Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-16
INDEPENDENTS GIVE UP FIGHT
Chicago Printing Houses Outside
Typothetae Are signing the
EIEht-Hour Contract.

CHICAGO Sept. 15.-Developments in the
controversy between the Chicago Typo
graphical union and the master printers
indicate that the independent employers
will agree to the demand OF the union and
the fight will finally simmer down to
struggle with the Chicago Typothetae. But
one additional strike was called today be-
cause of a refusal to sign the eight-hour
agreement, and this was in a shop en-
ploying only two men. Committees repre-
senting the union continued their visits to
the independent houses today and tonight
It is said that over 100 Of these
concerns, employing 1 200 men, had signed
the agreement submitted to them demand
ing an eght-hour day after January l.,
1905, and a closed shop. Among today 8
signers 1t was stated by officials Of the
union were several Of the firms whose
members attended the meeting called by
the Typothetae yesterday and who had
pledged themselves to oppose the demands
Of the union. There are still 200 independ-
ent establishments employing about 1000
men TO be called on by the union to sign
| agreements. and It is declared by members
| of the typothetae that a large number Of
these concerns have pledged themselves to
| fight the printers organization.
! ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Sept. 15.-seventy five
/ printers in thirteen local job printing
houses struck today when their employers
refused to sign contracts for an eight-hour
! work day. Efforts will be made to I'LL their
/ places with nonunion men.
\ ST. LOUIS, Sept. l5.-President Joseph A.
I Jackson of Typographical Union No. an
! uounced tonight, after meeting of the
executive committee, that the firm of
Perrin & Smith, employing twenty printers,
had signed the eight-hour agreement and
! that their employees would go back to work
at once. President Jackson further stated
| that ninety-one offices had signed the
I agreement, leaving thirty-seven to be heard
/ from.
HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 15.-Job and
book printers TO the number Of about lOi
| employed by firms which have declined tC
accede to the eight-hour demand left their
work here today. Printers employed in the
supply departments of some of the insur.
ance companies also have stopped work
Many of the smaller job printing plants II
| the city have granted the demand
NEW YORK, Sept. ia resolution call
ing upon the members of the National
Association of Manufacturers to support
the employing printer in resisting the
movement Of the Typographical union fol
an eight-hour day was adopted today by
the board OF directors of the Nationa
/ Association OF Manufacturers. The resolu
tions declared that the 'Typogra phial la bo
unions demand for closed union shop con
dtions, under which the labor trust seek!
to make it impossible for any free Amer
ican to sell his labor is a demand for con
ditions intolerable, tyrannous and illega
and clearly defined by various late cour
decisions" The resolution also says:
The Union demand for a material increa s,
in their already high wages (cloaked undel
the disguise OF an eight-hour day. woulC
force the price of all printing to advance
beyond the present prices, already burden
some to the public and this attack upon th'
printing employers and the effort by th'
labor trust TO force higher prices on th'
people is a trust movement. against the in
terests of the people and solely I'm the in
terests of the members of the labor trust
The National Association Of Manufac
turers recommends to its members univer
sal support of the employing printer in re
sstinR these attacks, the purchase of print
ing of the lawful open shops, and activ
legal prosecution, Of both employer ant
union members, parties to any unlawfu
closed shop agreements and further, tina
members and other business men be urge
to refrain from enforcing contracts 70
printing during illegal attacks of labo
| unions.