Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-17
JOB PRINTERS LOCKED OUT
Union Men in Fsut Nor. TypOtAetss Shops
Are Dismissed.
TAKE TIE AGGRESSIVE
Fight for EiEht-HOur Day and Closed
shop Practically Under Full
HeRdwRy with These
Developments.

Union job printers were paid on and dis
missed in four more shops belonging to
the local Typothetae last night The men
affected number about thirty. These were
added to the thirty-three locked out by
four other shops October g. when the old
contract between the union and the em-
ployers expired. To date, therefore. sixty
three men have been locked out Of Omaha
Job printing of1ces in the fight for an open
shop and a nine-hour day by employers, the
battle in Omaha being Part OF a national
struggle.
The four plants that locked out the men
last night are the Omaha Printing COM
pany, the largest In the city, employing
twenty-three printers; Kramer q Chandler,
with three men; the Douglas Printing COM
pany, with two men, and the Mccoy Print
ing company, with two men. Payment in
full was given the men with the information
they were discharged and could return only
as individuals and not as members of the
union, though the withdrawal from the
union is not insisted upon
Burl<ley Delays Action.
At the shop OF the Burnley Printing COM
pany the lockout will not take place until
Wednesday. Four men will be affected
there. In the Esgerss-O' Flying shop. where
fve men will be involved, nothing was done
because Of serious sickness In the family
Of one of the proprietors.
No immediate action OF any kind is in
prospect at the plant OF the Western News
paper Union, where force OF about ten
men is employed.
The shops where the men have been
locked out for nearly two weeks and where
nonunon men are working are those OF
Samuel Reese, the National Printing COM
pany, the Festner Printing company and
A. l. Root.
Since October the Klopp & Bartlett
company has been running an open shop.
with force OF about ten nonunion men.
Preliminary preparations In this shop obiv-
ated either a lockout or a walk out
NOnuniOn Country Men.
Employers declared last night at ali Of
the shops where lockouts took place last
night reduced forces Of nonunion men would
be at work today. II is asserted there are
more applications from printers in the
country than the open shops can care for,
as the men have t. be broken In and accus-
toned TO the work slowly.
The officers Of the union are pleased that
the employers have made the aggressive
moves and forced the fight. since a fight
seemed inevitable, They say II is what
they desired and they have had hard work
Keeping the men from going out in the
shops not heretofore affected The develop-
ments of yesterday practically put union
printers out Of all the Typothetae shops
employing men and means the fight In
Omaha is under full Roadway.
Statement from Printers.
The following is "a statement given out
by the typographical union executive COM
mittee:
The lockout OF union printers Monday
evening was the result of the continued
coercion by members of the executive com
mlItee OF the Business Mems association
ana inc the owl club" which finally forced
the Omaha Printing company, Kramer r.
Chandler and others to pay on their men
ana lock them out. The lockout OF union
other fellow running your business" Mem.
bers OF the Business Mems executive com
t hhittee ana the square men" of the Typo
thetae are responsible for the condition in
job printing offices In Omaha TO-DAY and
for all the resultant effects of the struvTie
has reached the fighting stage we are stiIi
OF the opinion that IL II had not been for
the outside influence OF business men who
other peoples business the Typographieai
union and employing printers would have
been able to settle their differences without
costly struggle which may demorallEe the
JoD printing business In this city
Ihere Is peculiar phase OF this con-
TTSSNeIsy when should not be overlooked.
loudest talking in private and through the
dally press are those who will be the small
III hbHl WIN the IypORrd DhiCaI
union. Some of them have been busy FOR
months bringing influences to bear on the
men who have large financial interests and
consequently would be heavy losers N thew
locked their printers out. II is easy 10 urge
another man to Join you in a fEht when
you have little to lose and the other fellow
because OF his ability and brains, has built
up good business. The latter has some
thing to lose, while the former may have
a secret hope in his heart that he will
eventually profit by getting some OF the
other fellows business II he can get him
into the fight. "''
A statement was published in an after
noon paper that "the leaders in the TYNE
graphical union say that the A. l. Root
agreement within twenty-four hours, being
forced to do so by the plants connection
with the Woodmen of the, World, which has
thousands of union men in it's ranks" This
statement was not made by a member Of
the executive committee OF the Typograph-
ical union or its officers. Since the dav
the printers were locked out OF the Root
ONCE no conference has been held with Mr.
Root by the executive committee.