If the members of No. 16 who walked out of the offices of the Chicago American and Examiner do not return to work at once the executive council of the International Typographical Union instructs you to have the members in your chapel set such type for the American and Examiner as you may be furnished copy for. This action is taken in accordance with sections 147 and 152 of the International Typographical Union general laws, reading as follows:

SEC. 147. Whenever a strike occurs without the sanction of the executive council, the council must immediately disavow the illegal strike and notify all subordinate unions to that effect. Protection shall be guaranteed to all members who remain at, accept or return to work in offices affected by the illegal strike, as specified in section 152. Any officer or member of a union who shall suppress or conceal from his union or the executive council any official information concerning a strike, or a proposed strike, shall upon conviction by the local union be suspended or expelled.

SEC. 152. To affect union men prejudicially to their standing in the union who remain at work in an office where any number of the union men in such office have struck work on what they deem good grounds for such action, the strike must have been authorized in accordance with sections 145, 146 and 148 of this law. Unless so authorized, those remaining at work are not liable to charges of violation of any union laws.

(Signed) By Order of the Executive Council. J. W. HAYS, Secretary.

The above-mentioned telegrams to President O'Brien and the chapel chairmen of Chicago were sent from International headquarters about 2:30 A. M. of March 1. During Tuesday, March 1, the executive council received information that a special meeting of Typographical Union No. 16 would be held at 5 P. M., and by order of the executive council the following telegram was sent to President O'Brien:

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 1, 1911. George R. O'Brien, Rooms 224-226, Postal Telegraph Building, Chicago, Ill.:

The International executive council, giving further consideration to the Chicago situation, today instructed me to wire you reiterating what I said to you over the telephone early this morning, that the council demands that the members of No. 16 be instructed to return to work in the offices of the Chicago American and the Chicago Examiner, and that the laws of the International Typographical Union be fully complied with. The executive council also desires that all of the messages and communications referring to this subject which you have received from either Lynch or myself be read at the meeting of No. 16 this afternoon.

(Signed) J. W. HAYS.

Replying to this telegram, the following was received at Indianapolis at 4:55 P. M.:

CHICAGO, March 1, 1911.

J. W. Hays, Newton Claypool Building, Indianapolis, Ind.:

This resolution was adopted by the executive committee of No. 16 previous to the receipt of your latest wire ordering employes of the Examiner and American to return to work: "Resolved, That in view of the position of President Lynch, as indicated by a dispatch to the publishers' association, as well as that of the executive council of the International Typographical Union, in regard to the action of the American and Examiner chapels in quitting employment at 3 o'clock P. M., Tuesday, February 28, for non-payment of wages, the executive committee of Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 is compelled to recommend to this union that the order of the executive council, directing members of the American and Examiner chapels to return to work, pending an adjustment of the matter in dispute, be complied with.”

(Signed) G. R. O'BRIEN.

The result of the special meeting of No. 16 held on March 1 and the subsequent action of the executive council regarding the strike is fully set forth in the following letter, which was addressed to President O'Brien, of No. 16, and copies thereof furnished to the entire membership of No. 16:

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 13, 1911. Mr. G. R. O'Brien, President Typographical Union No. 16, Chicago, Ill.:

DEAR SIR-On Wednesday, March 1, Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, in special session, adopted resolutions in part as follows:

Resolved, That Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, having obeyed the mandate of the International Typographical Union council, as expressed in the telegrams from President Lynch and Secretary Hays, hereby requests President Lynch and the executive council immediately to proceed to Chicago and assume control of the questions in controversy between Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 and Chicago local American Newspaper Publishers' Association.

In acknowledging your telegram and letter transmitting the foregoing to Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Hays, that official said:

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., March 3, 1911. George R. O'Brien, President No. 16, 280 La Salle Street, Chicago:

DEAR MR. O'BRIEN-I have your telegram and letter quoting the resolutions adopted by No. 16 asking the executive council to come to Chicago and assume control of the questions in controversy between No. 16 and the publishers. There is to be a meeting of the Joint Conference Board of the Allied Printing Trades Council in this office on Monday next. As soon as possible after that date the executive council will arrange to go to Chicago. At that time the questions contained in your letter can be taken up. Fraternally yours,

J. W. HAYS.

On the morning of Friday, March 10, at the Briggs House, Chicago, the following communication was received from you:

CHICAGO, ILL., March 9, 1911.

J. W. Hays, Secretary Executive Council, Briggs House, Chicago:

DEAR MR. HAYS-Your telegram stating that the "executive council will be at the Briggs House tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock" received. It may be necessary to review many documents in this controversy, and I would request that the council meet at Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 headquarters, room 224, 280 La Salle street, as soon as convenient after 10 A. M. Friday, March 10. Fraternally yours, G. R. O'BRIEN, President. Shortly after 10 o'clock on Friday morning the executive council met you, and members of your scale committee, and, acting through President Lynch as spokesman, discussed in all of its phases the recent difficulty with the Hearst Chicago papers.

You were asked to name specifically the points that it was desired the executive council should take up with the Chicago Publishers' Association, and after much questioning on the part of the council you were finally pinned down to the matters that you had previously taken up with the Chi-cago Publishers' Association or that the association had taken up with you in accordance with the method outlined in the contract between Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 and the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, as follows:

It is agreed that both the language and the spirit of this contract between the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 make it imperatively obligatory on both parties, whenever any difference of opinion as to the rights of the parties under the contract shall arise, or whenever any dispute as to the construction of the contract or any of its amendments takes place, at once to appeal to the duly constituted authority under the contract-namely: the joint standing committee, to the end that fruitless controversy shall be avoided and good feeling and harmonious relations be maintained, and the regular and orderly prosecution of the business in which the parties have a community of interest be insured beyond the possibility of interruption

It is further agreed that this contract, being between the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and Chicago Typographical Union No. 16, and underwritten by the International Typographical Union, all questions in controversy primarily concern the two contracting parties alone, and are not to be taken up for or against any individual member of either one of them, but shall be referred to the joint standing committee.

In furtherance of harmonious action, to fulfill this contract in letter and spirit, to prevent misunderstandings and to make plain the course of procedure, it is agreed that a new ruling by either party under the contract shall be immediately referred by its president to the president of the other party, and if they agree as to the propriety of said ruling they shall at once formally notify all the parties to the contract to that effect, and it shall be of binding force; but if they fail to agree within forty-eight hours as to such ruling, the

question in dispute shall be referred immediately by either party through the proper authority, as provided by the contract, to the joint standing committee for settlement, as provided by the contractand pending consideration by the presidents as aforesaid, or by the joint standing committee, no attempt shall be made to enforce such ruling, and such appeal having been made, and written notice to that effect having been served by the party making the appeal to the other party, the latter shall await the decision of the joint standing committee. In the meantime the new ruling shall not be in force, but should the joint standing committee sustain the ruling, its operation shall be as of date when first announced, and any moneys due under the ruling by either party to the other shall then be paid without further delay.

Having pressed you to this point, the council then explained to you that it had no power or authority to assume jurisdiction over the real questions at issue, as the local contract set forth a specific method for their adjustment, and formal waiver to this method could only be made jointly by both parties to the contract, and not by one party to the contract.

You then again attempted to raise numerous other points and questions that had not previously been taken up by you with the Chicago Publishers' Association, and the executive council again and again impressed upon you that we had no power to change the procedure set forth in the local con

tract.

The recent illegal strike of the members of No. 16 employed on the Hearst Chicago papers, a strike which in the course of the interview you informed us you fully approved, was also the subject of discussion. You were informed that the first intimation of the contemplated trouble given to any member of the executive council was contained in a telegram from Mr. H. N. Kellogg to President Lynch, at Philadelphia, at midnight on Monday, February 27, and that President Lynch immediately wired you as follows:

Philadelphia, Pa., 12:30 a. m., 2-28-11. George R. O'Brien, President Typo. Union, Postal Tel. Bldg., Chicago, Ill.

Kellogg wires me dispute with Hearst papers serious and trouble liable. Of course, under arbitration agreement, disputes must be peaceably adjusted, work continuing in the interim between raising of question and its settlement. Know that you will see agreement is observed. Wire me Tuesday, Ebbitt House, Washington, D. C. James M. Lynch.

We have official knowledge, given us by a Chicago representative of the Western Union Telegraph Company, that you received the foregoing telegram at 8:30 A. M. on Tuesday, February 28, or more than six hours before the illegal strike occurred. You were also informed that Mr. Kellogg met President Lynch in Philadelphia on Tuesday, February 28, and that President Lynch at that time flouted the idea that there would be strike trouble in Chicago, and again expressed to Mr. Kellogg his firm belief that you would not permit violation of the arbitration agreement and of the Chicago contract. That President Lynch then left Philadelphia for Washington, D. C., where he had important business, and that Mr. Kellogg also went to Washington. That when President Lynch arrived at the Ebbitt House in Washington he found an

answer from you to his Philadelphia message, but that your answer contained no intimation that a strike was in progress or in contemplation. You were also informed that the first intimation or knowledge that any member of the executive council received that a strike had actually been declared in the composing rooms of the Chicago American and Chicago Examiner was given to President Lynch by a member of Columbia Typographical Union No. 101, who called President Lynch's attention to an item covering the illegal strike appearing in a bulletin posted by a Washington bulletin company, and that this information was later confirmed by Mr. H. N. Kellogg. In short, that it was five hours after the strike occurred before President Lynch accidentally learned of it, and then received the official confirmation from the representative of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, AND YET DURING ALL OF THIS TIME YOU KNEW THE ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT LYNCH AND ALSO THE ADDRESSES OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

It was also set forth that immediately President Lynch had knowledge of the illegal strike, he sent you the following message, at an almost identical time, over both the Postal and Western Union lines:

WASHINGTON, D. C., February 28, 1911. George R. O'Brien, President Typographical Union, Postal Telegraph Building, Chicago, Ill. : Just learned of strike on Hearst papers, in violation of arbitration agreement and contract obligations. Men must return to work at once and protection guaranteed to those who obey this order. JAMES M. LYNCH.

The council has official knowledge that you received the foregoing message from the Chicago of fice of the Postal Telegraph Company at 10:15 P. M., on Tuesday, February 28, and at 10:40 P. M., on the same day from the Chicago office of the Western Union.

You were also informed that immediately on learning of the illegal strike, President Lynch wired Secretary-Treasurer Hays, and later talked with that official over the long distance telephone, and that Secretary Hays in turn talked with you over the telephone and also wired you in support of the effort made by the executive council to protect the contracts that had been violated by the illegal strike.

After this general discussion you remarked substantially as follows:

"Well, the only way to settle this matter is to call a special meeting of No. 16."

To this President Lynch, for the council, immediately replied substantially as follows:

"That is perfectly satisfactory to us. We have nothing to conceal and nothing to apologize for. Hold the special meeting next Sunday. Secure the largest available hall in Chicago, so that every member of No. 16 may have opportunity to attend. Call the meeting for 1 o'clock so that there may be plenty of time for the fullest and freest discussion."

You then began arranging for the hall. We were finally given to understand that two halls

were obtainable, one of them the Lyric Theater. You also prepared the official call for the meeting, and about 12 o'clock the members of the executive council left the headquarters of No. 16 with the belief that the special meeting would be held, and to make necessary preparations for that meeting. So secure were the members of the council in the belief that the special meeting would be held, according to schedule, that the International headquarters at Indianapolis were called, and in order to avoid all chance for accident or delay, a special messenger was directed to bring to Chicago all of the records in connection with the illegal strike, and this messenger arrived in Chicago Saturday morning with the required docu

ments.

But about 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon you called President Lynch on the telephone at the Briggs House and informed the president that the special meeting would not be held, as no suitable hall could be secured, and that a meeting of your executive committee would be held at 6 o'clock in the evening, and it was desired that the executive council should attend this meeting. President Lynch said he would communicate the information to the executive council and call you up later.

It seemed exceeding strange to the executive council that in a city of Chicago's population and area it was impossible to obtain a hall for such an important meeting. So, as the Lyric Theater was one of the places you had under consideration for the meeting, the management of that theater was called on the telephone, and asked if the theater could be obtained. The reply was that the Lyric Theater could be obtained for Sunday afternoon from 1 to 6 o'clock, and that the theater would seat 1,400 people. With the stage and standing room utilized, this would mean at least 2,000 people.

This convinced the members of the council that they were being jockeyed with for some purpose not then clear, but that nevertheless the council would attend the meeting of your executive committee. President Lynch then called you on the telephone and asked you the object of the committee meeting. You replied evasively and contradictorily, finally contenting yourself with the assertion that the executive committee was the union between meetings, and as there was not to be a special meeting of the union, therefore the executive committee meeting. President Lynch said to you that the executive council had in the morning attended a meeting of yourself and scale committee, and had thoroughly gone into matters, and therefore could not understand why another committee meeting was necessary; that what the executive council was anxious for and most desired was a special meeting of the union. However, you were insistent that the council should attend the executive committee meeting.

At 6:20 o'clock the council arrived at your headquarters, and you called the meeting to order, immediately placing before the attendants a long typewritten document. This document, which proved to be a reiteration of your many and con