The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-10
STRIKE COMMENTS.
WHAT THE PRESS SAY.
CFrom the Frankfort Crescent.l

of the members of the union. The dailies
all appear half size, old typos are going back
to the case printers are coming in from
other cities and all will soon be remedied.
The strike will prove Intellectual.
TOUCHING EXPRESSION ON SYMPATHY.
From the Peoples Fund, Covington.1
We have looked at the Journal and Senti-
mel since the above strike, and cannot help
but look with pity upon their weak effort
in trying to " buck" against such an intelli-
gent and worthy class of printers
as belong to the Indianapolis Typo
graphical Union. 1t is impossible to
do good printing without the employmentof
all good printers. In union there is
strength. When editorsot ability seek to
destroy and sever themselves from that
union of intelligent helpers rather than pay
the small pittance in advance of former pri-
ces to which their helpers are justly entitled,
they seek TO destroy their own interests.
Experience has taught us that one good
printer is worth two "botch" printers.
1t is not so much the advance
of prices with the publishers of those jour
nails as it is want to control and break up
that organization which has so long been a
boon of success to their business. Far bet
ter would it have been for the publishers to
accede to the small advance proposed by
the Union, rather than have their types,
presses and other materials spoiled by "new
botches," and the consequent depreciation
in value of their journals.
THE MISFORTUNE OF 1T.
From the Madison Courier.
1t is one of the misfortunes of all organic
atoms for the protection of mechanics and
laborers that thew are almost necessarily
undiscriminative, and that to enlist the
sympathy and support all Of the workmen
they must recognize no differences between
the skill and habits of Industry and indo-
lence among individual members. Thus
demands for increase OF wages that
might be conceded to superior
workmen, are sometimes refused because
the increase must be given to all or Done-
to good or Indifferent alike. For the first
time, so far as we remember, q movement
has been made, and by the master machin-
lists, in London, to treat with their workmen,
who have struck for higher wages, as indi-
viduals. and offer to raise the wages ofthese
who are worth an increase, provided each
man will treat with them personally.
WAYS OF DARKNESS.
From the Spindelac Reporter.l Ht
indianapolis printers want higher wages
now than they did during the war, when
gold was away up above 200, and provisions
beyond reason. The ways of some
unions" are past finding out, and the
sooner all such associations are abandoned,
the better it will be for the employed and the
employer.
NOT THE WAY TO IMPRESS HONEST MEN.
From the Evansville Courier.
The type in the News was set up by Messrs.
G.. B. Thompson, city editor; Daniel Payne,
associate editor land others, assisted by three
or four boys. Col. Holloway, the Postmast.
er of the city, took the foremanship of the
office pro. tenn, and succeeded admirably for
an amateur. Mr.. Holiday, the proprietor,
has already secured compositors, who state
that they will hold their places there to the
end, although they have heretofore been
members of the Typographical Union. AS
this matter is a question of business, we re-
greet to say that the printers cause will be
damaged by acts of violence, two cases being
already reported: one in which a shot was
fired about dark at one of the windows
of the Sentinel Office. Two per-
sons were working in the room
near which the ball struck, but no one was
injured; and the second at about halfpast
six o'clock in the evening, pistol shot was
fired through the window of the Journal
John Mack, the engineer, and hattening it
self on the fly-wheel of the engine, and no
one was injured. If the workirgmen resort
to such lawless practices, no honest man
will sympathize with them, and their cases
should be settled in the courts of justice.
But we know that, as body, they deprecate
all such proceedings, and will probably visit
just punishment upon the persons who
committed the above outrages, If they can
be ferreted out. Unless they do, they show
that they are not men standing by honest
convictions, but gang of rowdies and
DULLES, whose only ambition is TO kill the
goose which lays the golden egg. They must
clear their hands of all such transactions
and see to it that they are not forced by un-
principled men into such disgraceful atti-
tude. The Typographical Union at Indian
apolis is model Union, and the country
will now have an opportunity of witnessing
the manner in which model organization
carries on a general strike, which ought to
make the printers very careful as to their
course of procedure.
THE oBJEoTIoNABLE FEATURES.
From the Evansville Journall
The strike among the printers at In liam
apolis continues, though the daily papers
have been able, in reduced form, to appear
regularly. The Objectionable feature of
all such strikes has forced it's way into
this, however, and reports of attempted
violence reach us. As will be seen by the
extracts, reproduced elsewhere, from the
Sentinel and Journal, attempts on the lives
of the employees of both of those offices have
been made by parties supposed to be
working in the interests of the strikers.
1t is this sort of thing above all else that
brings unions into bad odor and weakens an
effectiveness that might easily be secured by
more temperate action. That the printers
had perfect right to quit work can not be
questioned; and that the newspaper pub
fishers have equal rights in the mat
ter is also plain. Believing the de-
mands of the union for an increase of
compensation for composition to be
unjust they refused to accede to
them, and have employed other printers,
and will fill the vacant places as rapidly as
possible. This they have an undoubted right
to do, and the dastardly attempts of the
strikers above referred to will do the cause
of the union men but little good. Acts of
violence are not well calcu ;ated to elicit pub
lie sympathy. rf -,
"sCOoPED."
From the Brookstone Reporter.l