The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-10
tion of the state of Alabama:


 Gentlemen-Your petitions, whose names are appended to this memorial would respectfully show:
 That they are each residents in, and citizens of the State of Alabama.
 That they favor such change and amendment in the organic law of the State as will remove the menace of a suffrage tainted with ignorance, and open to corrupt practices. which the present Constitution fails to prevent.
 That they are members of an organi- zation of artisan workingmen. known as the International Typographical Union, the objects of which organiza- tion are declared to be "the encourage ment of skilled representatives of their membership, the care of their sick and superannuated members. the burial of deceased members; the maintenance of cordial relations between employing and employed printers. and the estab- Iishment of a rate of wages with tLe mutual consent of employers and em- ployes that shall be deemed just and fair by both parties to the wages con- tract"
 That the purposes of the organization as outlined above have been carried out. we would respectfully show to your honorable body that the membership of the International Typographical al Union in the United States and Ter ritories. and in Canada and British North America numbers over 50,000; that the publishers of nine- -tenths of the newspapers. and more than nine-tent ths of the job printing and book printing offices in these countries employ the labor of this large membership; that the relationships existing between the Typographical Union and said mploy- ing printers are most friendly. The American Newspaper Publishers As sociation which comprises more than 200 of the daily newspapers of the United States and employs more than twenty thousand printers. of whom more than SO per cent are members of the Typographical Union, and the members of said Typographical Union have this year enteed into a convention which provides that in the event of any dispute or disagreement arising betwe en employers and emplyed where these two parties are concern, such troubles shall be settled without recourse to strike or lockout on the part of either, by mutual agreement or by arbltrat- | ion:
 That the organization provides for l it's sick. indigent and distressed mem- bers in such manner that none become a charge upon the tax payers you rep resent, in almshouses, poorhouses or public hospitals.
 These premises stated your petition CTS respectfully pray:
 That your Honorable body give such encouragement to productive workers resident in and citizens of Alabama as may be secured by a constitutional limitation that the public printing of the Legislative and Executive Depart ments of Alabama shall be done only in the State of Alabama
 That the Constitutional Convention now in session give such recongnition to organized labor as may be implied by the appearance of the trade mark of the organized printers known as the Union Lable. upon the printing needed for your Honorable body.
 And as in duty bound, your petition CTS pray.
 Signed. Dave McBribe, and others. similar petition was read from the Cigar Makers International Union of America-Local 219 and 433; from the Marine Engineers Benefit As | sociation No. S4 of Mobile, Ala: from | the Central Trade Council. and from the Working Mems Timber and Cotton Benevolent Association, each petition having number of names signed thereto.
 The petitions were referred to the Committee on Stationery, Printing and Incidental Expenses.
 MT. Jones (Montgomery)-On yester- day my colleague, Mfr. Lomax, who is now absent was requested to present a memorial of the Montgomery Print CTS Protective Fraternity. Mir. Lomax is ahsent today, and I ask leave to have it read and to explain that Mir. Lomax did not have an opportunity to present it on yesterday.
 A MEMORIAL
 To the Officers and Members of the
 Constitutional Conventions:
 Whereas, a resolution has been in- troduced in the Constitutional Con- vention ilistructing the Committee on Schedule, Printing and Incidental EX- penses to nave the union label placed on all printed matter of said Conven- tion, which work shall be done by members of typographical union, therefore be it
 Resolved, That Montgomery Printers Protective Fraternity opposes said resolution and hereby memorializes the Constitutional Convention to reject said resolution on the following grounds:
 First-The proposition to limit the right to engage in labor on public jobs to one class of citizens, and thus for bidding other classes from partictpat- ing in the benefits conferred by the public to the industrial and commercial activity in the State, is infamous and abhorrent to all sense of justice, a prostitution of every idea of govern ment by ali and for all, utterly Gn- American in principle. most lnon- Strous instance of the practice of mono- poly, trust and combine, and only ef- fective in working disaster to holost labor.
 Second-Resolutions and labor laws which, when put into effect, operate to prohibit all non-union men from securing employment at work per- formed for the State are illegal, and when put to the test, must necessarily be declared invalid.
 Third-To require that all printing done for the Constitutional Convention shall bear the union label would. in effect, be a boycott on all non-unior printing establishments and would place Alabama in the preposterous position of eXacting taxes from non- union printers to defray the expenses of a boycott prosecuted against them by the State.
 F0urth--where did the right come from to discriminate in this way be. tween citizens? Can a Presbyterian a Methodist or a Catholic come here and say that he must have all public | favors and the others none? If ont l class is to be granted special favors that clasS should poSsesE Special clai