Chad & REME

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Mon Nov 20 02:41:38 UTC 2000


>... The NYPL has the International Typographical Union THE BULLETIN (also, THE
>TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL or THE ITU JOURNAL or ITU REVIEW).  I'll check for
>chads, but it'll probably be deathly boring.

I would suggest trying a telegraphy journal, if there is one. Or a ham
radio journal.

>    An interesting journal that came up on WorldCat under the subject
>"Trade-unions--Printing industry--United States--Periodicals" is THE BUG
>(Description based on No. 3 June 1940), LC Z243.U5, Allied Printing Trades
>Council, Kansas City, Kansas.  (NOT Missouri!!)  Did Fred Shapiro "de-bug"
>this?

I think the noun "bug" has a special sense in printing. The RHUD says: "a
label printed on certain matter to indicate that it was produced by a union
shop."

-- Doug Wilson



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