The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-21


conditions under which our people are
! compelled to work. Until few years
ago any old place-filthy. unsanltary
disease e-brceding-was good enough for
he composing room. and if another
room Just Il little bit worse could be
found il WAS made the press room.
While doing the work at The
home. = continued Mr.. Lynch. 1--WE are
doing a great deal more through The
literature wc are sending out. We
show our people how 10 prevent tubcr-
culosiS, and we urge personal cleaull-
ness and right living. -
Respecting the pension system. Mr..
Lynch said that tho TNpocra phical
nnion pays lis pensioners 81 week,
which is more than the government
pays. 4 proposition will be voted ON
ary benefit from ITS present limit of
80 to a scale ranging from $IJ 10
800. Mr. Lynch believed the plan
would be carried
Apprentice System.
Taking up the apprentice system, Mr..
Lynch said that the charge was often
brought that fhe printers union would
moi permit BOYS 10 learn the trade,
That is not true.' said Mr.. Lynch.
"Jhc Typogra phical unlon insists that
boys be taught the art. We want ihcm
10 learn every branch OF the trade.
and TO this end we have established Il
correspondence school in Chicago,
where. although it is only Two years old
there is correspondence with 100
students. Within thc next few years
this number will be increased TO 5000
or 5000, have no doubt. These men
are able 20 get from 81 30 81 more n
wccl: than tho local scales provide Some
employers still hold the theory that
a boy when he finishes his term of
apprenticeship is Il printer III every
sense That is not so. Often boy
when he serves his time finds himself
untitled for ANYTHING except the work
that he has been doing. lnasmuch as
he can work III no other office, gcncr.
ally. than the ono in which he began
Inc is out IN the cold. We insist on
teaching our apprentices everything
that is to be taught about the art,
Mr.. Lynch believed that publicity. ls
the sovereign remedy for the Ills with
which the craft is affected. He said
that since the Typographical union has
the opposition and antagonism had been
wiped out,
The speaker said that there were still
some employers who hold the old. moth
eaten theory that ''nobody can run my
business for me. These, he said, did
not yet realize that the day is past
when employers can bargain and sell
labor collectively,
Referring TO the commercial strike
III which the printers were lately en-
gagged. Mr.. Lynch said that the struggle
had cost the union S5,000.000 and the
employers $20,00O,00O. There is now
being perfected the Printers League Of
America. which holds the same relation
TO the Job printing industry as the Pub
fishers association does 10 the news
papers.
Mr.. Lynch said he hoped this organi-
zatIon would spread, He said there
never WAS an association organized 10
fight labor but had gone down.
Mr.. Lynch thanked the Typograph-
zeal union of Salt Lake for the enter
tainmcnt and hoped to see ''you all
again soon
'''ln lD1I," he said, "you expect TO
entertain a large number of our print
crs. When they do come here, YOU will
see Il convention that You viii be proud
Talk OH tuberculosis.
DR.. A, G, Bchlc was the next speaker.
His address follows:
tuberculosis causes the death of l6O. 900
persons and The constant illness of a
half million more each year. In the
able. Statistics show that tuberculosis
IN the last four years caused more than
Three times as many DEATHS In this couu-
try as occurred from wounds received in
action during The civil war. Tho United
states today has no national public health
agency vested with power to cope with
Tho evil
Robert Koch states the tuberculosis
situation i'll Germany has become dis
.inctly favorable during the last three
decades. thus. for example the rate Of
due 10 tuberculosis in Prussia
has becn reduced 10 practically ono
about thirty thousand lives per annum in
Germany, What has the International
Typographical union done 10 reduce NOR
ality from tuberculosis? 1t was my
pleasure To be an active member of the
'iNth International Congress on Tubcrcu-
osiS. which WAS In session September
IS, l9nS, 10 October .. 1908. at Washing
ION, ID. G. The display and educational
,xhibil of the Union Printers Home Of
Colorado Springs, Colorado, under the
PERSONAL charge of Superintendent Dea-
'on. attracted marked attention. Among
he collection OF exhibits mono received
'olony at Colorado Springs ranks with
he foremost in the world. Their steam |
leatcd and specially ventilated tent was
Tot surpassed. Iii competition H.. a. prize |
II enc thousand dollars was offered for |
he hest exhibit OF an existing SanItnr-
um for tho treatment of curablc cases |
II tuberculosis among the working |
'laSses. The exhibit or the Union Print |
rs Home received honorable mention |
When you consider that in this class only |
welvc awards were granted in n world |
vide competition, you can renlize where |
'our sanitarium stands-in the foremost |
anka. The Homo tent was considered |
me OF the very hest. and the National |
Association for the Prevention of Tubcr- !
ulosis is now exhibiting the tent in the |
'arious cities of tho country in conncc- |
Ion with the travelling exhibit OF the |
latioual association. Union printers |
should he proud of the splendid work |
hey have done in helping to stamp out |
his great white plague, An exhibit has |
,ecr stationed at the Alaskan Yukon |
'acifc exposition similar to the one last |
car in Washington, You may say, "Of |
What use is this display" Suppose We |
the lives lost by tuberculosis in |
he equivalent in coin az dope by DR. |
=: T.. 4. Reed OF Cincinnati. in his pa
)er before the International Congress. a |
mans life is his capital What he earns |
S the interest on his capital. Most states
make G per cent a legal rate OF inter |
,st. but mako ii per cent. both FOR con |
rrYutiSm and easy counting. then COM |
putc a mans wage. say at Sl.25 day. !
or three hundred days IN the year, rs |
per cent Of his capital Then estimate |
,n that basis The value OF 10000 lVrS,l
md tho value of the time of 500. 900 per- |
sons for one year, and you begin 90 /
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