The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-08
A STATE UNION.
Probable Success of the Type
graphical Movement-The
Labor Field.

The project of forming a State Typo
was mentioned in the Sunday edition of
The JERSEY CITY News a short time ago,
is now in a fair way Of being pushed to a
successful issue. The idea of a State
union has long been talked of by promi-
nent members of the craft in this part of
the State, but nothing tangible has ever
been accomplished. Now, however,
everything is ripe for the form alton of
such a union, aud the following letter
has been sent to the secretaries of typo
graphical unions in the State by John 2,
Mcdonald. editor of the Paterson Labor
Standard, who is Deputy Organizer of
The IuternaJional Typographical Union
PATERSON, N. j., Nov. S, 1891.
DEAR SIR:-At the recent annual congress OF
the New Jersey Federation of Trades Unions, 1T
was resolved, upon request OF the delegates
from the local unions of the Internati onal Typo
graphical Union, to cal q conferenc e of dele
gates from all the local Typographical unions in
New Jersey Tor the purpo . of discussing the
present State contract system, and agreeing
upon a substitute for it. As this Question
the printers of New Jersey will be considered,
your union Is urged to send two delegates, ii
possible, to the convention, which will be held
at No. As William street, Newark, on Sunday.
Will DChln
at two O'Clock p. m. sharp.
Yours fraternally.
j.. i. MCDONNELL.
Chairman Executive Committee.
Deputy Organizer, l. T. U.
At the last meeting OF Hudson County
Typographical Union No. "a, held We'd
nesday evening. u copy of the above let
ter was read and f~ayorably received, and
pursuant to the request contained there
in. President Seaman appointed Messrs.
Edward Sweetwood and james j.
Bowling as delegates to the convention.
There is no doubt in the world" said
a prominent printer of this city to me
yesterday, "that such a union would be
OF great benefit to the printers of the
State, and that it would probably have
some weight in changing the present con-
tract system Of State printing, which is
manifestly unfair to the embers of the
craft in this section of the State, who IAN
not compete against the low prices paid
for work in cities west of Newark. l
would like to see a union of that kind in
New Jersey"
A State union has been formed in New
York, with every prospect of success,
and members of the craft in this city ana
Newark to whom | ave spoken on the
subject. speak favorably and some enthu-
siastically OF the project of such a body
in this State.
Labor Notes.
Matters between Ringle & Son and
their employees are still unsettled, and
from the tenor Of things are likely to re-
main so. The Ringles will not Weld. and
the men say that they are prepared to
stand a siege of any length. Members of
the Tinsmiths' Union say that the talk of
the Ringles is ali bluff, and that
they will have to employ union men, as
they have large contracts on hand,
which must be finished in a specified
time. About fifty men IRE concerned in
the strike. A former member of the
union says that the shop of the Ringles
has always been a ource of trouble to the
union and taat strikes nave frequently
been ayerted only by wise counsel on the
part of the officers of the union.
, The execution of the Chicago anarch-
lists will be commemorated by Textile
WorkecA' Progressive Union No. & at