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Excerpt from New York Typographical Union No; 6: Study of a Modern Trade Union and Its Predecessors; Prepared Under the Direction of John Williams, Commissioner of Labor, State of New York For many years there has been a continually increasing interest in the labor question and the labor movement. It is only through a close study of individual trades that important details relating to the subject can be gleaned; and as there attaches to the organization of printers a peculiar importance which claims a particular record of facts and events connected with its history, likewise because that trade is representative of and typifies that great body of Labor which is organized, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has selected it for an extended review, conformably with the statute that empowers the Commissioner of Labor to inquire "in relation to all departments of labor in the State, especially in relation to the commercial, industrial, social and sanitary condition of workingmen and to the productive industries of the State." In preparing this study of a great trade union the essential object has been to present an authentic recital of the origin, rise and progress not only of Typographical Union No. 6, but of the protective associations of printers that preceded it, thus exhibiting a connected account of the organized branches of the printing industry in New York City for a period of 135 years - starting with the Revolutionary epoch and closing with the third calendar quarter of 1911. So closely has the Typographical Union been associated with the industrial reform cause that it has been deemed eminently fitting to devote the opening chapter of this chronicle to a brief review of the modern labor movement at its inception in 1850, reference to the principal trades taking part therein being contained in the retrospect. 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.