Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-10
LOOKS BAD FOR THE UNION.
Typothetae Evidently Accomplishing
Its Purpose to Make Offices I'm
der It's Control "Open."

The non-union printer who was en-
ployed in the office of the Gerard-Woody
Printing Company, Tuesday, failed to put
in an appearance at the office yesterday
morning and he is thought to have left
the city for Topeka on transportation fur
nighed by the Typographical Union. In
this way the threatened strike of the
union men at that office was averted. In
the afternoon, Mr.. Gerard, of the firm,
informed the men in his office that he in
tended to make it a semi-union office and
that hereafter half of his force would be
composed of non-union men, so that when
Il strike was declared his business would
not be paralyzed for time.
This decision, which Mr.. Gerard said was
final, was reported TO the executive COM
mittee of the union and meeting was
called for last night. During the after
noon the Tiernan-Havens Printing Com
pany sent all the stereotyped union labels
which it had to the committee with the
word that it would not recognize the union
in the future This office and the Gerard
Woody cOmpany's office have been con-
sidered by the union to be strictly union
offices The decided stand taken by these
two heretofore union strongholds and the
evident intentions of every member of the
TypOthetae TO carry out the original threat
of that body put a new phase on the sit
uation, making it still more complicated
than before.
Recognizing that if the union carried out
its policy and declared a strike in every
office where nOn-union men were employed,
the inevitable result would be the throw
ing out of employment of every union man
employed in the printing offices in Kansas
City, it was decided by the executive COM
mittee at its meeting last night that here
after no attention would be paid to the
employing of non-uuion men in the diff
ferent offices and that the union would
not treat with the individual employing
printers, but with the Typothetae as a
body. President D. L. Guyette, of the
Typographical Union, who returned yes
terday morning from indianapolis, where
he explained the situation in this city to
the officers of the American Federation of
Labor and the International Topographic
cal Union, was present at the meeting last
night. He said that the officers of both
bodies assured him that the local union
would receive all the aid possible to fight
the Typothetae. They advised him and
furnished all the financial means neces-
sary to open a big printing plant in this
city. This plan was heartily indorsed by
the executive committee last night. Mr..
Guyette said that the new company would
be incorporated under the laws of Mis-
souri, and would not - run on the CO.
operative plan, as was first contemplated
by the local organization. He also said
that the new company would be prepared
TO do any and all classes of job work and
that the union men who had been forced
out on a strike would be employed in the
office and at the union scale of wages and
regular working hours. The officers of the
new company and the location of the plant
he was not ready to divuIge to the public
but said that the Typothetae would be in
formed of the intention of the union.