The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-02-22
REAL DEADLOCK AT BUTTE.
Newspapers and Printers Are "Stand.
ing Pat"

ing Fdts
Butte, Mont, Feb. 18.-The situa-
ton between the locked out members
of the Typographical union in Butte
and Anaconda and the newspapers OF
the two cities is a deadlock, with not
a sign of a break thus far.
The printers adhere to their deter
mination not to yield a point de-
handed by the publishers. They de-
clare that the publishers statement to
them was an ultimatum and if any
thing in the nature of a compromise
on the matter Of wages Is considered
the publishers must come to them.
As to the changes demanded in the
restriction governing the matter Of
setting advertisements, President
Lanstrum, of the Butte Typographical
union, states that the publishers must
abide by the typographical regulations
in effect If they W. wish to open. AS
to wages, he states for his union that
they will not return to work at the
reduction of so cents a nan per day,
demanded by the publishers.
A meeting of the typographical and
pressmen's union was held late this
evening, and while the pressmen ap-
pear disposed to arrive at a settle
ment the printers apparently feel dis
inclined to recede one whit from the
original stand. which is taken to in.
dictate a prolonged siege and shutdown
OF the newspapers of Butte and Ana.
conda for months. Tuesday all of the
independent jobbing houses in the city
will suspend as soon as contract work
on hand has been completed.
The publishers met committees from
the allied printing crafts this evening
but nothing was accomplished Other
than expressions from the publishers
and the printers that each side stood
pat with no concessions in sight.
The publishers state there will be nc
further conferences with the printers
unless asked for by the latter.
Attorneys Are Worried.
The shutdown of the newspapers ha:
involved an old legal question that IL
occasioning no end of worry among
the lawyers of the city. Under the
Montana statutes legal notices mus
be run without cessation, and the in
terruption of their publication with NJ
opportunity for the notices being
printed in any county paper adds tt
the complications.
Big mercantile establishments ar
%resorting to all kinds of schemes TO-
the advertisement of wares; band'
parade the streets with banner
telling of bargains, the streets ar,
adorned with gaudily colored stream
ers, imparting an almost gala appear
ance to the city. while hand bills hav
been scattered broadcast, in som
cases the posters simply covering tn
walks.
Say Papers Were Money Losers.
With Heinze out of the politica
field, the odd assertion is made tina
the newspapers are making money b
ceasing publication, it being stated O
the most reliable authority that tn
Butte Miner and other papers cos
their owners about $4,000 annual!
Labor leaders state that the NOV
on the part of the newspapers, whic
are backed by the big copper intel
ests of Butte. is a scheme by the mil
ing companies to impress the miner
who, it is stated, propose asking an il
crease on April 1, with the futility c
their demands.
The hodcarriers of the city hav
formulated a new scale demandin
IS. SO a day, while carpenters ask s
Plumbers recently demanded So, whic
scale now prevails. Tomorrow tn
iron molders at Anaconda in tn
foundry of the Amalgamated Cope
company will strike for increase
wages, affecting 800 men.
N%ewsboys have been retailing GU
side papers at 10 cents a copy.