Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-02
THE PRINTERS STRIKE.
Begun in Haste, and Engineered With
Very Poor Success.
A Compromise Proposed by the Pres
ident'or the Union'-AcecptcdA by
thclProprictors-And Reject. J.
tD..oy ed by the Men.

The strike of the compositors on the
three Omaha newspapers begun last
Thursday, will soon be like a thrice-told'
tale. Allthed ailyshave appearedregularly
since the strike, with some reductions in
the quantity of matter, but in the main
satisfactory to the proprietors and pub
fishers.
The striking printers have made vain
and desperate efforts to preventmenfrom
going to work, gangs have been postedat
the depot..to intercept men coming mon
trains, and quite a number have been
thus Intercepted. Threats of violence
were made to men who went to work,
although none have as yet been assaulted.
The striking printers issued amanifesto
Friday evening with a garbled statement
of the facts of the case, and an appeal for
aid and sympathy from laboring men and
merchants, coupled with threats to the
publishers of the dailies. Saturday eve
ming they followed this up by scattering
broadcast a paper called the Daily Union.
In this paper a faring call was issued for
a mas meeting Of working men the same
night and a challenge TO Rosewater, Yost
and Richardson to meet them and state
their side of the case. On Saturday at
8 p. M, Mr.. Shelly, President of the
Printers Union and another. leading
member of their body, made a requst to
ther managers of the three Omaha
dailies, to meet with them with a view to
agreeing upon some compromise. In re-
spouse to this request, Messrs. Yost,
Richardson and Rosewater attended this
conference.
Mr.. Shelley expressed himself anxious
that the conflict should cease, ard depre-
ceted the strike, because he thought it
was ill-advised. He believed that it was
in the interest of the men and the pub
fishers, to make mutual concessions, and
proposed, as a compromise, that tue price
of night composition be raised from 80 to
1874 cents per thousand ems. On the
other hand, the Union would redede from
the rule that requires all advertising to
go by the piece, if the provisions of the
schedule were accepted, and furthermore
all men on the strike were to be employ
ed.
Messrs. Rosewater and Yost said they
had given permanent places to some men
whom they were bound to to protect.
They finally, however, agreed to accept
the compromise proposed by Mr.. Shelley.
Mr.. Richardson did not like a compro.
mise with strikers, but, after further
talk, he said he would give his final de.
cision after talking with his partner, DR.
Miller. We understand the Herald pro
prietors finally agreed to yield.
At 6 p. m. the terms of the compro
mise were submitted to a meeting of tn,
Printers Union and were contemptuous
ly rejected by an overwhelming majority
The called mass meeting at Kuony's Hal
was not much of n success so far as nun
bers were not over 1875 persons presen
and half that number were printers
Speeches were made by several printers
, appealing to other trades unions for nc
tive aid in their struggle, and to Boycott
the newspapers and those who patron
. lied them.
About 9 o'clock Mr.. Rosewater an
n peared and it was like IA bombshel
d thrown into camp, as he was not expec
. ted. He wascalled for by some of til
8 working men present and presented hi
side of the case in
3 very earnest and forcible speech, whicI
y was, loudly applauded, notwithstandi6,
| frequent Interruptions. Want of spac
prevents us publishing the points made.
He was followed by several othe
: speakers and the meeting ~adjourne,
y without any action.
. The rejection by the Printers Unio,
9 of the compromise proposed by thei
p own president and adopted by the pull
=. fishers renders all further parley useless
o The publishers o propose to continu
= hiring men and guaranteeing them perm
anent places.