Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-13
Electrotypefs and Stereo-
-typer&EHard at Work.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
SOME MArTH4s CONSIDERED Be
H1N19 CLOSED DOORS.
Move for Closer AffiIiation - Resolu.
lions Presented and Adopted
Routine Proceedings.


typers Union convened this morning short
ly after 9 o'clock at Maccabee Hall. with
President j. J. F,reel in the chair. After
roll call Vice President L. P. Straube pre-
sented, on behalf of the members to the
convention, a gayel made from wood taken
from Mt. Vernon, the souvenir being
secured on the trip to Washington's tomb
yesterday, in an appropriate speech.
= PRESIDENT Freel accepted the token and
responded to the presentation remarks in
feeling terms.
The business for consideration was then
taken up, and a motion was offered by
Delegate Frank Stewart of Denver. Col,
providing for a limitation Of five minutes
to be put on all speakers, STIMULATING that
Dy unanimous consent the time could be
increased to fifteen minutes. The motion
was carried
At this juncture the Birdsall case was
introduced and the convention went into
executive session For an hour and half
the matter was debated, and In some cases
considerable feeling was exhibited.
IL was 1115 o'clock when the executive
session was dissolved, the matter being
then turned over to the committee on ap-
peals for further. consideration. It is un-
derstood that Bfrdsall served only one
years apprenticeship when he was given
membership card in Philadelphia union,
NO Z. Afterward he went to New York
union. NO. l. and presented his card to
tnat BODY. He was accepted, and for some
Tune was a member of that organization
Later ne was turned down and the case
was taken to the executive board, which
In turn reversed the decision of No. l.
Ihe matter was referred to the committee
on appeals and members of the committee
desired that the convention go into ex-
ecutive session for the purpose Of giving
thorough ventilation to the matter 1t is
expected that the latter committee will
render report late this afternoon. and
when 1t Is prepared to give out it's decision
the convention will again deliberate behind
closed doors.
Matter Of Districting.
Mr.. ]. Stedman of New York then brought
up the matter Of dstricting the country,
saying that the subject was of vital i'm
portance to the International body. and Of
fered motion that the convention be re-
solved into a committee of the whole. Mr..
stedman has vigorously advocated this mat
ter and was appointed committee to con-
slider the topic.
He considered that the matter could he
expedited by the body acting as a com
President Freel then called Delegate Chas.
A. Sumner of Kansas City to the chair,
whereupon Mr.. Steadman offered a reso-
luton reciting that for better organiza-
ton and control the territory under the
jurisdiction Of the l. S. and E. U. be dis
tricted. and secretary be appointed for
each district; further, the duties of the
district secretaries shall be to collect COM
plete summary OF the trade under our
Jurisdiction. also such data as 1t may be
possible to get in regard to the morgan
lied trade and place the same in the hands
OF the interna tionai secretary. same to be
kept in record books kept for that purpose
the books to be open to all officials of the
1. s. and E. U: and Its subordinates.
Inc committee Of the whole was then
dissolved and Its report read by Delegate
Sumner, after which the paper was re-
ferred to the committee on law The
paper was drawn up mainly for the pur-
pose of keeping track of those working as
stereOtypers and electrotypers unaffiiated
with the international body.
Attention was then called by Delegate
j. A. Dixon of Richmond Union, No. GO, to
a union newspaper of that city employing
non-union men, He stated that he brought
the matter to the typographical union, with
which body the paper had an agreement
to employ none but union men, but that
he was asked to postpone the matter until
after the car strikes, which then existed,
should be thing of the past. The paper
was referred to the executive committee.
President Freel announced that the breth-
rem In the trade in Kansas City had secured
an advance in wages to 81 per day. He also
gave out the information that new scales
of wages had been secured by members OF
their body in louisville and Baltimore
These announcements were greeted with
much applause.
Closer Ahiliation.
Delegate Cannon of Chicago offered a
proposition looking to closer relations be-
tween the stereotypers' body and the en-
grayers The matter was referred 10 the
law COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Thixton Of this city offered resolu-
ton looking to the closer affiliation of all
stereotypers and electrotypers in this coun-
Etrs,. a., fl,a
ing the interests of all concerned, which
was referred to the law committee
Resolutions in respect to the rights of the
different organizations were offered by
Delegate Cannon of Chicago, and one look
ing to the amendment of article IA. section
8, of the constitution, offered by Mr.. Sted-
man, in regard to the travelling card and
for the amendment of article II, section 2,
regarding the matter Of certificates of mem
bership, which would show the standing of
each member, were also referred to the law
committee.
Announcement was made by the chair of
an invitation extended by the local recep-
ton committee to attend a banquet to be
served at the Carroll Institute hall on 10th
street tonight at o'clock. The invitation
was accepted and committee consisting
of Delegates KnOpf. O'Donnell, Sumner
Murray and Jackson appointed to extend
the thanks of the body to the local organi-
cations.
President FreeI appointed the following
adopting button emblematic of the trade.
The committee consists of McAbee, Haug-
hey and Dwyer.
The chair stated that Commissioner Dris-
coll of the Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton would visit the convention and would
deliver an address to the delegates. He also
announced that President Higgins of the
International Printing Tradesmens Assoc
citation had been invited to address the
members. and that he would most likely
appear this AFTERNOON.
Delegate O'Donnell Of New York offered
a resolution that the convention devise and
inaugurate an International funeral fund.
The paper was referred to the COMMITTEES on
law.
An Adjournment was taken at T. 40 for
luncheon.
Cane Presentation.
A gold headed cine was presented last
evening to the Baltimore Union of the l.
T. u, through theiF representatives at the
printers convention in session here, Messrs.
George Nichols and Charles Bastian, as a
mark of the appreciation OF members of
the International Stereotypers and Electro
typers' Union. who enjoyed hospitality In
the monumental city Sunday last
The cane is to remain the property of
the Baltimore Union and Is to be carried by
the chairman of the Baltimore IInior, RI tho