Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-24
LEADER OF PRINTERS
LYNCH ADDRESSES THE LOCAL
STRIKING TYPOS.
Tells Them the Union is Sure to Win
Situation in Other
Cities.

| Those members of Columbia Typographical
Union who are on strike for an eight-hour
day and the union shop say they feel very
much encouraged by the visit to Washing
ton of James M. Lynch yesterday and his
forceful speech at Typographical Temple be-
fore a large audience of printers and their
supporters They are particularly well
| pleased with President Lynch point-blank
statement that the employing printers are
responsible for the present conditions, and
that the commercial world will hold them to
a strict accountability therefor.
The international president also declared
that the outcome for union shop and
eight day in Washington was prac-
tically assured He hoped the organization
would be as successful in other cities He
said the International Typographical Union
has been free from industrial warfare.
Small strikes have taken place, but this is
the first general strike the union has in
augurated.
Typothetae Wanted Battle.
Mr.. Lynch said the typothetae wanted
battle, either the question of the eight
hour day or the open shop. Such being
the case. the union ordered strike, which,
he claimed, is being successfully conducted.
AT all the conventions, both of the Union
and the typothetae, when the committee
from tlle UNION sought a conference WITH
the executive committee of the typothetae
they were repulsed.
Mr.. Lynch said when twenty presidents
of various unions met at Detroit to look
over the situation the executive board of
the typothetae came to them, and Mr..
Lynch, speaking for the International Ty-
biographical Union. made three separate
propositions to the typothetae men, all Of
them looking to a compromise and tend ng
toward the eight-hour day. The members
of the typothetae executive board declared
it was useless for them TO discuss that kind
of proposition or any other that did not
contemplate fifty-four hours as weeks
work.
He added that the typothetae convention
at Niagara Falls. after that body had &c
cided to resist the establishment of the
eight-hour day and establish the open shop,
they sent their executive board to confer
with the international union. "Of course"
said Mr.. Lynch, there could be no salts
factory conference, the typothe,ae had
already arrived at its decision
Strike Can Continue Indefinitely.
President Lynch spoke of the sacrifices
the unionS making and 1.-The cheering
conditions at Richmond. Chicago and other
Places In Chicago, he said, there are
2, 200 printers working in union shops and
but 600 on the strike roll. while in ST. Louis
there are but 100 men on the strike roll.
In all the strike cities there are now a
niue Tess plAdH i,UNV men on strike lneFe
is no fear of a financial drain in support
ing the strike, as was at first feared. AS
SO many cities have been able to establish
the eight-hour day, the resources of the
International Union are ample, and the
strike be continued indefinitely.
There are now 41O unions which have
tablshed the eight-hour day absolutely.
They employ (not including Washington
$1,000 men in eight-hour union offices.
President Lynch left fer New York at mid
night He will return to Washington in
about two weeks, when he starts on his
southern tour. He was introduced to the
big audience last night by Mr.. T. c. Par
sons, chairman of the local eight-hour COM
mittee, who referred to him as the gen
eral commanding the union forces"