Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-07
WAS NO STRIKE,'
SAYS EMPLOYER.
PRINTING HOUSES VICT0RS,
ASSERTS SECRETARY
l. H. Rice Says Efforts We're Made by
Union Leaders to lntimidate Nom
Union Employees, but With
out Success

80 far as We arc concerned there
never was any printers strike. Most
OF the shops are running wide open
and arc doing Just as much business
as they ever did" said /. ". Rice. sec
retary Of the Employing Printers as
sociation yesterday.
81 have heard that efforts have been
made by the union labor leaders TO
irtimidate the non-uniun men whom
we are putting on. If that is the case,
the effort failed most signally for none
OF our men have walked out except
those who we would under no circum-
stances put back to work." continued
Mr.. Rice.
The men we have put on to replace
the strikers have been as loyal as any
one could wish for and we purpose to
see that they are protected. AS long
as they do their work satisfactorily
not one of the men whom we have put
ON to fill the places left vacant by the
strikers Will lose his job, and the
union men will positively not be given
jobs again, in this shop at least.
Firm for Open Shop
1--WE have always had an open shop
III this establishment so we were not
so severely crippled as some of the
strictly union shops when the walkout
occurred. The technical school, which
the association has established, is well
patronized and men have already been
taken out of it and put to work.
AT the meeting of the employing
printers Friday night it was decided to
enlarge the school and that has been
done, which doubles it's capacity for
Instruction. There are several va
cancies and applications for instruction
will be received by those III charge
of the school.
1T was a singularly inopportune time
for the union to select for the strike
The chances of success were reduced
to the minimum for in the winter time
the town is always full of men anxious
for work. and from the ranks of that
class the strike breakers were re-
cruited.
Bribed by Union
Occasionally we have lost a man
through bribery by the union, but the
kind of men who are susceptible to
bribery is not the kind we want in our
employment.
''I want to say most emphatically the
strike is broken. Many men have been
coaXed away from good positions by
the misrepresentation of the union
men and many of them would be very
grateful if they We're to be reinstated
in their old jobs. But we figure that
the men VINO have stepped i'll to help
us out of the difficulty into which we
were thrown for short time by the
action of the union are to he pro-
tected and they are sure of retaining
their jobs in shops connected with the
Employers association.
There have been absolutely no de-
fections from the ranks of the en-
ployerS' association, and the demands
of the unionists have not been acceded
tc in the slightest particular. over
% per cent of all the work that is be-
ing turned out in Los Angeles comes
from association shops, and to prove
that they are not suffering from lack
of help it is only necessary to look at
the sales books of the paper companies
OF Los Angeles. So far from their sales
falling off they have actually increased
and every association shop in town
is delivering it's orders on time, and
none of them has been forced to turn
down any orders for lack of facilities
to do the work"