Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-28
A .rRrxrrss. STRIKE.
Likely 10 Occur In An the Sob Omces IN
the City Next Week.

Likely 10 Occur In An the Job Omces IN
the City Next Week.
II there II not somewhat Of disturbance in
local labor circles during the coming week
then the general appearance Of things q this
time Is misleading. The proprietors Of the
job Offices in this city have been notified
BY the authorities OF Columbia typographical
Union. No. 10i, that q higher rate Of wages
must be paid and lesser number Of hours
toiled by those 10 whom the
wnges are paid. n has been resolved by
all the more prominent employers 10
refuse the requests made and "a resist any and
every EFFORT the Union may put forth to enforce
its demands. That means q strike and the
bosses say that strike will result in the impor-
tation OF all The non-union printing talent
necessary TO fill orders.
WHAT THE UNION ASKS
The union asks, in brief, that the price Of
composition be increased from 40 cents per
thousand to Az cents and that the hours Of
labor be nine instead Of ten. After o'clock
,. m. the price Is to move up to As cents and
after midnight IS cents.
Neither President Kennedy nor Secretary
Padsett Of the typographical union were to be
found this afternoon, SO no official statement
was procurable. From semi-official source 1t
was learned, however. thai the scale will go into
effect ON April and that walk-out was almost
certain.
EMPLOYERS WILL RESIST.
''The employing printers will not accede 10
the demands Of the government printing Office
employees" said Mr.. Rufus H. Darby to STAR
reporter this afternoon, ''because they can
not. The adoption of the proposed scale would
result in all-arouhd increase of 10 per cent
IN my pay roll and, basing my calculations on
last years business, that would mean at least
S4,0OO cash. That amount cannot be spared.
composition In the printing business is very
Keen and while we now pay higher wages than
do the printing offices in Baltimore, Richmond,
Philadelphia and New York we have to COM
pete directly with them. A great deal OF work
goes out OF the city now-more, am sure, than
from any other considerable center Of popula-
ton in the eountry-and If this new scale went
into effect there would be but little left to do.
nail red flag in front of my door
within brief period. Printers say we
can get the increase out Of our
customers, but that is not true. The
interested public knows what printing costs in
neighboring cities-outside printing firms see
to that-and any endeayor on our part to exalt
prices would be ruinous. The men who pro-
vide us with most Of our business care nothing
for the union, so YOU see we are between the
upper and the neither mill stones.
Can get men TO fill my Office if there is a
strike? Plenty. Perhaps many of them will
be inferior to my present employees, but they
will improve rapidly.
lone word more said Mr.. Darby az the re-
porter was leaving. IF the union compels me
to organize non-union force my office will
always be non-union SO long as the govern
ment printing Office employees run the ma
chine"
OTHER BOSSES AGREE WITH Mr. darcy.
Similar expressions Of opinion were heard at
Judd 4 Detweiler's and McGill 4 Wallaces s.
The employing printers held a meeting yester-
day evening and definitely decided to pay no
mo re than the present scale.
1t is intimated by some of the bosses that
the attempt at increase is part Of a plan formu-
lated by government printing office employees
TO bring about if possible a change in
congressional sentiment which will restore
the wages in the national office to so cents per
hour and GO cents per thousand ems for day
work. If the wages in private Offices were in
creased the argument Of the government print
ers would be strengthened.