Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-28

sent them when ads have been set promis-
cuously, and felt as 1 did that the
proof merited the comment, 1 think you
would have been sufficiently morti-
fed to admit that it ought to be made an
object for some one to become expert in
that line.
Without arguing the question further,
however, 1 will state that 1 now propose
to inaugurate plan during the current
week, a plan which 1 have for some time
had in contemplation but have been de-
layed for want of adequate quarters.
propose to remove the city ad. department
entirely from the composing room. This
will remove all questions of distribution,
sorts, etc., from the news room. AS soon
as get this plan inaugurated there will be
no city ads. set in the news room except in
cases where the city officers rush in lengthy
ads on short notice, and in that case they
will have to take their chances on the
proof and the composition the same, as
they will be put on the hook like any other
copy. In other words, there will be no
| city ad cases in the news room.
AS there will still remain two business
ad cases you will readily see that those
ads, divided between two men, will only
give such advantage to them as their skill
and familiarity with the cases will Justly
entitle them to. Your request for bonus
| of so per cent. above 10000 ems would
leave each ad man en- average of about
low
one-half of all in excess Of that amount,
while competent ad man certainly ought
to be able to set 5000 straight matter. 1
can see no reason for asking the ad men to
give the Office the benefit of their skill
| which enables them to rush up copy, and
not give them at the same time as fair
play as is accorded to the other men in the
Office.
One more point and am through. The
pay roll shows by actual count that since
the 1st day of last October there have been
lis different men at work in the news
room. This time embraces winter when
men are more permanent than in the sum-
| mer, and it is reasonable to say that at
lie asst 225 or $50 different men work in the
Office during the year. AS there are, be-
lieve, but twenty-five cases, this shows the
| moving character of the force. I want to
| make it an object for men to retain posi-
tons and work steadily and permanently
| if competent to do the work. To this end
I believe in allowing men the pay for what
| they honestly earn, and not compel men
who work in the Office the year around to
pay premium for the permanency to a
couple Of hundred other men in the course
of year, who Tor various causes do not
care 10 entitia themselves to permanent
situations.
have written thus lengthy that there
might be ful, frank and fair understand
ing between US, and that you might be dis
| abused of the idea that desire to be un-
fair to some and partial to others. be-
lieve in fair play, and shall always accord
| it to the men in my employ.
Respectfully yours, 81. P. HALL.
1t is due the compositors to state that
upon receiving the answer they verbally
explained that they intended to allow each
of the two advertising men 10000 ems be-
fore exacting bonus.
1t would be so manifestly unjust for the
| GLOBE to dictate to its employees what they
| should do with their earnings and compel
them to give part of them away, that the
petition could not be granted. They are
simply at liberty to do what they please
| with their money, to give it away or other
wise, without dictation from the GLOBE.
And now, without prolonging the argu-
ment, the GLOBE desires to call public at
tention to the underlying difficulty or meat
of the whole matter. 1t is simply desire
on the part of employees to dictate to the
owners of the paper the internal manage
ment of the GLOBE composing room. No
sooner had the walk out" of the compost
| tors occurred, than a committee of the
printers union" waited upon the GLOBE
to six things" Just what occasion there
| was for this outside interference is ex-
plainable only upon the knowledge that if
the GLOBE could be made ''union" Office,
it would surrender its self control. IF il
was union" Office, no such petition
would have been presented for the men
would have gone ahead and ''fxed things
to suit themselves without consulting the
proprietors. 1t is not question of wages
which is at issue, but it is whether man
has right to manage his own business and
to say how the work, for which he is pay
ing full price, is to be done. There
were union" men at work il
the GLOBE Office, but the pro-
prietors claimed the tight to manage theil
own business and that made the trouble
This is an issue upon which the GLOBE i;
content to allow the public to sit in judg
ment.
The GLOBE repeats that it has no quar-
rel with the printers union or any Other
union but it proposes to maintain tine
right which it accords to every one
else viz to attend to its own business.
| Death of Alexander Kittson