Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-18
OUR PRINTERS.
HOW THE NEWSPAPERS NET THE Diff
CULTIES OF THE STRIKE.
Thu Printers Protective Fraternity and It's OOnsttu-
ton-GOOd Work by Our New Men
From Abroad.

As the public has been taking eOnsldera-
HE interest in the printers strike, 1t may
not be uninteresting to know how the
newspapers of the city have so soon been
able to proceed with their work as usual.
When it was found last Wednesday that
the printers had gone out, something nau
to be done Immediately to procure a new
force that the papers might continue pub
LEGATION. Printers must be gotten as soon
as possible wherever we could get them;
The REGISTER at once teleSrapneu
TO various towns IN IN our
adjoining States. As a result, tne
REGISTER now has three printers from St.
Clairsyille. n from Piedmont, two from
| Medina. one from FairmOnt and five from
Cleveland and other points still to hear
from. When such haste was Necessary,
there was no standing upon quality or
quantity. 1t was any port IN q storm, so
we cot somebody who knew some
thing about setting type OF course
some of the help was better
than Others, but all were willing, N dld
the best they could to get the paper out Of
the drag, and our apprentices were POSI-
lively helpful.
The new force is rendering entire salts
faction. The five men from Cleveland
who still hold cases in the Leader office be-
long to the Printers Protective Frater-
nity. an organization that was founded
about two years ago, and is doing work IN
| the principal newspaper offices OF Topeka,
Kansas CAV, LeavenwOrth, Wilmington,
| Hartford, Knoxville, Cleveland and other
cities. Theselmen are excellent printers, and
are gentlemanly in conduct and well attest
the merits ofthe labor organization to which
they belong. The following from the con-
Stiiution of the Printers Protective Fra
~ternity. show the organization to be one
founded on Justice and a proper regard OIL
the relations between employer anu
emplOye: .
WHEREAS, Parties to a contract must
seek a basis of agreement in order to make
an equitable contract for mutual beneht,
and as employers and employees are par
ties to q contract who must rely upon each
other for the accomplishment OF their com
mon PURPOSES, so these two parties should
be allied in the effort to find a correct basis
for their contract, for the better further-
ance of their mutual interests and the
surer and more perfect adjustment OF those
differences which may arise between thelh
as contracting parties.
Experience has shown that the Organlza-
ton of the labor element in this contract
promotes the interests of both parties, III
sOmuch that if properly organized II
controlled, it furnishes 4 means for the
protection of the workman against the OPP
preston and wrongs of INSCRIPTIONS en-
ployers, and ofbOth employee and employ
er against the selfish schemes and dlShon-
orable practices OF individual wOrkmen.
We do not believe that the best Interests
of the two parties and true object of or
panized labor have been subServed, but
rather interfered with, by the methods re-
sorted to by the labor organizations OF the
past.
We do not believe that the mutual IN
tereSts of capital and labor can be further
ell by their taking positions OF antagOnlSm
toward each other, or that the differences
between them can be properly settled by
the force of lOck-OutS, strikes and boy
colts.
We believe that those measures have
proven failures for the purposes Tor when
they have been reSorted to, and are also
destructive of the individual freedom OF
the ~wOrkingman, whom We declare to have
a natural right TO the control OF his own
labor, rs well as the capitalist has to the
control of his own mOney-wlthln the
bounds of the common needs and the pub
lie good.
We believe that organized labor can, in
this day and country, safely appeal to arbl-
tratiOn for the satisfaction Of it's Just tie
| mands, and that this mode Of settlement
will be the best for both capital and labor,
and the general welfare OF the country.
We believe that 4 labor organization
should be able to furnish employers with
good and reliable workmen, and to demand
and secure therefor fair pay and good treat
ment, that it should provide its members
with employment and protect them there
i'm, and that il should aid its members and
their families in time of want, sickness or
death.
And, therefore. with these principles
and for these purposes, the various Prlnt-
erS lrOteCtlNt fTaltIullleS vi luV NhI''N
States, represented herein, have organized
the National Printers Protective Fratern-
ity. and ordained the following a. the con-
stitutiOn thereof. And We present this
preamble and constitution as q new, prac-
ticable and iuSt-thOugh not periect-So-
luton of the Labor Problem
The following article from the COnstitu-
ton will give Il further idea OF their posi-
ton.
ARTICLE l..
SECTION /. This organization shall he
known under the name, style and title OF
the National Printers Protective Frater-
nifty" and shall hive original and full
power to prescribe and enact laws for the
government of all subordinate Printers
Protective Fraternities. 1t shall have the
right and power to adopt, alter or amend
a constitution and bylaws for its own gov
ernment.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION /. The National Printers Pro-
tectiye Fraternity nor any subordinate Fra