Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-11

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shops With all tho men they can GROVE
into them and then they want to ru,
! cur business for us and call around or
| pay day and tell us what we must pay
them. That's whatsthcir strike today
means and they themselves cannot de-
l ny it,"
| This WAS the statement OF an EN-.
I ployer this morning when asked by the
News for particulars in regard to thu
| strike OF the presslnen and feeders il
| the union job Offices which occurred
I this morning. AS the result of the
| strike every union job Office. as far as
! the production of printed matter il
concerned, is idle. The printers arr
| at work setting type that cannot bf
put on the presses. Meanwhile tho
| Wages ofgtlieg presslnen and feeders have
| stepped, and approximately 200 work
| ingncD arc by self-appointInent idle.
Yesterday. headed BIZ the lltimatun
which follows, the two unions pre-
sented the new wage scale and shol
rules to their employers, demanding a,
| answer by ) p. M. In no office II
the city We're the demands granted
and this morning the presses did not
start. The ultimatun1 OF the unions
| was couched in the following terse
phrases: t8g& II
s{4 We herewith 3SuDIhll Oil
scale Of wages which goes into efiect
May 10, 1909 Further conferences II
l}regard 10 concessions will be uitneces-
sary, as no urther8concessions VII De
made. The committee expects q definite
answer BY. S 80 p M. May 10. 1902"
While offensive TO the employees, TINS TINS
salute did not anger them to the ex-
tent that a shop rule TO be found t2,i, TUT
| tfer IN the mandate did. Ihis ruie
sets forth:
THE SHOP RULE.
..No. feeder shall feed more than
ono press in any half day A feeder
may be switched, provided the fun
quota OF feeders is employed.
IAN employer said this morning III
discussing the situation: .i,
f:.Hrhese men are simply trying 70
run our business for us. trying to
tell ,ls how many men we mus en-,
them to do fo,.sus. They also deny
us the tight to say! how much we Viii
pay them for tlieil, services
|SET'sTllat rule. IL we accept - ~ which
we never will, means That five nave
|1O presses lii our pressrooln tn II We
must hiras1 10 feeders TO fa es the paper p.
|,tnto it, If i've presses only are work
ling, there will DO five idleslnen draw u
inc their pay. II wa should employ
five feeders for the 10 presses We might
have 4. man feed one press OUT or
every two while tne other one was ldie
and i'll that way very NAN Nvould q %
earning the money he was paid and
our nayroll would ALLOW ts3a fair pro-
I'll and the price of printing % the con-
su,ncr would be rational. With the
rule in force the prices of pruning
would have to be raised to a ridiculous
figure. ..i e Z, 4583 g.,.
at is usually the union man who
~. a r,ay in
living is too high. He does not stop
10 think that he is raising it every day.
by his demands upon all employer.
Wages never were&us high as. they are.
NOV ai1dsof course that can only mean
taatSprices on pretty nearly eVersltiliS
have been raised. IT is necessary. we
are making less profit out Of printing
now than We formerly dld when prices
were much lower.
EMPLOYERS HOLD MEETING. 1.
!, ..rhe employers held a meeting yes
terfiay and one again this morning ut
which this scale was considered. a II
are standing together and We VIII ilot
accent it. if our plants have TO stand
Idle until these men are forced py
pfiyation, even, to see where they are
wrong. There WAS not an employer
present at either meeting who did not
favor giving the men a easonabl wage
sca]e but not one of the employers
would consent to having these two
unions step in and tell him how rranS
s1nel he must employ. We nave 5tl.uinp
card IN our hand, but for the sake or
these men. many OF whom nave fs'ml-
lies depending upon them for tnelf SUP
mort. we dc, not want to play it unless
thew force us to. They can force US 10
plav that card, but they cannot forca
us to accedes to their shop rule.
.Therc are very few shops IN the
scitv who are not paying good printers
more than the union scale, There are
some small plants which are not doing
so, but they are plants genei allF.
where first class men are not employed
and they are not entitled 70 more t Liisll
The scale. All shops. of course, are
,,aving the union scale. In the non-
union shops there are good printers
who get far above the union scale upon
their individual merit.
.rhe scale presented by, the unions
runs from SIS per week of six days OF
eight hours each to s25 for platen press
men. Double time Is to be paid for
overtime after midnight and time and
one-half for overtime before i tat 'lol'r.
Another thing that is Objectionable
liz the rule feistei on us by the unions
recurring helpers on automatic feeder
cylinder presses. The paper Is fed into
these presses automatically. enabling u
plant to turn out work quickly. well
and with precision. These presses are
expensive and very efficient, A hel2ar
is not needed and it is an imposition on
us to even hint that we should employ
a man who is as useful as an extra
wheel on "a buggy.
The men also demand double pay on
holidays and Sundays, enumeratins
DECORATION day. Labor day. Fourth of
July, Christmas and New Years day.
ANOTHER RULE.
One more rule is to the effect that
IN pressnlnn shall run more than one
cylinder and two platen presses. One
apprentice is allowed in Offices where
ono journeynan Is employed and addi-
tional apprentices for each additional
four iourne4men. The wage scale for
cylinder pressmen working days is $50
ner week. and nights, $3.50. No press
man may run more than four platen
presses witiiout a Fjourneyman assist
ant, 81
The employers held a on6erence with
the committee from the unions and
were willing to make concessions In
the matter OF wages, but they We're In
formed by the committee that as far
as the union was concerned all was
said and done. that there would be no
concessions. The employers are not
willing to accept the shop rules and