The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-05
C A NEWS FAMINE.
THE TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION TAKES
n HAND IN TIE STRIKE.

Competitors Who Were Engaged in Getting
Out the Papers Called Out-There VIII
BE No Newspapers Printed ~To-Day-Ths
Second Strike Said to he Temporary.
CHICAGO. July 4.-Contrary to expectation,
there will be no newspapers printed In Chicago
tomorrow morning. The publishers had de-
termined to get out papers on q cooperative
plan. Each newspaper was to have contributed
a share OF local and Geographic news. the forms
were to have been stereotTped In the ofllce Of
the Daily NetCs. and the Ave morning papers OF
four pages each would have been uniform in
everything excepting title. duplicate plates to
be furnished to each. with merely the names Of
the respective papers at the top.
This plan has been changed. President Pres
colt OF the International Typographical Union
arrived here this afternoon from Indianapolis
and at once took the matter of the stereotypers'
strike In charge. A conference was held
between the publishers and the officials Of
the Chicago Typographical Union. with the
result that at the request Of the unions
representatives action was deferred by
the publishers in the matter OF attempt
ing TO get out papers and another
conference was appointed for 5 o'clock to-mor-
row afternoon. 1t is said that the typographical
union has little sympathy for the striking
stereotypers, although its officials directed the
members OF the union in every Office In Chicago
to refuse to work tonight or until further
notice. This action. amounting. as it does, to a
strike OF the ~conpositors for at least twenty
four hours. was not favorably received by the
~compositors, many OF whom had gone to work.
The protest did not avail and the men quit
their machines and cases after 1t was explained
that the strike was only a formal and probably
temporary one.
The Stereotypers' Union exists under q char
ter from the International Typographical
Union, and It is a member OF the Allied Print.
ing Trades Council Of Chicago. George
W. Harris. International Organizer for
the Typographical Union. and President
George Day of the Typographical Union in
dorsed the stereotypcrs' strike and gave the
strikers standing before tho Allied Printing
Trades Council. If the union. with the sanction
Of the International Union. through Its execu.
tive. President Prescott, sanctions this move
the publishers Of all the Chicago daily news.
papers will have to eat humble pie. or Chi.
cago Typographical Union No. 10 will be dis.
rupted by employing non-union labor on every
daily newspaper Office in the city.
1t is known generally that the stereotypers
took snap judgment against the publishers
and violated the laws OF the Internationa
Typographical Union in issuing their ultima.
tum. BY the Eve years contract between the
union and the publishers they should have
given sixty days notice Of intended strike anC
should have submitted their grievances to The
Allied Printing Trades Council They die
neither. The Allied Trades Council has thu.
far refused to indorse the strike. though tn,
strikers have been supported.
To-day has been a practical repetition of yes
terday and Saturday in the experiences OF Chi
caGoans compelled to do without newspapers
All the Milwaukee papers printed Chicago edi
tons. the Sentinel having several pages devote,
to advertisements Of Chicago business house,
and theatres A fair quality OF war news wa
served. but no paper issued since the strik,
has made any pretence Of furnishing o recort
| OF local events.