Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-02
8-H0UR DAY DEMAND
1000 Printers in New York Quit
Work.
STRIKE IN OTHER CITIES
General Movement in Many Parts Of
the Country.
BEGUN WITHOUT ANY DISORDER
Action Anticipated by Employers in
Chicago and Shops Continue Open
With Non-Union Men.
STRIKE IN OTHER CITIES
BEGUN WITHOUT ANY DISORDER

NEW YORK. January Zone thousand
printers went on strike here today i'm sun
port or a demand for the eIght-hour day
ana thirty-tWo printing shops declared a
lockout against their employees The
strikers Immediately placed pickets In the
vicinity of all shops where the lockout was
declared and three halls were secured bv
typographical Union No. to accommo-
GATE the men on strike who wish TO make
thelr headquarters in those places. The
strike was begun without disorder.
In 100 printing shops the Typographical
Union gained victory without man quilt
ting work, those shops granted the
eight-hour day and the closed shop prInci-
pie demanded by the union The opponents
or the union were printing offices belonging
to the United Typothetae, which has been
making preparations for the strike for
several months
No Strikes of Magnitude
CHICAGO, January 1.-The national
eight-hour work day of the printers union
was declared by that organization to be in
erect today in this city. The time set
Tor the commencement of the movement
was January l, but 1t being a holiday moth
ing was done yesterday.
The introduction Of the new program
was not marked in this city by strikes of
any magnitude, the bulk of the militant
employers having anticipated the move
ment weeks ago by locking out their union
men, and continuing their shops with nom
union men.
President Wright of Typographical
Union No. 10 declared this morning that
he did not expect that more than a hand
full OF men would strike In this city, be-
cause the employers who were disposed
to fight against the rule were already in
arms against IT, and from those who have
not already started a fight nothing in the
opposition a.
day.
Housesmiths and Bridgemen Quit.
NEW YORK. January 2-The majority
of the 6O00 members of the housesmiths
and bridgemen's unions in this city went
on strike today. They demanded in
crease in wages from $3.50 to s. a day.
Several independent building contractors
granted this raise, thereby keeping their
men at work, but the members of the Iron
League and Building Trades Employers
Association, which employs most OF these
workers, refused the fifty-cent increase.
Work on 200 new office and factory build
ings il affected by this strike.
Iowa Printers Out.
DIES MONIES, Iowa January 2.-Twsnty
per cent of the printers of Iowa are on
strike today in conjunction with the inter-
national eight-hour fight In the job print
ing offices of the United States. Agree
ments granting the eight-hour day have
been signed In every city in the state but
in Des Mofnes, Council Bluffs, Cedar Rap
ids, Keokuk and Creston.
Strike on at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, January 1.-TWO
hundred and forty-ive employees of print
ing houses Joined the 175 members of the
Typographical Union already on strike here
today. Three-fourths of the master print
ers having refused to sign the eight-hour
agreement. the strike was declared. The
Typothetae is making efforts to obtain nom
union men.
Satisfaction at Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, January Both en-
ployers and printers today expressed them
selves as satisfied with the strike situation
in this city. W. C. Mcpherson, chairman
OF the organization committee of the Typo
graphical Union, stated that about 10 per
cent of the men remained at work. but de-
clared that this was not unexpected by the
volved in the strike Twenty-four Monty
pcthetae firms have granted the demand
for an eight-hour day.
The members of the Typothetae assert
that the strike has not interfered to any ex-
tent with their business. From the tirIe
tho lockout was inaugurated by the en-
pioyers in anticipation of the strike, they
assert, men have been found to replace the
union printers, and they state, fn many
cases union men have been employed and
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