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Show THE CITIZEN 6 name and one associated with royalty for ages a fact designed to make the movement very popular, indeed, among Americans smitten with the royalty bug and eagerly in favor of anything that smacks of a British tie-uTo what extent organizations have already penetrated our democratic commonwealth and set up business in this great land utterly opposed to royalty and all manner of titled blatherskites, may be gleaned from the following taken from The News p. pro-Briti- sh The Man Who Rides Deai One of these days, perhaps, some consistent exponent of the open shop" phantasm will discover and place on public exhibition a living, breathing, n specimen of the consistent printer. We. shall recognize him by non-unio- his tattered garments, his unkempt whisker's and his tangled locks. He announcesince first the public Although it is only a few weeks will be an old man; as old as Rip Van ment, in the way of paid advertisements, that the Lady Capel Wolseley Winkles granddad, and older. He will tell us how he learned to Clan, at ten dollars per was ready to launch the British-Kinshi- p unions were ticket, the thing is already on the toboggan slide, as far as tickets of print long before printers even dreamed of, and how through all scheme of Britadmission are concerned. The latest money-makin- g these years he has consistently refused ishers long on titles, but short on cash, started out with an iron-cla- d to accept any of the benefits which the such and of British claprule as to admission fee, surname origin, formation of typographical unions have trap, but a second paid advertisemtnt marks a sliding scale of prices brought to wage earners in the printEven the owners of alien names are ing industry. and a He will insist on working twelve or now entitled to entry, for the recent advertisement states that all or eight men and women of British fourteen hours a day for six British, Scotch, Welsh and dollars a week, for he could not accept with of women married maiden name or origin and British surname higher wages or work shorter hours the and be a consistent foreign name are eligible. Announcing the great bargain sale, printer. ' memas a A nominatibn fee of $1.00 will admit you He will condemn the International Lady, adds : pension ber, but, when the headquarters are opened in London and New Typographical Union mortuary insurance, and the York, the remaining nine dollars of the nomination fee must be system, Union Printers Home at Colorado live from to if the However, away happens applicant produced! Springs. He will sing of the merry life New the either of make use finds to unable himself New York, and in the county poorhouse and the last a he can become York or the London headquarters, joyride over the stones to the pauper's for the paltry sum of two dollars per year payable strictly in ad- graveyard. When the consistent advocate of the vance. But the subs will not be entitled to compete for the three "open shop" captures this consistent annual travel prizes. printer he will have reason The Lady shows a further sense of awakening responsibility to be happy and proud, for he will have .when she verbally assures the applicants that in the event of head- tangible evidence to convince men long quarters not being opened before the end of 1922, all fees and sub- experienced in the affairs of labor that scriptions received will be returned intact to the applicant. Further, such an animal really exists. if the applicant expects a reply to his letter, he must enclose a There are hundreds, yes thousands, of printers. Thousands of stamped envelope. Notwithstanding the liberal advertisthem never have been members of any ing space used in the New York Times, the Washington Star, the union. They are the unthinking, selBoston Transcript, and other organs, evidently the Lady fish deadheads, who ride free through while there conclusion that the .is fast may reaching Capel Wolseley life, while union men pay for the train, been be a lot of them running around, most of them have already the track and the roadbed. corraled by the Englishing Speaking Union, the Sulgrave Institute, A few of these printers kindred nets and the are who of spread the British Bureau professional Englihtenment out to catch the feet of those who love to back out in the presence scurry here and there and who can be bought and sold. of royalty, and lick the Boots of Great Britain. Not one of these printers ever has been known to refuse to acEXEMPT. TAX WEALTH OF cept the higher wage or the shorter workday which union men have fought It is estimated that there is outstanding a total of $30,000,000,000 for and established. They are not conmen. of bonds entirely or partly tax exempt, from which the government sistent The consistent open shop" employer receives no revenue. in the printing industry is as rare a The congressional ways and means committee is considering probird as the consistent posals for a constitutional amendment prohibiting further issuance of printer. A few and mighty few tax exempt securities. meet union conditions in wages and Letter of the current week: drag-them-in-attitu- de. Irish-Americ- an n non-unio- old-ag- e sub-associ- -- ate non-unio- n self-address- ed non-unio- n pro-Briti- sh non-unio- n strike-breaker- s, non-unio- n ONE-TENT- H non-unio- n non-unio- It is estimated the amount of outstanding state, county and e bonds stand at approximately $10,000,000,000. cipal -- muni- tax-fre- In addition the government receives no revenue from worth of The tax-exem- pt tax-exem- pt $20,000,000,-00- 0 bonds. securities comprise about one-ten- th of the coun- trys wealth. If tax exemption of federal bonds could be abolished the gov- ernment would receive additional annual revenue of approximately $600,000,000. The evils of tax exempt securities was summed up in a few words by President Harding in his recent message to congress, when he said : securities is hindering our The drift of wealth into industries, manufacturing, agricultural and carrying, until we are discouraging the very activities which make our wealth. non-taxab- le n hours. The employers of union printers know that the men in their composing room are entitled to the benefits which membership in the International Typographical Union guarantees. They know that we have established a mortuary insurance fund, an old age pension system, and that great institution known as the Union Printers Home at Colorado Springs. They know that a part of the wages paid to union printers each week will be devoted to the support of these institutions. And knowing these things they feel that they are at least partly relieved of some of the responsibilities which most employers feel that those who work faithfully fcj posing rooms. The advocates of the in the printing industry offered any tangible evidean desire to bring added happiness into the homes union men. They make e for pensions or for insurance. Behind all thisk hypocrisy is the cold fact tin age employer of does not care a tinkers dais welfare or for the welfait dependent on them. The printer who rides da always in danger. The coud happen along, at any minm of old-ag- non-unl- ceremoniously kick n him of Even employers who hard in advocating the open 4 times change their vievs u things. The International Tfo Union way is the only tij printer to travel. We exteti welcome to every competes! of good moral character. of the institutions we havee and we welcome to our who are willing to assists forts to establish union industrial peace in the rooms throughout the ji the Intematioanl Typogra; Thanks to the efforts of tional Typographical Union, tion of the hours of work to hours per day to eight has given each member life expectancy about We twenty-greate-r than it was when tlx tion was formed. The aver the printer is 53.17 years, i American Experience Talk I tality covering all AmericB shows that we are entitled Is pectancy of 62 years. This a convincing argument thati titled to still further sto hours of labor for the pto the lives of our members, age expectancy of life of tlx citizen is 62 years; thereto entitled to establish an art years higher than we haves ent time. What We Do for Our During the period of that the International W Union has been in exist stantly sought to be of fftk to its members and to craft. The wonderful Home and Tub- rcilosto - at Colorado Springs Is tis aged and disabled provided a pension for too old to suppoit theinsdj trade. A substantial bar of & paid upon the In order that its dc-tt- crease their abilif a cottI. tion has been provided n S . r. ears |