The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-13
STATE TYPOfRETAES ANNUAL BANQUET
4 DISTINGUISHED GATI or MEN.
National President Ellis, of Bosfs cusses the Labor Problem, as the Other speakers-Dcan Says That Such Carnage as Re in the Fall of Port Arthur shou stopped-United States should E and Senate should Pass BiII.

The sixteenth annual banquet of Connecticut Typothetae was held at t Tontine hotel last night and was great success
 Shortly before o'clock the invited guests and members assembled at the, popular hostelry and shortly afterward { Journeyed to the spacious dining rooms | to the strains of a march from Gates orchestra, which was stationed at the end of the room behind a mass of pot ted plants
 The guests to the number of about one hundred then took their seats and partook of the splendid banquet which Landlord White had prepared for them. The hall was handsomely decorated
 with potted plants and flowers, while 1 life-size oil painting of Benjamin Franklin, draped with American flags, l occupied a prominent place behind Postmaster Lees seat. At the conclusion of the banquet
 President Wilson H. Lee, as toastmas-
 ter, gave a splendid introductory ad-
 dress.
 The first speaker of the evening was
 then introduced by President Lee,
 George H. Ellis, of Boston, president of
 the U. T. A, who spoke, in part as fol- I lows:
 | It always gives me a great deal of
 pleasure to come to a meeting of the
 Connecticut Typothetae, because no-
 where else do we find the employer and
 the employe sitting down together oii
 an occasion like this. It-is true a.ag your president has said, that the wolsk
 of the employer and the employe aye
 identical. While under the present con-
 ditions it is sometimes difficult for both.
 to have the same ideas concernfng con-
 Gitions, still, concessions must be made by both sides.'
 The speaker. continuing, told about what difficulties had been encountered
 by the national organization and the
 unions, what an amount of money had. lheen spent needlessly, and how much
 better it would have been had these
 matters been adjusted differently. The l speaker then referred to the difficulties
 which ennfront the national 5o1 jsyear, the demands which are made bys l the employees and the difficulties which. l the employers will find in granting
 their request for eight hours instead of
 nine MT. Ellis said that, in his opirl- 4 ion, it would be impossible to grant this I request, because the public would not pay any higher prices than it was now I paying, and the manufacturers could f not possibly afford to do the work any 1 cheaper.
 I The speaker said that there was one \ thing certain, and that was that the members of the union in Boston I thought more of their oath to the union than they did to the oath of the court This, the. speaker said, had recently been demonstrated at some trials in
 Boston, where in every instance the 4 members stuck by their unions, regard I less of anything else. I The speaker closed by saying that he had not intended to go into these mat Eters, and he asked the apology of those
 present for so doing. He was loudly l applauded.
 i Professor Henry Wade Rogers dean I of the Yale Law school, was the next
 speaker. Dean Rogers made number I.of amusing remarks, after which he l said that we but recently celebrated the l anniversary of the birth of Christ. and ! then told of the message of peace which \ it brought.