Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-12
PRINTERS At WORK
Many Propositions Acted on
This Morning.
ALL BUT TWO ADOPTED
PRESIDENT LYNCH AND THE
TACOMA STRIKE.
He Calls on Col. Driscoll to Speak and
He Will Be Heard Tomor-
row Morning.

There was not vacant seat in the CO.
lumbia Theater this morning when the
gavel Of President Lynch calling the dele
gates to order for the third days session Of
the International Typographical Union fell
at o'clock. Immediately after the reading
of the minutes of yesterdays session the
consideration of the propositions submitted
by the laws committee was continued.
Every one Of these was concurred In by the
convention with little discussion until that
affecting the distribution Of the Typograph-
ical Journal was reached. This had been
reported unfavorably by the committee,
and in explanation of that report Delegate
Fennessy of the committee said that it had
been SO reported because of the possibility
of conflict with the postal laws and reg
ulations relating to the distribution of free
matter through the mails.
"And we don't want to come in contact
with Madden, you know" he said
An amendment was then offered to the
effect that the word sent" be used instead
of mailed in the proposition. This was
opposed and a discussion followed, during
which 1T was said that the spirit or union
ism could be better disseminated by every
printer doing all he could by word of mouth
than by the sending of a journal every
month to printers who would read 1t and
then forget it.
Another opponent of the measure argued
that it would be better to send the journal
annually than monthly, 10000 copies being
distributed free at large and unnecessary
expense to the union This was howled
down by the other side, who held that in
order to obtain the result aimed at 1t would
be essential to have the journal before the
printers all the time, and that 1t was
waste of good money and valuable time to
think Of such thing as sending 1t month
cred to table the proposition indefinitely.
and this was carried by vote OF LOT to IS.
Priority Of Employment.
There was a great deal Of discussion
aroused by the proposition introduced by
Delegate Taylor of Tacoma regarding pri-
ority of employment The idea of this
proposition is to keep all the printers in a
town in work and to prevent the introduc-
ton of outsiders. 1t was bitterly opposed,
one of the delegates explaining 1t by saying
that If a man was discharged from an Of
flee because of lack of work and afterward
it was discovered that another man was
needed the foreman could not employ the
first competent man who presented himself,
but must hunt up the discharged employe
first.
Chairman Hayes of the laws committee
said, in opposition to the proposition, that
all printers ought to look alike to the inter-
national constitution and continuing said:
we will be approaching the golden age, the
brotherhood of man."
A substitute was offered to the ef1ect
that all persons capable of filling the place
Of substitute shall be given preference. This
was lost and the report Of the laws COM
mittee finally concurred in.
Proposition No. 3S was referred back to
the laws committee for further considera-
ton. This rule applied to type measure
ment and the standard of machine matrices
that should be followed in Offices.
Next Convention at st. Louis.
At IL o'clock, on special order, the nomi-
nations for the next convention city were
called for The official invitation of st.
Louis was read to the convention, the NOM
ination of that city offered and seconded
and carried by unanimity when the vote
was taken. During the seconding speeches
the mention of Montreal was made by 4
delegate from that city, who asked for the
convention of 1905 This was seconded by
Powell of Ottowa. who assured the dele
gates that the capital of Canada would
give them all hearty welcome when they
came through there on their way to Mon
treal. He was accorded hearty applause.
The Strike at Tacoma and Seattle.
At this point President Lynch announced
that Col Frank Driscoll, commissioner of
the American Newspaper Publishers Asso-
ciation, was in the hall, and that in talk
he had said that If he appeared before the
convention as he had at several previous
conventions, he would be obliged to criti-
else the international president in a severe
manner for his action in the strike at Ia
coma and Seattle President Lynch said:
'If there ia any reason for silence on
the part of Col. DrtScoH 1t Is unknown
to me and hope the convention Will invite
him to address this body today. l am
70 haor yUhQ
the actions of your president and only
hope that all of you at all times will feel
as free to discuss my actions as hope he
will be when he addresses you here. II
there Is anything Of which I have been
guilty want to know II"
The delegates broke into prolonged cheers
apolis offered the motion that Col. Dris-
coll be invited to address the convention
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The mo
ton was carried without dissenting voice
who sat in box and who acknowledged
the invitation and left the hall.
The gossip concerning this action Is that
the international. president has been ac-
cused Of not attempting to stop the strike
Of the printers at Seattle and Tacoma and
If this can be shown, and that he was un-
justified. he is amendable to impeachment
under the constitution Of the union.
During the debate on the proposition to
create a fidelity insurance fund for the
bonding of officers of subordinate unions
Delegate Kaurer OF WilkesbarFe Onered q
motion to the effect that the debate be lin
tied to five minutes for each delegate. He
created great laughter by saying:
I'VE waste valuable time and get whole
lot of hot air that don't cut any ice."
The Strike Benefit.
His motion, SO feelingly expressed. was
carried by a rousing majority. During the
discussion of the strike benefit proposition
a delegate who said that he was a single
man, and therefore qualified to speak, made
the statement that single men could in
times Of stress get a glass of beer and a
free plate of soup for cents. but that you
can't take the old lady there" and, con-
tinuing, ne said: II am in favor Of making
the benefit scale IS for single men and 81
for married men, for the reason that a
married man needs the money"
The proposition allowing So per week was,
on motion. indefinitely postponed, which is
equivalent to Its death. Section 60 of the
general laws reading: mo member of a
subordinate union shall be allowed to ac-
/ ceq,t work in any newspaper or job printing
office where a task, stint or dead line is
imposed by the employer on operators of
typesetting devices. Any infraction of this
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