The San Francisco call., 1897-02-03
Resentment of an Attack Made
Upon Employees of the State
Printing Office.
Compositors and Binders Declare That
"The Examiner Is Subornet by
Selfish Political Aims.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. AT a
meeting this evening of the Sacramento
Typographical Union No. 46 the following
set OF resolutions were drafted and adopt
ed and were afterward unanimously
indorsed by the Bookbnders' Union and
by the Pressmen's Union:
WHEREAS, Through the agency of a sensa-
tional press, evidently inspired from inter
ested sources, an attack has been made upon
the State Printing Office and its management; /;
and whereas, in overzealous attempt to
make cheap political capital on the one hand
and to accomplish selfish interests on the
other, those making such attack have
found 1t necessary to direct their assaults
at the labor employed in said printing
oftce and in the smallness of their souls have
chosen for their target the women employed; ;
and whereas, many of the women so en-
ployed are the widows of brave soldiers who
sacrificed their lives in defense of the flag
when the life of the Nation was in peril
while many others are the sole dependence of
aged parents or of fatherless families; there
fore be it
ResoIued, By Sacramento Typographical
Union No. 46, that while the women en-
ployed in said State Printing Office are not
members OF any labor union (and are there
fore doubtless considered a safe branch of
u
union nevertheless takes it upon itself to de-
fend these workingwomen and to repel and
denounce as untrue the statement that their
employment has either been unnecessary,
that they have not rendered faithful and ef
icient service to the StGte tn at their selec-
tion for employment has been dictated either
by political considerations religious creed or
by nationality.
RESOLVED, That the published criticisms of
the m N 90 nf gtofa ri
in reference TO the number of women employed
therein are misleading and untrue, and dis
play woeful lack OF informati on on the
subject, and an utter ignorance of the several
branches of bindery work performed by the
women employed in said Office.
Resolved, That this union spurns and repels
attacks made against faithful wage-earners
(whether they be male or female) by either
religious blgots or political shysters.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this union
these continual attacks on the State Printing
Office and those employed therein have their
origin with the notorious "schoolbook ring"
and its agents, and it is our firm belief that
all this is being done in q covert endeavor to
again fasten upon The parents of the school
children of this State the exacting burdens of
the old schoolbooks of this combine.
ResOlved, That copies of these resolutions be
furnished to the press, 10 Governor James H.
Budd and 10 the honorable members of the
California Legislature under the seal of this
union. WILLIAM MINER, President
when the public press can be suborned
10 further the selfish political aims OF one
man by making sensational attack upon
the employees of the State Printing Office,
as was done by the Examiner this morn
ing," said an influential member of the
union tonight, "it is time that we take
such steps as lay in our power to protect
ourselves, for while nominally this attack
is directed against A. J. Johnson, State
Printer, in reality it is being made direc tly
against and will only affect the wage
Garner, as Mr.. Johnson's office being
statutory one, his salary will go Oh
whether the State Printing Office is rum
ming or not"