The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-06-28
he New York Daily News Sees Nothing Victory for International
typographical Union
Butsrck and Mcclure Companies Losing Money Hand Over Fist
Bound to Lose in the EndNews Cites Many Union Victories
In New York to Substantiate their, Claim.

The New York Daily News, an
Independent Democratic paper, in
an editorial article pregnant with
thought for those employing print
els who are opposing the Interna-
tional Typographical Union in its
fight for eight hours, thus sees the
situations:
That the union is not making a
losing fight against the Butterick
Publishing Coz is amply proven
by statement which the Butterick
Company has furnished it's stock
holders; which statement, was
printed as paid matter in certain
newspapers, to the effect that two
months of the unions warfare i'm
1905 cost it a great deal over
S15O,OOO
Some $50, 600 of this amount was
spent by the Butterick Company
preparing for the strike,'' as it
says, showing that the company
expected the strike, or, as the
union claims, the company, for
purposes of it's own and reasons
known only to itself, forced the
strike on the union two. months in
advance OF the date set by it for
the enforcement of its eight hour
demand.
1t is lnconceivable how concerns
like the Butterick and Mcclure es-
adjustments, which are certainly.
not run for fun, but from VIII: cl
the stockholders expect an increas
ing rate Of dividends, should per
NIT themselves to engage in such a
costly and losing fight with the
printers union, for lose they will
IN the end. The history of the
New York labor movement teaches
that. Defeat may be postponed
for a time, but it cannot be pre-
vented. The money loss acknowl-
edged by the Butterick Company
is sure indication Of that fact.
The Butterick and Mcclure com
panies have only to study the Gro
fut " Knapp hatters' fight in 1885;
the Third Avenue Railroad fight
later; the Cornell iron fight, and
more recently the Sun newspaper
fight, to show that this is so.
Notwithstanding that nearly all
of these later made peace with the
unions, none have regained the
Importance, size and standing thew
held before their respective fights.
The Crofut 4 Knapp Co., in Con-
necticut, had name in the hat
trade which other factories enyied
1t had on of the largest factories
IN the Nutmeg State. 1t spent
thousands of dollars fighting the
Hatters' Union and then gave in.
1t has since been eclipsed by 9th ;
erS.
The Third Avenue Railroad Co.
suffered. so fiercely under warfare
waged against it by organized la
Dor III this city that it abandoned
Its line to the Grand Central Depot.
sold It's Third avenue and Thirty
fourth-street stables and did not
recover from the effects Of the blow
until 1T changed its motive power.
For years prior to that time the
road was damned by its mere name.
To the public it represented all
that-waS unpopular in an EMPLOYER
and corporation.
The Cornell iron firm fought the
union ironworkers from 1892 to
1902 and then gave in. The name
''CornelF' stood for the largest
firm in the business. There are
other firms which now oversnadow
it.
50 powerfully financially backed
newspaper as the New York Sun.
to whose support rallied every
antl-union interest in the country.
III the end, too, saw itself compelled
to surrender to the Topographic II
Union, even though that surrender
dld result in a compromise. 1t was
union victory nevertheless.
Any cause the public supports is
bound to win. When the support
| takes shape in the matter of with
holding its patronage the victory
y IS not left long in doubt. The pub.
hc, now doing more thinking and
discriminating than it ever did in