The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
In Labor S Field
The TYPOS SCALE.
It Has Been Submitted to the Ma
tional Board Of Arbitration
for Perusal.
Members Of the Board Will Visit
Minneapolis Next Week-Re-
ception Planned.

Minneapolis Typographical Union, No.
~, held its regular meeting Sunday after
noon at Columbus hall. II It was a lively
meeting. The executive board reported
that the contract and scale of prices had
been submitted to the national board Of
arbitration, which is composed of Presi-
dent James M. Lynch Of the International
Typographical union, and Commissioner
Driscoll OF the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association. A letter from Mr.,
Lynch announces that he will arrive in
this city about May s, and Mr.. DrscolI
Will arrive about the same time, and the
board will convene Immediately. Mr..
Lynch will be the guest Of the local union,
and reception in his honor will be given.
1t Is thought the national board will be
able to adjust all scale matters, but if not,
a third party will be called upon and
questions in dispute arbitrated Mr.. Dris-
coll, who will act for the publishers, is
well known in the twin cities, having
been manager Of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press for many years.
Inc union will again affiliate with the
State Federation of Labor and will be rep
resented at the June session Of the fed
GRAFTON by three delegates.
The proposition to place the financial
secretary of the union upon salary of
$1,000 per year, that officer also to act
in the capacity of business agent, was,
upon recommendation Of the executive
board, defeated, and the salary was made
81 per year per member, to be computed
quarterly, which is an advance over the
present figure with no added duties.
The Atlanta Ca, union reported that
printers in twelve job offices in that city
We're on a strike, with no, prospects of an
early settlement. The newspapers are
not involved. ~ fy.
Rochester, N. Y, and Cleveland Ohio,
unions are booming William S. Waudby
for assistant secretary of the department
OF commerce, and are asking the help of
northwestern printers in achieving the
desired result. Mr.. Waudby has been
| member of the International Topographic
cal union for thirty years, and was one
| OF those chiefly instrumental in the estab-
| lishment Of the national department of
! labor, of which he is at present deputy
AS labor statistician Mr.. 'Waudby ranks
high. s,z-s s=s ~ =
A circular was received from the Amos
j. Cummings memorial committee stat
ing that the committee had decided to
recommend that there be placed on the
grounds of the Union Printers Home; at
Colorado Springs, Col, huge boulder
of Colorado granite, with a tablet of mar
BILE or bronze, bearing as4suitable inscrip-
| ton. The cost of the same will be about
$4,000, which sum will be raised by union
printers. For thirty years after ceasing
| to be actively connected with the print
| ing trade Mr.. Cummings continued to pay
his dues and assessments; and was always
ready, willing and anxious to assist in the
upbuilding of the craft. EDS X - ,f-sl.,
Under the head Of nominations a full
ticket was placed in the field for office
for the ensuing year, the list of nominees
having already been published. -
A set of red hot resolutions asking for
the removal of DR.. Nelson as city rhy-
sician was passed, on account of his at
titude toward the union when it sought
to place an out-of- town member in the
hospital - 'f's& aGts G q - ~
i A special meeting of the union will BIZ
} held Monday at 6 p mat II6lcomb s hal
to. act on the rulngoof the executive boarl
regarding the qualification of some of the
nominees for offices in the uniun : 80