The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-08-10
LONDON SENDS ITS
FIRST REPRESENTIVE
International Typographical Union
Begins its Fifty-fourth Annual Con-
vention With Record Breaking At.
tendance.
Hearst News Service.

DOolOu, August V'-ohloA
| from every state and from Canada,
England, Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines are the guests of Boston
today, the assemblage marking the
opening of the forty-fourth convention
of the International Typographical
! Union. For the first time, the London
Society of Printers has sent a dele
gate to confer with the printers on
this side of the ocean, giving the
meeting more of an international
character than it has ever had Bos-
ton Typographical Union, one of the
first organizations of printers, will
celebrate it's siXtieth anniversary dur
ing the week. All of the sessions will
be held in Ford hall.
Following the formal opening of the
convention today and the transaction
of preliminary business, adjournment
was taken until tomorrow, and the
delegates will spend the afternoon on
a harbor and bay excursion. Tomor-
row will be eX-delegates day and will
be marked by a trolley trip to Lex
ington and Concord over the Paul Re-
we're route. Many other entertain
ments will be held under the direction
of Boston Union No. 13. The local
union, despite its hoodoo number, has
had a highly successful career and
iC in tho host IF condition Tho
local has prepared an elaborate SOU
venir booklet of $50 pages for dis
tribution among the delegates.
The International Stereotypers and
Electrotypers' Union will also hold it's
convention here during the week, as
will the ladies' auxiliary of the Inter-
national Typographical Union. 1t is
expected that the total number of
delegates and visiting printers and
stereotypers, with their families, will
reach at least 5000.
AS this is the first important con-
vention held by any labor organization
following the two national party con.
ventions, it will be watched with es-
pecial interest to see if legislation
will be introduced bearing on the two
anti-injunction planks adopted at
Chicago and Denver.
Various important questions are tc
be discussed, among them being tie
Sherman antitrust law, the employ
ers' liability bill, the eight hour law
for government employees, the use OF
injunctions, the printing paper ques
ton and the subject of insurance.
The union conducts a Union Print
ers Home at Colorado Springs, the
first and only institution of its kind
in the world, where aged and infirn
printers to the number of 300 ar,
cared for at no expense to themselves
The first old-age pension measures
ever adopted by trade organization
1 in Boston have been recently adopted
by the union and went into effect Au
gust l.
Addresses will be made at the con
Il NChtiOh ny ldDOI ueH lTOI all owe
the country. Representative are pres
ent from the American Newspape
Publishers Association, with whic
the International Typographical Unto
holds special arbitration agreemer
running until 1912, which guarantee
4 both sides against strikes or lockout
and provides that any disagreement
- must be settled by arbitration. TIL
agreement has been in force for abol
six years, having been renewed in 49,
for a second five-year term.
The selection of the place for ne.
years convention is eagerly sougl
for by Seattle, Wash, and st. JOSEF
Mo-, and boomers from both cite
are present working to secure II
convention.
The present officers of the Intern
tional Typographical Union are: Pre-
ident, James M. Lynch, Syracus
N. Y; vice-president, John w. Hay
Minneapolis; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Jof
w. Bramood, Denver.
\ The Typographical Union is fir,
association OF economic equals, me
and women, for be it known womt
are admitted to membership in tn
organization upon the same basis