New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-03
DECLARE OPEN SHOP.
Employing Lithographers Make
Counter MoUe-Men Claim Gains.

The National Association of Employing Litho-
graphers made a counter move 10 the strike OF the
Lthographers' international Protective and Bene-
fetal Association for the fOrtyeight-hour working
week. which into effect yesterday all over the
country, by declaring for the open shop. The
strike affects the pressmen, transferrers and
provers directly. and the preparers. artists
and bindery hands indirectly, by throwing them
with other employees in the trade. out of work
About COO men went strike in this city, and
about 5000 were affected indirectly. The employers
said that about 5000 persons in the entire country
We're probably thrown idle through the strike. but
the officers OF the union say that between 5000 and
5oco thrown idle. in ALL including about $500
who went strike.
The officers and board OF directors Of the Ma
tional Association OF Employing Lthographers II ct
yesterday in the bank OF the Metropolis Building.
No. 81 Union Square, and heard reports from the
various cities. meeting of the board was held in
the forenoon. at which the following open shop
resolutions were carried unanimously:
The Naona As79catSn Of mPI0n a SS
favors the settlement Of ali disputes with unions
by the reference OF questions 70 properly consti-
The open shop ought to be. and with due regard
foP the existence and welfare 81 the m5nogT r
has repudiated such plan of amicable adjustment
demands upon a strike and a test OF strength.
In the departments I'm which the members OF the
oient Association have been or employed the
open shop shall hereafter exist and its principles
be enforced
President Frank A. Stecher OF the national as
ISOLATION said that reports had come in from
number of the cities where the demand had been
made. but full reports had not from all the
cities. All knowledge of a strike was disclaimed
in Milwaukee. ne said. and definite reports had not
come from Philadelphia, St. Louis and number
Of other cities
1.-THE men are on strike in Detroit Buffalo.
Springfield Mass. and Chicago he said They
partially out in Rochester. At noon we heard
that of members in Detroit are running
their shops with non-union men. In Peoria Ill.,
the open shop has been declared and the factories
are running full blast. The employers in San
Francisco who not in our association, had to
grant the demand The union acted in a cold
had been IN the part Of the cty which was de
stroyed and they had started small places 70
ton Of the union If he Intended 10 press the de-
mand in San Francisco, saying that II would be a
be enforced everywhere
Asked If in case the union showed a desire to
arbtrate later the employers association would
be willing TO treat with the union as a union, he
said that it was too early in the strike consider
1T is the open shop now" he continued land as
union and its officers made the fight inevitable. and
they must faces the issue which they forced us to
1t was said blythe New York branch of the union
that forty employers in this city had granted the
ers, President j. w. Hamilton of the Lithograph-
ers international Protective and Benevolent Assoc
citation said that the employers responsible
for the strike. He denied that he had acted in a
He also said that the union had arranged for a
convention some time ago in order 70 confer about
to attend the convention The Strike he said was
against all employers who refused the demand,
association and non-association.
Dispatches from other cities showed last night
that about 400 out in Cincinnati, $50 in
ST. Louis $50 in Buffalo and 300 in New Haven.
partial strike.