Proposition No. 168-By Delegate Rosenson (New York Hebrew): Amend section 35, general laws, by striking out the words, starting in third line, "except with the consent of the president of the International Typographical Union." (The balance to remain as at present.) Committee reports unfavorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 169-By Delegate Rosenson (New York Hebrew): Amend section 80, general laws, to read as follows: Section 80. In all offices within the jurisdiction of the International Typographical Union, where machines are used, practical union printers only shall be employed to run them; and also that subordinate unions regulate the scale of wages and the time on such machines. Committee reports unfavorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 170-By Delegate Dolan (Denver): Amend convention laws, by striking out the last paragraph on page 79, commencing with "(e) A committee on appeals," and ending with the word "appeal," page 80, and substitute the following: "The committee on appeals shall be nominated and elected by the convention. To this committee shall be referred all apexecutive peals from decisions of the council that are properly submitted, as is provided in the laws of this organization. The committee shall carefully examine the evidence brought before it, and report a resolution sustaining or dismissing the appeal." Committee reports unfavorably. Delegate Dolan (Denver) urged nonconcurrence in the report of the committee. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 172-By President Lynch: Amend section 1, article 1, constitution, by striking out the word "typefounder" in the ninth and tenth lines. Amend section 8, article 1, constitution, by striking out the words "typefounders, typefounders' union," in the fourth line. Amend section 1, article 1, by-laws, by striking out the words "for fourth vicepresident, membership in a typefounders' union," in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth lines thereof. The remainder of these sections to remain as at present. Committee reports favorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 94-By President Lynch: Amend first sentence section 123, general laws, to read: Section 123. Accusations or charges against a member must be made in writing by a member of the union within thirty days of the time knowledge of the offense alleged comes to the member making the charges, and may be presented to the president at any time, who, if the charges are found worthy of trial by the union in meeting assembled, shall at the same meeting appoint a committee of five to examine the case. The convention referred proposition No. 94 back to the committee on laws with instructions to frame a law in conformity with the San Francisco law on trials. Committee offers the following substi tute: Section 123. Accusations or charges against a member must be made in writing by a member of the union within thirty days of the time knowledge of the offense alleged comes to the member making the charges, and may be presented to the president at any time. The president shall present the charges to the union at its next stated meeting, when a committee of five members shall be appointed by the president to investigate the charges and report its findings to the union. If the charges are found worthy of trial by the union, the president shall appoint a committee of five to try the case. Said committee shall notify the parties and their witnesses of the time and place of sitting. Both parties shall have the right of counsel, who shall be members of the union. At the demand of either party witnesses shall be sworn by a notary public, or some other officer authorized to administer oaths. If either party fail to appear (unless excused for cause shown), the inquiry shall proceed, and the committee shall at the next stated meeting report the evidence and its judgment on the case. accused shall then have the privilege of defense before the union, after which the secretary shall again read the judgment of the committee, and the president shall submit it to a vote of the union, and a two-thirds secret vote of the members present shall be necessary to convict. If more than one charge has been made the vote may be taken on each charge, sepIf manner. the arately, in the same charges or any of them be sustained the vote shall then be taken on the penalty recommended by the committee, if any, but this recommendation may be amended, and the vote shall be first upon the heaviest penalty proposed. It shall require a two-thirds vote to expel or suspend from membership, but a majority vote only to impose any lesser penalty, after conviction. All expenses incurred by the prosecuting union, or any member of the union, or by the defense, shall be borne by the union in case of acquittal of the accused. The Delegate Fear (Joplin), Vice-President Tracy and Delegate Jackson (St. Louis) discussed the proposition. Delegate Portenar (New York) offered the following amendment: A committee shall be appointed to recommend whether such charges shall be declared cognizant. The amendment was lost. The substitute offered by the committee on laws for Proposition 94 was adopted. The committee on laws reported favorably upon the amendments to the laws appearing in the report of the committee on mortuary benefit which were referred to it by the convention. The report of the committee was adopted. The convention then considered the report of the committee on promotion of health. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PROMOTION OF HEALTH. To the Officers and Members of the Internatonal Typographical Union: Gentlemen-Your committee on promotion of health respectfully presents the following for your consideration: Following along the lines recommended by the committee on promotion of health at the last convention, our International officers placed an exhibit at the International Tuberculosis Congress at Washington, D. C., which was highly commended by the leading physicians and specialists of the world. Your committee recommends that this exhibit be continued with the International Tuberculosis Congress, and that the officers of the International Typographical Union make every effort to remain in the forefront in the fight against the great white plague. In this connection it is of the most vital importance to the members of our organization that sanitary conditions shall prevail in the composing rooms throughout our jurisdiction, and that the members of the subordinate unions should appoint committees to take up the matter of cleanliness and good conditions in the working departments of their jurisdiction, even to the extent of an increase in wages over the prevailing scales of wages for offices which deny to their employes the healthful surroundings which are necessary to the life of a man working in our profession and which ranks third in the death list of that insidious disease, consumption. In the fight against the dread disease, we recommend that all subordinate unions make application to tuberculosis associations wherever formed and use their utmost endeavors to make them a success. According to United States statistics, gathered by the various state labor departments and commissioners of labor, the country printer is as susceptible to the ravages of tuberculosis, in proportion to adults employed in other occupations in his locality, as his fellow workmen in the larger cities. This is due in great part to the inhuman custom of many years of deeming any dark, unsanitary corner good enough for a printing office, and those who must work therein, and the great installation of the typesetting machine and its unchecked pollution of the air. Subordinate unions should use every endeavor to secure sanitary composing rooms and instruct chapels to see that healthful conditions are obtained. Vaults should be looked after very carefully, and also should the matter of spittoons; the sweeping of floors while the employes are working should be discouraged and every effort made for the discontinuance of this practice, which is one of the most effective means of filling the air with the germs of tuberculosis. Another practice that is detrimental to the health of the members of our organization, and the one cause of the transmission of the germs of tuberculosis greater than all others, is the common drinking cups which, when becoming rusty or the enamel worn off, transmits more germs than any other way, as the rust spots and dampness are ideal breeding spots; wherever possible, fountains such as are used in public schools should be placed in composing rooms, doing away with the germ-breeding drinking vessels. Another cause which is fast destroying the vitality of our members, and one which we recommend to subordinate unions to make every effort to eliminate, is the melting pots placed in composing rooms. The practice of setting fire to oil poured in the pots to separate the dirt from the metal, is one of the most disastrous things to the health of our members, causing metal poisoning of both lungs and kidneys and rapidly sapping the strength and vitality of those forced to work under these conditions. Another thing detrimental to the health of that great body of our membership working in machine offices, is the practice of cleaning plungers while the employes are in the rooms. Subordinate locals should take up this matter and instruct machinists to do this work entirely away from where these terrible fumes and deadly particles would be inhaled by employes. Ventilation of composing rooms is another matter of the most vital importance, and should be taken up by subordinate unions and a continual fight made until conditions in regard to light and atmosphere are such that the germs of disease are entirely destroyed. Your committee desires to commend the officers for their action in placing the additional model tents, with the necessary appurtenances, on the road for exhibition purposes, and desire to recommend a continuance of same; and also commend the exhibit of the International Typographical Union model tent and appurtenances at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Are water closets kept in cleanly condition and properly connected with sewer? If not, siate nature of abuse Are individual drinking vessels used?. Are spittoons properly cleansed and saniary? Are there any nuisances adjoining the premises that are injurious to the health of the members of your chapel? If so, state character of same Has any member of your chapel tubercu- Chairman of Chapel. Proposition No. 103-By the Baltimore delegation: Whereas, Baltimore Typographical Union No. 12 has instructed its delegates to this convention to introduce a proposition to create a commission of three members of this body, whose duty shall be to ascertain the condition of all printing offices and composing rooms wherein members of the International Typographical Union are employed, and devise methods for the improvement of the same for the health and welfare of union printers; therefore, be it Resolved, That the International Typographical Union herewith create such commission, to be known as the International Union Commission on the Improveand ment Construction of Composing Rooms, whose duty it shall be to investigate the condition of composing rooms, make recommendations for their improve a ment, prepare plans for the construction of future composing rooms, and urge the construction according to the most modern plans, and use their efforts in every direction for the improvement of composing rooms for the welfare of the craft. Committee reports unfavorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 176 (A communication from the American Tuberculosis Exhibition, E. G. Routzahn. director, will be found in the minutes of the morning session of the fourth day.) Committee reports unfavorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 177-By Delegate O'Hara (Cincinnati): Whereas, In view of the fact that the pastime of bowling has taken a firm hold upon many printers throughout the country; and, Whereas, In many of the large cities there is now in existence a Printers' Bowling League; therefore, be it Resolved, That beginning with next year, a national bowling tournament be held in connection with the International Typographical Union convention; and, be it further Resolved, That the president appoint a committee. consisting of nine bowlers of different cities, who shall take in hand the formation of a National Printing Crafts' Bowling League, under whose direction said tournament shall be held, and be it further a Resolved, That the International Typoyear, graphical Union donate, every suitable trophy to be bowled for, to be known as the printing crafts' championship trophy. Committee reports unfavorably. Delegate O'Hara (Cincinnati) urged the adoption of the proposition. The report of the committee was adopted. Respectfully submitted, HARRY L. MILLS, JOHN W. HALLETT. O. N. MILLER, H. W. DOENGES, W. N. EMERSON, The report of the committee on promotion of health was adopted as a whole. The report of the committee on returns and finances was then presented. of the organization. That the past fiscal year was a most prosperous one is evidenced by the report of the secretarytreasurer, on which no labor seems to have been spared. In the opening table is given a summary of the receipts and expenditures of the year. Herein the business of the organization is so condensed as to show clearly the condition of our finances. The tabulation could not be more concise and complete or be arranged so as to be more readily understood. The second table shows the condition of the funds on May 31, there being on that date $98,961.30 in the general fund and $159,767.17 in the old age pension fund, and the third comprises the defensive expenses of the organization. Attached to it is a tabulation of the general expenditures which are less than those of the preceding year. An interesting mortuary table is presented and the question of a graduated burial benefit discussed at length. Attention is also paid to the subject of insurance, and mortuary statistics are presented which will undoubtedly be of material service to this convention in the consideration of this important question. an Under the head of "Our Membership," the secretary-treasurer shows the issuance of 46 charters and the loss of 12 unions through the surrender, revocation or suspension of their charters. The number of unions on May 31 was 652, or 34 more than at the close of the previous year. For the entire fiscal year the average paying membership was 44,921, increase of 1,181 over the year 1908, and 2,564 over 1907. For the closing three months of the fiscal year-March, April and May-per capita tax was received upon an average of 46,949 members, or 215 more than the average membership for any fiscal year in the history of the organization. These figures are indicative of successful organization work and promise even greater results during the next twelve months. A striking feature of the secretarytreasurer's report is the large table showing the amount received from each union for all purposes during the year, and the sum paid each one for strike purposes, as burial benefits, and in old age pensions. In each is properly accounted for all money received by the secretary-treasurer. The compilation is valuable ror reference purposes, reflects credit upon the secretary-treasurer's office, and is indicative of the painstaking manner in which the business thereof is conducted. That each local union may know the numerical strength of those about it, the secretary-treasurer presents a table giv ing the membership of each union in good standing, in arrears, and the total number of members on its rolls. This table also shows the amount in the treasury of each local, and attention is drawn to the fact that the total assets of our local unions is far below what they should be. Supplemental to his statement for the fiscal year, the secretary-treasurer has presented the following summary, showing the receipts from June 1 to August 7, 1909, inclusive, and the condition of the funds on the last-named date. This report is as follows: Hays upon the complete and concise report presented by him and upon the careful and painstaking manner in which he conducts the work of his office. The foregoing portion of the report of the committee was adopted. The suggestion of Home Trustee McCaffery, which is embodied in the report of President Lynch, and proposing the erection of a monument in the Home plot at cemetery Colorado in Evergreen Springs, is a good one,and should appeal strongly to the fraternal sentiment of We believe, however, our organization. progress that is being made by like com- that the condition of the general fund The recommendation of the committee was adopted. We recommend that the action of the executive council in lending $5,000 to the United Hatters to aid that union in carrying on its fight against the hat manufacturers, be endorsed. The hat makers' contest is one of the bitterest label fights for many years, and victory would redound immensely to the benefit of all trades unions, while defeat would mean a setback requiring many years to retrieve. The recommendation of the committee was adopted. Your committee on returns and finances would call attention to the following exPresident tract from the report from Lynch, in the hope of impressing it upon If the executive council, acting for the may The Proposition No. 75-By Delegate Petty (under instructions from Seattle Typo Whereas, Seattle Typographical Union No. 202 in defending the suit instituted by D. E. Johnson, an expelled member of said union, fought the fight of the International Typographical Union in particular and organized labor in general, and Whereas, This contest was mainly to establish the right of a local union to discipline a recalcitrant or insubordinate member, and Whereas, The opinion of Mr. Hugg, of the firm of Kealing & Hugg, employed by our International officers to examine the record and briefs in the case, clearly indicate bias and prejudice on the part of the trial judge and predicted a reversal in the appellate court, and Whereas, Said appellate court, on the contrary, supported and endorsed the acts and decision of the said trial judge, thereby proclaiming themselves enemies of organized labor, and Whereas, Seattle Typographical Union No. 202 expended the sum of $2,334.42 in defense of the right of organized labor to penalize members for illegal acts, and Whereas, Seattle Typographical Union No. 202 has paid all judgment and costs in the case; therefore be it Resolved, By Seattle Typographical Union No. 202, that the International Typographical Union in convention assembled in St. Joseph, Mo., August 9 to 14, 1909, be and hereby is requested to reimburse the said local union all of the money expended in defending this suit, namely $2,334.42. Committee reports unfavorably. The report of the committee was adopted. Proposition No. 138-By Delegate O'Hara (Cincinnati): Whereas, The introduction of typecasting and typesetting machinery has made it incumbent upon those employed in the printing trades to become familiar with these appliances and their operation; and Whereas, Manufacturers of typesetting machinery have established schools of instruction for those who seek to master machine operation; Resolved. That the International Typographical Union should aid, in every way possible, the members of local unions who |