The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-04-14
THE PRINTERS.
ALL PRINTERS TAKE NOTICE

~ osoU NVoW dHytUtTI9 doOut -
- IT," was the excuse. offered by -
- many Of the printers Of the city -
- not attending the last social Of y
- Capital Auxiliary No. II. This -
- 10 to notify each and every -
- printer In the city that Capital -
- Auxiliary's April social will be -
- hold at sohanon's hall on -
- Wednesday evening, April 10. -
- The admission will be IS cents, -
- or lone couple for a quarter" -
- II you say you "didn't know -
- anything about IT," you will con- -
= vict yourself Of not trying to -
- keep posted on the doings Of the -
- craft. -
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While trouble seems to be lining up
for printers in many other cities the
printers of Lincoln find themselves in
good shape. The only difficulty facing
local printers Is the 8-hour day ques-
ton. Omaha, Kansas City, st. Louis,
Chicago and other cities seem destined
for war over the CLOSED shop" That
difaculty Is settled in Lincoln for the
next four years, the employers asso-
citation and No. 200 having contract
for the CLOSED shop Credit for the
present conditions here are due In
large measure to President Frank Cot
fee and the executive committee Of No.
ann Hr1~.~c o,Atrpxsdroo opd Piug-
aman.
Omaha employers declare that they
will insist upon the open shop" and
the 9-hour day when the present con-
tract expires next fall. But just now
all eyes are turned on Chicago. The
typographical Unions contract with
the Chicago employers expires in July,
and the employers have banded to-
= gether to secure open shops and the
9-hour day. Employers associations
in other cities have assured Chicago
employers of their support, and 1t now
looks as IL Chicago would be the test
case. The union men of Chicago are
acting conservatively and cautiously,
and an outsider would detect no sign
of impending trouble. But Chicago
union may be depended upon to defend
the CLOSED shop" and the S-hour day.
On April 10 the Employing Printers
association of the southwest met at
Kansas City to perfect plans for OPP
posing the Typographical Unions de-
mands for the CLOSED shop" and the
S-hour day, and about 200 delegates
were present from Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Arkansas, Ari-
xona, New Mexico, Texas, Indian Ter
ritory, Tennessee and Mississippi. w.
8. Hart of st. Louis was elected pres
ident, s. ]. Harbaugh OF st. Louis,
secretary, and Franklin Hudson of
Kansas City, treasurer. The following
resolutions were unanimously adopt.
ed:
Resolved, That we are unalterably
opposed to the Inauguration OF the
eight hour day in our respective of.
fees and that under no circumstances
will we submit to it and that we will
oppose it even to the extent of opening
all our Offices, believing that the at
tempt to enforce 1t will work detri-
ment both to employer and employee.
That all demands for the eight-hour
day prior to January l next and there
after shall be resisted according to the
tenor of this resolution.
Resolved, That any member Of this
organization who is now conducting
closed shop and who may desire to
open the same shall have the moral
and financial assistance of this asso-
citation to accomplish that end, it be-
Ing understood, however. that nothing
in this resolution shall interfere with
the honorable discharge Of obligations
now in force.
Resolved. That we pledge our hear
ty cooperation to the united typothe-
tae of America In combating the de-
mand for the eight-hour day, and So
licit their cooperation in the same
work undertaken by our association.
Resolved, That the executive COM
miAee of this organization is intrusted
with power to act to devise ways and
means at once for supplying the de-
mands for machine operators and COM
positors."
Port Jones has resigned as district
organizer for the Nebraska district
and Pat Boyle of Omaha has been APP
pointed to succeed him. This will be
good news to the union men Of the
district. AS an organizer Jones has
been anything but a success, and II he
has accomplished anything outside of
Omaha nobody seems aware of the
fact. Boyle is a hustler and wise to
the union game" and he is already in
the field and picking up the loose ends
Omaha union waxed wroth when it
heard that Lincoln union had signed
up, fearing that the contract called for
the 9-hour day for four years. spe-
cial Investigator was sent down from
Omaha to see about 1t. 1t didn't take
him long to see, either. He went back