The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-04-22
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tween employers and employees can
and should be adjusted through vol
untary agreements to refer disputes
to boards of Cancellation and arbitra-
tion composed of representatives of
employers and employees in the in.
dustry affected. 1t is in this spirit
of arbitration and Cancellation that
the organization and operation of
Joint International Conference Coun-
ell for the Printing Industry and Al
lied Trades is undertaken
Whereas, The Joint Conference
Council at the same meeting in Chi
cago, April 21, 1919, passed a reso-
luton recommending for the approval
of its constituent bodies the intro
duction Of the 44-hour week on May
l, 1921; and,
Whereas, This resolution was rat
flied and adopted by all of the con
stituent bodies members of the Joint
Conference Council; therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of
the Joint Conference Council at its
meeting held in Atlanta, Ga, upon
the invitation of a group Of Atlanta
employing printers, December 13 and
II, 1920, that all members of the con
stituent bodies of the council are
morally obligated to use every consti-
tutional process through conciliation
and arbitration for peaceful settlement
of industrial disputes in violation Of
condemns any acton in the handling
of Industrial risputes in violation of
these general principles; and be il
further
Resolved, That this Joint Confer
cnce Council considers ali members of
its constituent bodies are morally
bound to adopt and put into effect the
44-hour week on May 1, 1921"
Printing trades unions are prepar
ing to swing this industry into the
44-hour week column, and May
next is the date set for the Satu".
day half-holiday in the commercial
and periodical branches Of the North
American printing industry.
The unions involved are the inter
national organizations of printers,
pressmen, bookbinders and stereotyp-
ers. These, together with large
section of employers, formed the In
ternational oint Conference
Council, in March, 1919. Strong
declarations in favor of conciliato1y
methods and agreements were made
by both parties, and in the following
April the council recommended that
both parties submit the question of
the Al hour week, effective May l,
1921. to their respective bodies. The
44-hour week was adopted by the
members of all affiliated organiza-
tions, and at a meeting of the coun-
Gil, held in Atlanta, last December,
it was declared:
THAT this JOINT Conference Council
considers all members of its constit
uent bodies are morally bound to
adopt and put into effect the 44-hour
week on May l, 1921
Despite these repeated declarations
for the shorter work week, and har
mony in the indutsry, some employers
are now attempting to cvade their re-
sponsibility and their pledged word.
In recent conference in Cincinnati,
employers formed the "eight-hour
league and are using the same
arguments against the Saturday half
holiday that they used against the
48-hour week, thirteen years ago.
In Chicago, on April I'd, these en-
ployers conferred with representatives
of the interested printing trades and
urged that the demand for the 44-hour
week be withdrawn. This was unan-
imously rejected by the labor repre-
sentatives, who insist that pledges
be lived up to.
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