Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-16
THE PRINTERS STRIKE.
How it is Regarded by Member Of
Another Union.

A gentleman prominently connected
with the Typographical Union OF
neighboring city called at the HERALD
office yesterday and talked freely with
representative of this paper concerning
the printers strike in this city. He
said:
"Tle printers all over Southern Cali
fornia are laughing at the hole the Los
Angeles men have put themselves in.
l have met no one yet who thinks they
have even a hadow of right on their
side. People in business learned some
time ago that the boom had burst
but 1T appears that some of the printers
here think it is still in fu II force. A few
weeks of enforced idleness, with the
wolf at the door, will teach these
knights of the stick something nearly
everyone else learned two years ago.
Rates for composition in most of the
Southern California towns, outside of
Los Angeles, range from thirty-five
cents to forty-fiye cents per thousand,
and to my personal knowledge one of the
most loud mouthed members of the Los
A ngeles union was working q few
months ago, not one hundred miles from
here, for thirty-tive cents per thousand.
81 find in conversation with members
of the Union here, that some of the most
intelligent men heartily disapprove of
this strike. One gentleman who has
held cases and been foreman for fifteen
years remarked to me: 1.-THE Los Angeles
Typographical Union is run, to large
extent, by gang of irresponsib BILE men.
On the day when the matter was to be
settled most of us thought it would be
settled in decent manner, and that a
compromise would be effected credita-
BILE to both sides. Soft would have been
if our meeting had been held early in
the day. By noon, however, the boy
element was full of beer and wanted
blood. They out voted us. So this absurd
strike was started an d has completely
failed" The gentleman went on to hint
to me that some of the best men might
yet break from the Union. 1t is evil
dent to me that the strike is total fail
ure. No one can suppose for minute
that the prcprietors of either the HER
AID or Times will ever admit the Los
Angeles Union, as it now exists, to their
cases again. The Unions so-called
fight has been conducted in manner
more worthy of dogs than men. Having
no merit in their case, they have
contented themselves, mainly, with low,
cowardly, personal attacks upon
employees of the newspapers they have
locked themselves out of. These
employees had nothing to do with the
strike, but when it came, stood by their
employers as men ought to. These bru-
tai attacks are the highest praise the
employees could ask for.
Il have seen many strikes in my time,
but none to compare with with this in
stupidity and brutality. 1t will result
in the Gisintegration of the Los Angeles
Photographed Union. The boycott
may result in frightening few five cent
beer and tobacco men into stopping
their papers but as a whole the people
are with the Times and HERALD.
Personally regret the whole bust
ness. 1t has cast stain upon the Typo
graphical Unions of the whole coast.
1t has disgraced the printers of Los
Angeles and the hot headed action of a
few hoodlums has taken the bread from
the mouths of many dependent women
and children.n