The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-16
PRINTERS HEALTH
Their International Union
Prosecutes It's Campaign
to Conserve

The volume containing the reports
of the officers of the international
Typographical Union for the fiscal
year ending with May, 1911, is now
in circulation.
The International Typographical
Union has for years conducted a
health campaign from its interna-
tional headquarters, and working
through local committees. In his re-
port this year President Lynch ha<
this to say as to the progress of the
campaign:
Your president 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 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-
entire sympathy on the part of the
general public, and no employer can
afford 7to resist the demand for a
change5in oworking conditions that
will guarantee health and comfort
AS a matter of fact, well-ventilated
and scientifically arranged composing
rooms are as good an investment as
is the latest Improvement in typeset-
ting 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 sur
roundings is the best kind of a work
er, for both mentally and physically
he is equipped to produce the pest
that his art knows. Good printing
means additional patronage for the
printing office, and to a very great
extent good printing requires artistic
typesetting.
All of our local unions should have
health committees, and these COM
mittees should be untiring in their
and other features in composing
rooms requiring betterment. When
ever a condition exists that requires
Improvement, if the employer falls to
make the Improvement on request or
the health committee, then the bad
condition should be called to the at
tention 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 literally, and
through the withdrawal OF our MEM
bers from employment In the COM
posing room of the offending pro-
prietor, If this last radical step is an
absolute necessity.
AS have repeatedly asserted, a
higher wage scale is of no beneht TO
a member If the conditions under
which he works make for the propa-
cation of disease and early death.
The family might better retain the
provider and protector under low
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 fraternaa societies.
President Lynch also touches on
bhe great white plague, and says that:
Scientific research has proven that
there is no known medicine that VIII
cure consumption, and that it is |
waste Of time and money to use So
called consumption cures" All ad-
vertised cures of this nature are
frauds. Docors who advertise should
be avoided as much as medicines
which are advertised. Reputable doc
tors do not advertise. When per-
son learns that he has consumption |
he should go at once to a physician |
Or dispensary and do as he is advised.
He should not waste time and money |
On patent medicines. Advertised cures
and advertising doctors are all worth
ess This is the advice given by one
Of the most eminent physicians Over
100000 annually is poured into |
The Golfers of those who exploit and
adertise fake consumption cures. ac-
,ording to the National Association
FOR the Study and Prevention Of Tu-
and for this vast sum the |
victims receive nothing in return, but
are often permanently injured, and,
n the majority of cases, cheated out
IF the chance for a real cure. San
tary workrooms and an abundance
IF fresh air at all times are the best
These admonitions are
being constantly proclaimed by the |
Typographical Union /
trough its travelling tuberculosis ex-
nibit its sanatorium at the Union |
Printers Home, and by the annual dis |
Of thousands of pieces Of |
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