The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-03-03
why TRADE UM|0N|STs
SHOULD ASSIST PRINTERS
Are Fighting the Typothetae, But
the Posts and Parryities AZ Well.
Get Busy and Keep Busy Untll the
y Victory IL Compfeve.

Every Organized Wage Garner Should
Get Busy and Keep Busy Until the
y Victory IL Oompfeve.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK. March mo labor
struggle in the c6untry's history is
more deserving the serious considera-
tion Of organized wage earners than
the fight Of the printers for q shorter
workday. For the first time the organ
lied enemies of trades unions have
Joined national organization of en-
ployers~ and are exerting every effort
to defeat the International Typograph-
ical union. Should their efforts meet
with success, other national organiza-
t1ons OF wage earners doubtless will
be attacked in turn. For these reas-
ons the 8-hour tight of the printers
will live in history as the first great
battle between organized labor and it's
organized enemies
While the great majority Of the men,
bers of the Typographical union have
secured the shorter workday, no stone
should be left unturned in order to
make the victory complete. And since
the Posts and the Parryites have join
ed hands with the Typothetae on one
side it is the duty of every member
of every trade union to give his moral
support to the printers.
In New York City by far the greater
portion of the employers granted the
shorter workday ON January 2. Some
publishers are still fighting and the
names of their ''scab' publications
should be memorized by every man and
woman who intends to support the
printers in this fight.
A temporary INDUCTION prevents the
officers of Typographical Union No. 8
from requesting or advising" their
friends to withdraw their patronage
from the Butterick publications and
patterns, which include The Define
ator,' '"rhe Designer The New Idea
Magazine" and these patterns: Ban
ner, Butterick, La Belle, New Idea,
Martha Dean, Standard, Home Dress
maker Little Folks, and Metropolitan
Fashions.
This list should be brought to the
notice of the wives and daughters Of
all organized wage earners, for. while
the members of No. 6 are enjoined from
requesting or advising their friends
to cease purchasing these magazines
and patterns, the injunction does not,
or course, apply to wage earners who
are not members of the unions named
in that injunction.
'McClure's' magazine, because of it's
price, is purchased largely by wage
earners. This publication in the past
has boasted Of its fairness toszfabor
unions. On January 2 its publishers
showed their contempt for the patron.
age Of wage earners by locking out
their old employees. Since Mcclure s."
prefers the support of the Posts and
Parryites, all wage earners should inn
meditely withdraw their patronage and
request their friends to do likewise
The "St. Nicholas magazine for chill
dren also is largely supported by the
patronage of men and women who are
members of trade unions or in symp-
athy with them. The publishers of "st.
Nicholas" could well afford to grant
the reasonable request Of the printers.
Yet they refused, ana are therefore
not deserving your support, as "St.
Nicholas" is printed by ''scabs.'
Among engineers, machinists and
kindred trades are many subscribers
to Power" and the American Mach
mist" two periodicals issued by the
Hill Publishing company one of the
most prosperous printing establish
ments in New York City. Power and
the american Machinist'' are printed
by "scabs" and none but "scabs should
patronize them.
All books and periodicals which bear
the imprint of Doubleday, Page & Co.
are the product Of "scab' compositors.
They should be left to rot on the
shelves of the merchant who offers
them for sale.
Typographical Union No. 6 has in
creased the benefits to it's locked out
members to SO and SIS per week to
single and married members respective
ly. 1t does not appeal for financial as
sistance; but since 1t is fighting not
only the Typothetae, but the Posts and
Parryites as we'll, it's members feel that
they should have the moral support
and enthusiastic assistance of every
organized wage Garner in this struggle.
The organized enemies of organized
labor are centering their efforts, in New
York City. Every members of every
labor union in the land should interest
himself actively in supporting the
printers, for unless he does his organi-
zation may be the next to be attacked.
Let every reader of this article appoint
himself a committee Of one to see how
many OF these "scab' publications he
can be instrumental in having returned
unsold to their "scab' publishers.
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