The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-08-14
INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHICAL
UNION BEGINS CONVENTION
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
QUESTIONS
Renewal Of Arbitration Agreement and
Other Weighty Matters Are to Be
Settled by Esponents Of Art Pre-.
servative-President Lynch Will Re.
fer in Report to Los Angeles.

San Franclsco. Aug. l3.--The re-
newal of the arbitration agreement
with the American Publishers associa-
tion Will be one OF the main issues
submitted to the convention of the In
ternational Typographical union. which
will begin Its 57th annual session here
tomorrow. The present agreement will
expire May /, 1912 A new agreement
will be offered to replace IT,
"The arbitration agreement viii be
one OF the mbst momentous ISSUES of
the convention said James NJ. Lynch.
president of the union tonight. Il am
convinced that the members of the
union have kindly feeling toward the
publishers and that we shall arrive at
an amicable understanding"
The main points In the arbitration
proposal which will be submitted to
the publishers nre AS follows:
All present contracts to expire at
midnight. April 30, 1912.
New agreements To be executed at
the option of the local union and the
local publishers.
The agreement to recognize interna-
tional law and local law, which does
not affect wages. hours and conditions.
The actual contract to be signed by
the local publisher and president and
secretary of the local union. and to be
guaranteed by the chairman of the
special standing committee of the
American Newspaper Publishers asso-
citation and the president of the Inter-
national Typographical union
The provision for local arbitra-
tion board of three members. as pro-
vided In the present amended agree
ment to be continued
Holders OF present arbitration con-
tracts who secure new contracts under
agreement with and consent OF the To-
cal union. prior to. or on May 1, 1912,
to have continuous arbitration. III all
others, the 60-day limit to apply.
The agreement to be from May l.,
1912. for five years.
Among other important subjects
which will come before the convention
are Canadian reciprocity better educa-
tion for apprentices. the proposal to
discontinue all piece" work, labor and
the church. the Mcnamara trial. a
campaign against tuberculosis. the
union label campaign, the suit for
libel of the union against John Kirby.
Jr president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers. magazine post
age. old age pensions. child labor and
provisions for aged and INDECENT
printers.
In the report which he will submit
to the convention. President Lynch re-
fers to statement which he gave to
the Associated Press on the Saturday
following the explosion which wrecked
the building of the Los Angeles Times.
"The quotation expresses exactly my
present position and belief" says Pres
ident Lynch at the conclusion OF the
statement. which he embodies In his
report. "The only addition that can
be made to the foregoing is that the
Los Angeles Express and Examiner.
both union newspapers, also extended
aid to the Times. our members doing
tho composition"
President Lynch refers to child labor
as Americas peculiar industrial
shame 1T Is crime against man
hood labor he says. Every child la
borer, at childhood wages, takes the
place of man laborer at manhood
wages. 1t Is a crime against child
hood-every little one has an inalien-
able right to grow into sound bodied
| clear Drained maturity. 1t Is Il crime
against society; It puts into our cit
izenship stream Of people weakened
in body and mind"