Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-10
THE STATE PRINTING
Committee to Ask State Printer Emery
N. English That Union Conditions
Obtain Where State Printing 10
Done-TroIIey Ride This Afternoon
Banquet Tonight. + 4

From Wednesdays Daily.
The adoption of resolution author
izing the legislative committee to
make report of the record Of all
members of the Iowa legislature ON
various matters Of interest to organ
lied labor and the wage workers, IN
general, and report said record to all
locals of the Iowa State Federation OF
Labor, was one Of the most important
transactions of this mornings session
of the fourteenth annual convention.
Resolutions affecting the state print.
ing and solicitation for advertise.
ments in union publications were also
adopted. The following report, deal
Ing with three Of the thirteen resolu-
tions presented, was made by the res
olution committee this morning:
Your committee on resolutions begs
leave to report as follows
In the absence of the regularly an
pointed chairman of the committee Il.
b. Currier was elected as chairman.
and j. j. Jacobsen as secretary of the
committee.
I'VE have considered the various
resolutions presented to your commit.
tee and while at this time we ara.2p.
able to report back to TIN nyention
recommendation on all Of them. we
recommend action as follows on the
resolutions hereto appended:
Resolution No. Q, by J. r. Hagan.
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M. w. of A.
BE it resolved, That the Incoming
| legislative committee make a report
of the record of all members Of the
Iowa legislature on the various mnt,
tiers of interest to organized labor and
the wage workers in general and re-
port said record to all locals of the /.
s. F. of L.
"Your committee recommend that
the convention concur in the foregoing
and following resolutions:
Resolution No. 8, by J. j. Jacobsen
and %. F. Doris, representing Typo
graphical Union No 11S and which
resolution has since been endorsed
by the Iowa typographical union and
signed by all the members thereof:
Whereas, for the past twenty-five
weeks the typographical union Of Des
| Moines has waged fight for the es-
tablishment of the eight hour day in
the office where the printing for the
state of Iowa is being done, and
Whereas, no assurance has been OBJ
tanned from the newly elected state
printer, Emory H. English, whose
term Of Office commences January 1,
1907, that this printing will be done
under union conditions during his
term of office, therefore be 1t
Resolved, BY the Iowa State FEEDER
alton of Labor, that committee Of
five be appointed to interview Mr. En-
glish, and secure from him,
ii possible, guarantee that
union conditions will obtain
wherever the state printing may be
done during the year 1907 and follow
ing years, should Mr. English be con-
tinued in office and be it further
\ Resolved, That this committee shall
make it's report to the executive COM
mittee of the federation at the earliest
!, possible moment, they to take such
, further action as may deemed proper,
, with the object in view that the print
ing for the state of Iowa shall be done
by the members of the Typographical
union and allied trades"
Resolution No. 3--By A. B. Clark.
Local Cigar Makers union of Burling-
ton:
Resolved, That we oppose the soli-
citation of advertisements Of unfair
cigar manufacturers and all other un-
fair firms in publications over which
: the L. S. F. Of i. has control.
Respectfully submitted,
'E. E. Currier,
a. J. Jacobson.
j. G. Dyer,