The San Francisco call., 1908-11-03
GLOBE WFATHERS
ANOTHER HARD DAY
Citizens Alliance Organ Has
Terrific Scramble to Avoid
Tieup
Pressmen Threaten to Quit and
Refuse to Work Until
They Get Cash

After day of hard work-a day that
found cashier busy at dawn and man
ayers and editors later hustling like
beavers to meet the emergency-the
Calkins newspaper syndicate managed
to get another issue of the San Fran
cisco Globe on the streets last night.
For time 1t looked as If the paper
would not get out, but the perseverance
and pleadings of Willard P. Calkins and
Managing Editor Leigh Irvine were re-
warded finally and the heavily mort
gagged press Of the syndicate was
started.
Calkins, head of the syndicate, had
hardly reached his office yesterday
when he was apprised that the press
men had refused to work unless paid
their back wages. Calkins. after much
talking, ordered his cashier to issue
checks. But the pressmen had heard
OF the financial distress of the Calkins
paper days before and they demanded
cash. Somehow, somewhere, Calkins
and his men found enough coin to pay
the pressmen. 1t may have been an
other contribution from the citizens
alliance, of which the Globe has been
the daily organ.
BREATHING SPELL SHORT
There was breathing spell for the
Caiklns people, but it was short. The
pressmen barely had been disposed of
graphical union waited on Calkins and
Irvine with a request for a definite
statement regarding the overdue wages
of the printers. They, too, wanted
their back pay. Calkins begged for
time, but the printers insisted that they
were entitled to the same consideration
s other employees of the Globe. The
conference was interrupted long
enough to summon George A. Tracy.
president of the typographical union.
To him was confided the predicament of
the syndicate. He was giyen assurance
that the printers. would get their pay.
and it was agreed finally that they
should accept checks. This was done
and the troubled affairs of the Globe,
as far as its employees were concerned.
were tided over for the day. Under
the rules of the typographical union 1t
is incumbent on member to notify his
organization within 4S hours after an
employer has failed to pay the wages
due a printer. 1t is a rule of the or
ganization also that a paper which is
delinquent a week In its pay day may
be declared unfair. That was the stu
alton in the Globe office yesterday
when the typographical unions execu-
tive committee decided to put pressure
on the Calkins people and get the men
their wages.
DIFFICULTIES PILE UP
Other and more serious difficulties
are said to be confronting the Calkins
people. Firms that furnished the syn
dicate with equipment and other ma
teria1s for its papers. especially the
Globe, are reported to be demanding a
settlement. Bankers in Sacramento
who advanced money to the Calkins
syndicate for the purchase and over
hauling of the Union are said to have
presented their notes when they be-
came due last week. The Calkins peo-
pie wanted an extension, but the bank
ers would not listen to the proposition
and the syndicate had to dig up the
cash, which meant of course that the
Calkins people had to do a little more
borrowing.
On top OF this trouble, according to a
report received from Sacramento last
night, a project of the Calkins people
to increase the circulation of the Globe
and the Sacramento Union through the
medium of a voting contest had fallen
through Justice B. Detwiler, who was
managing the contest, quit last night
and IL assistants left with him. Det-
wiler's reason for quitting was that he
had no hope of getting any money from
the Union. According to statement
given out by the men under Detwiler,
they had been trying to get their money
from the Calkins syndicate for two
weeks, but were put off on the excuse
that the Globe, through which their
salaries were paid, had been called upon
in this city to meet heavy bills and had
been unable to do so. Detwiler. 1t is
reported, threatened legal proceedings
and in that way enforced settlement
of his own account last night.