The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
Ghes 5eart&arsI,
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3.

Tx real nature of the strike is perhap:
best illustrated in the dastardly attempt o
last NIGHT. About dusk, as the force OF the
sentinel began work, man lurking at the
mead of the alley near the Circle House fired
at lighted window of the Sentinel building
and fled in the darkness toward Pennsylva-
MIA street. This indicates the spirit OF the
men who have Joined issue or aquestion they
have themselves sprung at this inopportune
time. The question with the publishers was
simply one of ability. The resources of In
dianapOlis journalism do not admit OF any
dispute as to the question of rates. The men
who have worked at printing in this city
have been compensated beyond their
fellows. The men who stuhDornly
left the Sentinel Office Sun
day night acknowledged that their
wages were satisfactory, and that
this strike was not on that score. They had
some grievance to 2venge on the private sem
timents or public utterances ofthe editors OF
the respective papers. They said in effect +:
You can't publish your paper without our
aid. We can force things now as we have
done before, and we mean to carry our day.
The proprietors, who have before had no
voice in the management of their own Office,
were not prepared to exhaust their
business in paying rates which could
only be endured by the most prosperous
newspapers in times of abundance. The bus
mess CT newspaper publishing Is too costly
too permit of any experiments IL philan-
thropy. and It was found expedient to stop
at the last encroachment. The printers en-
ployed upon the city papers average better
and steadier wages than any class of men in
in the community. For seven hours light
work. they receive not less than $500 to
$500 per week. and by the peculiar arrang-
-ements coneocted by the union, they are IA
vored with perpetual perquisites which
.sweIled Che rolums of the earnings without
the necessity Of raising hand. For ms
tanee, under an arbitrary rule made by
few score OF the iourneymen printers, the
Sentinel was compelled, under penalty OF
strike, to pay the printers for the placing of
the large "cut" Of the exposition in these col
umns. Remember the mapiwas designed an
furnished at Cincinnati, and the Sentinel
printers, had no more to do with its inser-
fion in the page than the reader. But every
time that it was put on the page it was paid
for to theprinters. just the same as so much
type. Again the markets at certain times
fluctuate but little, and two or three column
es, of this matter is necessarily put
in The paper as it :, has already
appeared bnt by the law OF this body
OF men demands full compensation for the
whole, and rather than endure 'strike"
the publishers have foolishly submitted
heretofore. However, there is no need of
discussing the matter. The Sentinel has
suffered the last annoyance IT proposals to
froms body OF men as unreasonable as they
are vindictive. Let it be distinctly under
stood by all men-No printers protesting
allegiance to the laws which virtually place
them above control of the men who pay
them shall ever be employed in this office
again in any capacity. That is about as short
al the matter can be put. Meantime we pro-
pose to make as good paper as possible.
and we shall succeed without difficulty in a
day or more.