A New ... Organization

From the National Printer-Journalist for December. We copy the following article relative to a new priuter'sorganization having for its object the welfare of each member. The "Other" Printer is the name of a journal at Los Angeles, Cali. It is printedby the Los Angeles Printers' Protective Fraternity. This organizaron has for its object, as declared in the constitution : Section 1. To bring into close relationship employer and employé, and to unite them uiuïer one fraternal bond ; to provide for its members aud their dependents in time of uit, sickness and deatli. Sec. 2. The International Printers' Protective Fraternity, or any subordínate Fraternity, shall not have the power to order, aid or in any manner countenance a strike, lockout or boycott, but sball settle all disagreements by arbitratipn. The paper, on commenting on the object of this organization and compar ing with the Tphographical Union says : Members of the Printers' Protective Fraternity and non-union (as a rule) are sober and industrious, and believe that the right of men to shape their own welfare is the rïrst law of free men. They attend to their own business, seek no "quarrel with their fellow-laborer, treat hini justly and fully recognize his right to be upoii earth and choose for himself as to whether he shall wear red or blue stockiugs. The walking delégate and Typographical Union as a body believe their mission is to blacklist, browbeat, berate, defraud, intimídate, abuse, assault and murder, if necessary, all those who are not allied with tliem. Their practices (not their principies) prove this without exception. They stoop to meaner acts, attend more persistently to other people's business and less to their own, lie more vigorously, are more insulting, make more unreasonable and unjust demands of their betters, drink more whisky, rob each other more gleefully, insult and wrong their employers more frequently, have less self-respect, work less, claim more yotes to each man, pay less taxes, and carry with them at all times a greater amount of gall than any other class of men living. Councilmen S. H. Kingery, at a recent Council meeting which had under advisemeut and discussion the petition submitted by the "other" printers, asking that the infamous "union-label" resolutions be rescinded, was the only member of the supply Committee who had the courage of liis convictions. When the matter was properly brought to his notice, he said: "Gentlemen, I believe we (the Supply Committee) have made confounded fools of ourselves." It was his fnrther desire to rectify the mistake, but a motion to lay the matter over to the future meeting closed further action. Councilman Kingery can be relied upon to do what is right. In this connection we feel justitied in quotiug a sentence or two from a letter from a late employé who walked out of a good situation here into idleness with a cold winter setting in : "Have you a pull with any Chicago printing house where you could speak a good word and thereby lend me assistance in securinganother situation? You always treated me very kindly, and if I was wronged in any way in Ann Arbor it was not at your hands."