PAINTERS: MENTS WORK WITH YOU ON EVERY PRO WILL YOU LET OUR SERVICE DEPART. BLEM PRETAINING TO THE FINISHING OF Co-operation is the order of the day. Through our Service Departments in New York, Boston and Chicago, and similar departments in hands of distributors in leading centers, we have developed the co-operative idea with Painters as it has never been developed in our field. You owe it to yourselves to investigate our service to Painters. We can offer you real, practical help. There is always available, for your inspection, the most wonderful array of new and standard effects in BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHES on Interior Woodwork, Walls, Doors and Floors ever exhibited. Not on fancy panels, but on Real House Trim, Real Model Morgan Doors and Real Wallboard. We will gladly work with you to obtain any special effects which you may have in mind and which our exhibit may not show. As we have very thoroughly covered the field of new and unusual effects, however, it is more than likely that we can show you exactly what you desire without the loss of time connected with making experiments. Bring your clients to these exhibits. Clients can see the finished results in advance and very often you can obtain, within a short time, a decision on effects and color schemes that might otherwise take days and weeks. We shall be pleased to advise you the name and location of our nearest service department on request. The BRIDGEPORT WOOD FINISHING Co. New Milford, Conn. The financial secretaries of the locals listed below are not complying with the law requiring them to forward their day book sheets to the General Office. All owe sheets for October, November and December; many for a longer period. The failure of secretaries to forward day book sheets deprives members of all protection of their right to benefits should their due books be lost or destroyed. Scan the list; if your local is among the delinquents, see that the secretary does his duty or that he is removed from office. Read the law: The Law. "Section 131. The Financial Secretary shall receive all moneys paid into the union and shall enter all payments in the official duplicate page day book as furnished by the G. S.-T. He shall forward to the G. S.-T. the duplicate sheet or sheets taken from said book within the time and in such manner as provided in Section 238. Financial Secretaries failing to comply with this 24 New Castle, Pa. 70 Lakewood, N. J. 74 Winchester, Mass. 81 Portsmouth, N. H. 95 Bicknell, Ind. 100 Wellsburg, W. Va. 136 Waukesha, Wis. 140 Athens, Ohio. 199 Saginaw, Mich. 203 Henryetta, Okla. 220 Harrisburg, Ill. 222 Providence, R. I. 232 Corning, N. Y. 234 Ossining, N. Y. 278 Lebanon, Pa. 279 Anadarko, Okla. 322 Salida, Colo. 327 Charleroi, Pa. 369 Dixon, Ill. 370 Casper, Wyo. 403 Tacoma, Wash. 471 Alton, Ill. provision of this section shall be removed from office by the General Executive Board. **********." "Section 238. ********He (the G. S.-T.) shall also establish and maintain a Financial Secretary's duplicate page day book system which shall show the amounts of money paid and the dates on which such payments were made by each member. Said duplicate page day book shall be the official day book of this Brotherhood and shall be procured by Financial Secretaries from the G. S.-T. Financial Secretaries shall send to the G. S.-T., without delay, by registered mail, and with their monthly reports, the duplicate sheet or sheets taken from said book********.” The General Executive Board has been patient and wishes to avoid being unnecessarily severe but unless the sheets are immediately forthcoming, the offending financial secretaries will be removed from office, as prescribed in Section 131 of the constitution, quoted above. 486 Ely, Nevada. 694 Asbury Park, N. J. 824 Parkersburg, W. Va. 854 Christopher, Ill. 908 Lancaster, Pa. 910 London, Ont., Can. 917 Corpus Christi, Texas. 925 Deer Lodge, Mont. 946 Southbridge, Mass. 971 Wilmington, Del. 979 Pocatello, Idaho. 980 Carrier Mills, Ill. 981 Webster City, Iowa. 1017 Somerset, Pa. 1021 Webb City, Mo. 1022 Bluefield, W. Va. 1027 Cameron, Mo. 1049 Union City, Tenn. 1055 Vinita, Okla. 1056 Marion, Iowa. 1062 Savannah, Ga. 1070 Bellefonte, Pa. It may be proved with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it seems no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It was written: "In the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written: "In the breaking of thy heart.”—Ruskin. LAW POINTS FOR PAINTERS Scope of the Compensation Acts. NE of the greatest difficulties now being encountered by the courts in administering the workmen's compensation acts is to determine just when an employe may be said to have been injured within the course of his employment so as to make an injury compensable under the laws. A particular class of these cases relate to injuries sustained while an employe is proceeding from one place to another in going to, or returning from, actual work within his working day. For instance, it will be remembered that a New York journeyman painter claimed compensation for injury sustained in an accident while he was "stealing a ride" on a truck, in going from a job to report at his employer's office. The court intimated that he could have recovered had he been walking along the street or while riding on a street car, but that he had so far departed from an authorized means of going from his work to the office as to preclude him from claiming compensation for the injury. A decision lately handed down by the Michigan Supreme Court is in harmony with this view. (158 Northwestern Reporter, 851.) That court held that an employe who was going from one job to another, walking along a street in Detroit, must be deemed to have been proceeding in the course of his employment when struck by an automobile, entitling his dependent relatives to compensation on his death from such accident. The court says: "Where employes are compelled during the course of their employment to travel about the streets, it does not seem to us to be unreasonable to say that the danger of being struck by street cars, automobiles and traffic of every description should be taken account of." A New Route to the Penitentiary The Minnesota Legislature and Supreme Court have made it possible for a dishonest contractor or sub-contractor to find himself in the penitentiary on a conviction of larceny, if he fails to pay labor and material claims out of the proceeds of his contracts. A law enacted at the last session of the Minnesota Legislature declares that a contractor or sub-contractor who, with intent to defraud, uses the proceeds of a contract for any other purpose than the payment of labor and material claims, so long as such claims remain unpaid, shall be guilty of larceny. In the case of State vs. Harris, 158 Northwestern Reporter, 829, defendant stands charged with a violation of the law, and he sought to have the indictment quashed on the ground that the law is unconstitutional, but the Supreme Court of the State upheld the validity of the act, saying, "No honest man can possibly be injured by the provisions of the act of 1915. Only the contractor who diverts money with evil intent to defraud need fear the law." The objections unsuccessfully made to the validity of the law were that it constituted class legislation and that it, in effect, provides imprisonment for non-payment of debts. These claims were disposed of on the grounds that all persons falling within the terms of the law are equally amenable to it, and that it is not mere non-payment of debts that is to be punished, but fraudulent misapplication of funds to which laborers and material men are legally entitled.-The Painters Magazine and Paint and Wall Paper Dealer. AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION AND DECISION. For some time past the Patent and Enamel Leather interests, through their trade association, have been decrying the advance made in the variety of manufacture and use of artificial and imitation leather, or substitutes for leather, and have questioned the right of the artificial leather manufacturers to the use of the word "leather" in connection with their product. Much agitation, including lengthy arguments in advertising form, has been brought about by the claims of each side-the artificial leather interests accusing the Patent and Enamel Leather interests of deceiving the public by the production of split hides as against genuine grain leather, offering same as "leather" without specifying. Finally, a complaint was made to the Federal Trade Commission under the "Unfair Competition" Section of the Clayton act. On February 18, 1916, the Commission notified The Standard Oil Cloth Company of New York, manufacturers of Meritas Leather Cloth, as follows: "A complaint has been made to this Commission that your Company is engaged in producing, advertising and marketing, in interstate commerce, materials to imitate the finish and grain effects of genuine leather for upholstery use under what is alleged to be an erroneous, false, deceptive and misleading guise of 'leather,' designated under the brand or appellation of 'Meritas Leather Cloth,' and that the use of such brand or appellation on, and in reference to, said material, is an unfair method of competition in violation of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act." The manufacturers of Meritas Leather Cloth denied the allegation and presented a concise statement of facts, together with samples of products, advertising literature, price lists, trademarks, etc., to show that there had been no violation of the law, and courted a thorough investigation. It was a simple matter to point out that Meritas Leather Cloth is sold as "The Leading Leather Substitute," this line invariably appearing in each advertisement. Further it has been stated that Meritas Leather Cloth is made on various qualities of cloth such as muslin, duck, drill, laminated cloth, etc. The goods are further offered 50 inches or wider in factory rolls of 12 yards. Nobody could imagine that they were buying real leather from real hides in such measurements even if the appearance of the goods did resemble real leather in finish and grain. Not only has the price of genuine leather advanced greatly but almost all raw ma terials used in the manufacture of leather substitutes has increased likewise, so that the buyer must not; only use his judgment but his eyes, in seeing to it that he gets just what he asks for. The makers of Meritas Leather Cloth always stamp their trademark on the back of the goods so buyers can identify the quality. A lapse of practically six months occurred, in which time the Federal Trade Commission investigated and considered the application of issuance of а complaint against the manufacturers of Meritas Leather Cloth. The Commission then advised the manufacturers of Meritas Leather Cloth, "that it would not be proper for it to forbid the use of the word 'leather' on such fabrics, provided the fact that they were not made of real hides of animals appears with reasonable clearness, by any appropriate form of expression." Inasmuch as this Company has always pursued the policy of making the above point plain by the use of the word Cloth (Leather Cloth) it has, therefore, operated along the lines approved by the Federal Trade Commission. G. M. PRENTISS. SPIRIT ROUSERS. By CHARLES PERRY TAYLOR, Secretary Washington State Federation of Labor Let us believe in our fellow men. They may not always agree with us. We might feel sorry if they did, For we do not believe Some of the things We were so cocksure about A very few years ago. May they never lose Faith in themselves, Because if they do, They may lose faith in us. And that will hurt us more Than the former; And it would really hurt them more Let us believe in our home. It would not satisfy some folks, That cannot be purchased In the markets of the world. The motto of our home is service; There is no other spot in all the world Let us believe in our country. It is a good country, best on earth, With all its faults. Let us believe in it because It is made up of our fellow men- We can't go back on them If we do not think it The best country in the world It is probably because We do not try to make it so. The past is of value Only as it can make life Fuller and freeer. There is no assurance of tomorrow. Let us. today, believe, have faith, And do our very best. |