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Unions and their axpenses paid by the

Unions and their expenses paid by the
international Typographical Union.
4. formulate some plan to end the
strife now going on between the press
men of the International Typographical
Union and the International Printing
Pressmen's Union.
5. Political tolerance to the extent that
unions may condemn or approve the acts
of any public official where unionism is
affected
6. Petition to the Legislature demand
ing that union labor be legalized, q. e.,
that it be given standing in courts of
law, thus enabling contracts to be legally
drawn, and all parties to the contract
anlenable TO the law for violation.
abridgement, etc. If some such law were
passed then the establishment of State
or National Arbitration Commission
would follow.
am pleased to meet you all, and hope
our business will be thoroughly and
systematically conducted. Yours. fra
ternally, j. L. HOLMES, JR.,
President.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND TREAS
URER.
Secretary Treasurer Robinette's report
was as follows: Cash on hand April 10,
1873, 500 %; receipts from unions,
Sl29 10; total, S229 90. The disburse-
ments were Sl23 75. Balance on hand
August 10, 1898, S105 80.
The following unions have not paid
their pro rata of 10 cents per member:
Redlands, No. 27S, and Santa Ana, No.
242. Santa Ana Union has since surren-
dered its charter, and Redlands Union is
barely able to maintain an existence.
The four unions organized since the last
convention have not been requested to
pay any per capita.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolutions were submitted providing
that owing to the employment of type
setting machines, and on account OF the
use OF which printers have been thrown
out of employment, the convention rec
ommend to the International Typo
graphical Union the necessity of creating
an out-of-work fund tor the benefit of
unemployed members; that the Inter-
national Typographical Union adopt a
parade and funeral badge;that steps should
be taken to secure the employment of
white help in the hop fields in this State.
and indorsing the action of Captain Frank
Ruhstaller of this city in employing
none but white help in his hop fields;
that the convention deprecates the
conflict existing between the pressmen
under the International Typographical
Union and the International Printing
tional Typographical Union take steps TO
prevent pressmen in its jurisdiction from
taking the places o. men who have been
locked out in defense Of union princi-
pies; that the convention recommend that
all subordinate unions in the State levy
an assessment of five cents per month on
each member to create a fund TO carry on
the fight against the Printers Protective
Fraternity, non-union organization
now intrenched in Los Angeles; that a
petition be sent to the next meeting of
the International Typographical Union
praying for fuller and more equitable
representation in that body from the
State unions direct on the following basis:
All delegates TO the International
Typographical Union shall be elected
from the State Federation only on the
basis of one delegate for every hundred
members, each delegate to be furnished
with a round-trip ticket, hotel expenses.
and So per day for loss Of time; that IL is
desirable that labor unions should be
permitted to condemn or to approve The
acts of public officials where unionism
is affected, and that where trades union
ism is involved in public questions all or
ganlzed labor should unite on labor cam
didates, and secure their election to posi-
tions of usefulness and when elected to
hold them TO strict accountability for their
acts; that the State Federation strongly
recommends that all country printers be
organized whenever and wherever poSsi-
BILE; that travelling expenses, hotel bills
aud loss of time three days at So per day
be allowed the President and Secretary
Treasurer for the purpose of attending
the State Convention i'll case they are not
returned as delegates; that the State Fed
Grafton, while regretting the issues that
have arisen between the international
Typographical Union and International
Printers PresSmen's Union, recommends
that the International Typographical
Union endeavor TO heal the breach and
cement a more fraternal spirit of unity
and cooperation; that the convention
protests against the passage of the Fund
ing Bill; that the San Francisco delegate
to the international Typographical Union
present to that body resolution looking
to the abolisnment of the ''phalanx" sys-
tenn.
The resolutions were referred to the
Committee on Resolutions.
COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
The following committees were ap-
pointed:
Finance-J. T. Waldorf, H. G. Grover
and II. S. Homage.
Subordinate Unions-C. E. Fiske, T. NJ.
Butler and D. w. Kidd.
Constitution-C. G. Smart, Bert Fulton
and Z. I. Woodman.
observation-disclosures Johnson, NJ. E.
Atkins and II. c. Kinds.
Miscellaneous-H. p. Gassaway, J. E.
Backess and c. NJ. Williams (Eureka).
Report of Officers-A. II. Fay, J. T.
Waldorf and A. j. Read.
1t was decided that when the conven-
ton adjourns it do so out of respect to
the memory of the late George w. Childs.
A recess was then taken until 10 o. clock
this morning.
After yesterdays session the delegates,
under the guidance of the Arrangements
Committee of the local union, visited the
Buffalo Brewery and Ice Factory, where
they were Hospitality entertained by the
manager and directors of that institution.