The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-12
PRINTERS SITUATION


city during the past week. All the boys
are confident of ultimate victory and
the situation Is very encouraging. The
union offices are certainly doing the
| busienss. eMrritt & Hector last Mon
day secured quantity of city printing
| which was bid on by union and non
union offices. What becomes of the
claim of the TypOthetae crowd that they
could not do work at a fair profit and
run their shops on an eight-hour day?
Since signing the scale of Duluth Typo
graphical Union No. 1873, the firm OF
Merritt & Hector has enlarged it's quar-
ters to double it's former size and added
one Century press, and have orders in
for another press. Extra help has also
been engaged and there Is work ahead
for months to come. All the signed-up
shops are very busy and all parties to
the eight-hour agreement are we'll
pleased with the change.
Circular No. 46, issued by the eight
hour committee of the international
| Typographical union, has been received
| by the local union. 1t contains letters
from the presidents of all the unions
where strikes are on. Reading this
circular would convince anybody that
the outlook for a final victory for the
printers in their eight-hour strike is
not far off. 1t is a splendid campaign,
conducted in thorough business way
| and for these reasons success is being
achieved.
! The officers and members of Duluth
Typographical union request all union
men to Demand the union label on all
printing of all kinds. This label on
printing is a guarantee of good work
| manship and that 1t has been executed
in a union office. 1t will not cost you
anything extra to demand 1t and you
, will show that you are friend Of the
striking printers and want to assist
them In getting the eight-hour day
which they have been fighting for for
! many months
Gains are being made all over the
country in the cities on strike. The
! Typothetae organization is badly shat
| tered after the conflict and the Interna-
tional Typographical union will come
out of the fight much stronger than
when it went into it. The latest re-
port received here states that another
Typothetae shop in Chicago has signed
the union scale and fifteen men go back
to work on the eight-hour basis.
The printers of Duluth are enlisted
in this campaign TO reduce the hours
Of labor for the purpose of providing
work for the unemployed and thus re-
duce poverty, misery and crime; to in
| sure higher education and refinement
and make better homes for vast num-
Der of workingmen and their wives and
children, and to keep pace with the
progressive spirit of the times in scien-
! tific methods Of production and distri-
| button.
] Will you help In this great uplifting
! movement. or do you stand with the
Tory class who would sit upon the
safety valve and suppress the ideals and
mbitions Of labor like Russian grand
dukes, and cry: There Is nothing to
| arbitrate!"
If you, as business man. are in favor
of broad humanity instead of printing
trust, the printers of this city appeal
! to you to patronize fair printing houses
in preference to those who are aiming
to destroy the Typographical union and
drive it's members back to long hours
of toll and low wages-a slav1sh condi-
ton. If you belong to the vast multi
tude of workingmen. the purchasers and
consumers of this community, the print
ers appeal to you to patronize only such
firms as have their printing done in
union houses. Demand that the union
label be placed on their advertising
matter. sta tionery, etc.
Duluth Typographical Union No. 1856
has had long fight for the eight-hour
day. and it's mem bers, one and all, have
made great sacrifices for the success Of
the shorter workday. Let every unior.
man in the city do his duty towards the
striking printers Demand the label on
all the printing you get from your mer-
chant and you will thus be helping in
bringing about the eight-hour day.
! Eight hours for work, eight hours
for sleep and eight hours to do as we
please" is the cry of the International
Typographical union
Let US all help them to get IT