United labor bulletin., 1910-02-11

ing to place the label on all printing pos
sible.
The council has amended its label
laws and have sent new contracts to all
printing firms having contracts with the
council to use the label That all men,
bers OF organized labor may become IA
miliar with these rules, and that they
may report any violation of them to the
council, they are here printed in full:
1. No Office shall be granted the use
of the Denver Allied Printing Trades
with all the rules and regulations of said
council. Labels shall only be granted
to Offices that are union in every de.
partment. Provided. that before said la
bel is granted to any office every branch
of its business represented in said coun-
Gil must comply with all the rules and
regulations of the various unions, as to
hours, wages. etc, in all departments af-
fected. Provided further. that any active
member of any branch represented in
said council who conducts a printing Of
flee, and works actively at the trade
therein, employing steadily no other help
than an apprentice, and having therein
net more than two platen presses and
makes ready himself all jobs for said
presses, and in the operation of such Of
flee complies strictly with the eiSht-hour
law and all other laws Of his union and
the council. shall be permitted the use of
the label. In Offices having more than
two pIatau nressaS rnambars nf tho
graphical union shall not do press work.
but said offices shall not be compelled to
employ a pressman except when there is
press work to do Provided. that when
any additional help is employed. mem
her of sister unions first entitled to work
must be given employment. 1t is espe-
cally provided that any such Office shall
employ whenever practicable member
of the Platen Pressmen's Union. Viola
ton of any of the foregoing provisions
or any of the laws of the local union of
which he is a member or of the council.
or failure to be in possession OF paid
up current monthly working card in the
union of the craft to which said proprie.
tor belongs, when proven to the satsfac-
ton of the council, shall be deemed suf
ficient cause for immediate withdrawal of
the label. and the office shall thereupon
be declared unfair and remain so until
the ban is removed by the council
3 Complaint regarding the conduct OF
any Office, or for violating any of the
rules of the council or of any of the
unions or regarding the use of the label
must be made in writing at any regular
or special meeting of the council. by any
delegate. or by any union under sign and
seal. or fled with president, secretary
treasurer or chairman of the Label COM
mittee. The Label committee or said Of
ficers shall at once investigate said
/ charges. and If proven to their satisfac-
ton and no settlement made thereof sat
i isfactory to them. they can order the
temporary removal, of the label pending
full report to the council at regular
or special meeting. Proprletors of Offices
i thus affected shall be notified to appear
at any such meeting of the council to
present their side of the matter before
that body No office shall be declared
unfair except at a regular meeting Of the
council and by a vote of the majority of
the delegates present and voting upon
the report of Investigating committee
and finding of the council.
g. No label shall be granted except by
unanimous vote of the delegates present
and voting at any regular meeting of the
council. as required by Sec. % of the new
International Agreement. A majority
vote of delegates present at regular
meeting of the council shall be necessary
to withdraw the label from an office TEN
porarily or permanently. except as here
inbefore provided
l. Labels must not be used under any
circumstances on work where any por-
ton thereof is done by nonunion labor
or by any office not entitled to use the
label, or where any part comes from such
an office. nor shall such labels be added
to any matter or form. the makeup or
composition of which has been done in
any such nonunion office or one not en-
titled to use a label. The label CANNOT
be used on job unless the entire job
is produced in the office using said label.
No office can print label ALONE on job
from office not entitled to label. The
Allied Printing Trades label shall not be
placed on work sub-contracted by label
Offices from non-label Offices.
>. When photo engravings are used in
job of work on which the Allied Print
ing Trades Council label appears, the
photo-engravers label must appear on
the engravings thus used. either on the
edge of the plate or on the face
6. The imprint of the Office doing the
work and not that Of the concern for
which it is done must appear on tire job
If an imprint is used in connection with
the label. When the imprint is not used
the number designated by the council
must appear with the label.