The record-union., 1897-02-24
Legislation Will be Blocked Until
Employees Are Paid.
Penalty Clause Stricken From the Civil
Rights Bill BY the Senate.
In the House To-Day the Contested Election Bills
and the State Highway Measures
Come Up.

The burning question last night was,
will the legislation be blocked" by the
action taken by the pressmen employed
in the State Printing Office in stepping
down and out until such time as the
wages due for labor performed during
the past six weeks has been paid, and
nobody had an answer ready.
NO ACTION.
a meeting of the State Board Of Ex-
aminers was held yesterday morning,
when it was expected that an arrange
ment would be made whereby the de-
ficiency existing in the funds for the
maintenance of the State Printing Of
fee might be favorabIy recommended.
Governor Budd and Secretary of State
Brown were present, and, it is under
stood. favored an immediate adjustment
Of affairs, but Attorney-G General Fitz-
gerald was absent, attending to i'm
portant business in San Francisco. it is
said. and when the board adjourned the
matter was no nearer an adjustment
than when it convened.
NO MONEY, NO WORK.
For a month past mutterings have
been heard from the employees of the
State Printing Office, and several days
since it was positively asserted that un-
less the wages already earned, and re-
naming unpaid, We're forthcoming, the
employees would go out
THE LAST STRAW.
Still the employees worked and hoped
but it seems the action, or non-action
of the Board Of Examiners yesterday
morning was the straw that broke the
camePs back. and the pressmen, having
previously settled upon the point of ac-
ton, gave notice that no more work
would be done by them until the wages
due had been paid.
THEY co OUT.
Accordingly, the day force stepped out
last night, and the night force went on,
giving notice that their labors would
cease this morning, to be commenced no
more until their over due wages had
been paid.
WHEELS OF LEGISLATION.
1t is a strike pure and simple. and the
strike of the pressmen will, it is said,
enectually block the wheels of Iegisla-
ton. No more bills. no more journals,
no more histories. no more of the hum
dred-odd things necessary for legislative
work viii be turned out by the press
men, and the Typographical Unions,
even were they disposed to do sO-and
they are not-could not possibly make
headway with the pressmen out.
ACTION APPROVED.
Harry Rogers. Assistant District Or
ganizer and foreman Of the State Print
ing Office. stated last evening that the
action of the pressmen in going out met
the approval Of the Typographical
Unions, and that District Organizer II.
H. Watts of san Francisco had been no
titled Of the situation of affairs and
would be in Sacramento at 11:30 o'clock
this morning, when the action Of the
pressmen, Mr.. Rogers thought, would
be officially approved. 1t had been six
weeks, he stated. since the employees had
received one cent for their services. and
that the shylocks We're deriving all the
benefits. To the laborers he said. the
matter had become a question of bread
and butter, and had they been working
for a private firm or corporation they
would have walked out a month ago.
BLOCK IT.
When asked what effect the action
taken by the pressmen would have on
legislation, Mr.. Rogers bluntly stated
that il would block it"
THE SITUATION.
That seems TO be the situation at the
present time, and unless some arrange
nent is made whereby the claims of
the employees may be satisfied, the
wheels Of legislation win be blocked
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