Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-21
PRINTERS HEALTH
Their international Union PrOseente'
IFS Campaign to Conserve

The volume containing the reports
of The oficers of the international
Typographical Union for the nscai
year ending with May, 1911 Is no"
in circulation. it,,
The International Typograpnical
Union has for years conducted
health campaign from It's inIerla-
tional headquarters, and WORKING
through local committees. IN MS
report this year President Lynch mas
this to say as to the progress OF the
campaign: , A.,
Your president has continued the
agitation during the past year for
better sanitary conditions IN the
workrooms where our members are
compelled to labor. We have also
continued the distribution Of the tub
erculosis 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
ventilated composing rooms there
will be entire sympathy on the part
of the general public, and no EN-
ployer can afford to resist the de-
mand for a change in working con-
ditions that will guarantee health
and comfort. AS a matter OF fact
well-ventilated and scientifically ar
ranging composing rooms are as
good an investment as is the latest
! Improvement in typesetting machin-
cry, or Ne newest and most up-to-
date faces in type. The worker who
is in good health and who is working
amid pleasant surroundings is the
best kind of a worker, for both men.
tally and physically he is equipped
to produce the best that his ar
knows. Good printing means addi
tional patronage for the printing Of
fee, and to a very great extent goot
printing requires artistic typesetting
"All of our local unions SHOULD
have health committees, and thest
committees should be untiring il
their efforts to improve sanitar!
conditions and other features in com
posing rooms requiring betterment
Whenever a condition exists that re
quires improvement, if the employe
fails to make the improvement on re
quest of the health committee, thel
the bad condition should be callet
to the attention of the local board 0
health, and if the local board o
health refuses to act, agitation
should be started through the cen
trail body, through pamphlets circu
lated literally, and through the with
drawal of our members from EN-
ployment in the composing room O
the offending proprietor, if this las
radical step is an absolute necessity
LAS l have repeatedly asserted,
higher wage scale is of no benefit t
a member if the conditions unde
which he works make for the propa
cation of disease and early deatt
The family might better retain tn
provder and protector under a loy
wage scale than enjoy the fruits Q
high wage scale for only a Unite
period, and. then when husband an
father is removed, become objects Q
the charity of the public, or of tn
union, or of fraternal societies"
, President Lynch also touches o
the great white plague, and say
that:
Scientific research has prove
} that there is no known medicine tha
will cure consumption, and that it
a waste of time and money to us
/ so-called consumption cures" A
| advertised cures of this nature ar
| frauds. Doctors who adyertis
: should be avoided as much as med
, cines which are advertised. Reputi
4 BILE doctors do not advertise. Whe
l a person learns that he has col
Q sumption he should go at once to
= physician or dispensary and do as /
8 is advised. He should not vast tin
: and money on patent medicines. Al
t vertised cures and advertising do
tors are all worthless. This is Il
advice given by one of the most EN-
nent physicians. Over $15,O00,OC
: annually is poured into the Golfers
: those who exploit and advertise fal
consumption cures, according to IL
r National Association for the StuC
p and Prevention of tuberculosis; al
for this vast sum the victims recei,
nothing in return, but are often pc
: manently injured, and, in the maio
p ity Of cases, cheated out of the chan
e for real cure, Sanitary workroon
: and an abundance of fresh air at q
). times are the best preventives. The
8 admonitions are being constant
y proclaimed by the International Ty
/ ographical Union through its travt
Y ing tuberculosis exhibit, it's sanato
/. ium at the Union Printers Home, al
by the annual distribution of tho