Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-26
EDITOR JONES IN HARD LUCK.
Trying to Get Out Paper Without Reporters and With Non-union Men.

Columbus, O., August 26.-The week closes with both sides resting on their arms in the office of the Press-P Post. The latest scheme of Clarence E. Jones, chief owner and editor of this democratic sheet, to run his newspa- per without reporters, has not sue ceeded according to his hopes. True, he has no reporters ahd has not had since Wednesday,. Neither has the Press-PoSt had any news.
 Mfr Jones's attempt to dispense with the services of his news gatherers, all of whom are members of Newspaper Union No 2, has been antagoniZed by the Allied Printing Trades council.
 MT Jones, after various futile at tempts to discharge the more 0bjec- tionable of his staff, announced in Wednesdays issue that the city editor had been ordered to reduce the local staff to none," and that hereafter the International News Union would fur nish the Press-Post with all its local, telegraph, state and cable news
 It developed that the new news sup plying concern was the child of MT Jones's own braA, and that it was in cOrporated on the day its aims and plans were announced.
 The next day the compositOrs re fused to set any news copy that was not prepared by union reporters and editors, and, although MT Jones and his managing editor heaped up piles of .1copy'' on the foreman's desk, the only thing touched was the ''miscel- lany' clipped from other papers for sstime setting." So that night when the paper appeared, its first page was covered with "boiler plate"
 One morning MT Jones came down to the office determined to have his way in running his paper. He noti- fled a half dozen of his reporters that they were discharged. Tn their places MT Jones installed an equal number of college students, brought down from the School of Journalism at the Ohio State university, but when one students copy reached the composing room the linotype operators refused to set 1t, and when MT Jones insisted the entire mechanical force of the paper, including stereotypers and pressmen, were called out. The remaining union reporters and editors walked out with them. That night the Press-Post did not appear.
 MT Jones stuck to his colors and wrote an editorial in which he ac- knowledged defeat. Soon afte. T. he changed his city editor, and through him readjusted his reportorial staff.
 Then one day an article attacking the city editor appeared in the paper alongside of political article directly opposed to the democratic policy of the paper. The readers laughed and everybody knew that harmony had not been established. Tn it's merri- ment the public remembered a stock phrase that had long ago been used by the paper. reading, "That's queer paper, that Press-Post. 1t prints the news" The public cut 1t short and has taken to clubbing the sheet the "queer paper"
 Mir Jones last Sunday morning week sent polite little notes to three or four of the most active unionist reporters on his force. asking them to hand in their resignations at their earliest con venience. As all of the men went to work next morning as if nothing had happened. it was evident to Mir Jones that ''their earliest convenieneeH might mean a year. So he set about running paper without reporters.