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ficials at the Toledo conference in April that the membership in Ohio was 2,592, a net increase of but twelve for the year. What we need is more active workers. We have members in the large cities who are acquainted with printers in the smaller towns. Why don't they write them a letter? We have a few members employed in unorganized towns. Why don't they talk unionism to their fellow workers? It may help some. By con

sulting the roster in THE JOURNAL it will be observed that Ohio leads all states except Illinois and New York in chartered locals (including Canada), and if the proper efforts are made the coming year Ohio will stand at the top of the list at the next convention. Those who are acquainted with printers in the following towns, among others, write: Lima, Piqua, Bellefontaine, Marion, Troy, Kenton, Greenville, Xenia, Pomeroy, Ironton, Bucyrus, Mt. Vernon, Carrollton, Eaton, Defiance, Van Wert and Shelby. As I am closing the forms on this report Athens is coming in line and the charter application will probably be printed in the July JOURNAL, with the chances favorable of securing a local in Hocking county.

I take this opportunity of extending my sincere thanks to the International officers and members of local unions for uniform courtesies shown me during the past year. MAX S. HAYES. Cleveland, Ohio.

ORGANIZER HILL.

To the Officers and Members of the International Typographical Union:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-The fiscal year ending May 31, 1909, marks the close of six consecutive years of my field service for the International Typographical Union. The results of the efforts put forth, during that period, which seems so short in the retrospect, have been chronicled from time to time in the reports submitted to you. Those years have been crucial ones for our organization and for the labor movement as a whole. A brief survey of present conditions, both within and without our own craft, as a preface to the matters of detail hereinafter mentioned, may not be inappropriate.

The establishment of the eight-hour day for our members is no longer an ideal; it is substantially an accomplished fact, bringing to thousands that increased opportunity for leisure, self-improvement and a broader life, of which they had hoped and dreamed.

On January 1, 1909, the date of expiration of a five year contract, the union shops of Nashville, Tenn., went upon the eight-hour basis, making that schedule uniform throughout the southern territory.

The publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the publishing house of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., formerly the Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, both located at Nashville, Tenn., are still non-union establishments and operated on the nine-hour plan. It is said that "all things come to those who wait." The proverb might be amended so as to

read that "all things come to those who wait and work." The International Typographical Union knows how to wait and work; it does not know how to fail in any just and righteous enterprise that it undertakes. The day will come when the barriers that shut us out from these two non-union concerns will be broken down.

The publishing house of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., is now in litigation, and should the control and ownership revert to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, as seems quite likely in view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee in another branch of the church litigation, it is at least probable that the new management of the publishing house will not be antagonistic to us.

It is gratifying to note that the establishment of the eight-hour day has not been accompanied by any wage reductions. In some instances, there have been slight increases of wages, where new scales have been adopted since the eight-hour schedule went into effect.

Owing to the industrial and financial depression, which began in the fall of 1907, many trades have suffered to some extent from decreased wages and from displacement of workers, especially the ⚫latter. But in the printing trade conditions have been uniformly good, except during the first two or three months of the panic, when it was nearly impossible for employers to get money for the payment of wages.

It is believed that the statistics will show substantial increase in the membership of the locals in southern territory. That increase is quite noticeable in such cities as Memphis and Nashville.

An act was passed by the general assembly of the state of Tennessee, at its 1909 session, requiring all state printing to be done in Tennessee, when it can be so done on equal terms. This inIcludes the supreme court reports, about which there has been controversy for several years.

It will be found that the use of the union label on printing is steadily increasing, and that the persistent campaign along that line is producing excellent results.

The United Typothetæ have practically ceased their opposition to and interference with the International Typographical Union, and turned their attention to the improvement of general trade conditions.

There is nothing in the world so wise as time and experience. Both are proving, and will prove, the beneficence of our Union Printers Home, at Colorado Springs, and our old age pension fund. These institutions afford an impressive illustration of practical brotherhood. They remove from our members that shadow of fear that haunts the laborers of the world. They make it easier for us to recruit and swell our ranks. They disarm the opposition and mistrust of employers. They are an object lesson to that large, right-hearted, rightthinking public, and will be chiefly instrumental, some day, under God, in causing the nation to have a real care for the life, health and happiness of the toilers who have builded its greatness.

We can not experience consciousness without

resistance. Struggle, conflict, is the law of development and the law of life. Notwithstanding the increased organization among manufacturers and employers, and the consequent accentuation of opposition, there has been a decided gain in the strength, spirit and efficiency of organized crafts.

Although there have been some apparent reverses in the courts, there can be no doubt that the ideals for which organized labor has striven have taken a deep hold upon the mind and heart of the people. The child labor problem has engaged the conscience of the public. Men everywhere have come to realize that brotherhood is inevitable; that the conservation of life and health and the promotion of happiness are matters of the most important social and governmental concern; that there can be no wealth aside from the human beings who produce it and use it; and that, apart from nature's bounty, human life and character are the only essential elements of a nation's resources. Thus it is that public sentiment, public opinion, that silent, irresistible force that molds laws, institutions and history, is growing, even as the plant grows, while the day of blossoming and fruition is not far distant.

During the year I visited a number of cities as per instructions from President Lynch. The situation in Louisville, Ky., remains about the same since the last report. The struck shops are in a deplorable condition. Good work has been

done in the city for union label printing. The Keller-Crescent Printing Company, of Evansville, Ind., after fighting for two years and nine months, finally granted the eight-hour day and unionized its plant. Princeton, Ind., secured a new scale with a substantial increase. A new union was formed at Frankfort, Ky. Settled a controversy at Owensboro, Ky., to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. Met with the purchasing agents of the farmers' union of eight states at Memphis, Tenn., and had them pass a resolution agreeing to use our label on all printing and to further recommend to the membership the use of the label. While in Memphis also made arrangements for the official journal of the organization in Tennessee to carry the label.

Permit me to extend my thanks to the officers and members of the various unions that I have visited during the past year, and to President Lynch and the other members of the executive council, for valuable assistance rendered. I remain, Yours fraternally, Nashville, Tenn. ALBERT E. HILL.

ORGANIZER KINSKEY.

To the Officers and Members of the International Typographical Union:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-The following is a summary of the work done by your organizer during the year beginning June 1, 1908, to June 1,

1909:

Went to St. Thomas, Ont., June 15, 1908, to assist union in adjusting some internal matters, which were adjusted satisfactorily to all concerned.

July 20. 1908, went to London, Ont., owing to

the fact that the increase of $1, secured the year previous, which went into effect on the first of July, 1908, was in dispute in some instances, and that also some questions of operators in job of fices were raised. There were several other matters up for adjustment, and after conferences with the executive committee and others the differences were straightened out.

July 24, 1908, was called to Stratford, Ont., to take up scale negotiations for union, which was asking for an increase of $2 a week over the old scale. After several conferences, at which nothing could be accomplished, matter was left to union, and the scale was postponed for a few months.

July 27, 1908, went to Erie, Pa., at request of executive council, to assist committee of Erie Union in trying to unionize the Dispatch Printing Company. Met the president of the company, and, while I received very cordial treatment, was unable to make any progress in the direction of unionizing the composing room.

August 5, 1908, was called again to London to attend meeting and proffered advice and counsel to the union.

September 5, 1908, went to Batavia, N. Y., to try and adjust difficulty of the Batavia Union and the office of Fix & Fix, who were said to be using the union label in an illegal manner. Found that a three-year agreement existed between the firm and the union, and that the union did not have a specific violation of the agreement which would allow of the withdrawing of the labels.

September 22, 1908, went to Lockport, N. Y., to assist the officers of the union in settling some internal affairs. Matter was adjusted with little friction.

October 2 and 9, 1908, attended meetings of the Lockport (N. Y.) and Batavia (N. Y.) Unions.

Went to Lockport, N. Y., on November 1, 1908, to straighten out trouble that had arisen in the Journal office over the foreman. The manager of the office hired men to go to work without consulting the foreman. The foreman refused to allow the men to go to work to displace men in the composing room who, he claimed, were all competent, and he was discharged. A demand was made for the reinstatement of the foreman on the ground that he was upholding union principles, and upon the refusal to comply a strike was ordered, which lasted one hour, after which the foreman was reinstated. In the evening of the same day the manager again discharged the foreman on a flimsy pretext, and again the men were ordered out on the following morning. After holding the men out for three hours the foreman was again reinstated, and this was binding enough to be able to say that he is still at the head of the Journal composing room.

November 16, 1908, was again called to Batavia on label matter of Fix & Fix, union claiming it had a specific violation of agreement. Matter was finally disposed of.

Went to Niagara Falls, November 20, 1908, to settle a matter on the News of that place. After

attending meeting of union and taking somewhat drastic measures, matter was disposed of.

November 30, 1908, went to St. Catherines, Ont., to adjust difficulty over the eight-hour day that had arisen in the Standard office. After conference with the publisher, matter was amicably adjusted to the satisfaction of the union.

Went again on December 10, 1908, to Stratford, Ont., to try and finally adjust matter of scale. Saw proprietors and finally they agreed to pay the raise of $2 per week, to go into effect May 1, 1909. Thursday, December 31, was called to Hamilton, Ont., to take up new book and job and newspaper scale. Of the three newspapers in Hamilton, one had an arbitration agreement, and failing to come to an understanding with the publisher of this paper, secured an increase on the other two papers. Arbitration is still pending with the third newspaper at time of writing. A $2-a-week increase was secured for the book and job men.

March 31, 1909, went to Niagara Falls, N. Y., to try and secure union agreement with the Niagara Falls Cataract Journal, it having changed hands. Have had several conferences since then and still have the matter in hand.

April 5, 1909, went to Lockport, N. Y., to assist committee in matter of union office doing work for a non-union plant. Matter settled satisfactorily.

April 27, 1909, went to Stratford, Ont., to settle controversy which had arisen over scale which was to go into effect in May, proprietors having repu diated agreement. Matter still in hand at close of

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ORGANIZER M'LERNON.

To the Officers and Members of the International Typographical Union:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-I herewith submit my report for the year ending May 31, 1909. During this period my time has been passed in Los Angeles and immediate vicinity, where the printing business is in better shape now than it ever has been in southern California, more work being done in eight-hour offices than ever before, due in great measure to the demand created for the label. More members are on the rolls of Los Angeles Union than at any previous time in its history, and, what is more to the point, they are working practically all the time. The situation can be summed up in the sentence: Business is good in Los Angeles.

Immediately upon being appointed, one year ago, I began a systematic campaign for the union label. Every union in the city was circularized, personally visited and asked to send back all literature not bearing the label. In a short time the demand became so great for the emblem of fair

dealing that it caused the Los Angeles Times to lose much patronage, as did the other non-union offices here. The campaign resulted in diverting thousands of dollars' worth of work to the union offices and the appearance of the label on work which theretofore had resisted all efforts in this direction.

In December a mass meeting was called for those persons and societies interested in the cure of tuberculosis. received permission to exhibit views of the Union Printers Home by means of a stereopticon at this meeting, and these met with instant commendation from the large gathering. Among scores of pictures thrown on the screen, ours received the greatest applause and attention, and the typographical union and what it is doing was given space in the newspapers that could not have been purchased. One of those chiefly interested in the success of the meeting was the Los Angeles Times, and its consternation when beholding views of the Union Printers Home can better be imagined than described.

Interesting the officers of the Society for the Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis, I began preparations for a meeting on our own hook, having in mind two things-the benefit of such a meeting to humanity and the favorable advertising of the union. In the preparations for this, every pastor in the city, every fraternal and benevolent society, together with all the unions, was visited, personally, so far as possible. Where personal visits could not be made, circulars were sent out descriptive of what the International Typographical Union was doing, its aims and objects, and an invitation extended to all to attend the typographical union anti-tuberculosis meeting. These circulars were read from nearly every pulpit in the city, and in many cases the contents made the subject for attention in the churches that day. Such interest was manifested in the union and its work that pages of newspaper space were devoted to it and the union brought before the public in more favorable light than ever before. Not only this, but the attacks of the Times were refuted and conclusively proven to be malicious and unwarranted, resulting in again placing that paper in its proper light before the people. This meeting was the biggest thing of the kind ever held in southern California, and the favorable advertising received has been of lasting benefit.

During the year I was in almost constant communication with the proprietors of the different non-union offices regarding the eight-hour day and the unionizing of their plants. Weekly visits were made, the subject discussed frequently, friendly relations established and the way paved for action.

In March I was sent to Fresno to investigate conditions in that city, where the union and the newspaper publishers were in a deadlock over a new scale of prices. The result of this visit was that the scale was raised there, the men receiving an increase of $1.50 a week.

March the Los Angeles Printing Company, one of the largest offices in the city, was unionized without taking in a man. This office had been a

non-union one for more than twenty years and had successfully resisted all efforts to bring it into line. Since March the office has been a strictly union concern and the proprietors declare themselves highly satisfied with the change.

May 17 another victory was achieved when the Baumgardt Printing Company, the largest office in the city remaining out of the fold, was placed in the eight-hour column. This office was lost to us at the beginning of the strike in 1906. Its acquisition materially assists the situation here and will doubtless have effect upon those still remaining out. Ten to twelve compositors are employed by the Baumgardt company, and there are three cylinders and six job presses, besides a complete bind

ery.

Negotiations are pending with several other large concerns, and the prospects are bright for further addition to our ranks.

Organizing literature, together with personal letters, have been sent out from this office in great quantities to non-union printers throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. That this has resulted in increasing the ranks of the unions in those states I have no doubt, as it has been of avail in California to my personal knowledge.

Enlisting support of societies-political and social has been beneficial in the fight against the Times, many clubs having been formed in this way to send in notices of discontinuance of subscriptions to that paper in a body. In April a published statement in its own columns showed a loss of 3,349 for that month.

In accordance with the understanding between the various international unions and the American Federation of Labor, I have devoted a considerable portion of my time in assisting, the general organizer of that body, Arthur A. Hay, in the work of building up the unions of Los Angeles. In this connection I might say that there has scarcely been a day or night in the last year that I have not either served on committees or addressed meetings of union men. This work has not been in vain. Unions that were discouraged have been advised and assisted in getting new members, with the result that the labor movement of Los Angles, as a whole, is in much better condition than it was one year ago. All this, it should be remembered, aids in the fight on the Los Angeles Times, as the more members of organized labor there are in this city the more men and women there are whose combined efforts can be used to oppose the union-wrecking program of the Times.

Prospects were never better for the typographical union than they are now in Los Angeles. There has not been a dispute of any moment between the union and the publishers during the All the southern California unions are in year. good shape and there is nothing in sight to mar this condition. Cordial relations are established between the proprietors-both union and nonunion-in this city, differences can be discussed amicably and peaceably, the way is open for a speedy and permanent settlement of the eight-hour law in those offices not now enjoying this blessing,

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ORGANIZER M'LOUGHLIN.

To the Officers and Members of the International Typographical Union:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-In submitting the report of work accomplished during the fiscal year ending May 31, 1909, carrying the organizer into New Jersey, New York state, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and Kingston, Canada, find satisfaction in renewing my statement of last year that the high business standing established and maintained by the International Typographical Union continued to work to the advantage of the membership through the feeling of security existing among employing printers, with the result that all expiring contracts save one were renewed, with substantial increases, for one, two, three or four year periods the single exception placing the local union involved in an unenviable position.

In June, 1908, under orders from President Lynch, proceeded to handle the matter of interviewing theaterical managers and managers of theatrical circuits with a view to the placing of printing and lithographing in strictly union offices and the use of the label on all classes of theatrical printing.

The work being intermittent and the locating of the responsible parties to interview, after the nec essary and oft-repeated visits and introduction, made the task not only slow, but doubled and trebled the number of visits and necessitated a large amount of patience and persistence, covering a period of months, before tangible results were obtained, although the returns more than justified the time expended.

The first circuit to act favorably on the request to place its printing with label offices was the Columbia Amusement Company, whose attractions play in Toledo, Columbus, Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, New York city, Springfield, Albany, Providence, Montreal, Hoboken, Newark, Boston, Holyoke, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Detroit.

This was followed by the Empire Circuit Company, whose attractions play in New York, St. Paul, Schenectady, Paterson, Scranton, WilkesBarre, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Louis, St. Joseph, Providence, Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal, Albany, Troy, Jersey City, Newark, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Des Moines.

This was followed by the Blaney Amusement Company, whose attractions play in Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus, Des Moines, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Harrisburg, Holyoke, Johnstown, Memphis, Montreal, Norfolk, New Britain, Omaha, Peoria, Plainfield, Reading, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Syracuse, Toledo, Utica, Wheeling, Worcester, Brooklyn, Birmingham, Bayonne, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Detroit, East St. Louis, Grand Rapids, Hartford, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, McKeesport, Nashville, New Haven, Ottawa, Paterson, Providence, Richmond, Scranton, St. Louis, South Chicago, Toronto, Washington, Wilkes-Barre, Youngstown, Bridgeport, Boston, Camden, Cleveland, Dayton, Elizabeth, Fall River, Hamilton, Hoboken, Jersey City, Louisville, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Quebec, Rochester, Springfield, St. Paul, Terre Haute, Trenton, Waterbury, Wilmington and Yonkers.

This was followed by the A. H. Woods Productions Company, whose attractions cover the same circuit as the Blaney Amusement Company's productions.

At the request of Detroit No. 18 and Montreal No. 176, while handling the placing of theatrical work, assisted in the negotiations from the New York end, which resulted in the Detroit Show Print Company and the Montreal National Printing Company being placed under the jurisdiction of Nos. 18 and 176, respectively, as label offices, show printing contracts being refused in many instances pending settlement.

Among the other managers successfully visited were the Shubert Brothers, Wagenhals & Kemper, the Garden theater, Daly's theater, and many others, the organizer being treated with uniform courtesy except in two cases, the work being continued at intervals when time permits, with a promise of ultimately placing all theatrical printing in union-label shops-with the assistance of the local unions located along the various circuits controlled by the Eastern Wheel and the Western Wheel.

In the month of June visited Schenectady, Glens Falls and Saratoga, N. Y., Newark and Morristown, N. J., Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and Kingston, Canada.

The first week in July began, under direction of President Lynch, an organizing trip in New York state, covering Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Utica, Lowville, Carthage, Gouverneur, Ogdensburg, Potsdam and Watertown, N. Y., and then crossing over to Canada, at Kingston, Ontario, was successful in reorganizing Kingston Typographical Union No. 204, practically every printer in Kingston signing the petition, the charter being granted in November, 1908.

In July, by request of President Brandi, Italian No. 261, took up the dispute over the reduction of the scale in the office of Frank Zotti, banker and steamship agent, whose business being forced into the hands of a receiver, the latter at once proceeded to reduce expenses by cutting down salaries in every department, including the composing room, where half a dozen members of No. 261

were employed, the reduction amounting to ap proximately 25 per cent.

After several visits to the office, succeeded in not only preventing a continuance of the revision of the "tariff" downwards, but the amounts deducted were returned, the receiver's clerk stating that a mistake of the bookkeeper was responsible for the error.

The organizer also visited Hoboken, Newark and Orange, N. J. A dispute on the Hoboken Observer over the violation of Hoboken No. 323's agreement with the Observer, necessitating a telegram from President Ford and several visits, the matter having reached an acute stage.

During the month of August, preceding and following the Boston convention, I devoted a large part of many days to urging the managers of theatrical companies and circuits to place all printing-large and small-with union-label offices or firms entitled to the use of the label, and with gratifying results, meeting Weber & Rush, J. Herbert Mack, and Sam Scribner, Columbia Amusement Company; Secretary Fennessy and Mr. Martell, Empire Circuit Company; Manager Barton, National Printing and Engraving Company, whose influence assisted materially in finally unionizing the Montreal branch, the label being granted by Montreal No. 176 after signing of contract in Montreal.

In the early part of September-1st to 10thdevoted considerable time to White Plains (N. Y.) No. 585, the work of pushing the label and placing the union on a business footing having been neglected by reason of the membership not attending the meetings, the Yonkers labels being uncollected and the necessary label contracts not signed, the organizer having to attend to all the details.

While covering White Plains also spent some time on theatrical printing with Mr. Martell, Empire Circuit; Mr. Ellis, secretary Hyde & Behmann's; Manager Ballanger, Blaney Amusement Company; Mr. Schlesinger, Lincoln Square Theater; J. L. Veronee, of the Veronee Amusement Company; Mr. Wood, Litt & Dingwall; Mr. Bird, Shubert Bros., all of whom, except Mr. Veronee, meeting in whole or in part the request of the organizer.

Hungarian Union No. 440 having adopted the eight-hour day and wage scale, and finding it difficult to secure the signature of the owner of the Hungarian Daily News, President Lynch directed the organizer to place his services at the disposal of Hungarian No. 440, the result placing the Daily News on the list of union offices, the contract, signed on September 24, agreeing not only to the eight-hour day but an increase of $3 per week for hand compositors, the machine operators receiving $1 increase and a seven-and-one-half-hour day or night work.

On September 26, under orders from President Lynch, proceeded to Mount Vernon, N. Y., to assist the officers of Mount Vernon No. 387 in the negotiations looking to the enforcement of an increased scale on October 1, 1908.

The organizer was compelled to make unusual

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