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Show THE CITIZEN 6 4 Union Printing Gives More for Each Dollar Every dollar that you spend for printing is an investment. It is designed to accomplish a purpose and the better that it serves that purpose, the better investment it is. if you are buying printing, especially if it is aimed to sell merchandise, it is to your interest to see that it is produced by Union Printers, working on the eight-hou- r day, half day on Saturday basis. Printing produced under these conditions is not only reasonable in first cost, but through its greater effectiveness, accomplishes more for each dollar expended. A printed page is a mighty and a capricious thing. In nowhere Is this more true than in advertising literature. One folder will draw inquiries and orders and another produced ap- parently under similar conditions fails to attract moYe than a ripple of interest. But Such things are not happen-so- . frequently the cause or success is not laid at the door of the proper individual, the printer. The printer's skill caoi make or break the success of any piece of printed matter. In the little decisions of typography, which mean everything in readability and attractiveness, he can increase its effectiveness a thousandfold. And a good printer eases your troubles a lot, too. Theres a big weight off of your mind when you are sure that the printed matter is going iO be delivered looking just as good as you had mentally pictured it. Of course, he saves you the annoyance of laboriously correcting proor3 full of in set ting and mistakes. But ability to do things like this takes natural skill, training and proper working conditions. The Union Printer must demonstrate his ability before he is permitted to become a member of the organization, and while he is a member he constantHis working ly improves himself. hours are designed so that he has the time in which to study and Vetter his work. Right now printers are asking for the enforcement of the week agreement between themselves and their employers. Stated simply, as forty-fou- r hours a week, the expression doesnt mean much, but interpreted it means a lot to you in forty-four-ho- THE ur OPEN-SHO-P pa(From editorial in Scripps-McRapers, December 1, 1921.) A man or woman, not a member of a labor union, is likely to say, Well, what about it? What do I care about unions? It wont make any difference to me if the unions are smashed. e But it will make a difference to you. It will make a difference to all of us. If the open shop triumphs generally, followed, as eventually it must be, by reductions in wages and increases in A the way of more printing for your dollar. p Eight hours a day and a half holiday on Saturday gives the Union Printers a chance to be in condition physically and mentally to give your printing the thought and care that its Under important work deserves. these conditions they can work faster and surer and turn out a better job. The theory of long hours as an aid to greater production has been long exploded. In any art that requires the skill and ability that printing does mental alertness is necessary. There is one way to assure it reasonable working hours. You want better printing and more The Union of it for your money. Printers are anxious to give it to you. with them. YOUR printer should employ Union Printers on a week basis. Co-opera- economic body without affecting the body as a whole. We are of two groups, we Americans those who can live without working and those who cant. All of the latter group will be affected by the success movement or failure of the open-shoand a good many of the former group, whether they realize it or not. movement beHence the open-shocomes something more than a dispute between corporations and unions. It is a matter of vast public concern, meriting the sober, analytical attention of every believer in fair play and the maintenance of American stand- te forty-four-ho- ur What We Do For Our Members. During the period of seventy years that the International Typographical Union has been in existence, it has constantly sought to be of greater benefit to its members and to the printing craft. The wonderful Union Printers Home and Tuberculosis Sanatorium at' Colorado Springs is maintained for its aged and disabled members. It provides a pension for those who are too old to support luem selves at their trade. A substantial burial benefit is paid upon the death of any member. In order that its workers may crease their ability, a course of inin- struction has been provided, and apprentices are given five years instruction and carefully supervised training in order that the standards of the printing craft may be perpetuated and furthered. The history of the International Typographical Union is a record of progressiveness and achievement. like to learn more about the accomplishments and the aims of this great, progressive organization address Salt Lake Typographical Union for the booklet, Facts, which gives you unbiased information in greater detail. If you would Salt Lake Typographical Union No. 115 311 Scott Bldg. Wasatch 7762 (Advertisement) WAR working hours, the prosperity of the entire community will be affected. The merchant will suffer because low wages cant buy as often or as much as high wages. The money shortage will operate all along the line until it hits the professional man, none harder than the doctor, the dentist, the lawyer. The unorganized worker, whether in shop or office, suffers because it is impossible to hit one part of the p ards The open shop almost always means the closed shop closed to all men who believe that in union there is strength and that only by organizing, as their employers are organized, can they obtain and maintain recognition of their rights. There are employers who say they want the open shop merely because they disiike to deal with unions. They say they are in favor of high wrages and good working conditions. Doubtless many of these men are sincere, aud .indeed there are today in Ohio n factories in which union and men work side by side at a wage rate and undr conditions compatible with union standards. But the employer hasnt ahvays the full say. He is subject to circumstances and the conditions of competition. Standing together, workers can resist unfairness. Fighting singlehandedly, which is the only kind of fighting they can do under the open shop, they can accomplish nothing. For instance, under the open shop there is nothing to prevent an employer from taking advantage of the present widespread unemployment, driving bargains with hungry men individually, not collectively, playing off one mail against another, whipping them one at a time. Let only one employer in an industry adopt this policy and all other employers in that industry would be compelled to follow' suit. They would have to or competition would put them out of business. It is an undeniable fact that under the open shop an employer cr.n reduce wages and upset working conditions, and humane, and however he will do this rather than be put out of business by competition. Little of the effect of the open shop can be seen at this stage of the war. . . . It will be years before the full crop ot me open shop sowing will be ripe, but the harvest is certain and the fruit will be bitter. Collective bargaining goes by the board under the open shop. Without collective bargaining down go wages and up go hours; back to the dark dgej of industrialism for the worker. The losses being oragnized and the workers being unorganized .disorganized really, the bosses fix the workers' pav as they will and tell them how man;, hours they must put in for it. It is a take it or leave it" attitude, with all the advantage on Iho side of the boss. non-unio- fair-minde- In the old days, before ized, the condition of the t little better than that of and wori common and the wage paj enough to keep body and Only by organization has k 12-ho- 14-ho- ur ur about its present standard Lai this fight against then a big responsibility is laf8 unions and particularly upc1 leaders Violence, intin 1 handed methods these, flucc 1 condemned by the great men never have helped labor and never can. Sober n leadership, honesty and ftee public dealings, willingne full 'lavs' work for a fairn these make for a favora? Tn opinion, and it is popular iina gains the victory for one-eother in every labor dispir11 And for those outside 61 ll bear in mind that there is loll- - prosperity save that bon tion, toil. When the prul0W hia workers, have no money money for most of the resion ness is bad. The foundat: try is all material co Weaken him by underpay ai work and you weaken tt;om cial structure. And the well-bein- g its final application means fon underpay and overwork and helpless under ' the boss. En The open shop works inte benefit to those corporaig o fatten on the misery of ti y a Bus (The above editorial apiv,jrOr Scripp3-McRapapers in therefore be regarded as;. statement of the owners, bun some two score papers-try 1 union conditions.) rea O': e h f hi It en rpl sees d jXjtefoeiM Pi is i for Home Cooked s t fl Mol Hike iRotJer tfeto toom .vie Quality Cleanliness Lunch ent his 3(j Mi Musfte la . sar 327 So. Main St., .isti rer |