Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-23
TYPOS AND CIVIL SERVICE
Important Action Taken at Special Meeting
Of Columbia Union.
Resolutions Adopted Reamrming
Accommodation Rescfnded.

The special m eeting of Columbia Typo
graphical Union, which was held last even
ing at Typographical Temple, was largely
attended, about 400 members being present.
The acton of those members who on Sun
day last at the regular monthly meeting
adopted resolution instructing the presi-
dent and secretary Of the union to re-
quest President Mckinley to withdraw the
government printing office from the opera
ton of the civil service law, was prac-
tcally repudiated, and at last evening s
meeting, by a majority of thirty-fve, the
members adopted series of resolutions re-
affirming the position of Columbia Union in
favor of civil service reform.
The Resolutions.
The resolutions, which will be further
s'Ibmitted to vote of referendum, to be
taken in the various chapels in the near
future, are to the effect that Columbia
. geographical Union, No. 1O1, has for many
years felt the baneful effects of the old
spoils system of appointments and dis
charges in the government printing office
ard believing that it would prove bene-
fetal to its membership, to the govern
ment service and to the cause of true
uEionism, to have the classified service ex-
tended to said government printing office
AT well attended and thoroughly repre-
sentative meetir & of Columbia Typograph
ICdl Onicn- NO lul, a resolution was adopt
ed by a large and emphatic majority, re-
questing the President of the United States
TO extend the classified service to the said
government printing office.
The membership having witnessed the
beneficial results of said classified service
during its operation in the government
printing office, Doth to the cause of union
ism and the good of the membership, as
well as to the benefit of the government
service, which sentiment was recently at
stestcd, when, by a large majority, the
En.On at a chapel election, at which the
full membership had an opportunity of
voting their honest convictions, did en-
phatfcally express its hearty approval of
and confidence in the policy of civil service,
and by vote of 16I to 35S the union ex-
Pressed its condemnation of and declared
as unauthorized by. and unjust to its men,
bership. the action of three of the four
delegates from our union to the conven-
tion of the l. T. L. at Colorado Springs.
When they voted for resolution condemn
ing the classified service applied to the
government printing Office.
Emphatic DfsapprovaI.
1t was declared as the sense of the union
mat We do now most positively condemn
the action of the twenty-nine members of
this union. who at the meeting last Sunday
took advantage of the very small attend
ance to pass resolution purporting to
represent the sentiment of the union
whereby the unions former position OH
u.
sad resolutions requesting the President of
the United States TO remove the govern
ment printing office from the classified SER
vice
Further, That Columbia Typoeraphica,
Union, No. 1o1, condemns as unjust and
undermining any attempt on the part of a
lew OF It's members at any time to take
advantage OF the absence of the large ma
1ority OF the membership to reverse the
position OF the union any matter and
esPecidiy on matter OF so much import
ance to the union, and more especially a
matter like this one, when the union has
SO recently and so emphatically empha sized
Its convictions.
Further, That Columbia Typographical
Union, No. 1O1, hereby rescinds the reso-
luton passed at Sundays meeting by the
twenty-nine votes out of a membership Of
over Hoo and further condemns their ac-
lion as unauthorized, and as not represent-
ing the sentiments of this union, and that
IL Is the sense Of this union that hereafter
all action affecting the status of the
unions position on the question of civil
service reform, as promulgated and extend
60 py congress, and extended by Presi-
dents Harrison and Cleveland and as pro-
NOTED. improved and made more equitable
by President Mckinley, be submitted to a
referendum vote
Further. That copy of these resolu-
lions be furnished the President of the
United States. the civil service commission
ana the press by the president and secreta-
~ OF this union"
Future Action.
II the above preamble and resolutions are
adopted by the referendum, they will he
laid before President Mckinley, in the be-
lief that they will negative the possible
effect made upon the mind of the chief
magistrate by the adoption of the anti
civil service resolutions passed at the
previous meeting of the minority of the
members.
In pursuance of the instruction given
theIn, the president and secretary of the
union called upon President Mckinley be-
lore his departure from the city, and pre-
scented him with copy of the resolutions
referred TO.