Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-07-01
meet
IN CONVENTION
Members. Of New England. Typo
graphical%UniOnR eprtzCord
iaf BetweenE Employ
ers~ and Employees

About 125 71efrgat1ss-s rep presenting yr11ore
than 5000 of thesmenwho- do-theeprinttng
for New England ,1uet- in onnueution.tn
the New Sherxood'.Hotet Monda y&fore-
noon. when ti1epItfhzsannuats convention
Of theSNew England lTypograp'hfraf:Jrnb
wasscsr1ed, tor-urrier Onesoffthe sfesz1Ures
Of thes-}ay ~wassan addresshysE. H-sRouse
of New York; city spresidentlofs thes~Rlg
Six, whichs hast "a, memberships fSNmore
than 5000 lin TIL CT yywherepone-fb urthsof
the printing, in thief United States and
one-tweffth that s~ofsthes world is done
Mr.. Rouse gave sinS xplarHtion sOf tt-he
situation in>.N Newt York Vast syear .rwhen
troubleAaroset between .thet printers land
publishers Anotherrfe atura WIS fhe-sfnoSr-
ing, byNf reports. of the CvartDU5f locals
in 'NewHEngla nd -sofsthe .confftionszwhich
exist, at. preSen t sas Eto wages andy a<ree-
mentsSSvifh 9TH es ruI blishers-
Out: of$thef 5fAslocals tin 4 New.y England
there fha-s not Sheen one instance of ga
striksso or a wsikout Throughout saH the
read justment sin =, wages. OnS the guf1ner
rand. eueryr local eportedsthat. voluntary
increasezsi in. wages had. beenrer1ntefsd
ing the~ past year. Asspeculiar condition
exists hetweenSthe printers and lpuhIfsh-
whtchadoes grrottexpfrei untils nsxtssprfns
At the time the scale was made
there was no~,irnught.of SUCH ananorease
in livingy expenses. The printers were
offering keenly. but, unlike some sother
lines ofttrade. were reasonable. with the
result that. In New England there was no
such trouble between employers and. labor
as existed elsew hero and there was. no
larges'oss of wages because of waIkouts,
strikes. etc
The reports Monday showed that = in
creaSes hads been made voluntarily for
amounts, which varie41 between % and 20
per cent The -printers realized that the
pubffsherSewers4aI APP against "a. o ropo sitlon
| which differed from those OF manufac-
tuners, Who only passed the increased
COST along tn the consumer, some times
with the addition Of a greatly inrrea sed
| prof1tsto themselves. The publisher could
not. advance, hS'subscription rate .or-hi -
advertising contracts along with the
huctuaton of paper prices. and,-as re-
sultttherme On Gin the. printing trades got
no such enormous increases in pay as
/ the te xtile.and' other workers. and*dtd not
expect it. Tho result. has ,heen volun-
itaryeincreases whictneranged ell, the way
from. $50 tn-S12 per week.
Monday morning the meeting was
called to order at, tenro'cfocks by Prssi-
dentseArthur Provost, IT. Prayer. WIS
offerndx by. the Rev. ,C.> C. Adams. swho
k-alsoSefnke briefly $tfe lreaationzsso of
Ecapital and labor. Alderman !. CHI
BeecherN Welcomed : the d visitors sfns the
ahsence4fromFthet city of Mayor Jack
son. DR.. H. E.. lewis of New. FORK Pub
lhshersm@- American! NJ eiicine. spoke for,
the, pnhahshers- FEED T sLaings spoke flor
= ,~,L1 y ,,J~Y,-
| theny turneds over toaF. H Ip.nhan, sof
.Springfeid.~ president Il of stlreA Newr5Eng4
land Typographical Union Heas made
['briefe reruarks when Sam B. Coveys
lfraternai delegate from. Rochester. NY 4
| was l1ufr1i,fced. Mr. .Covey told 30 fs.thu
fsrtuatiDa m, his istrbct-.t and also said
thatRVew England had bee q, thehle aderrn
Forga nfzmGE into shstHcts,s as Trad been
tn ,frsteto, do So. and-th Observation-Disclosures
! hfsstdistrict as 'wsik ass others.i had fol-
| iowedsthisysection. At:noon "a sgroup bic
ture swzas- taken on thes Cathedral stems
and 1.-The sreetmg adjourned. lmt1l aftar.
noon.
DuringHhe eaftnrpoon.; whilefhe<husfnsse
ofSthe arnestfrg ~ ASH eings takenxcarezof
by Nhes cfelegates, the ,visito rsard tlarii es
wfFo<c1ne to sfhe' con vention tweces enter
| taine-d'-Vifhr an automobile ssight see rns,
tonr>urH1er. the directiona ofsMr. and~Mrs
! }. r. Ffaherty. Cars were--t1onateds by
| +. j. . NORM. Arsene Boucher, F. T.
Dwyer VT R-SWrrght. ThornasssC Lob
LonnerEan, A. , A Twiss. nd Others.
! Most of = the afternoon was. spent in
, listening TO more reports from the differ
ent flocals throughout the district In
every case the situation had remained
| harmonious throughout the year and IN
| VA ges.had been granted accord