The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-07-21
.PR|hI[s's STRIKE / IS
KEEPING BOSSES BUSY
They Inform, Their Customers
That Strike Is 01f-0ne,
Patron Gets Angry
Very Pointedly Informs 'Tea'
Potter" That He Doesn't
Like Double Dealing.\

Like Doub bic Dealing
The employers 4of number of I'M
fair printing offices in Duluth have
resorted. to unfair means to deceive
the. merchants of this. city to believe
that the; strike of the Duluth Typo
graphical union Is over. No one
KNOWS this fact better than the en-
ployers themselves. They are sorry
that they know it and every time they
look at their books the cold fact stares
them in the face.
One of these proprietors last week
! represented to business man that
the strike had been settled. When
informed by committee of the union
that 1t was not so he became very
indignant at the Misrepresentation
made to him and the unfair office will
receive no more of his work until it's
differences with the Duluth Typo.
graphical Union are settled, and then
1t Is question whether he will ever
get any more of the work.
Very few. people stop to consider
the issue involved in the present
e1ght-hour contest of the International
Typographical Union. 1t has been on
since Jan. 1 last, and number of
unions whose contracts expired pre-
v1ous to that date have been engaged
In the struggle since last August. It
Is question that every we'll meaning
I citizen in our community should thor
Oughly understand and assist in set
tling-and settling it right at that.
The international Typographical
Union has been watching closely for
years the great advance that has been
made in the printing industry. New
labor saving machinery has been add
ed, displacing many of its members.
The question has confronted the off,
GERS OF the international organization
how best to provide for the unem,
ployed. The only solution of the Ques-
ton was the eight-hour day. In the
printing business thousands of men
were scattered all over the country
waiting for something to develop that
would enable them to once more find
a purchaser for their labor power. 1t
came in the declaration for the eight
hour day. AT once became apparent
the conflicting interests in the two
factions affected by this decision. The
employing classes felt that resistance
must be offered and the labor sellers
understood that idle men were men
ace to their interests.
When on Jan. / last the action be-
came general the bosses were of the
opinion that the strikers would soon
be- forced through starvation to seek
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taken back. They overlooked the fact
that the army Of the I. T. U. had
made provisions for q siege. Funds
and new funds are continually supple
menting, what is used up.
Men don't work because of the love
for work. They work in order to sup
ply the means required to live. The
working members of the typographical
unions all over the country are de-
termined that the shorter workday
must come and they are a unit to pay
any assessment cheerfully until it is
accomplished. For the past nine
months they have been paying 10 per
cent of their wages to help maintain
their fellow workers who are still out
on strike. Many of the unions have
assessed themselves Is per cent, and
some have paid as high as Is per
cent. Such a magnificent spirit has
never been exhibited by. any other
labor organization, and the printers
are to be commended. They have
stood by their international officers to
man, and today, after nearly nine
months of struggle, are still loyal
and true: This is the reason they
are winning, and they must continue
to- win. It is. not only problem that
involves the 100000 members of the
typographical union, but every man
and woman who reads a newspaper,
buys union periodical, demands the
union label upon printed matter, is
contributing to- the war, but indirect.
ly. How long. you ask, will the strug-
gle continued? Until the shorter work
day is established in every print shop
in the country.
The Duluth Typographical Union de.
clared for the shorter workday Oct.
last and is still fighting for it's de.
, mand. A number of the printing es.
Establishments, ten in number, have &C.
coded to the unions request, but there
are still number on the unfair list.
The members of the union ask all
their friends to demand the union
label ON all printing. See to it that
it is on all printed matter. that you
get from the merchant, with whom
yo:, deal, and if it is not there ask
for it and demand it.
It IS with pleasure the members OF
the local union note the increase OF
work in the label offices in this city
since the inauguration of the. strike