The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-10

tration and necessarily the cause OF IN
dustrial peace, will receive blow from
which recovery will not be possible LOT
ears"
President Lynch makes his address to
the American Newspaper Publishers
association a part of his report ana re-
fers to the conditions existing IN various
cities. He also speaks on the subject OF
trade union incorporation and says that
the convention might well adopt a law
forbidding local unions to incorporate
except under exceptional conditions ana
with the sanction of the executive coun-
ell of the International Typographical
union.
After expressing disapproval of the
action of some central labor bodies III
boycotting union newspapers because OF
their editorial policy, President Lynch
refers to the abuse of the right OF APP
peal: the failure of the efforts to secure
the passage of an eight hour law Dy
congress; the establishment of printing
offices on the factory plan in small VII
lagos; the fourishing condition of the
printing business Notwithstanding the
continued introduction of improved ma
chirery; the necessity of every union
becoming a union missionary; the Amos
J. Cummings memorial movement; the
vigorous prosecution of the campaign for
abel text books; the report of the copy
right committee.
The report concludes as follows:
I'VE are doing well. Careful action on
the part of delegates coupled with mod
Grafton and ordinary business sagacity
will accelerate our progress, add to our
stability as an organization, make our
future even more secure, and be Of in
estimab BILE benefit to the membership
represented in this forty-ninth session.
Let wisdom be the watchword."
The report of J. NJ. Brentwood. secre-
tary-trea surer, for the year ended May
81, 1903 shows that the receipts for the
year including the balance in the treas
ury July l, 1902, of $3S,072, amounted TO
1925, 255. The expenditures were $174,0S5,
leaving a cash balance in the treasury
on May 81 1908, of $49,170, an increase
during the fiscal year of $11 ,097.
The report says that the growth in
membership has been in keeping with
the advances raGe il other directions,
the increase in the average paying men,
bership during the past year being 4,O72,
the largest in tile history of the orga-
nization Per capita tax was paid on
an average membership of 42,436,
during the past year, the largest in the
history of the organization.
A tabulated statement of the number
of charters issued, reinstated, suspend
ed and surrendered shows a net gain in
mem bership of 2,031 from this source.
During the fiscal year just closed 159
new unions were chartered one was re-
instated, two were suspended, and IS
surrendered.
The total increase in the number of
local unions is given as lao. Whlle the
total number of bodies subordinate to
the international union on May 81,
1903. was 500, divided among the several
crafts as follows:
typographical unions, English SIG;
Decentralization 21;> photographers
unions 16; mailers' union 21; type foun-
ders' unions and newspaper writer's
unions IS.
Death benefits paid during the year
numbered 476. involving an expenditure
of O.94O. The receipts of the fund
were 1913 in excess of the
expenditures, leaving balance
to the credit of the fund of $14,9S3.
The amount of benefits paid has been
increased from time to time, but, the
report saws, the receipts have always
exceeded the expenditures and the sec
retarv believes the International union
is in a position to raise the death bene-
fit to $40 without increasing the per
capita tax.
The report says the sum of s5o,s25 wa
transferred to the union printers home
fund as its share of the per capita tax
during the past fiscal year. The secre-