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Excerpt from Constitution by-Laws and General Laws, International Typographical Union and Union Printers' Home Section 1. This body shall be known as the inter national typographical union or Noam america. Its j urisdiction shall include all branches of the printing and kindred trades, other than those over which juris diction has been conceded by agreement. In it alone is vested power to establish subordinate unions of print ers (printers, proofreaders who are practical printers, machine tenders, and all other skilled employes not oth erwise herein excepted), mailers, typefounders, editors (other than managing editors), reporters, and kindred trades, and its mandates must be obeyed at all times and under all circumstances. To the International Typographical Union of North America is reserved the right to fix, regulate and determine all matters pertain ing to fellowship in its branches of the printing and kindred trades; while to subordinate unions is conceded the right to make all necessary laws for local govern ment which do not conflict with the laws of the Inter national Union. In cases where allied trades have formed trade district unions the powers hereinafter specified shall be delegated to said trade district unions. 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.