St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-10
Visitors From the Blue Grass
State Take in the Capt.
tai City.
Senator Durant Says It Is
Time for Harmony Among
Democrats.
Summary Of the Doings Of
One Day Gathered From
All Sources.
PLATES Do NOT GO.
The Union Printers of the New


The Union Printers of the News
Out on a Strike.
There were no calls for copy" in the
Office of the st. Paul Daily News yes
terday forenoon, for the printers had
refused to work, and the cases were
vacant. The editors, proprietorS, and
reporters were there, however, and SO
were the stereotyperS and presSmen,
and they, with a quantity of plate mat
ter, got the paper Out-tWo or three
hours late, but still out. The office
was a union Office, and the printers had
struck because the proprietOrS insisted
on using plate matter. Several times
within the life of the News this question
has come up between compOSitorS and
prOprietOrs. Tuesday the proprietors
told committee from the union that
they must use plate matter. Compost
ton bills were too heavy, and for
q time some of the miScel-
lany would have to be plate.
MeSsrS. McCracken, Painter and Dun
comb cited as a precedent the Minneap-
oils Star-News, where they said plate
matter was used in union office with
no kick. This, the representatives of
the Typographical union said, would not
be allowed here; it. would establish a
dangerous precedent in St. Paul. No
agreement could be reached. and the
printers left their cases. That was
Tuesday night. The proprietorS and
editors at once began the work of get
ting ready for yesterdays paper. They
showed considerable pluck, and, while
Mr.. McCracken wrote an editorial eX-
planning the situation, Mr.. Duncomb set
it up, while Mr.. Painter began throwing
in the cases. They kept this up all of
Tuesday night, and then when morning
dawned went ont and sought recreation
IN the pleasant exercise of hustling for
non-uniOn printers. Mr.. McCracken
cannot set type, but is swift
walker, SO he was the star man in this
line of the work. By y O'Clock he had
found four or five female typeSetters,
whom he hired at once, and gave eases.
Between whites his partners wrote local
news, set it up, and attended to the
makeup. Mr.. Painter Wore
THE FOREMAN'S APRON
in the afternoon, and made up with
some help from Mr.. Duncomb. The
only serious accident occurred just as
the fourth page was being made up.
MIR. Duncomb was lifting two or three
StlckfulS of an account Of the accident
at Hamm's brewery, when his thumb
slipped and the only real piece of news
the paper had lay in pi. The paper
came out about o'clock. TIE be sure it
looked little rocky. Some Of the matter
had been put in the forms wrong side
up, and the display headlines were fear
fully and wonderfully thrown together.
In one place. speaking of the Little
Falls celebration, Editor Duncomb for
got the boxes, and instead of saying
that the citizens would turn out to the
celebration Ell maSse they would
Gurn out to the ''celebratoin Gu maSre."
The galley boy, however, says Nc
Cracken set that line up, and that Mr..
,Duncomb was not the guilty barty.
The editors took it very .philosophi-
cally, and talked in decidedly plucky
manner. 1--WE think our request was
just one" said Mr.. McCracken. I'VE
are in line with the Star-News,
of Minneapolis, and only wanted
what the union allows that paper.
The plate matter we should have
used would not have necessitated the
discharge of a single man. ! think.
The union men talked very courteousiy
to us, and as both sides we're firm the
men quit. We shall pay the regular
rates for composition, and propose to
stay right here and publish the Daily
News every day. We expect to be
annoyed at first, but we will be coming
out Oh time ira very few days."