Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-12
PRINTERS HEALTH.
Their International Union Prosseutes
Its Campaign to Conserve.

/ Their international Union Prosseutes
It's Campaign to Conserve.
The volume containing the reports OF
the officers OF the International Typo
graphical Union for the fiscal year
ending May, 1911, is now in Srcula-
ton.
! The international Typographical
Union has for years conducted health
campaign from its international head
quarters. and working thru local COM
nlittees. In his report this year P7esi-
dent Lynch has this to say as to the
progress Of the campaign:
Your presiden, has continued the
agitation during the past year for bet
ter sanitary conditions in the work
rooms where our members are COM
PEELED to labor We have also contin-
ued the distribution Of the tuberculo-
sis pamphlet. AS 10 sanitation and 9TH
or workroom conditions, our local un-
ions should continue to give these sub
jects attention. With the movement
agains, filthy and non-ventilated COM
posing rooms there wsll be entire SYM
pathy on the part of the general pub
lie, ard no employer can afford 10 re-
sist the demand for change in work
ing conditions tha, will guarantee
health and comfort. AS a matter OF
fact, we'll ventilated and scientifically
arranged composing rooms are as good
an investment as IS the latest improve
meat IL type setting machinery. or the
newest and mos, up-to-date faces in
type. The worker who ls in good health
and pleasant surroundings is the best
LIZ, n 1r frL-a fnr hf: "a
and physically he is equipped TO pro-
duce the hes, that his art knows. Good
printing means additional patronage
for the printing Office. and TO very
great extent good printing requires ar
tistic typesetting.
..All of our local unions should have
health committees. and these commit
tees should be unticing in their efforts
TO improve sanitary conditions ana
other features III composing rooms re-
curing betterment. Whenever con-
dition exists that requires improve
ment, II the employer fails 70 make the
Improvement on request Of the health
committee, then the bad condition
should be called 10 the attention of the
local board of health, and If the local
board Of health refuses TO act, ag1ta-
ton should be started thru the central
body, thru pamphlets circulated !iber-
ally. and thru the withdrawal Of our
members from employment in the
composing room Of the offending pro-
prietor if this last radical step is an
absolute necessity.
LAS have repeatedly asserted
higher wage scale is OF no benefit to
member if THE conditions under which
he works make for the propagation OF
disease, and early death. The family
might better retain the provider and
protector under a low wage scale than
enjoy the fruits Of high wage scale
for only limited period. and then
when husband and father is removed
become objects OF the charity OF the
public. or of the union, or of maternal
societies"
President Lynch also touches 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 IL
waste of time, and money to use So
called consumption cures All adver-
tised cures Of this nature are frauds.
Doctors who advertise should be avoid
ed as much as medicines which are ad-
vertised. Reputable doctors do not adj
vertiee. When a person learns that he
has consumption he should go at once
to physician or dispensary and do as
he Is advised. He should not waste time
and money on patent medicines. Ad-
yertised cures and advertising doctors
are all worthless This 10 the advice
given by one Of the most eminent ply
sicians. Over 3l5.oo0,000 annually fs
pored into the Golfers OF those who ex-
plot and advertise fake consumption
cures, according TO the National Assoc
citation for the Study and Prevention
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 the chance for a real cure. Sanitary
workrooms and IN abundance Of fresh