or widows were not admitted. John D. Vaughn served as first Superintendent of the Home while its first member was W. B. Eckert, a retired member and former officer of the Philadelphia #2 local. The 1899 ITU convention at Detroit approved the name Union Printers Home. The home, a hospital and sanatorium, was staffed by its own doctors, nurses and other medical technicians. The lands of the home grew to to accommodate a dairy, farms, gardens, power plant, and workshops to help make the UPH self-sufficient. In 1944, Dowell Patterson (1899–1968), superintendent of the home, saw that the most modern of medical equipment was furnished to the UPH. In later years, the tubercular sanitoriums were razed. Today the home serves the people of Colorado Springs and El Paso County as a health care facility with assisted living and nursing care. The main building is a State of Colorado historical site. In February 2020, the local press and media reported the State of Colorado had shut down the facility, citing numerous violations. In July 2021, a small group of investors are planning to refurbish the UPH over the next five years and turn it into a public space. Women's International Auxiliary The Women's International Auxiliary was formed at the 1902 Cincinnati ITU Convention. The WIA slogan was Spend Union Earned Money for Union Label Products and Union Services and its quarterly publication was Label Facts. The WIA contributed to the Union Printers Home Fund with various fund raising events. At each ITU convention the WIA would award prizes for the, Union Label Poster contest. Only printer wives were eligible to be elected to the WIA local and international offices. After 1948, mailers' wives were only eligible to serve the local and international WIA auxiliary as third vice president. The Women's International Auxiliary of the International Typographical Union ceased to exist after 1990, which was after the dissolution of the parent union. Allied Printing Trades Association In March 1911, five international unions created the Allied Printing Trades Association: International Typographical Union International Printing Pressmen Union of North America Bookbinders Photo Engravers Stereotypers and Electrotypers Unions In 1955, there was a new agreement, and the following unions were included in the association: United Papermakers and Paperworkers The Newspaper Guild International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers The Plate Printers Die Stampers and Engravers The Mailer unions chartered by the ITU were