The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-26
WHY LOCAL EVENING APERS YESTERDAY
DID NOT PUBLISH UNTIL A LATE HOUR

The Newark Evening News and the
Evening Star and Advertiser yesterday did
not publish their first and second editions.
This was due to the fact that Newark
Web Pressmen's Union No. 8, OF which
the men working In the press rooms OF
the News and Star are members, in vio-
latlon of its agreement with those news
papers and in defiance Of the rules and
regulations Of it's governing body. the In
ternational Pressmen's Union, went out on
strike. The strike action was taken with
out previous warning and on such short
notice that 1T was impossible for either
paper to get out an edition. The fact that
the News was able to get out its regular
last edition and that the Evening
Star was able to get out its regular
last edition ana it's sporting edition was
due to the efforts chiefly Of Herman Rid
der. president of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, who prevailed on
the triker to return to work pending an
adjudication Of their differences.
On last Saturday noon the publisher OF
the News and the publisher of The Star
W. re served. by hand, with a notice from
Newark Web Pressmen's Union No. 8
that a new scale of wages and other
changes in the existing conditions were
demanded. With the notice was the In
formation that Business Agent Kreitler,
OF the international Pressmen's Union,
and a committee from the local union
would call on these publishers on the fol-
lowing Tuesday afternoon. There was
nothing in this communicable nor in the
scale submitted to show that anything
more than a discussion Of the demands
was intended or requested. On Tuesday
forenoon Mr.. Kreitler and the committee
called on the business manage Of the
News. He informed them that the scale,
as presented. was unjust to the publisher
Of the News. and that he could not accept
1t.
At the same time he informed the COM
mittee that the News and the Interna-
tional Pressmen's Union had signed an
agreement whereby any dispute as to
wages or hours was to be first the subject
of local Cancellation; falling that, to be
the subject of local arbitration, and, fall
ms tina to be the subject Of arbitration
by the international board. He stated that
it was evident hat efforts of Cancellation
would be fruitless. and that the News
therefore stood ready to carry out the
next step in it's agreement with the IN
ternational union and submit the new scale
to the committee OF local arbitration. The
committee practically refused to consider
arbitration. and in the afternoon presented
their demands to the general manager Of
the Evening Star and THE MORNING
STAR.
The same procedure that had obtained IN
the News office followed in the Star
Office. with this exception: The committee
was informed that while the Star would
not concede their demands as cpl ,ented
by the scale submitted, a counter-propc-
sltion might be submitted by the Star
on Wednesday morning. The fact that
the Sta has an arbitration agreema mt
with the International Prcssmen's Union
like that Sof tile News was called TO the
attention of the committee. and the COM
mittee replied, as they had to the News,
IN effect that they did not consider the
arbitration contract binding. It was
agreed that the Star was to tell the
con mittee on wednesday morning whether
they would submit a contemporaries