Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-23
NEW YORK PRINTERS STRIKE.
Resisting a Reduction of wages-A
Truce Until Sunday.

The geatest shake-up in labor circles in New
York since the car strike took place at noon
yesterday, when the following notice was posted
up IN the offices Of the Sun, World, Herald and
Times:
The following regulations viii go into effect
In this Office at noon to-day. All cuts belong
TO the Office. Inset cuts shall be charged as
straight matter. All corrections on advertise
ments on time, whether the space is increased
or not. No make-evens allowed Overtime so
cents per hour. No extras on fat display ad-
vertisements. Reading notices shall be paid
for in accordance with the type they are set in
All rule-and-fgure work on time, at the option
OF the office. Composition so cents per 1000
ems. Time hands - per day.
The reduction in prices made by the above
regulations brings things back to the old scale
"a reduction all around about 10 per cent.
The circular was
BoMBsHELL AMONG THE PRINTERS.
who had no indication of any such movement
on the part of the publishers. The chairmen
Of the several offices held a conference and
immediately ordered all the men out. The
Herald at once backed out of the plan by
cable order from Mr.. Bennett. No work was
done all the afternoon in the three other offices.
About us men went out from the World, 100
from the Times and IS from the Sun These
three papers contend that the Herald played
them a shap trick by going into the negotiation
and then backing out The Herald people
tort that the whole idea was a World boom, as
they do not print cut or display advertisements,
and therefore would get no benefit by the pro-
posed changes. The World was left without
single compOsitor and Col. Cockerill and some
of the editors and reporters who could set type
began the work of trying to get out the paper.
The Tunes was left with the foreman of the
composing room and two helpers. The sun
managed to pick up thirty-odd rats. and with
their help the work fairly advanced, everything
being cut down TO the lowest possible limit
THE MEN ORDERED BACK.
At the union rooms the executive committee
went into session and the men hung around
the sidewalks in front of the offices Dragging Of
the buldge they had got on the papers until
about IL o'clock. At this hour there was no
sign of giving in on the part of the papers and
the executive committee ordered the men back
to work pending the settlement of the ques-
tons at issue by a general meeting of the union
on Sunday next. The Times and Sun men went
back Immediately. The unfortunate rats who
had come to the rescue of the sun were igno-
miniously put out and hooted by the union
men as they left the office.
At the World the men went back with very
bad grace, and it was almost II o'clock before
they were got into the Office. They wanted the
fight settled at once as they had the paper in
a hole that thse could not expect to last over
Sunday but the union orders were peremp-
tory. The World people were equally deter
mined not to submit any more to the exactions
OF the union. A very bad feeling exists all
around. and If the publishers could only stick
together a determined effort to smash the
union might result. The men feel especially
bitter against the sun and World. both of them,
they say. posing as labor advocates and now
entering into combination to reduce wages.