The record-union., 1897-02-03
THE PRINTERS UP IN ARMS.
They Resent Recent Attacks on the State
Printing Office.
strong Resolutions Adopted at a
Meeting of the Unions
Yesterday.

Matters are approaching focus in
the case of the State Printing Office,
and certain persons who have been
seeking-fQr reasons perhaps best
known to themselves-tO cripple that in
sstitution and destroy its usefulness.
Ever since the State commenced the
compilation and printing of its own
schoolbooks someone has been found TO
lead in assaults on the State Printing
Office. Sometimes these assaults are
made in the name of economy, some
times under cover of politics, some
times in the shape of denunciation of
the State school books, and under va
rety of guises, but it would seem as Il
there has been one source of inspira-
tion.
Matters have now reached that stage
shat for the time being the institution
is left without funds with which to
pay its employees, and the latter have
been subjected to harsh criticism.
Yesterday the members of the Typo
graphical Union, the Pressmen's Union
and the Bookbinders' Union, represent
ing a large intelligent element of the
working population of this city, met to
consider the situation and to resent the
attempts 10 iii pON q 1911 anu CAIPPAC oii
institution that gives employment 10
many wage earners.
After a full discussion of the subject
the following resolutions We're adopted:
Whereas, Through the agency OF
sensational press, evidently inspired
from interested sources, an attack has
been made upon the State Printing Of
flee and its mana cement; and
Whereas, In an over-Zealous attempt
to make cheap political capital on the
one hand. and to accomplish selfish in
terests on the other, those making such
attack have found it necessary to di-
rect their assaults at the labor employed
in said printing office; and in the
smallness of their souls have chosen
for their target the women employed;
and
Whereas, Many OF the women so
employed are the widows of brave sol
diers who sacrificed their lives in de-
Tense of the flag when the life of the
nation was in peril, while many others
are the sole dependence of aged par
ents or of fatherless families; therefore
be it
Resolved, By Sacramento Typo
graphical Union 46 that, while the
women employed in said printing office
are not members of any labor union
(and are therefore doubtless considered
a safe branch Of labor for small poll
ticians to attack, this union neverthe-
less takes il upon itself 10 defend these
working women, and to repel and de-
nOunce as untrue the statement that
their employment has either been un-
necessar that they have not rendered
faithful and efficient service to the State,
or that their selection for employment
has been dictated either by political
considerations. religious creed or by ma
tionaIty.
Resolved. That the published crit
icisms of the management of the STATE
Printing Office in reference to the num-
Der Of women employed therein are mis-
leading and untrue, and display woe
ful lack of Information 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 faitf-
fu1 wage-earners (whether they be
male or fenale) by either religious big
OTIS or political shysters.
Resolved. That in the opinion of this
union these continual attacks on the
State Printing Office, and those en-
ployed therein. have their origin with
the notorious school book ring" and
its agents, and 1t is our firm belief that
all this is being done In a covert en-
deavor to again fasten upon the par
ents of the school children Of this State
the exacting burdens Of the old school
book of this combine.
Resolved, That copies of these reso-
buttons be furnished to the press, to
Governor James II. Budd and to the
honorable members Of the California
Legislature under the seal of this
union"