Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-06

used as compoSltors. The uniform testi-
mopy Of all who have employed women, 10
that they are equal, and In some respects,
superior TO men. This suggestion Is not
made because there is scarcity of5men
who can set type, forlt is we'll known
TACT that there il large surplusiu every
city In the Northwest.
II has been suggested also that the re-
cent Invention in type setting machines
will eventually reVolutiouiEe the business
aud efsctually destroy all combinations of
comPositors.s This is possible, and from
all the accounts received. quite probable,
and may, In time, furnish The best solution
OF the difficulties We are now considering.
But 10 the meantime we recommend that
the men belonging to this association
establish some general rule by which they
will be governed. Therefore
Observation-Disclosures recommend that no
Prtnter be employed BY any establishment
charge from the last Office in which be was
employedi that wherever such person is
employed he shall deposit his papers with
the proprietors, TO be returned 10 him ia
case OF bis honorable discharge.
SecOnd-That whenever person is dis.
charged for cause, the fact of his discharge
shall be sent TO the various papers belong.
ing to this Association.
Third-That We recommend 10 all pub.
fishers, that in employing printers, they
require them % agree not to leave
their situations without giving two weeks
notice thereof, and that the publishers on
their part agree to give the same in case of
dtschsrging any of their employees.
Fourih-fhat We recommend the EN-.
ployment Of female help whenever it can
be done conveniently.
Alter some debate, the whole subject
embraced 10 the report was, on motion,
postponed until the next meeting of the
Association:
On motion Of SIR. Bckham, the meeting
adj burned until three P. N.
AFTERNOON MEETING.
The association met ut P. 81.
The President read from a CODY of the
Rochester IN. W Dea,erdt, the folio wing
dispatch from D. H. Craig, agent of the
New York Associated Press:
NEw YORK, March 60
TO EditOrs:-We earnestly hope you and
other friends of the State Association will
not make the mistake of recognizing the
opposition telegrAp phi lines. which are uu.
doubted!y built by Spectators purely for
speculative purposes, We believe you will
agree With rs, that the true interests of
the whole press Of The country are with the
old and reliable lines, and most certainly
we will, as have no doubt you aud your
associates will, instanIly cut adrift FROM
any paper, the propretors of which con
tribute In any direct way to uphold or en-.
courage the gsmbiIng cut throats who are
cOnSerned 10 the opposition lines.
D. II. CRAIG, Gen'I Agt, &c.
Alter considerable condemnatory debate
OF the foregoing dispatch, the following
resolutions from the Committee on Tele.
graphing were unanimously adopted;
ReSolVed, That the Associated Press dis
patches heretofore and now received. are
not satisfactory as regards quantity, ouaIi-
y ard the manner OF their delivery, and
an imProvemeutint these respects is respect.
fully but earHestiy urged
Re1OLVed, That we are pleased to know
that telsRT1Phic facilities are being largely
Increased by the construction of new and
competing linesi that II il tho interest of
the public and tue prs 10 encourage
composition 10 this business and, while we
shall not hs the partisans OF any company,
we shall deem it our privilege 10 dist. butte
our patronage ia 9rcoEdancp wi u correct
business ciplgs-pa iTo1iziIIs those VINO
offer The best facilities.
RegOiUsi. That the WeeIern Associated
Press dlsapprOVe of the attempt of the New
York Associated Press to dictate rs TO the
lines TO be employed in the Transmission
OF dispatches; and, iu the even. ui auy
effort being made ts enforce the arbitrary
rules adopted in the case OF any newspaper
of this association, We will make common
cause, and regard n war upon auy press,
GU The ground stated, as war upon this
whole, md a violation of those principles
which should govern the press and the pub
lie in dealing with The institutions such as
telegraph companies.
After the adoption of the foregoing reso-
luuOus, the Committee on Advertising
Rates reported rs follows: Fz
- The Committee on Advertising Rates re-
specially report:
That, 10 their opinion, there should be
some degree of uniformity in the rates for
advertising, in our different Western ci ties;
and that, in many phases, the rates now
10 force are by far too low, and operate to
the injury both of the Publishers making
them, and to those who are eodeAvoring 10
get moro adequate compensation for
their space. We would, therefore, recon.
mend that the publishers OF the North.
west do bind themselves not TO advertise
at less rates than the annexed scale:
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