New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-05
GAINS FOR BOTH SIDES.
UNION WINS H4RPERS.
Tgpothetg Gets Three Recruits
Pressn1en Viii Not Strike.

The third day OF the strike Of the printers
against the Typothesse for the eight hour work
day and the closed shop. showed gains on both
sides yesterday. Early in the day Typographical
Union No. was cheered by the news that Harper
& Bros which employs about hundred men
and was on the undecided list of the Typothetse,
had granted the demands Of the union severei
hours later Il announced by President NC
Cornnick of Typographical Union No s that ROBERT
Drurnmond Of No. IA Pearl-st. which was on the
list OF firms which had signed an agreement TO
resist the demands. had also capitulated TO the
union
On behalf Of the Typothetae. It was reported that
H Kellogg the Rodd S1lectrotyping Company
and the Zeese-W Wilkinson company, three OF the
firms on the undecided list, had signed the agree
nent TO resist the unions demands or these, how
ever the Wilkinson company employs no
compostors.
the rvpothetse No go Broadway. had RETAINED
generally from interfering with the strike break
ers but machines reported to have oeen
,tarnpered with in six printing Offices In the shops
of William Green the Grannis Press the h X
Brewer Company and the De La Mare Company
four out of the six. the machines had TO Do re-
paired before they could be used
As far as could be ascertained from the ofncers
of the Typothetse. about two hundred ana nrIy
strife breakers are now at work Doubleday, Page
~ Co reported that the current number OF the
American Farmer which was to have been
,-ors4,t ont In March VIII be brought out In Fen-
iz71ary The new were reported TO Dc ooiiie
good work. In the evening this officfa1 statement
was given out by the Typothetse;
-a+ +ters Will be- no sympathetic strike among tne
pressmen. To-day there is not sngle s ~ With
al tba men that It needs The effort to draw inc
into this tight mas eeen nrnters problem
'en eesie- one because there are a dozen neaFoy
cities Which VII set all fRs ToTR for Printing
tnteresting feature of this strike has been Lse
seRe failed to i've up their various aTesmenTs
and the whole question has resolved INTO b the
We are getting new men constantly through the
r,vnothetse and Individual firms are picking up men
who apply them from out or town Inc . .
1enewed activity IN the school which has now all
the pupils Il can ace9 n 3e1s We're room For
them 20 learn They work in two shifts. DAY ana 40
night that all avaable nscR of aI Taa now do
Ing excellent work in the various offices and ex-
BE developed in practice in from sixty to ninety
days. :. .ru ofHoa ~ the
E-Tvpothetss this morning from San Francisco tiat
gpi2 }nr IN hours week begnning
with January l. 1sOE-ive days Of eight hours each
week
: II was stated last night by President Mccormick
~ 1.,-norraphicaI Union No that he expects one
: or two more firms 10 grant the demands to-day
He also denied that the union men left Their
/ machines last Saturday night they tanpsroo WIZ
them SO as to make repairs necessary.
The statement Of the Typothets that tho printers
mad teen unable to get the pressmen TO support
them in the strike ridiculed by the officials OF
the typographical union. They said that they mad
made no attempt 10 enlist the pressmen m tne
present strike
Tscoh A Brett superintendent OF the Paterson
Press at Fulton and Gold sts was placed under
500 bail 10 keep the peace for month by Mas1s-
-.rate Finn in the ToTnbs court Thomas W. Rernie'
foreman OF that establishment, said that ne met
BreI+ in the street outside the printing plant on
Wednesday afternoon and that Brett struck MN
IN the face. Brett said that he r2Es 1esHI IN
was about 10 hit MIN, so he strucsb =. = - -