Arizona republican., 1911-08-15
 PRINTERS HEALTH. Their International Union Prose- cutes Its Campaign to Conserve.


 The volume containing the reports of the officers of the International Typo graphical Union for the fiscal year end ing with May, 1911, Is now in circula- tion.
 The International Typographical Un- ion has for years conducted a health campaign from its international head quarters, and working drought 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 agi- tation during the past year for better sanitary conditions in the workrooms where our members are compelled to labor. We have also continued the dis tribution of the tuberculosis pamphlet. As to the sanitation and other work room conditions our local unions should continue to give these subjects atten- tion. With the movement against filthy and non-ventilated composing rooms there will be entire sympathy on the part of the general public, and no em- ployer can afford to resist the demand for a change in working conditions that will guarantee health and comfort. As matter of fact, well ventilated and scientifically arranged composing rooms are as good an investmnet IS is the latest improvement in typeseting ma chinery, or the newest and most up-to- is in good health and who is working amid pleasant surroundings is the best kind of a worker, for both mentally and physically he is equipped to pro- duce the best that his art knows. Good printing means additional patronage for the printing office. and to very great extent good printing requires artistic typesetting.
 All of our local unions should have health committees, and these commit tees should be untiring in their efforts to improve sanitary conditions and other features in composing rooms re- quiring better men. Whenever condi- ton exists that requires improvement if the employler fails to make the i'm provement on request of the health committee, then the bad condition should be called to the attention of the local board of health, and if the local board of health refuses to act, agitation should be started through the central body, through pamphlets circulated lib orally, and through 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.
 As I have repeatedly asserted. a higher wage scale is of no benefit to a 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 a limited period. and then when husband and father is removed become objects of the charity of the public, or of the union, or of fraternal so- cieties.
 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 is waste of time and money to use socalled con sumption cures" All advertised cures of this nature are frauds. Doctors who advertise should be avoided as much as medicines which are advertised. Re putable doctors do not advertise. When a person learns that he has consump- tion he should go at once to a physician or dispencary and do as he is advised. He should not waste time and money on patent medicines. Advertised cures and advertising doctors are all worth less. This is the advice given by one of the most eminent physicians. Over s15 5,OO0, ,00O annually is poured into the coffers of those who exploit and ad- vertise fake consumption cures, accord ing to the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis; and for this vast sum the victims re-