The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-09
It Has Been Demonstrated Says
Mr.. Frederick DrIscoll
In an Address Before the Inter
national Typographical Union
FOREMAN'S HARD JOB.
Says He Is Compelled to Serve
Two Masters.
Should Not Be Required to Be
long to the Union.

Ct T,ouis. Mo-. Aug 9.-World'
Fair Grounds-The second days ses-
sion of the international Typograph-
teal union convened today in conven-
- ton hall with nearly the full quota OF
400 delegates present. The report OF
the committee on laws was given out.
OF this report. the most important ar
ticle on which the convention passed
was that providing that in cities in
which a German union exists no mem
bers of the International Typograph-
ical union shall be employed at Ger
man or other work at any other scale
than that demanded by the Internal
tional union.
The membership of committees on
finance. appeals, S-hour question, ar
bitration. press. allied trade relations,
government ownership of type 'foun-
dries and the telegraph, organization
arbitration, resolutions and the PRINT
ers' home was announced Frederick
Driscoll of st. Paul, representative OF
the Newspaper Publishers association
was then introduced and made an ad-
dress He spoke in part as follows:
Mr. President and Members or the
Convention: 1t gives me pleasure TO
state that while at your last conVen-
ton it was my unpleasant duty to crit
icise the acts of your president. ap-
pear before you today to TESTIFY TO the
full measure of peace which charac-
terized the labor situation of our mem
bers having trade relations with the
unions during the past year. Differ
enceS have arisen in numerous local.
ties but they have been mostly set
tied, either by Cancellation or arbitra-
ton. Some differences yet remain IN
adjusted of comparatively recent orr
gin, which it is reasonable to expect
will be disposed of in like manner.
After more than two years experience
of the practical working of the arbi-
tration agreement between our organi-
cations. and more especially since the
adoption of the code of procedure, last
fall, 1 am sure all will agree that the
ensuing beneficial results have fully
justified the policy and established the
wisdom of arbitration.
president Lynch in his annual re-
port submitted to this convention, in
cluded statement of the cases of diff
ference settled by the national board
of arbitration, in which statement
twenty-three cities are named where
such settlements were effected. OF
these the unions in nineteen cities re-
ceived an increase of scale more or
less, and but three failed to receive any
increase. In these twenty-three cities
one hundred and four newspaper Of
fees and it is carefully estimated that
more than $500 employees were in
volved- In addition new scales as we'll
as differences have been settled by
cancellation in a number of cities,
without reference to the national
Elements were effected mainly because
the parties otherwise could demand
arbitration as a last resort. In view
of these results 1 fully agree with
President Lynch when he states from
a strictly union standpoint that we
have made considerable progress
During the past year there has been
a widespread agitation and discussion
OF the question of the open vs. the
closed shop The attitude of your union
on TINS question is well known. Not
withstanding decisions of courts in var
1ous sections of the country the pub
hsners whom 1 have the honor to rep
resent. fully realize that all of them
who have entered into arbitration con-
graphical union are thereby bound
morally If not legally, to the closed
shop until May l. 1907.
There are certain matters. however,
which seriously affect the opinion of
our publishers on this subject. The
1rst l will mention is the manifest en-
deavor of local unions to exclude all
unskilled workmen from performing
1nskilled work in the composing room
The publishers strenuously object to
paying journeymen wages for that por-
ton of labor which requires little or
no skill or experience The position has
been taken by the highest authority in
your union that all labor in the com
posing room must be performed by
members of the union or union appren-
tlceS so cong as the present l. T. II
laws remain in force. Not only is the
number of apprentices allowed by the
union unreasonably limited but the re-
Gently increasing requirements to teach
the trade to these apprentices will if
carried out, prevent them from doing
much of this unskilled work, so that
II other unskilled labor is prohibited. the
puonsher viii be forced to pay the full
scale for this inferior and subordinate
work.
another requirement the publishers
would ask is. that the foreman should
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union OF this have spoken at several
previous conventions urging its adop-
ton. but without avail.
II, however, you are unwilling to
make this change in your laws we do
insist that you shall repeal all laws re-
lating to the duties of a foreman which
hamper him in performing mis- duties