| Show DOCTRINE OF CONCILIATION C PREACHED BrIBE INTERNATIONAL TYPO CHIEF 7 President Lynch Visits Local Printers and DisS Discusses Discusses Dis Dis- S cusses the Principles and V Work ork of the Big Union S I James l M. M Lynch president and J. J w. w V. V secretary of or the International Inter Inter- national Typo Typographical union of or of North America arrived In the cIt city yesterday yesterdayS S afternoon from Colorado Springs and andS S other Eastern points During the past 1 week thc they spent pent the greater portion of oC the time at Colorado ColoradoS S Springs where a meeting of or the directors r tors of oC the printers printers' home at that place was held The rhe name of or the home hom-c was changed from rom the Childs Drexel Home HomeS Homei i for tor Union Printers to the Union PrintS Printus' Printus Print Print- S S ers us' Home Home- as a tribute to the union printers of or the country When the home was founded Childs and Drexel give Vc soo 00 OO each for tor its maintenance 1 but since that time the union printers i of or the country countr have ha contributed to it Improvements to the amount of cc were vere also or ordered ered b by the board beard of or directors Doctrine of Reconciliation I. I The International Typo Typographical r Union of or which the visitors aJ aie c theIS the 1 IS head recently cel celebrated its fiftieth an- an i. i and Mr h Lynch holds up its Us P r record as a of what worthy worth example a ai i trades union can do when conducted r I upon proper lines This union he says hus always preached the doctrine of conciliation and has found It a good one oner r with Ith which to settle strikes Twenty strikes es Involving twenty-live twenty unions have occurred during the past year ear InS In S nine th the union was victorious threeS three S were lost and eight are still In progress The majority of the differences that arise between the International and antl theS the S employers are arc settled by arbitration a year live agreement to that effect having haying hav hay ing been made by the International and ands s the American J Newspaper Publishers Publishers' association In May 1901 Standard of Workmanship One of ot the main features s of the work during the past year ear Pr President Lynch adds has hns been the effort to raise the standard of workmanship This has been made necessary by the use of machines machines machines ma ma- chines and President L Lynch says sas that the average machine office ollice Is Js now turnIng turning turn- turn Ing Sn Snout out a quality of o-f printer that Is not what he should be He lie also predicts that If the machine method of turning out compositors Is not abandoned the skilled operator will vIll become rare andIn and andIn In Sn time unless 8 the union and the pub- pub Il hers operate co It will vIll be difficult to secure competent men for composing- composing rooms Regarding the general outlook for union printers President Lynch said that It has never ne been more lug ing The hour eight-hour law IB is being observed observed ob- ob served b by all the newspapers of oC the c country and there is a movement now on foot to secure the same hours In the book and Job plants with the same ame salary salary sal sal- al- al ary nry that is now paid for nine hours Started at nt the Bottom President Lynch and Secretary Dram Dram- wood have both worked up from the I lowest round of ot the t typographical ladder lad lad- der v President Lynch began on ron the Syracuse Herald eighteen years ears ago ngo and ancl remained with that paper until until un un- un- un til UI elevated to his present t position Mr r. r be began as the devil on the Fall Rives Hives Mass Mals News In and later ater came West est since Ince which time he has bas worked on various prominent papers papers papers pa pa- pers until elected secretary of or the union In 1896 The visitors were ere ere waited upon b by a majority of the union printers of the town last evening and the time was very cry pleasantly and profitably spent They will leave the elt city tonight for the coast |
