The times., 1901-06-19

gates will make a trip to Mount Vernon
I on the steamer Manchester. There will b,
| no afternoon session. Tomorrow night
| there will be a banquet at the Rock Spring
Club, when speeches viii be delivered by
/ the officers who viii have been elected
| during that day
At present Martin p. Higgins. of Bos-
| ton, is the most likely candidate for cleo
ton to the presidency. 1t was stated last
night, however, that the web pressmen
would today place in nomination one OF
their number for that position.
An interesting feature of the morning
session and one which illustrates the cor
dial relations existing between organized
lahOr ana employers was the address de-
| livered by Frederick DriScolI. special
commissioner Of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. Mr.. DriscoU was
! introduced by President Bowman, and
said.
1t affords me pleasure to have the hon
or or appearing before you as the repre-
sentative of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association. The majority of
our members employ only union men in
their press rooms, and in their interest /
| have come to solicit your cooperation in
the establishment Of more permanent mu-
tual relations of fTiendlness. whereby all
possible strife and struggle will be re-
duced to the minimum. the lockout and
walkOut abolished. and industrial peace
be reasonably secured.
Since the meeting of your last conven-
ton in Milwaukee l was invited to APP
pear at the annual convention of the In
ternational Typographical Union held last
August IN the same city. At that time,
in response to some of my requests. the
convention instructed the Executive Coun-
Gil to confer with the special standing
committee Of our association with a view
to arriving at an agreement providing for
the amfcable adjustment of all differences
that might arise between any member of
the Publishers Association and the Typo
graphical Union and its affiliated bodies.
The convention also adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions: Resolved. That it is
the sense of the Interna tional Typograph-
ical Union that subordinate unions should
adopt conciliatOry measures at all times
when changing their scale of prices, and
that before any change in scale of prices
is adopted it should be submitted to all
publishers who are interested.
- Resolved. That the International Ty-
biographical Union, when requested. shall
allow representative of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association to be
heard on important changes in the law
affecting their interest
In accordance with the instruction af
the convention the Executive Council held
a conference with special standing
committee Of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association in November last
at which time plan of arbitration was
agreed upon. In December our board of
directors endorsed the plan, and in
February our association, in annual con-
ventiOn assembled, unanimously approved
it. In March, upon submission to the
referendum the members Of all the sub
ordinate unions ratified it by a vote of
= 544 ayes TO $3.50 noes, and President
Lynch announced the adoption by both
parties in interest on April 6, 1891. Sub
sequently, May /, 1901. was the day ap-
pointed on which it should take effect.
During the past six week the pub
fishers have been closing individual con-
tracts with the International Typo
graphical Union, by which the latter
unGerwrites and guarantees the peaceful
execution of all existing contracts with
subordinate unions, either verbal or
ur--ir~ 10 fas r1p TrT1gl1 M
while the publishers have been thus en-
sured against Industrial war the best
interests of the members of the unions
have been preserved.
Believing this most implicitly, I ap
pear before you today with confidence to
urge you to authorize your executive
board to confer with our special stand
ing committee TO similarly arrange Tor
the mutual arbitration of all differences
which may arise with your subordinate
unions. Yours is the only remaining
trade in a publishers office now which is
without comprehensive and definite
rangement for arbitration, and the pub
fishers / represent desire to secure the
benefits of peace in every department of
ployer and employe can feel that they
may he certainly guaranteed against
labor trouble in the future.
4 beg to call your attention to the two
resolutions which have already quoted.
providing for cOnciliatory measures
whenever it is proposed to change the
scale. and that all proposed changes
should be submitted 20 the publisher for
Also. that the representative of the pub
fishers should be heard before the adOp-
ton of any change in your laws affecting
their interests.
L cannot conceive of any reasonab bic
objection on your part to the adoption OF
similar resolutions by your body. We de-
sire to enable our publishers 10 hold iden-
tlCalIy the same relation to your iuterna-
uOnal Orga niZaflOn. its subordinate un-
ions, and the members thereof that are
now held with the International Typo
graphical Union.
I desire to present for your further con.
sideration the advisability OF so amend
ing your laws as to allow the largest dis
creti0n t. any subordinate union. when its
jurisdiction extends over territory outside
the city in which il is located. This out
SIDE territory often contains minor towns
and cities where newspapers are pub
Iishec.
Great hardship is liable to be exper-
fenced IT, as seems to be the rule now,
the same wages and rules are enforced in
this outside territory as obtain in the
large city, the home Of the union.
With reduced cost Of living, reduced
hours Of labor. by reason of small circu-
latiOn. inability Of the publisher in such
small localities to pay the fun union rates
established for a large city, it would
seem but just and equitable that the local
union. under such circumstances should
have specially reduced rate to meet
Sitll SITUATIONS ana lTat your laws should
empower them 10 make different scales
for the smaller localities.
Many publishers complain that local
unions are endeavOring to cover, in union
agreements. unskiled labor in their press
rooms as skilled labor and thereby ma
terially, and yet unnecessarily. increasing
the expenses OF operating that department
OF their business. This Is deemed to be
a hardship 20 which the publishers should
not be subjected.
The number of book and job pressmen
in nearly every city is very much greater
than the number Of Dressmen employed
in newspaper Offices The question has
often been asked. Is il not possible by
your laws to provide that on all questions
relating to newspaper offices the news
paper pressmen should alone be author
iZed to decide while cOuceding the same
right to the others TO govern IN all mat
ters particularly pertaining to their di-
visions Of labOr2
1T may be that the excessive require
meGts as 10 the number Of men to be en-
ployed upon the different kinds of presses
used may have some connection with the
fact that in only about sixty newspaper
rooms operated under the rules Of the
union. while the composing room percent
age Of union offices exceeds seVenty-five.
Let me urge upon you and the officers
to whom you entrust the government Of
your organization the importance to the
cause Of union labor Of such recommends
tons and notifications Of existing laws,
rules, and customs as will invite the trust
and confidence Of publishers 50 that you
are disposed to deal fairly and equitably
with them.
'Not might but right. not force but
reason, must ultimately prevail. With q
to be just according 20
conditions and a way provided to arbf-
trate all differences. there is every rea-
son 10 believe that not only will indus
trial peace be secured in your trade, but