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in
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Community:
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after
43-vear
agitation
by
the
International
7
por.v.r
ic.l
Union
to
protect
American
labor
from
substaiutaid
furei,!i
competition
on
matter
piotcctcd
by
our
copyright
m.
1910
Referendum
nf
niemhcrhip
adopted
policy
of
discouraging
and
opposing
piece-work,
bonus
for
extra
prodttc-.
tion,
and
sweatshop
conditions.
1911
Joined
with
other
criW'ls
in
forming
International
Allied
Printing
Trades
Association,
assigned
title
of
Allied
Label
to
joint
ownership
of
affiliated
crafts,
provided
voluntary
co-operative
action.
1912
The
l.T.U.
took
over
the
Inland
Printer
Technical
School
Course
of
Lessons
in
Printing
as
a
contfhualion
of
its
apprentice
training
policy.
1914
Authorized
sending
delegates
to
Trades
and
Labur
'Congress
of
Canada,
after
it
separated
from
the
American
Federation
of
Labor
by
agreement.
RcpVescmed
at
every
session
since
that
fime.
t
1
9
1
6Made
ten-year
arbitration
agreement
with
commercial
printing
employers,
but
neither
employers
nor
printers
ever
used
arbitration
during
the
life
of
the
agreement.
19
17
International
Typographical
Union
guaranteed
protection
of
jobs
and
priority
for
its
7,343
members
who
entered
'
military
service
of
Canada
and
the
United
States.
m
1919Negotiated
international
agreement
with
commercial
printing
employers
for
a
44-hour
week,
which
employers
repudiated
on
the
day
it
was
to
become
effective.
1921
Commercial
printers
struck
to
enforce
the
44-hour
agreement
made
with
employers
in
1919;
weekly
half-holiday
won,
pattern
for
all
crafts.
1922
Began
free
collective
bargaining
without
previous
arbitration
commitment
by
either
party,
since
record
of
21-year
experience
proved
complete
freedom
necessary
to
successful
negotiation.
1930
Union
survived
greatest
economic
depression
in
history
by
sound
principles
and
practical
approach
to
problems,
shared
work
and
created
unemployment
funds,
set
a
pattern
for
others.
,
'
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J
week
at
of
members
only;
;
-
1933
Bcean
a
five-day
expense
later
federal
law
helped'
other
workers
get
the
live-day
week;
reduced
earnings
were
offset
by
sound
bargaining
and
cooperative
practices.
1935Wagner
Act
seldom
used
by
union
printers.
l.T.U.
.
gave
aid
to
newly
organized
locals.
Urged
American
Federation
of
Labor
to
organize
millions
of
workers
in
mass
production
industries.
.
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v
1937
International
Typographical
Union
refused
to
be
as-'sessed
by
the
A.
F.
of
L.
tofight
industrial
organization,
hold.
ing
fast
to
the
policy
adopted
in
1882
and
reiterated
in
US?
I
,nd
1900
asserting
its
autonomy.'
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-
1939
Tolerated
suspension
from
American
Federation
of
.
....
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building.
Introduction
of
Linotype
machine
bioueht
leso-tuticn:
"The
piincipai
factor
m
tne
economic
operation
of
typesetting
machinery
is
the
employment
of
highly
skilled
and
intelligent
labor."
1891
International
Typographical
Union
adopted
plan
for
burial
fund,
now
known
as
the
Mortuary
Fund,
beginning
a
new
epoch
in
fraternal
benefits
for
members.
First
author-'
ized
strike
for
nine-hour
day
in
Pittsburgh
by
commercial
printers
and
pressmen;
l.T.U.
members
vote
voluntary
assessment
to
assist
Pittsburgh
members.
Employers
organized
association
to
oppose
Union,
secured
tirst
injunction
to
prohibit
picketing
or
speaking
to
strikebreakers;
organized
labor
staged
huge
parade
in
protest
against
use
of
new
strikebreaking
weapon,
the
injunction,
by
government
agency.
1892
Union
Printers
Home
formally
opened
for
reception
of
residents,
and
for
sixty
vears
the
l.T.U.
has
provided
this
home
and
hospital
for
afflicted,
aged
and
infirm
printers.
Two
thousand
pressmen
members
seceded
and
formed
their
own
international
union.
l.T.U.
authorized
membership
for
mailers
and
news
writers.
1893
Convention
provided
for
initiation
of
new
laws
by
:
petitions
from
local
unions
as
a
further
step
in
guaranteeing
democratic
rule
of
the
Union.
By
referendum
of
members
of
both
organizations,
the
German-American
Typographia
united
with
the
International
Typographical
Union.
1894
By
resolution
adopted
in
referendum,
members
asked
Congress'
for
the
"abolition
of
monopoly
privilege
of
issuing
money
by
individuals
and
corporations,
and
substituting
therefor
a
system
of
direct
issuance
to
and
by
the
people.''
1
89
6
Bookbinder
members,
by
agreement
and
w
ith
the
assistance
of
the
International
Typographical
Union,
formally
established
their
own
international
union.
Convention
adopted
.
provision
for
electing
all
l.T.U.
officers
by
popular
vote
of
the
membership.
1898
Convention
adopted
law
to
discourage
and
prevent
outlaw
strikes,
by
withholding
benefits
unless
strike
or
lockout
is
authorized
by
the
Executive
Council.
1899
Established
nine-hour
day,
six-day
week
by
contract
with
commercial
printing
employers
after
many
months
of
collective
bargaining.
Organized
all
Linotype
machinists
and
machine
tenders
working
in
composing
rooms;
required
such
employment
to
be
given
to
competent
members
of
the
Union.
1
900
Instructed
the
president
to
notify
the
American
Federation
of
Labor
that
the
l.T.U.
"is
not
in
position
to
arbitrate
its
own
laws"
as
to
jurisdiction
over
composing
room
work
claimed
by
other
crafts.
1901
First
of
a
scries
of
International
Arbitration
Agreements
with
newspaper
publishers
adopted
by
referendum;.
v
system
continued
21
years,
then
replaced'
by
voluntary
'arbitration.
,
,
;
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1902
Golden
Anniversary
showed
a
total
membership
oT
,.18,364.
with
559
locai
unions.
Women's
International
Aux
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1870
Miss
Augusta
Lewis
of
New
York,
electea
correspond-
ing
secretary,
the
tirst
woman
to
be
chosen
as
an
odicer
of
air
national
or
international
union.
.
1
872
-Launched
long
campaign
for
repeat
of
the
conspiracy
.
laws
of
the
various
states,
under
which
labor
organizations
,
.
were
subjected
to
persecution.
Began
chartering
separate
unions
of
printing
pressmen
in
cities
where
such
members
desired
separate
charters.
1873
Birth
of
principles
of
the
Fair
Practices
Act:
Union
insisted
each
publisher
have
newspaper
set
or
reproduced
in
type
by
hi
own
employees;
men
were
furnished
for
a
varying
volume
of
work
at
no
'loss
of
time
nor
extra
expense
to
publishers;
fair
practice
principles
stilt
in
effect,
fully
justified
by
righty-
ear
experience.
1876
Convention
took
first
acfion
to
abolish
sub-lists,
and
opened
the
way
fo'a
plan
of
priority
now
accepted
and
used
throughout
most
industries.
1
877
Local
Unions
provided
relief
funds,
shared
work,
when
great
depression
forced
new
spaper
suspensions,
business
bank-
,
ruplcies,
wage
reductions,
widespread
unemployment,
and
unregulated
apprenticeship
problems.
jg79lnternational
Typographical
Union
started
action
to
organise
the
American
Feder.uion
of
Labor,
instructing
secretary
to
contact
other
national
and
international
unions;
also-instructed
local
unions
to
"cooperate
with
other
trades
unions"
at
the
local
level
"for
united
action."
1881
Federation
of
Trades
and
Labor
Unions
formed
at
convention
called
bv
Typographical
Union
delegates;
announced
platform
demands
for
compulsory
education
or
chil-;
dren,
opposing
employment
of
children
under
the
age
of
fourteen,
fav
firing
an
eig'ht-hour
day,
opposing
competition
ot
prison
and
foreign
labor,
and
requiring
wages
to
be
paid
in
lawful
currency.
.
1
K
85Stereotvpcr
and
clectrotyper
members
given
local
union
charters
in
cities
where'sucj)
ti'tembfrs
tjesired
separate
local
union.
Monotvpe
process
"patented,
"producing
type
from
perforated
paper
punched
from
keyboard
;
journeyman
printers
learned
and
have
operated
such
machines,
without
any
ques-tfon
of
jurisdiction,
for
more
than
sixty
years.
1886-International
Typographical
Union
adopted
a
Union
Label
"so
that
the
product
of
union
labor
may
be
readily
know
n
bv
purchasers,
and
the
demand
for
publications
friendly'
to
the
cause
of
organized
workingmen
may
be
encouraged."
l887Mainlained
autonomy
of
international
unions,
announcing
"the
International
Typographical
Union
would
not
acknowledge
allegiance
to
nor
recognize
the
supremacy
of
any
other
organization,"
would
affiliate
with
but
would
not
apply
for
nor
accept
a
charter
from
the
American
Federation
ot
Labor
or
any
other
organization.
t.T.U.
issued
charters
to
bookbinder
members
w
ho
wanted
to
form
scparatelocal
unions.
1889
Required
all
amendments
to
constitution
and
all
proposals
to
increase
dues
or
assessments
to
be
submitted
t
referendum
of
local
union
members.
Publication
or
JV
Typographical
Journal
started.
1890
Union
Printers
Home
at
Colorado
Springs
aiu'.'oricd
and
board
of
trustees
chosen
to
arrangs
for
erection
of
m.mn
"
If
li
A
"convention
of
journeyman
primers
from
Typo-gi
apiiical
Societies
in
mx
stales
nict
in
New
York,
to
consider
forming
a
national
union.
I
Mi-Delegates
met
in
Baltimore,
set
up
a
committee
to
draft
p
constitution
and
bylaws
for
the
proposed
national
prime's'
union
"for
the
relief
and
benefit
or
the
craft."
lS)2On
May
3.
the
I
T
U.
wan
born
at
Cincinnati,
Ohio,
bv
adoption
of
this
resolution:
"The
stipulations
of
the
been
complied
with,
the
National
late
national
convention
having
Typographical
Union
m
hereby
declared
organized.
I1-tull
I'KKinwiil
report
of
receipts
and
expenditures
be-ean
continued
without
interruption
ince.
-Convention.
jdnntcJ
baic.un.ng
poht):
"The
National
Union
regards
as
iiMMdiciom
a
rncqucnt
resort
to
strikes,
believing
that
in
most
iaU
tli.rcrcnccs
can
be
settled
by
more
amicable
means.
im7Ncvv
Orleans
convention
considered
a
proposal
for
"csU'oliMiiient
ot
a
union
printers'
home
for
those
members
who
have
rown
old
in
the
art.
'
lS-Oncned
membership
to
receive
printing
pressmen
after
many
such
craftsmen
expressed
a
desire
for
organization
as
part
of
ths
printing
industry.
1859-
C'onventio.i
Cavc
favorable
support
to
the
policy
of
contracts
ith
employers
-
after
first
having
invited
a
confer-cncv.
i'.hemPiovc.,:-
Union
pioneered
in
giving
consideration
and
"the
exposure
of
its
to
P.-ht
aSamst
tuberculosis
members
to
diseases
of
the
respiratory
organs.
1
860-
Acccpted
membership
of
all
employers
who
were
practical
and
ho
wanted
to
printers.
tuiaUiied
as
journeymen,
join
with
their
cmplovces
in
the
union.
186?
Convention
crilictcd
the
secretary-treasurer
for
calling
for
such
a
minor
reason
off
Ck
convention
sch.dulcd
in
161.
instructed
the
president
to
send
as
a
v.ar
bctvtccn
the
state;;
them
of
our
continued
"assuring
aimer
to
ail
southern
union
good
will
and
tVlo.wliip."
J
83-C'ritic'.-d
the
'-paper
trust"
for
increasing
paper
prices,
and
petitioned
Congress
W
remove
from
paper
the
duty
now
charged
und
regulated
by
laws."
1
864-R.:sclvcd
that
"monopoly
of
the
telegraph
dispatches"
bv
the
Asaociatcd
1'ress
"is
hurtful
to
the
cralt
and
J.rec
hifrinymcm
of
the
litarty
of
the
press.
-Acc"'
and
stereo-t'.pcri
-htp
of,
and
bargained
for
wages
for.
proofreaders
workinj
in
union
shops.
IK6K-
I
irr.t
proposed
an
eight-hour
day.
although
most
crafts-W1-e
hours
and
many
wo.!
ing
ten,
eleven
and
twelve
members
wc
paid
on
"piece-work
basis.
ISftft-Bcgan
-scar
Uruggle
to
secure
copyright
law
which
wovd
prckt
American
craftsmen
from
competition
with
encjper
Furopean
'abor.
lb-Orened.r.iembcrship
to
women.
requirU
equal
pay
ferccul
Wcrk
rm!
barred
discrimination
against
them.
-Ke-?
vj
a'
v
inrcis
should
be
hired
"solely
on
account
ol
:
not
for
religious
or
political
vrUjjy
Mny
liUerna.ional
Typog
aphu-al
vr.tc
t-.:n."'-Namc
chanced
i
I
,.i,n
after
atliliation
.Canadian
union.
S
and
the
United
States.
Canada
for
real
frfc!trtMi
iliary
organized.
"
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,
:
,
.
"
ton.W
Rv
apreement-Avith
the
international
Typographical
Labor.
for
fion-payment-oi
me
unauuHncu
.st;i.i
i"
;
-
-
Create
a
fund
for
war
against
industrial
unions.
t
.
1944
Accepted
re-afliliation
on
same
basis
as
in
1881,
after
'
A.
F.
bt
L.
adoptc
-policy'.
"International
urtfdns
hut
complete
authority
td
regulate
the
conduct
of
their
officers
and
members,
and
ID
control
the
use
of
their
funds
and
properties."
t47
International
Typographical
Union
refused
to
accept
any
of
the
alleged
benefits
of
theTalt-H-.'.rtlcy
Act,
hAli.iK
fast
to
time-tested,
sound
principles
of
free
co'.lxtivi
.barrjiiaint:,
-governmental
bureaucracy
or
other
outsaie
unhampered
by
interference,
''
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J
89,65')
members
still
hold
to
the
ltX!-er.i-old
i..;.-;r,i..
and
nnictices
which
have
niutic
the
International
Union,
stcrcoivpcr
and
ekqtroivper
members
estybliibct)
cir
'
unionJ
'
owrt.iiilcrriatnal
V'ij
1904
International
Typographical
nion
locals
of
photo-engraver
members
were
assist.!
in
forming
the
International
Photo-F.ngravers
Union.
'
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.
j.
;
1906-
Members
in
commercial
printing
shops
struck
for
an
eight-hour
day,
and
carried
it
to
successful
conclusion
against
employers
open-shop
movement.
.
;
,
;
.
1907-
r-Adopted.a
voluntary
plan
of
"l.T.U.
Course
of
Instruction
in
Printing,"
offered
by
the
Inland
Printer
Technical
School
of
Chicago.
;,
'
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i!'V
'
.
'
1908
-
I'siu
Wished
a
Pension
Fund
'by
social
'
asessmeni
based
upon
a
percentage
of
earnings,
the
modd
for
the
social
sccatity
pl;m
and
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