The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22
TYPOTHETAf BALKS
At EIGHT HOUR MOVE
Employing Printers Gather to
Discuss Line of
Action

ployinga printers that has assembled
anywhere in the United States met yes
terday afternoon at the Merchants hotel
to consider steps for future action rela-
tive to the eight-hour day.
The two hundred men that dined and
discussed as the guests of the Twin
City Typothetae represented the North
western Master Printers association,
whose members are also members of
the United Typothetae of America.
The business meeting that followed
the dinner yesterday was called to con-
slider the relations of the employing
printers to such of their employees as
belong to the International Fypographi-
cal union.
At its convention last summer the
union, which adopted nine-hour day
several years ago, voted for an eight
hour day, the rule to become effective
Jan. 1, 1906.
Subsequently the United Typothetae,
meeting at St~Louis, resolved to oppose
the eight hour rule for printers. In ac-
. cordance with such resolutions the
Northwestern Typothetae met yester-
day to strengthen its organization.
Declaration of Policy
81 Printed with the menu was the dec
laration of policy adopted by the ma
tional organization of Typothetae. The
United Typothetae of America, as the
declaration recited, maintains the right
Of its members to conduct an "open"
office; to employ whomsoever they see
fit in the mana cement of their offices;
to buy or sell as they see fit
The Typothetae invites united action
to resist any unwarranted encroach-
ments of labor organizations upon the
rights of employers and therefore re-
quests that, when a demand is made
by9a a labor union upon a local Typo
Z thetae, the local body should commune
cate with the national secretary before
conference is had in regard thereto."
Being opposed to any further reduce
ton of the working time to less than
: fifty-feur- hours per week for day
work, the Typothetae urged local
branches not to enter into any contract
except upon the lines laid down by a
sample contract prepared by the u.
T. A
Furthermore, the Typothetae is op-
posed to any agreement between local
fTypothetae and employers unions for
control of trade or membership. The
u. IT. A. also deprecates the use of the
union label
said there was no question but what
the master printers of the Northwest
should strengthen their organization.
They were. competent, he felt, to deal
justly with their own employees, but
that was. not allowed by their organi-
zation. The nine-h question had been
settled, yet the question of hours was
still unsettled. 1t was eight hours
now, instead of nine hours. A national
organization was the employers only
protection.
Welcomes the Guests
In welcoming the guests Thomas E.
Cootey, of Minneapolis, told that there
were master printers present from all
parts of Minnesota, from Nebraska
Wisconsin, and the two Dakotas; that
seven men had come from Winnipeg,
He urged the necessity of combating
"the un-American and socialistic doc
trine of unionism."
The president of the u. T. A, George
H. Ellis, of Boston, said that his audi
tors should realize that their friends
the enemy, were a very strong organi-
zation.
Yet the eight-hour day could not be
accepted. The closed shop was OBJ
jectionable, as were other demands
made by the typogra phical union. But
the eight-hour day was least to be en-
dired.
1t would mean an increase of Is tic
an Increase that the business was in nc
condition to stand.
Mr.. Ellis thought it highly desirable
to enlist in the typothetae all the small
employers. 1t might be necessary, with
this object. to reduce the U. T. A. dues
In answer to a question, Mr.. Ellis
advised employing printers TO refuse
any offer of arbitration, and to refer
the proposal to the national secretary
of the typothetae
Mr.. Ellis views were reflected, ir
the main, by William Green, of New
York, chairman of the executive COM
mittee Of the u. T. A.
j. Stearns Gushing, Of Norwood
Mass, a member of the executive COM
mittee thought it was time to call g
halt. The next demand might be for &
seven-h hour day.
j. l.. Mcintyre, of Winnipeg, describ.
ed conditions in the Manitoban metrop.
oils. The typographical union was very
strong there and inclined to be dicta.
torial
Another speaker was John MacIn.
tyre. of New York, secretary of the u
T. A.
The officers of the Northwestern
Master Printers association: President
Homer P. Clark (West Publishing COM
pany), st: Paul, Mimi; vice president
F. w. Hunt Gree Press Mankato
Mimi; treasurer, Frank e. Store
(Kimball & Storer Coz, Minneapolis
MINI; board of directors, Walter ]
Driscoll (Pioneer Press company, st
Paul, Mimi; j. L. Thwing, Duluth
Mimi; w. n. Brown Great Western
Printing company, Minneapolis, Mimi.
w. E. Mckenzie (The Times), Crooks
ton, Mimi; F. H. Warwick Oh. M
Smyth Printing company st. Paul
Mimi; c. r. Dickinson (Harrison &
Smith Coz, Minneapolis, Mimi; james
r. Jerrard Gournal Press), ST. Cloud
Mimi; T. E. Cootey (Cootey Litho
graph and Printing company, Mime
apolis, MINI.