The Washington times., 1906-06-17
.BOOKBINDERS END
CONVENTION WORK
Meeting Concludes With
Election IF Officers.
GL0CKlNG Is PRESIDENT
Executive Is Also Chosen Delegate to
Represent Organization at Next
Convention.
GLOCKING IS PRESIDENT

The international Brotherhood Of
Bookbinde-s wound up their p-cek s
work at Typographical Temple .ast
evening by clecting the following OH
GERS Tor the ensuing two years.
President, Robert GIocking. Of Tor
onto; first vice president, Henry s
hcffer. OF Des Afoines. Iowa; second
vice president. Mrs Annie +. Mckee.
Of Philadelphia; third vice president.
Julius c. Otto, OF Detroit; general sec
retary. James ". Dougherty. of New
York; treasurer, J. A B. Espey, Of
Washington. d. c.. and statistician.
George L. Mas. Of Minneapolis.
All Of these officers were electeu
unanimously. that OF the pres ident.
secretary, and treasurer being by ris-
ing vote. When nominations were
called for James L. Feeney president
of Local No. 4, Washington, D c. was
nominated in opposition to President
GIocking, but Mr.. Feeney. after thank
ing his friends for the honor, said he
was under contract with his union 70
do certain important work, and If he
should be elected he could not serve.
He therefore withdrew his name and
moved to elect President GlocKing by
a standing vote, which was done.
The Other Officers.
The other officers elected were. Ex-
ecutive cOunCiI-Edward g Streile. of
Buffalo; Otto r. Wasem, of Chicago;
James Wright. Of Albany John Hadde,
Of Akron. Ohio; Harry Metzger. Of
Philadelphia; William l. Wall. OF
Kansas City; f. J. Shaughnessy, of
New York. John Whalen, Of Baltimore;
Miss Kate Y. Smoot. of Washington.
The two latter members were elected
unanimously, and they have the dis
tsnction of being the first women ever
placed on the executive council
Four organizers were elected as fol-
lows; J. F. Hogan. of Philadelphia:
Edward w. Tatum. of Chicago; D. n.
Hopkins. OF Houston. Tex, and William
GIocking. of Toronto, Canada.
President Glocking was unanimously
chosen delegate to represent the broth
erhood at the coming convention of the
American Federation of Labor.
When the election of officers had been
completed Samuel GOrpers, president
Of the A F l.. was sent for to pre-
side over the convention and install the
newly elected officers. This he did by
first administering the oath to Presi-
dent Glocking. prefacing the obligation
with n few timely remarks. which were
heartily applauded. The other officers
gathered in u semicircle around the pre-
siding officers desk and were sworn in
in a body After this ceremony Mr.
Gompers said good-by. wishing every
one a safe journey and cOmplimenting
the delegates on the manner in which
they had successfully conducted the
work of the convention.
For Next Convention.
The executive council was authorized
by the convention to select a city end
name the date for holding the next con-
vention.
Before the final adjournment the con-
vention gave a rising vote of thanks to
the local press for the fair and accu-
rate reports of the proceedings, Presi-
dent Glocking remarkiug that no mis-
take had been made in opening the doors
to the daily press. Aud Lang Syne"
was sung with a vim as the gavel
dropped on the closing of the conven-
tons work
Before the election of officers the con-
Vention adopted a resolution extending
the thanks of the delegates to Local No
4 and Local No. f., the women's auxil-
iary, for the entertainment and cour-
teSies shown the delegates.