Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-20
TYP0THETAE'S ANNUAL
PRINTERS PROPOSAL REJECTED
VAN cLEAvE's ADDRESS.

The United Typothetae of America at
Buffalo yesterday fatty declined to confer
! with officials of the International Typo
| graphical Union IN regard to the strike in
augurated nearly a year ago for an eight
hour day and the. closed shop.
President Ellis of the Typothetae re-
ceived a letter signed by James NJ. Lynch.
| president. and ]. w. Hayes, vice president,
| representing the executive council of the In
ternational typographical Union. stating
\ that they were ready for a conference with
| a view to adjusting the differences that now
exist. Failing in obtaining this confer
! ence." the letter read. the temper OF the
members Of the typographical union will
! demand continuance Of the struggle"
A resolution was unanimously adopted de-
! claring that the Typothetae of America
have nothing on which to confer with rep
resentatives of the International Typo
| graphical Union
| The following officers were elected by
reclamation: President, George H. Ellis.
| Boston; vice president. William D. Greene,
| New York. and treasurer, Thomas E. Don
nelly, Chicago
| of the National Association of Manufac-
| turers' delivered address.
President Van CIeave's Address.
Mr.. Van Cleave said, in part:
1T seems to thinking men everywhere
| that we are living In troublesome and por-
| tentous times 1t must have happened
originally that individuals, forgetful of the
obligations connected with their positions
of power and responsibility. sought for
more than their fair proportion of the
results of individual endeavor. Call 1t one
of the excuses of capitalism. Organiza-
lions to prevent this are necessary and
proper, but they quickly proceeded to
overstep the bounds of economic and moral
law The industrial pendulum began to
swing the other way; 1t is still swinging
that way For there are still those who.
drunk with the power OF organization,
insist upon separating themselves as a
class from their fellow workers In the
great community of interests expressed
in the brotherhood of man, and upon seek
ing, by foul means as well as fair, to
apportion out to themselves more than
they are entitled to and more than the
community, in justice to itself and to its
individual members, can afford to give
them; and that still means the scathing
condemnation Of public sentiment.
1T certainly has happened that en-
ploycrs in various Industries and In vari
Gus localities have found, a matter OF
self preservation that they must see to
1t that their own belongings. in the way
Of property and opportunity, were pre-
served to them. They have also been in
spired, as l wish to be absolutely positive
In saying. by an irresistible. patriotic i'm
pulse to protect the community WELL
and hence to hand down to their chill
all with whom they have been associated
in industry, the priceless boon of further
and larger opportunities and of farer and
larger divisions of the rewards of labor.
Fortunately the national community
has been quick to see this point, for every
where the excuses of organization have
been met by fearless and steady enforce
ment of the law and by the still more firm
and equitable dispensation Of public senti-
ment
For the Square>Deal.
But there is an absolute necessity press
ing upon all good citizens now, as at many
another period in our national history of
cool thought, of patriotic action, of per-
sistence, of patience and of absolute devo-
ton to the perpetuation as well as the re-
establishment of the square deal You
may organize: but if you may, may You
must not break the law; but If you must
not, l must not. l may fight even unto
death. for principles which recognized
in every human heart as being the very
thing for which that heart sends its life
blood coursing through its veins; but you
may do the same, in fact, you must do the
same; you cannot help 1t. l cannot forbid
that you should transgress the law with
out myself resolving that I have no bust
ness to transgress it. We have seen in tie
last year all too many instances of an In
dependent determination, the part of
organized capital and organized la or alike,
to break the law.
I'VE have heard much of the necessary
muck-rake. But while this cleansing
process, and with 1t the reasoning process
as to the value of basic principles has gone
on 1t has seemed as If the men and the
means adequate to meet the new situation
or situations have arisen buoyantly to cope
with them. I refer now not only to our
President and our other public men, who,
to the utmost limit OF their powers and
with a glorious. activity and pride in their
work, have done their share in extending
and solidifying the benefits of wise legisla-
ton, but to other leaders of legislation, to
judges lawyers. manufacturers even, en-
ployers in great numbers, citizens, and here
and there, more splendid yet on account OF
their increasing number. leaders of thought
and action among the working people them
selves.
a Daring Proposition.
1T is even defiantly announced that those
public men who have simply dared to do