- @ modern plant at Tor.
onto, purchased with the
money subscribed by thous-
ands of trade unionists and
progressives throughout the
country, a small amd hard-
working staff provides labor
with its only daily news-
paper, the Daily Tribune,
strengthening the labor
movement from Halifax to
Vancouver by the growing
influence of the daily news-
Paper that expresses its
viewpoint.

That is why the labor
movement in British Colum-
bia is being asked to raise
$12,000 towards the $250,000
Daily Tribune Foundation
Fund. So far only one-third
of this amount has beer
raised and your donation, if
you have not already sent
it, is urgently needed. Send
it to the B.C. Committee,
Daily Tribune Foundation
Fund, 650 Howe Street, a ee:
Vancouver. Raw copy comes into the news desk, seen above,
where it is edited, rewritten and supplied with headlines.

The desk is the hub of the paper. Also above is the photo-

Like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Bob Choma and makes metal duplicates of them for the
is surrounded by acids and fumes, making up the
engravings (cuts) which are etched from metal.
Bo ests the original photographs or drawings

A general view of a corner of the composing
room is seen, with linotype machines in the back-
ground and the “stone” in front. In the centre
pictures the pressroom “fly boy” is picking up

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1947 /

the Tribunes as they come, ready folded, from

to run a 64-page paper the size of the Tribune.

reper. Helene Wasser, who doubles as reporter and
who made these pictures (her own excepted). Of the
people here, four are. veterans, including Helene.

desk supervises. At right, typesetter, Sam Gold-

printer. In the centre, the compositors are around , berg, sets the editorial words into metal
the “stone,” making up the Trib’s type and cuts : 1 ‘
into forms for the stereotyper. John Boyd of the inventing the linotype machine.

slugs. It is rumored that twelve men went crazy

: m And so, to the Tribune box on a Toronto street
the Hoe rotary press (a bit too big to show in corner, where a customer is seen buying her
this layout). The press has two units, is equipped favorite morning paper. Not shown in this story

are the mailers and stereotypers.

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