St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-12

should be measured. The GLOBE claimed that
it should be measured in the usual way,
by the EN- quad, while the printers claimed
that it should be measured by
the face of the type. To settle the controversy
the GLOBE offered to leave the matter to Marder,
Luse & Co., of Chicago. who made the type, or
to Johnson's Type Foundry, Philadelphia. To
that end the following letter written:
ST. Panl, Sept. 6, 1Ss2.-Messrs. Marder,
Luse & Co., Chicago, Ill.-Gents. printers
employed in the GLOBE office claim that the new
dress bought of you should be measured by the
face instead of the EN- quad. We have
agreed to submit the matter TO you an umpire
10 decide between US What wish is that you
would send me by return mail what yon consider
the proper, legitimate thousand EN- measure for
the BREWER, minion and nonpariel purchased of
you. only want what is fair between man and
man. and if 1 am wrong shall be perfectly salts
fed II You decide against me. Yours. ETC.,
Ii. p. HALL.
The committee OF printers who waited on the
publisher, took a copy of the proposed letter as
above, and after comforting with some of their
comrades, returned and announced the plan to
be satisfactory and resumed work. The letter
was accordingly mailed, supposing that the reply
would settle all points of differ
ence. A few turbulent spirits, how
ever, were able to induce the men
to leave their cases the second time Wednes-
day. Still later in the day the printers agreed
among themselves to submit the matter to their
typographical union on Thursday, and at p. m.
Wednesday they again resumed work. On
Thursday the union voted that the action of the
GLOBE was correct and directed their men to re-
sumo work, instead of which about one-half of
them called for their pay and quit.
Then began an effort to induce those remain
ing to leave, which was so far successful that on
yesterday every union man on our night force
had left the office. Meantime, the publisher of
the GLOBE had been authoritatively informed
that if he would consent to the GLOBE be-
coming ''union Office with ''chapel''
organization among the printers to regulate
affairs in the composing room, the
would be filed. AS this would remove the
management of the internal affairs from the
proprietors to the employees, the offer was de-
ciined
The issue having been thus presented, the
GLOBE announces that it will not employ Union
men. but will regulate its own business in its
own way. There has been no dispute de-
mand relative to price per 1000 ems, and no
formal strike has taken place. The GLOBE is
now paying 40 cents per 1000 ems, which is
higher than any paper in the state pays. This
explanation is given for the benefit of printers
desiring employment at high wages.
The reply of Marder, Luse 81 Co. being
largely filed with printers .technicalities we
do not quote, but it fully sustained the posi-
ton Of the GLOBE, and under the agreement
made for arbitration ought to have settled
the controversy.
1t only remains to add that the GLOBE ac-
cepted but did not seek the situation. No
better evidence need be given that the
GLOBE was waging no war on the Union than
the statement that every man in this
Office, at the time, was a
union man except four, and
that e0erg UJ.ioa man left his case. Further
more, the Union appointed committees to
haunt the streets and depots and prevent
Union men from working in the GLOBE
Office and to-day they forbid their members
from so working. The GLOBE simply &C
cepts the issue-nothing more.
Let it be borne in mind that there never
has been question of wages between the
GLOBE and its employees. The Pioneer Preee
and Minneapolis Tribune pay only 3S
cents per 1000 ems, while the GLOBE
pays 40 cents-the highest wages in the
state. 1t was simply question whether the
GLOBE should manage its own business or be
managed by outsiders.
If it was worth while to prolong the discus
sion We might ask whether it is any more
harsh for the GLOBE to employ printers who
do not care to belong to the Union, than it is
for the Union to compel every man to join
their organization to obtain employment.
There are five other English daily papers in
st. Paul and Minneapolis. in every one OF
which the owners are forbidden to employ a
printer unless he belongs to the Union. The
GLOBE Office asks no printer to leave the
Union or to abstain from joining If be SO
desires. 1t pays more wages than other
offices and its printers make more money
than any printers in the state, and it gives
employment to men who prefer to be indie
pendent and regulate their own personal
affairs, just as the GLOBE proposes to con-
tinue to manage its own personal business.
1t is not question Of labor, but resistance
to attempted bulldozing.
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