The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-30
TEA POTTERS TO MEET
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION
Buffalo Will Be the Afflicted Citv
Will Meet and Consol Over
Loss of Strike.
President Begs Members to Be
Present in Large Number to
Put Up Big Front.

Boston, Mass, June 2S.-George H.
Ellis of Boston, president of the Unit
ed Typothetae of America, has issued
call for the twentieth annual con-
vention of his somewhat shattered,
weakened and battle-scarred organiza-
tion. The convention will be held In
the city of Buffalo during the week
commencing July lG.
Mr.. Ellis urges upon the member.
ship OF the typothetae the necessity
OF attending in large numbers. Every
local typothetae is not only asked to
arrange to be represented, but to send
az many members as possible to fill
the convention hall. They will be en-
titled to all privileges except voting.
The agreement of the international
printing pressmen and assistants un-
ion is to be considered, and the dele
gates are asked to come instructed, 50
that they can vote intelligently up
on it.
That this convention of the tea
pot" will be warm and frothy affair
IS anticipated
President Ellis will perspire pro-
fusely in an effort to explain to his
| swelterlng members how it came
about that the rank and file of the
book and job printers of the country
demonstrated that he either deliber-
ately prevaricated or he did not know
what he was talking about when he
stated last year that the rank and
file of the book and job printers do
not want the eight-hour day." Mr.
Ellis will have lot of other things
to- explain to his discouraged and dis
gruntled followers-how it happens
that the International Typographical
Union has won a splendid and glOri-
TO death; how it happens that the So
called "open shop" has failed of it's
purpose; how it happens that the un-
lon shops are prosperous as never be-
fore, while the members of the typo
thetae who are fighting the union.
printers are steadily losing both bust.
ness and money; how it happens that
numerous former prominent members
of the bedraggled organization have
deserted the typothetae and signed
with the union printers for eight
hours-"closed shop and all.
Would it not be surprising, indeed,
If Mr.: Ellis should not expertence~
considerable moisture? Also much DIS
comfiture?
And then there's Jawn MacIntyre,
the famous bulletin" secretary of the
Typothetae. Oh, of course, he'll be
there. He is "absolutel " the greatest
Sull-et-in the typothetae He will be
obliged to explain to the questioning
and doubling delegates how it has
transpired that the absolutely true"
statements In his bulletins have been
proven by actual facts to be absolute
" untrue and misleading; how 1t has
transpired that the membership of the
international Typographical Union
have so Loyalty and cheerfully contrib
| uted 10 per cent. of their earnings for
over nine months in order to properly
finance their end of the eight-hour
fight, and how it is that they are con-
tinuing, and will continue, to pay the
assessment until the battle is fought
to finish.
thetae, it Is hoped, will be in a more
receptive" mood than that of last
year. 1t Is too late, however, for the
typothetae convention to consider
any proposition which will eventually
lead to the eight-hour day." That op-
portunity was flatly ignored at its
convention last year. The coming
convention will be obliged to either
| accept the eight-hour proposition or
continue to fight it.
Which course will the typothetae
| of America, in convention assembled,
choose to take?
| Wait and see.