Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-09-26
DEVOID OF JUSTICE.
TUE DEMANDS OF THE PRINTERS EXORBl-
TANT AND UNWARRANTED.
A Comparison Between the Rates Now fad Id
wheeling and the Price Ruling in Other
and Larger Cities.
n6ua Saturdays Register.

The compoSltorS OF 1ypoSIdPhlS"
No. 70. who last week vacated their situa-
ions in the morning newspaper ofnces'
have formed themselves into committees
and are going about the city soliciting
business men and others to withdraw their
patronage from the papers. In doing tins
work the compositors are careful 70 ms
renresent the facts, falsity the
situation, and malign the news
naper proprietors in a variety
of WAYS. One of the grass misstatements
heing made, which is given asa sample OF
the rest. is that the %proprietors have re.
duced, or attempted toreduce, the price, OF
type setting. The price of composition IN
the morning newspaper offices has remained
unchanged since 1880, whenit was hxeu
Mt 35 cents per l 200 ems by the union IL
self and the compOsitors have simply
abandoned their situations because a de-
mand for an advance was not and coulu
not be acceded to. For several years
prior to 1880 the price Of composition was
30 cents per 1000 ems, ads set by the
week and no allowance for standing time,
or time in which the printers
have to wait for copy ut night. When
Typographical Union No. 10 reorganlzed
in 1850. after its failure to enforce its de-
mand made in 1873, the newspaper offices,
willing to pay their wOrkmen the highest
nossible wages warranted by the size OF
the city and the business transacted,
agreed to the scale presented, the result
being an advance in wages OF hlty per
cent. The injustice Of the further IN
crease now sought to be enforced Is APP
parent.
In order that this community may more
fully understand how our men have been
faring, as compared with printers In other
cities of equal or greater pOpula-
ton than Wheeling, we subJoin the ioi'
lowing letters from the business managers
and proprietors of union newspaper offices
in the cities OF Columbus, Indianapolis,
Cleveland, Toledo, Erie and Reading-clt-
les where the cost of living is greater than
in Wheeling, and where the volume oil
business is much lagrcr. In not one IN
stance is the price paid higher than thai
ruling in Wheeling offices, and IN several
instances it is much less. 1t has been sald
by the striking printers that in those cities,
because of the class Of type used, the PRINT
ers can make more money Ill
given time than they can on the morn
inc papers in this city. This claim
can not be verified except in cities where
the papers are printed in smaller type thar
is used on the REGISTER and Lntchigenccr,
and that occurs, SO far rs we are informed,
only in indianapolis and Columbus, cities
of Is, 900 or 100, zoo population, and where
the circulation of the papers is probably
| from three to four times us big as 1t Is III
Wheeling, with other business correspond
ingly larger. In some Of the other cities
enumerated, us much money rs is made
per day or per week on the Wheeling pa
pers cannot be made because, while the
| type is the same size or larger, the price OF
composition is less.
With these facts in view, what
fairness can be alleged by the
strikers in their demands of the
proprietors? Can the newspapers pay
more, in the face OF the depression OF the
past fifteen months?
But to the letters:
OFFICE OF THE EMPRESS,
TERRE HAUTE, lND., Augusta, 1856.
DEAR SIH:-Your favor Ofthc 18th is at hand,
and contents noted. The Express is the only unloi
office i'm this city: pays 80 cents ~ morning paper
and - on its evening paper. The foreman Oh tl'
news room gets SlT per week. Ads set ny assistant
Job Office is paid 81 per week, and job hands Sl2'
Standing time 30 cents per hour. Ierrs Hal'G
has 5000 inhabitants. Trusting TINS Information
will be satisfactory, | am