One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Horace Greeley
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Excerpt from One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Horace Greeley: First President of Typographical Union No; 6; New York Theatre; February 5, 1911 At the close of 1849 the New York Printers´ Union (which became Typographical Union No. 6 when the National Typographical Union was founded in 1852) was in a formative state. It had adopted a constitution, and under the provisions of that fundamental law the first regular session of the union convened at Stoneall´s Hotel, 131 Fulton Street, on Saturday evening, January 19, 1850. The important business of that meeting was the election of officers for the succeeding yearly term. Horace Greeley had been invited to accept the Presidency of the young organization, and he had cheerfully consented to serve in that capacity. He was therefore chosen unanimously, as were also these other officers: Vice-President, Edgar H. Rogers; Recording Secretary, William H. Prindle; Financial Secretary, R. Cunnington; Corresponding Secretary, George Johnson; Treasurer, Thomas N. Rooker. It was quite natural for the organized printers to select Horace Greeley as their first presiding officer, because he already had been prominently identified with workingmen´s movements in a number of trades to better their social and economic condition. He favored united action on their part. Not alone in the editorial columns of the Tribune did he urge that only through associated effort could they succeed in establishing wages at a standard that would permit them to preserve their homes and enjoy the comforts to which they and their families were entitled, but from the rostrum he eloquently espoused their cause, appealing to the public conscience to aid in the crusade for shorter working time, improved shop conditions, and the correction of abuses that had crept insidiously into industrial life and sapped the strength of those who toiled. Especially solicitous was he for the welfare of his own craftsmen, and he impressed upon them the necessity of co-operating with him in an effort to place the printing business on a broader plane, so that both the workers and the employers could derive a just remuneration for their work. When the draft of the first scale of prices of the Printers´ Union was presented for consideration, President Greeley gave expression to these ideas on the subject in the Tribune of September 3, 1850: "There ought obviously to be some uniform standard or scale to be appealed to in case of difference as to the proper compensation for any work done. Anarchy, uncertainty and chaos on this subject are all against the fair, regular, live-and-let-live employer, who wants good work done by good workmen, and is willing to pay for it: and benefit only the niggard who calculates to enrich himself by grinding the face of the poor and robbing labor of its honest due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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