and indisputably, more greatly appreciate the urgent and distressing need of a greater protection fund for our organization in its vigilant defense against the powerful and destructive inroads on industrial democracy, being waged by organized capital and the enemies of freedom. By unanimous action we have indorsed and approved the National Executive Board in presenting this amendment to our membership, as a temporary visible relief of our present financial embarrassment (impending). We are of the opinion, and candidly admit, that a judicious expenditure of our Defense Fund, in the past, is not patent; however, while we realize that this presents a sinister menace towards the morale of our membership, and may cause an ever greater desertion from the ranks, it yet proves conclusively the now essential need of immediate finances to recoup the deflated membership and in consideration of the above mentioned facts, we appeal to all union men, liberty-loving men, to assemble at their respective locals and assist as materially as possible, the passage of this much needed amendment to the end. That the cry of the down-trodden and "unjustly persecuted" shall not be made in vain, and that the Brotherhood of Painters may again take their position among the first and greatest organization on earth, sponsoring and championing the right of all free and just people in the interest of Christianity. Beaumont was the birthplace of the open shop, the greatest evil that ever attacked the interests of a free people, that has caused its poisonous fangs to deliver its contaminative fluid into the veins of otherwise honest men. It spread from this city like "wild fire," huge, peace-destroying, home wrecking, honor destroying, contaminating, damning, indescribable honor that it was, it left formerly peaceful, placid communities, prosperous loyal, contented peoples, an unbelievable mob of unthinking, riotous, honorless gangs, aligned against one another, undermining, seeking unfair advantages of each other, while a few remained loyal to the principle of freedom and democracy, and have borne patiently the burden of reconstruction, and while Beaumont, once a peaceful little seaport, reveling in abundant, prosperity and happiness, content with its then almost one hundred per cent unionism, basking in the knowledge that in honest co-operation there is success and happiness, enjoying the well deserved reward secured through its loyalty to principle-was struck down over night like a horrible epidemic that it was, it stunned, amazed its people, it quickly swallowed up most of its people by the propagation of |