Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-22
STRIKE is ALMOST CERTAIN.
employees AND TYPOTHETAE FAIL
TO COME TO TERMS.
Meeting of the Union To-day May
Change Ahafrs-Both Sides Seem
Firm-Boycott Must BE
Lifted To-day.

The chances for a compromise between
the Typothetae and the Typographical
Union seem to be more remote now than at
any time since the present trouble between
the two organizations began. Unless some
unlooked-for action is taken by the union
at its meeting this afternoon. every print
ing and job house in the city will be
thrown open" tomorrow morning. This
will be the result if the union does not
declare its boycott against the Hudson
Kimberly Printing Company off to-day,
and this, the union men say, will not be
done under the present circumstances.
The meeting of the Typothetae held yes
terday afternoon in parlor S of the Mid
land hotel to meet the president and ex-
ecutiye committee of the Typographical
Union, resulted in no change in the situa-
tion as 1t has been for the past week. The
proposition made by the committee from
the Typographical Union, to the effect
that it would declare its boycott against
the Hudson Kimberly company off, If that
company would unionize two-thirds of its
force and pay the union scale of wages to
those men, would not be considered by the
Typothetae. The committee then made the
same proposition again. excepting that the
number of union men to be employed must
be half of the whole nur7ber of men en-
ployed. This was also refused. 1t was
then stated by a member of he committee
that the boycott had been placed on the
Hudson-Kimberly company at the request
of a number of the employing printers and
that these men had signed a petition, which
they sent to the union, asking that it
make a uniform scale Of wages through
out the city.
This letter. which was then read by
President Guyette. of the Typographical
Union, was as follows:
To the officers and Members Of Typo
graphical Union No. 30:
We, employing printers of Kansas City
believe that, az a simple matter of justice
both to the proDrietors and the various
craftsmen who depend upon the job offices
of the city for support, Typographical
Union No. 50 should adopt effective means
to bring about a uniform wage scale
throughout the city.
AS the welfare Of the employer and the
employe go hand in hand. such a step
would prove OF great mutual benefit, and
cement the closer that fraternal feeling
which now exists between No. 50 and the
employing printers of Kansas City.
Signed:
Union Bank Note Company tper Bishop.
Ramsey Printing Company,
Gerard Woody Printing Company,
Pantagraph Printing Company,
The Burd & Fletcher Printing Company,
Hayes Printing and Binding Company
Hailman Printing CoDpdny,
Tiernan-Havens Printing Company.
June 5. 1896.
The committee then stated that the
union had carried out the request of the
employing printers who signed the petit
ton. One of them said that he did not
understand why they were now demand
ing that the union lift It's boycott. Presi-
dent BerkUwitz, OF the Typothetae, said
that the letter contained nothing in it
about a boycott against the Hudson-Kim-
berly Company.
The committee then left and the mem
bers Of the Typothetae decided to make
all their offices open Offices" If the boy
colt remains on the Hudson-Kimberly
company after to-day.
At a meeting of the Socialist Labor
party, held yesterday afternoon, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted, bearing
on the trouble:
Whereas, The Employing Printers As
sociation, OF our city, Is endeavoring to
force the allied printing trades TO aban-
don their fight for right and justice, and
Whereas. The employing printers were
the instigators OF the prosecution of the
boycott placed by the local Typographical
Union. No. So, against the Hudson-Kiul-
berIy Publishing Company; therefore. be it
Resolved. That we. the members OF
the Kansas City. No. section Of the So
cialist-Labor party. 90 hereby unanimous
ly extend our sympathy ard assistance to
the allied printing trades; and be 1t
further.
Resolved. That copy of these resolu-
tions be spread on our minutes: also a
copy forwarded 10 our fellow workers, as
we'll as published in the daily papers.
WALTER 5. ENGEL.
Recording Secretawy."