Excerpt from The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer, Vol. 86: April 22, 1920 This is the second dispute of the kind that has occurred in the printing industry during the last few years. The previous dispute, which arose out of the decision of the National Union of Bookbinders to organise a special women's section, resulted in the severance of the bookbinders from the National Federa tion, owing to the claim of the National Union of Printing and Paper Workers and the National Society of Printers' Assistants that they had been organising women in binderies before the bookbinders entered the field. This dispute is still unsettled, and it is to be feared that the new dispute may re sult in a further division in the ranks of the Operatives. It is true that amalgamation of the unions concerned might solve the problem; but, although negotiations with this object have recently been in progress, there are few signs that they are likely to succeed. Sixteen unions have declared in favour of the general principle of amalgamation; but out of twelve which were represented at a recent conference on the question, only two, the Typographical Association and the Scottish Typographical Association. Voted in favour of complete amalgamation in preference to the scheme of closer federation which is being put forward. 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.