The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-12
Na,ionnI TypogrnphicmI Union.

ALBANY, June lin the TypoSraph-
ical Convention to-day the report on the
new constitution was read.
The sum of twenty-five dollars was
appropriated to pay the expenses of Mr..
TrOup, delegate to the Congress of the
National Labor Union last year.
A resolution was adopted to send two
delegates to the National Labor Union,
and Messrs. Sample and Green, of Pitts
burgh, were appointed, with Messrs.
Beatty and Dunn, of Philadelphia, as
alternates.
A resolution declaring that the prac-
tice of taking apprentices to the print
ing business who have no knowledge of
grammar ought to be abolished was
adopted.
The Convention then selected Cincin-
natl as the place fer the next meeting.
Mr.. Frickelton moved that the gen.
eral laws be so amended as to grant
charters to Women's Typographical
Unions. Referred.
The committee on Returns reported
7545 members in good standing. There
has been 2256 members initiated within
the past year; 144 have been expelled
and l76 restored under the amnesty
proclamation.
The committee on Subordinate Unions
reported favOrably upon the following
subjects:
That apprentices to the printing bust
ness should have good grammar edu-
cation. Rejected.
That an organizer of subordinate
Unions in Canada and the Eastern
States be appointed and his expenses be
paid by the National Union. Tabled.
The committee also reported favora-
bly, upon the resolution sustaining the
action of the Erie, Pennsylvania, Union
IN denouncing certain parties as rats"
and for which the members of the Union
have been indicted for conspiracy and
libel.
On motion of Mr.. Menamin, the
clause WAS amended by pledging the
efforts of the members of this Union 10
/. secure the repeal of the conspiracy and
libel Laws, and then the clause was
adopted.
The Convention then went into com.
mittee on the new constitution. Debate
arose on the second section, which con.
tanned provision locking to granting
charters to Women URions, and the
proposition to amend so as TO initiate
against the women's charter was lost
The section was amended so as TO re-
quire scale of prices to be adopted by
one Union to be agreed to by another
Union in the same town or city and then
adopted. The third section, providing
fer granting charters to Women Unions,
was then read and amended so as to al
low women 10 join other than Women'S
Unions. The section was then adopted
with but one or two dissenting voices.
section requiring that delegates to
tne National Union shall be members
III GOOD standing in the Unions they
represent was adopted.
Article, relative to the otficars and
their erection, was adopted,
Article 4, relative to the dnties of of
fcers, was taken up but not disposed of
when the committee rose and +enorta5
progress and a recess was taken.
At the afternoon session other NOR
ticles of the Constitution were adopted
and the whole instrument adopted nv
les to Is.
Miss Augusta Lewis, President of the
Women's Typographical Union, thanked
the Convention for its action.
Mr.. Beatty offered resolution that
1t is unjust for members of a Union tC
receive and do work taken from place
"nere there is strike. Adopted.