Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-11
FOR PREVENTION OF STRIKERS.
Typograph cal Union and Newspaper Publishers Association to Confer.

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 Indianapolis, Ind, Jan 1.-The arDi- tration agreement between the lnternn- tional Typographical union and the American Newspaper Publishers asso- citation as agreed upon by special com mittee from each organization and the Typographical union, and which will be submitted to the members of the Publishers association at it's conven ton next month and later to a refer ! end,lm vote of the members of the union, has just been made public.
 The object of the agreement and the purposes for which both bodies are working is the prevention of strikes, pending the settlement of differences arising between members of the allied printing trades and members of the Publishers association.
 In the first section the agreement sets out that the publishers accepting it shall be protected by the union from walk-outs, strikes or boycots or any other form of concerted interference with the peaceful operation of their business. In the second section it pro- vides that, in event of the failure of I local union and publisher to arrive at I settlement of any labor difficulty that may arise the differences may be referred by either party to the nation al board of arbitra ton, which it is set out in another section, shall con- sist of the president of the Typograph- 1 ical union and a commissioner from | the association and, in event of their | failure to agree, the two shall select a third arbitrator, who shall act as | chairman of the commission. The finding of this board shall be final. 1 Under the agreement provision is 1 r1a1a fap Tba submission nf avjdpnca on disputed points, and the manner of l it's submission is outlined. Pending decisions under appeals either to local | arbitra tors or to the national board | work shall continue in the office of the publishers and any change in the 1 wage scale may be made effective from the date or the beginning or the dispute.
 In event of the formation of local
 publishers associations they may en-
 ter into agreement with any of the
 subordinate unions, and enjoy all the
 rights accruing from membership in
 the American association. The agree
 ment is made to cover all of the de- partments of offices in which trades
 are employed that come under the jur- l isdiction of the International Typo
 graphical union. In offices where un-
 ion men are employed only in certain
 departments these departments may
 be covered by the agreement and sub
 jected to its provisions.
 Should either of the parties asking
 the aid of the national board decline
 to accept the decision of the board the
 facts shall be made public and all sup
 port of the organization to which the recalcitrant applicant belongs shall bt at once withdrawn. The agreement is
 broad in every sense and carefully GOV CTS all conditions likely to arise be tween the union and the association
 The agreement is to be entered into
 only for a year at q time, and a con
 tract which accompanies the agree ment covers practically the sam, : ground. It is understood that in thu l event of the ratification of the agree ment by fifty locals of the 1nternation , al Typographical union. the executiv' . body will decide that it has been ac
 cepted and will sign for the union. The publishers association meet next month ill New York and there i little doubt that the matter will b. : agreed upon without discussion 5 The committee from the publishers : association is made up of Alfred : Eowles of the Chicago Tribune. Her
 man Ridder of the New York Staat 5 Zeitung and M. J. I.owenstein of tn ) l St Louis Star.