Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-08-18

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PRINTERS HEALTH
Their International Union PROSECUTED
Its Campaign to Conserve
The volume containing the reports
of the officers of the Internationa
Typographical Union for the Fisca
year ending with May, 1911, is now IL
circulation.
The International Typographical
Union has for years conducted 6
health campaign from its information
al headquarters. and working through
local committees. In his report this
year President Lynch has this to say
as to the progress of the campaign
Your president has continued the
agitation during the past year for
better sanitary conditions in the work
rooms where our members are com
PEELED to labor. We have also con-
tinued the distribution of the tuber.
culosis pamphlet. AS to sanitation
and other workroom conditions, our
local unions should continue to give
these subjects attention. With the
movement against filthy and non.ven.
tilated Composing rooms there will
be entire sympathy on the part of
the general public, and no employe
can afford to resist the demand for a
change In working conditions that
will guarantee health and comfort.
As a matter of fact we'll ventilated
and scientifically arranged compos.
ing rooms are as good an investment
as is the latest improvement in type.
setting machinery, or the newest and
most up-to-date faces in type. The
worker who is in good health and who
Is working amid pleasant surround.
ings Is the best kind of a worker,
for both mentally and physically he
is equipped to produce the best that
his art knows. Good printing means
additional patronage for the print
ing Office and to q very great extent
good printing requires artistic type
setting.
All of the local unions should have
health committees, and these commit
tees should be untiring in their efforts
to improve sanitary conditions and
other featurs in composing rooms re-
quiring betterment. Wherever a con-
dition exists that requires improve
ment, if the employer. fails to make
the improvement on the request of
the health committee, then the bad
condition should be called to the at
attention of the local board of health,
and If the local board of health re-
fuses to act, agitation should be start.
ed through the central body, through
pamphlets circulated liberally and
through the withdrawal of our mem.
bers from employment in the compos-
ing room of the offending proprietor,
If this last radical step is an absolute
necessity.
AS have repeatedly asserted a
higher wage scale is of no benefit
to a member If tn conditions under
which he works makes for the propa-
family might better return provider
and protector under low wage scale
than enjoy the fruits of a high wage
scale for only limited period and
then when husband and fa:hs: is re-
moved become objects of the charity
of the public, or of the union or of
fraternal societies.
Pres dent Lynch all, tou :hes on
the great white plague, and says that:
Scientific research has proven that
there is no known medicine that will
cure consumption and that it is a
waste of time and money to use 80
called Consumption cures" All ad-
vertised cures of this nature are
frauds. doctors who advertise should
be avoided as much as medicines
which are advertised. Reputable doc
tors do not advertise. When a person
learns that he has consumption he
should 60 at once to a physician or
dispensory and do as he IS advised.
He should not waste time and money
on patent medicines. Advertised
cures and advertising doctors are all
worthless. This is the advice given
by one of the most eminent physi-
clans. Over $15,0O0,00O annually is
poured into the Golfers of those who
exploit and advertise fake consump-
ton cures, according to the National
Association for the study and prevent
ton of tuberculosis; and for this
vast sum the victims receive nothing
in return, but are often permanently
injured and in the majority of cases,
cheated out of a chance for real
cure Sanitary workrooms and an
abundance of fresh air at all times
are the best preventatives. These
admonitions are being constantly pro-
claimed by the International Typo
graphical Union through it's travelling
tuberculosis exhibit, its sanitorium at
the Union Printers Home, and by the
annual distribution of thousands of
pieces of literature.
Her Compliment.
4 popular English comedian and mu-
dc hall singer. asked what his funniest
experience was. said: Zone time l
drove up to the theater in Dublin and