The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-09
PRINTERS MEET
IN INTEREST OF
GREAT UNION
Fiity-fiith Session OF Famous
Typographical Organization
Opens in St. Joseph.
VAST AND IMPORTANT
WORK THAT 1T HAS DONE
Questions that Are Expected to
Come Up at the COnven=
ton of This Year.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Aus. 1.-The fifty
fifth convention Of the Iaternati d al
Typographical Union convened ere to-
day in the Coliseum, the city's la gest
hall. Addresses Of welcome wer made
by Mayor Clayton. President Burnhi III
of the LEGAL Typographical Union, and
others, and a response by President
Lynch. of the International Typo
graphical Union. after which the con-
vention began consideration Of a large
volume of business, ultimately adj urn
ing until Tuesday morning to heal the
report of the credentials committee ON
contested seats.
The reports of President Lynch and
Secretary-Treasurer Hays show great
progress made by the union during the
last year.
The union is fifty-seven years cid
and with the present gathering HIS
held fifty-ive conventions dulii & / g
lifetime. In 1896 and 1898 b.ennid con-
ventions were held. Ii claims t. lie thu
oldest national or international organi-
CATION of skilled labor in the world. l S
sessions here this week were attended
by three hundred delegates and eight
hundred visitors.
Matters of importance that are to
come before the convention are pr5po-
sitions for the establishment of an in
surance feature, and certain cnang S
proposed In the pension policy that was
made effective by the union one year
ago. The relations between the union
and the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association will also be up for
consideration.
The international Typographical
Union has many features that are
unique with labor organizations, and
which stamp this union as one of the
most progressive in the labor field. The
pension policy, for instance. is distinc-
tive with the international Typograph-
zeal Union. Under the pension law
members h have reached the age OF
60 years and are unable to secure sus-
tanning employment at the trade are
paid "a per week. The payment of pen
sions began with the first of last
August, and up to May 81, when the
unions fiscal yea closed, $3.50 had
been paid pensioners, while the admin
istration of the Juno a cost only
S. 1000.
The union also conducts a home al
Colorado Springs. and contributed dur-
ing its fiscal year to this institution
sS6,51S.31. The actual expense of con-
Quoting the Union Printers Home was
$72. $3.50 and there was a balance in
the home fund of So, 337.63. The re-
ceipts and expenditures Of the home
from its inception to May 81. 1909. were
1851. sol % and 1885, 1896 6 The home
property at Colorado Springs is valued
at s.. 900, 600.
The union pays a burial beneft of
s75. During the fiscal year there were
500 deaths. and the benefits paid
amounted to $3S,175. The total expend-
itures OF the union during it's fiscal
year were 1851 .544.45.
From the year 1891 to 1909 the union
received 6.1sS, 045.7 IS. and expended So
$50, $685. this sum including the ex-
rense of conducting the Union Printers
Home. The union has a membership
of 47.174.
The sessions of the convention will
continue throughout the week. Newark
delegates to the convention are Elmer
Throsse.l and William Hackett.