New-York tribune., 1906-01-03
PRINTERS STRIKE ON.
LOCAL STRUGGLE OPENS.
Typothete Confident Nearly Au
Standing Ont against Union.

The long threatened struggle between the
United Typotheta and the international Typo
graphical Union came to q head yesterday. when
several of the employing printers IN all large
cities of this country and Canada declared a
lockout against members of the local UNIONS
Nearly one thousand printers went out IN IhlS
city Yesterday in the thirty-two shops that have
decided TO do battle with the union. UP 10 an
early hour this morning no violence had oeeh
reported The printers say there viii be none
and that the contest will be short lived
The union printers demand a forty-eight hour
week and the closed shop; the employers liisis'
upon the ffty-four hour week ana an open
shop" Each party is said to be foruheo py
s500O00 in the struggle.
Some sixty-six hundred printers W'il coii
11te 10 per cent Of their earnings 10 lle Sun.
fund. Typographical Union No
quarters at Webster, Lyceum and Everett Halls
-. +ta 1oclad ont men. The opposition has
quarters at No. 67 West 10th-st An agent u
TTarlev the boss strike breaker. is said to De
furnishing non-union men ~
Secretary H V. Boyer, Of Typothetae NO. o.
said last night that he was filling the places OIL
the union mer as quickly as possible II "a7
said that Doubleday, Page Co and Mcclure .
former employers of forty union men, had man
aged Yesterday to get along with thirty-one
strike breakers. These firms have been pFep0A-
ing for the struggle for some luohIH0 Po
There are Lightweight firms in the local
Tvpothetse. and twenty-five Of them have slsheo
the new scale; ffty-one are determined to hgnt
sst2fe six" and twelve have not as yet taken any
scrion. The firms standing out against Ine
union include some of the largest ana oloesS
publishing houses IN the country
George H. Ellis. president OF the Ciii'eu
rTvpothetse OF America, came here TO assist III
febting the strike He is head OF the nr1n oL
George H Ellis & Co. of Boston,S He predlcteo
a victory for the Typothetee.
Mr. Ellis said that he was perfectly aware 'ns'
,be hs daiIies had signed the eight-hour day
agreement, but that conditions IN newspaper
offices and Job offices were materially different
"a compositor in q newspaper oft1ce, ne saia'
srdoes more work in seven hours than a man nA
q 3oh office does in nine hours. have long con-
tended that the foreman of every office should
he a non-union man. as he cannot do his duty
to his employer and the union at the same uIie
ANY effort on the part OF a shop to dlscharge d
printer is thwarted By the union. n n ooaoA ao
words an incompetent or disobedlent IIldll c1i
not be discharged without a permit from me
union That's what it's equivalent TO-
Secretary Bower said that he did not anucl-
80 80 5,e7cI,ltv in filling the places of the
printers now strike, as the New-1ork sLiop0 SHOPS
pay the highest wages in the country anu hoiI n
SInion men are hurrying here from the sI!lall
towns anxious toe work for better wages lnaA
thev are now getting. He said that the stTihe
breakers would be we'll protected ana that IN N
tinidation by the union pickets would not De
tolerated He said further that the last census
showed that there were 9S6S1 non-union print,
ers and only 81, 800 union printers In the United
States.
1--WE realize that we cannot gain final liberty
to run an open shop without carefully built
IN organization to supply men in the future, so
80 The shons will not be ereunionized' he
said with this point IN mind. an employment
hureau has been established. and is now IN rdil
running order.
There was a meeting of representatives of 100
cbapels of Typographical Union No. 6last night.
at Chambers and Centre sts After the meet
10 patrick n Mccormick the president,
said: Il cannot tell what was done at the meet
ing for we never talk about such things, es-
T1eciaIlv when there is trouble. We are pre-
Iared for trouble however. and we firmly oeiIeve
we are going to win