El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-16
The Strike On the
New York Sun
Are Given For the First Tine
OANNNNNNNNNAS

started from Callowhill-Street wharf
for New York. A committee of the
union went to the Sun Office on Satur-
day evening and asked for Mr.. Laffan,
the publisher. They say they were
told he was out of town. They we're
the business manager. According to
the union men, they asked Mr.. Paddock
to affirm that the Sun had not author
lied the issue of the foregoing circu-
lars. He said he could not do 80. The
union printers and stereotypers in the
Suns employ we're awaiting the result
of the conference. When they learn
ed it. they quit work.
The Union men declared that the
words ''printing machine were not
mentioned during the conference.
On the other hand, the Sun edit
orally says:
| A number of machinists were en-
ployed in one of the mechanical de-
partments of the Sun, and it was their
duty to ate ndto ertsin machines which
cast type automatically. Their works
was purely that ofmechantcs and could
be performed properly by mechanics
only.
| A representative of the Topographic
cal Union came to the 8 n Office and
served notice that the Union would
not permit the employment of mocha
MICS upon the machines. Competitors,
he said, must take their places aud the
machinists must be discharged. The
office manager expostulated and point
ed out the fact that printers could not
attend to the casting machines, which
only trained mechanics could operate,
the mechanics, he suggested, might be
taken into the Typographical Union.
That idea the walking delegate secuted
and he made his demand peremptery
and final. There was nothing for 1t
| but compliance, and the Sun Office af-
| q number OF machines each with q
com positor looking at it while it auto
matically performed it's work.
| So long as the Typographical Union
confined its energies to the mere ex-
tortion of money we thought we could
afford to be Indifferent, and we never
betrayed any open resentment. We
continued to pay weekly considerable
sums that had not been earned, and we
practice; but when we were confronted
with q cynical and brutal intimation
that we must obey the orders of the
Typographical Union in wholly new
and arbitrary direction or have the
publication Of the Sun suspended by
force, it became at once apparent that
we could no longer 80 conduct our bust
l
| We are in favor of the best wages,
and we have always paid the best wages
that prevailed. We shall, we trust,
always be able to do so. What we also
propose is that our employees, in sddi-
ton to being the best paid men in their
calling, shall be honest and self-re-
speeding men, selling their labor as
they Gee fit to sell it and holding them
selves IS men deserving to be free.
As to our old employees, the men who
have worked here for years and whom
we have known so long, we are sincere
ly sorry that they have left US, and we
deplore the delusions that have made
them the victims of the interruptions,
corrupt and malignant element that
sways and controls the Typographical
Union.
AS for the Sun, there must be neither
| let nor hindrance in it's path, neither
any shadow upon it's perfect indepen-
dence.
The Sun has some Landston mono
type typesetting machines in its COM
| posing groom, which cast and set NOV
able type. The union men say that the
Sun wishes to employ a man and boy
on each machine; one man cannot run
it. The rules OF Typographical Union,
No. 6, do not permit the employment
of more than six apprentices in any one
Office, nor allow them to handle type in
the actual making of the paper,