The record-union., 1897-06-11
State BOARD OF REGENTS.
They Enter Into a Contract for Private
Printing.
May be Enioined-Protest on the
Part of the Typographical
Union.

State Printer Johnston has gone to San
Francisco to consult Attorney-Generai
Fitzgerald in regard to the action OF
the State University Regents in letting
a contract to a private firm for Si49
worth of printing for the University.
It was but recently that the Attorney
General advised State Controller Col
gan that all printing for State officials,
boards and commissions should be done
in the State Printing Office, and that the
Controller would be responsible under
his bond if he drew any warrants for
the payment of any printing done out
side of the State office.
Mr.. Johnston proposes to stop the pay
ment of any State funds to private firms
for printing which the law declares must
be done in the State office.
PRINTERS PROTEST.
At a meeting of the Typographical
Union yesterday the following resolu-
tions We're adopted in condemnation of
the action of the Regents:
Whereas, We are informed that the
Board of Regents of the University of
California, public institution main
tained by the taxpayers of this State,
have awarded the contract for the
printing of the University Register and
Announcement of Courses" (work here
tofore performed in the State Printing
Office at Sacramento, under the super
vision of the Superintendent of State
Printing! to the Pacific Press Publish
ing Company of Oakland, a VIGOROUSLY
unfair establishment, and which has
been and is a standing menace to or
ganized labor as well as to the 1egiti-
mate business interests and prosperity
of California; and
Whereas, There can be no excuse for
this action of the Board of Regents,
as the revenues of the University of
California were increased by the recent
Legislature BIZ the addition of a one
per cent. ad valorem tax upon each S1OO
of value of the taxable property of the
State; therefore, be it
Resolved, That Sacramento Typo
graphical Union, No. 46, condemns the
action Of the Board of Regents of the
University of California in awarding,
contrary to law and in the face of the
opinion of the Attorney-General re-
Gently given, to the Pacific Press, work
which had heretofore been performed
flee, thereby degrading labor; and be it
further
Resolved, That we hereby appeal to all
citizens of this State to take cognizance
of the unwarranted and unlawful action
of the Board of Regents in taking the
bread from the mouths of union men,
and we especially appeal to organized
labor throughout the State to protest
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be forwarded to sister labor or
ganizations and to the press under the
seal of this union.
PRESSMEN'S RESOLUTIONS.
AT a special meeting of Sacramento
Printing Pressmen's Union, No. go, last
evening, the following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, 1t has come to our notice
that the Board of Regents of the Uni
versity Of California at Berkeley has
given the printing of the register OF
the university to the Pacific Press Pub
fishing Company of Oakland; and
Whereas, 1t is an established fact
patent to every union man connected
with the book and printing trades that
this establishment is rated as the most
unfair printing house on the Pacific
Coast, employing only non-union men
at paltry wages, the highest rate of
wages paid being insufficient for the
support of a family as free and inteIli-
gent people should live; and
Whereas, We deprecate the fact that
the management of the greatest public
educational institution in this State
the revenue for the support of which
is supplied by the taxpayers of this
great commonwealth, should consent to
a transaction whereby work heretofore
belonging to intelligent American union
mechanics should be transferred from
union printing-house to furnish work
TO underpaid and inferior workmen;
Resolved That Sacramento Printing
Pressmen's Union, No. 60 denounces
the action of the Board of Regents as
not subscribing the public good or in
the interest of public teaching-to pre-
fer public work being done in such
places, and request all organized labor
to assist in putting down such attempts
to cripple union workmen by depriving
them of employment through such un-
American practices, and be it further
Resolved That a copy of these reso-
lutions be given to the public press for
publication, and also copy to sister
unions"
THE BOOKBINDERS.
The local Bookbinders' Union, No. 50,
met last evening and adopted a resolu-
tion calling the attention of the sister
union in San Francisco to the fact
that the Board of Regents of the State
University have contracted with the
Pacific Press in Oakland-a nom union
establishment-to do it's printing, and
urging it to prevent the carrying out
of the contract, as being opposed to
the interests of union labor