OFFICIAL RULES GOVERNING THE ISSUANCE AND USE OF THE
ALLIED PRINTING TRADES UNION LABEL

I. The label of this council may be used only on work produced in its entirety by members of the International Printing Trades Unions comprising the International Allied Printing Trades Association pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with an International Printing Trades Union, in offices authorized to use the label or in recognized union trade plants.

2. Except as may be specifically authorized by the Board of Governors of the International Allied Printing Trades Association, the label of this council, in either its original or reproduced form, may not be sent out of the geographical jurisdiction of this council for printing.

3. The label may be used on work received from a printing broker only if the shop doing the work bills the customer direct and delivers the job to such customer.

4. Any representative of the label committee of the allied printing trades council shall have access to offices using labels at any time during working hours.

5. No imprint shall be used in connection with the label other than number of the firm which is legally licensed for its use, and the Federal Trademark Registration symbol, i.e., @ shall be used and appear next to label.

6. No firm (or any employer authorized to use the label) will be allowed to make a charge for the use of the label on printing.

7. The label is to appear in its original form, free from rule work or ornamentation which tends to or disguises the union label. The label may be reduced in size or enlarged, but no reduction in size may be made which will render the label illegible.

8. Whenever the label is used, the shop label number assigned by this councilor the firm imprint must appear.

9. Labels shall not be used by any firm other than the one named in the license.

11. Badly worn labels are not to be used.

12. The label shall not be placed on work subcontracted by a label firm from a non-label firm. When a label firm subcontracts all or any portion of a job to another label office or offices, the label number of the firm contracting with the customer for the job is the label number to be used.

13. The use of the allied printing trades council label on any literature, card, picture or engraving of an obscene nature is strictly prohibited, and its appearance upon same shall be deemed sufficient cause for revocation of license.

14. All label work subcontracted from a label shop must be given only to authorized union establishments.

15. Firms must procure all labels from the Local Allied Printing Trades Council.

16. The Local Allied Printing Trades Council shall appoint an agent to represent the council in each establishment loaned the labels of the council, and the representative shall see that the labels are not wrongfully used or loaned. The representative shall deface the label on plates after the impressions are run off before these plates are taken from the firm.

17. No label license can be cancelled in any office until the aggrieved union has presented its grievance to the council in writing and the label committee has investigated such complaint and heard such evidence as may be presented by the union or unions interested and reported to the council.

18. On a violation of the terms under which the label is granted, the custodian of the label shall, after instruction by the council, remove all labels from the offending firm.

19. These rules may be altered or amended only by the Board of Governors of the International Allied Printing Trades Association.