Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-12
NATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
Fifth Days Proceedings Resolutions on
The Douglas Question.

ALBANY, June ll.-In the Printers
National Convention last night, III,
Coales, delegate from New Orleans,
waStiten a seat.
Resolutions asking Congress to pass
4 postal telegraph bill, in order to pre-
vent the Associated Press from Vlrtti-
ally preventing any more newspapers
from being published, were intro
dueed, debated, and referred to a com
nlittee Of five.
A series Of resolutions were intro
dueed that employers should not
make religious or political views test
of employment, and denOuncing the
action of the Congressional printer for
giving employment to i. II. Doug
lass, a rat. \ proposition to divide
the question was agreed to, when the
Convention adjourned without action.
In the Typographical Convention
to-day, the report on the Constitution
was read.
dThe sum OF So was appropriated TO
nv the expenses Of Mr.. Troupe, the
telAgate to the Congress Of the Ma
ional Labor Union last year.
4 resolution was adopted Ia send
Two delegates To the National Labor
Union. and Sample and Green, Of
Pittsburg, We're appointed, with Beatty
and Dunn, Of Philadelphia, as alter
mates.
A resolution declaring that the
practice Of taking apprentices to the
printing business who had no knoWl-
edge OF grammar ought 10 be abol-
ished, which was adopted by 3G to p.
The Convention then selected Gin
einnati a. the next place for holding a
meeting.
Mr.. TrickehOn moved that the gem
-raI laws be so amended a. 10 grant
charters to wOmen's Typographical
Unions, which was referred.
The Committee on Returns reported
1:J45 members in good standing. There
have been 2256 members initiated
within the past year; l4l have been
expelled and lI6 restored under the
amnesty proclamation.
The Committee on Subordinate
Unions reported faNorably upon the
following subjects: The apprentices
should have a good grammar educa-
tion-reiected; that an organizer OF
subordinate Unions in Canada and
the Eastern States he appointed, and
that his expenses be paid by the
National Typographical Union, which
was tabled; also avorably on
the action of the Erie, Pa, Union in
denOunciRg certain parties IA rats,
and for which the members Of the
Union have been indicted for conSpir-
acy and libel.
ON motion of Mr.. Menamin the
clause was amended by pledging the
efforts of the members Of the Union 70
secure a repeal Of the conspiracy and
libel laws, and the clause was adopted.
The Convention then went into
Committee Of the Whole on the new
Constitution. 4 debate arose on the
second section, which contained a pro-
vision looking to granting charters TO
women Unions. The proposition 70
amend so as tOmilitate against women
charters was lost. The section was
amended requiring the scale of prices
by one Union, 10 be agreed to by
another Union in the same town or
city, and then adopted. The third
section providing for granting char
tiers to WOmen's Unions was then read
and amended 50 as - allow women
TO Ioin other than wOmen's Unions,
and it was adopted with but one or
two dissenting voices.
4 section requiring that delegates
10 the National Union shall be mem-
bers in good standing in the Unions
they repEsent, was adopted.
Article 3, relative to the officers and
their election, was adopted.
Article 4, relative to the duty of Of
fcers, was taken up, but not disposed
of, when the Committee reported pro
oress, and recess was taken.
At the afternoon session other artl-
cles of the Constitution were adopted,
and the whole instrument adopted by
lcS TO l60.
Miss Augusta Lewis, President OF
the Women's Typographical Union,
thanked the Convention for its action.
Mr.. Beatty offered a resolution that
it is unjust for the members of a
union TO receive and do work from a
place where there is strike,