The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-15
BOYCOTT All LOS ANGELES Typographical UniOnS
 Fight on Times. WILL CONTINUE THE WAR Effort to Prevent Patronage of Advertisers.
 ---s---- No Answer to otis's states.e-4 That He Pays Better Wages Than
 Received by Men in
 Union ofacss.
WILL CONTINUE THE WAR

Washington. Aug. 14.-The Internation- al Typographical Union at the beginning of to-day's session, on the recommenda- ton Of the executive council. appropriat- ed $500 for organization purposes in Philadelphia, and authorized the expsn- diture of an additional s2sbo0 If required. After a spirited discussIon the proposi- ton of the committee on laws to have published annually by rocai unions sta tistics relative to population. scales of prices, hours of labor, eEc.. was adopted
 One of the important propositions com ing from the committee on laws which was adopted by the union was that which permits subordinate unions to in- corporate in exceptional cases More than one-half the time of the morning session was taken up In the discussion Of a proposed change in section g. general laws, to provide that in job printing of- ficea in cities where the eight-hour day has been secured, six hours overtime Q week may be allowed without core. spending loss of time the following week. The committee on laws vigorously cp- posed this. and the whole matter was in- definitely postponed.
 President Lynch announced that ne would call for the report of the commit tee on arbitration any time after o'clock this afternoon. At noon recess was taken until 2:3O p. m.
 Los Angeles Times Case. After recess the convention listened to a brilliant address by President Frtel of the International Stereotypers' Union. President Lynch then called up the Los Angeles Times case. The committee in charge of the matter made report sub hitting two resolutions, one providing for an assessment of five cents per mefn- Der per month for a period of one year be submitted to a special referendum, to be paid to the secretary-treasurer.- The other provided that in case of fail- ure of the flrst plan that the executive council refer the referendum for an aa- Essssnent of hse eetts. the money Q he paid to the acFatafystreasurer and by hln paAA tos she Los Anselea strike com DeisRats Hays of Los Angsies reported that the local union mad done everything they had the past year. Mr. Hays nrs' read statement made by General Otis of the Los Angeles Tints in which the general said. among other things. that The Times Is by a choice a Fraternity Of flee and not Union ofIice; that the rates paid are higher than rates paid for like services in every local union office and that there are no complaints from work men.
 .l Otis and secretaFyship. Delegate Hays recounted the steps talk ~ee- hope of success. He said they had heard 1t reported that Mir. Otis was to be ap- pointed Secretary of War. when peti- tion, which he said bore 1l,000 sigma lures, was forwarded to President Roose- welt, opposing the appointment. He charged that the police of Los An. geles had interfered without provocation and that he had been assaulted by the police without cause.
 The vital point with the Union. he said. was to win the boycott against big | department store advertising in The Times. He charged further that minis ters had been prevailed upon to preach from the pulpit In opposition to the Union. 1 The report of the committee was adopted l by an unanimous vote.
 The next important matter to be taken up was the report of the Committee on Arbitration. which follows:
 Tn the famous Spokane and Seattle cases, in which President Lynch is charE- ed by Commission Dricoll with violation of the arbitration agreement, we find after careful consideration of all evidence adduced:
 Justifaes Mr. Lyncn. "The the publishers precipitated the trouble by display of bad faith at the outset We believe the arbitration agreement was promulgated by honorable
 men, who were unable at It's inception to
 see the loopholes through which an unfair
 publisher or union might take advantage o fit We believe that the apparent bad
 faith of the above mentioned publisher
 nullifed the arbitration agreement, as 4
 applies to them and justified President Lynch.
 'I. T, U. law in existence at the incep
 ton of the arbitration agreement cannot
 be arbitrated for the reason that only bJ
 referendum vote can it be receded from
 or altered. The I. T. U. constitution
 and bylaw. Nike those of the United
 States Government, represent what thu
 members of this union believe to be prin'
 ciples that cannot be arbitrated and theil
 arbitration was not contemplated-theS
 are necessary to the life of the organiza-
 tion. and must be maintained.
 We recommend that the convention
 endorse President Lynch and the execu' | tive council in the course they pursued
 believing that it was the only way oper
 when the discovery was made that th' l publishers who were not living up to the
 spirit of the contract was made"
 Lynch Answers Driscoll.
 President Lynch took occasion at this point to answer the charge made by Commissioner Driscoll that he and ths
 executive councils violated their agree.
 ment in connection with these cases.
 Mfr Lynch defended the position taker
 by himself and the executive council and was loudly cheered-
 The woman's auxiliary today took UT the fight of the Typographical Unior
 against The Los Angeles Times and aftei much discussion decided to address ad
 vertisers in the paper to withdraw theii patronage.
 After voting to hold the next annua meeting in St. Louis in August, 1904, tn, following officers were elected Mrs Frank L. Kennedy, of Omaha, re-electet president. and Mrs. Edward Dunell O Cincinnati. reelected secretary: Mis-
 Laura B. Gordon of Washington. frs
 vice-president: Mrs. c. E. Mckee, India
 napolIs, second vice-perisednt; Mrs. Ed
 ward Buchanan, Washington. third vice
 president; Mrs. C. c. Houston, Atlanta