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The vital point with the union, he said
was to win the boycott against a big de-
partment store advertising in the Times.
He charged further that ministers had been
prevailed on to preach from the pulpit In
opposition to the union. He was loudly ap-
plauded when he concluded and was fol-
lowed by other delegates who spoke vfgor-
ously. The report of the committee was
adopted by d unanimous vote.
The Spokane and Seattle, Cases.
The next important matter taken up was
the report OF the committee on arbitration,
which follows:
In the famous Spokane and Seattle cases
in which President Lynch is charged by
Commissioner Driscoll with violation of
the arbitration agreement we find after
careful consideration of all evidence ad-
dused:
That the publishers precipitated the
trouble by display of bad faith In the out
set. We believe the arbitration agreement
was promulgated by honorable men who
were unable at its inception to see the loop
holes through which an unfair publisher or
union might take advantage of 1t. We be-
lieve that the apparent bad faith Of the
aforementioned publishers nullified the ar
bitration agreement as applied to them and
justified President Lynch and the executive
council to take the course they did.
commissioner Driscon and President
Lynch agree, and SO does your committee
that the whole trouble arises over the lack
Of code of procedure which shall define
what and how any question or questions
are to be arbitrated. We hold that tbs
code of procedure should be fixed only by
the parties who conceived and promulgated
the original arbitration agreement.
I'VE submit that this agreement was ef-
fected without arbitration in the popular
sense and now that 1t has been discovered
that the agreement is ineffective without
code of procedure We recommend that II
the agreement is to live it's acknowledged
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set out. We do not believe the arbitration
agreement contemplated the arbitration of
questions of International Typograp ph, cal
Union law, but should be confined only to
questions over established wage scales and
the new one proposed by the dissatisfied
party. international Typogra phical Union
law in existence at the inception of the az
bitratiOn agreement cannot be arbitrated
for the reason that only by referendum
vote can it be receded from or altered. The
International Typographical Union consti
tuition and bylaws, like those of the United
States government, represent what the
members of this union believe to be princi-
pies that cannot be arbtrated and their
arbitration was never contemplated-they
are necessary to the life of the organiza-
ton and must be maintained
Commissioner Driscol proposes to arbi-
trate without precedent the questions pre-
sented in Spokane and Seattle and to leave
it to any third man that they may
agree upon. For reasons above your COM
mittee is of the opinion that this cannot be
done. The publishers then deman nd the ar
bitration of matters prohibited by our laws
and therein violated the agreement, putting
themselves ;eyond the pale of arbitration
We assert that we believe in arbitration,
but arbitration is only possible where par
ties 10 the dispute approach the question
IN a fair and concilatory manner.
President Lynch Indorsed.
We recommend that the convention in
dorse President Lynch and the executive
council in the course they pursued, believ-
ing that Ii WAS the only one open when
Tie discovery WAS made that the publish
e.s were not living UP 10 the spirit of the
contract.
President Lynch took occasion at this
point to answer the charge made by Com
missioner Dr:scoll representative of the
Publishers Associate that he and the ex-
ecutiva council had violated their agreement
in connection with these cases Mr. Lynch
defended the position taken by himself and
the executive council. stating the reasons
for their action. He was loudly cheered
when he had concluded.
A motion to consider the report in execu-
i've session was voted down. After spirited
addresses by number of the delegates the
report was adopted by rising vote which
was unanimous.
Photo-Engravers Stricken Out.
The proposition to strike out of the rom
Stitution the words ''photo-engrayers wher-
ever they occur. thus taking this branch Of
the printing trade out of the International
Typogra pical Union was adopted Presi-
dent Lynch. before the vote was taken. de-
clared that the secession of the photo-en-
gravers would result in their being put in
position to be crushd out by the EMPLOYERS
Ihe international Typographical Union he
said. mad iabored to prevent it, but was
willing they should make the experiment
He added that. so far as the Interna ational
Typographical Union was concerned IT
would do all it could to promote the success
OF any movement that would advance the
general welfare of the unions in the print-
ing trades.
A proposition pledging moral and finan-
cial assistance to the Type Founders Trade
District Union in its movement for uni
versal wage scale was adopted The con-
vention also adopted the new trade agree
ment between the Interna tional Typogra ph-
ical Union the International Pressmen's s
Union and the International Brotherhood
of BOokbinders.
Other Propositions Adopted.
Further propositions adopted were: That
all government printing should be done in
the government printing office at Washing
ton. whenever practicable; declaring it to
be the sense of the International Typo-
graphical Union that subordinate unions
in Canada should affiliate with the Domfn-
a special organizer to visit several towns
in the south to organize new unions and to
visit established unions for the purpose Of
strengthening the same; authorizing the
executive council to work out plan for
organizing the rural districts throughout
| the United States and Canada for the pur-
pose of enrolling unattached printers out
side the union towns; authorizing the presi-
dent of the l. T. y. to take the necessary
steps to unionize the factory of the Mer-
| genthaler Linotype Company; authorizing
| a permanent travelling organizer. who is
Canadian to cOunteract the captalistic
movement being waged in the Canadian
parliament. The proposition to appoint a
committee to confer with the Associated
| Press opera tors and request them to be-
come members of the l. T. u. was unfavOr-
ably reported. and the report was adopted
The convention adopted the proposition to
organize newspaper writer's and authorizing
| the expenditure of the necessary funds
| therefor.
The death benefit was increased to SO
A proposition prescribing the conditions
under which persons living in towns and
cities where there are no unions of the
| printing trades. may use the provisional
| union label. was finally referred to the ex-
ecutive committee for report at next years
| meeting.
A resolution was adopted. recommending
| that subordinate unions accumulate a de-
| fense fund OF $40 per capita
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