Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-08-08
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
t,.o. our nrsu1Aa CORRESPONDENT,


FUNE PRRMATU0E
OBITUARIES THE UNIvRR,
sITY OF CALIFORNIA-THE
TRIAL OF QUINN : MORAL
ZEAL!
SAN Francisco, August 6, 1870.
Tho Priniers' Htrike.
On Monday afternoon the members
Of the Typographical Union employed
on the daily papers throughout thu
State made the discovery that theil
labor was worth twenty-five per cent
more than they had been receiving
and informed the publishers Of the va
rious journals that unless their demand
for an advance was complied with,
they would not resume work. The
Chronicle, seeing that 1t was possible
to make much "workingman's friend
capital out of the affair, Immediately
acceded to the proposed terms. The
Alta, after sundry mutterings about
the wickedness of the conspiracy, also
capitulated. The Cal, after some re-
Election. likewise agreed; tho Exam
liner protested and surrendered the
Sacramento Union, Bee and Record
struck colors on demand the Oakland
Ncws denounced and then fell into
line, and "All went merry as a mar
riage bell" or rather would have gone
as merry as a marriage bell had 1t not
been for the unconquerablc obstinacy
Of Mr.. Pickering, of the Bulletin.
That gentleman, decmlng that capt.
tai has some rights that labor ought ia
respect - ar almost obsolete heresy,
but still chung to by a few old fogles-
utterly and absolutely refused to con-
ccde, whcreupon the printers, knowing
that the CaH and Bulletin were under
one proprietorship, refused to work on
the former unless the latter also agreed
to the advance.
The result was that the Bulletin,
which gave employment to forty men
In the competitors rooms, was left
with only one man, and the CAL with
out any.
Several citizens who had formerly
been typos, OH hearing OF the strike
volunteered their assistance and went
back to the case-amongst others, Mr..
Supervisor Badlam. The Bulletin also
found three or four men belonging to
its reportorial staff who understood the
.sart preventative, ard with the COM
bined aid thus procured managed to
get out the morning edition. The Cal
Jared much worse. Late In the night
the same force proceeded to Its rooms,
but the most they could accomplish
was putting four pages OF old adver-
tiscments IN form and half q column
of explanation.
TeIeprams were Immediately sent
East for competent printers, the Buhe.
tin offering sixty cents per thousand
ems. and the Cal sevcnty-five cents.
At Omaha seven members of the craft
| replied that they were out Of employ
ment and would come OH If passage
was furnished, which was instantly
done. From Chicago numerous replies
were received by wire, and arrange
ments were made for men to start Mt
once for San Frahcisch. Numbers OF
men In the interior also came to town,
and tonight the Bulletin announces
that 1t has already secured the services
of twenty-five men and boys, with the
prospect of obtaining n full compile
ment by Saturday. -,
The strike also extended to the job
offices. f. Bosqul. Winterburn & Co.
and Bancroft's steadily resisted the
advance. but Bacon & Co. conceded 1t.
All the employing printers agree that
it is impossible to pay the increased
| demand, without. driving trade out oil
the State into the hands Of Eastern
firms, the latter being enabled to CON-
pete even now successfully In many
Instances with San Francisco estab-
lishments.
The c0up TetM of the printers Inns
been q long time In secret preparation.
| Soon after the rules of the Union were
suspended last March, and members
permitted to work ut sixty cents per
thousand ems, q secret organization
was perfected, and assessments levied
on all its members In order to accumrl-
late n fund to carry on the projected
a Printers out of employment
were sent East, all those outside of the
Union were induced TO join, and when
| the leaders of the movement supposed
that no available force was left In the
State to supply the places Of those In
employment, the train was fired, and,
it Is not too SOON to say-flzzled.
The Alta hls preserved u surly
silence since the commencement Of the
conflict, but mcditates a due revenge
BY discharging all hands as soon rs n
sufficient staff cal be procured from
the East. In the meantime she broods
over her wrongs, saying never q word,
Lists Of the strikers have been pre-.
pared. and 1t Is understood that the
principal offices will enteB into Ill
agreement not to employ any of them
IN future so there Is every probability
that the gentlemen Of the Union who
have engineered the movement to such
an unsuccessful termination will very
shortly regret with hungry stomachS
that they ever gave up their situations
Dobsen's Runcrnl.
The gentlemen Of the green table
are certainly 4 crcdit-iu funeral ap-
pe~arance--to the State Of California.
They were nil at Dobson's funeral,
we'll dressed, fine looking men, no
doubt the elite Of the profession, and