The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-10-29
Pitiful Wage Paid Employees Of
Pittsburg Dailies Brings Re-
bellion in Mailing Department
in Midst of Campaign.

PITTSBURG, Oct. 2S.-A strike of
the members on the Newspaper Mall
ers' union employed on all the daily
papers of this city has come as a
result Of the refusal of the managers
Of the various papers to confer with
to better pay and better conditions
of work for the mailers.
Police are patroling the offices of
all the newspapers and prohibiting
picketing, and when picket does
not move on fast enough to suit the
cops he is bundled into a patrol wa
gon and hurried to the station,
charged with disorderly conduct.
There have been several arrests.
Because of the frightful condition
of exploitation prevailing In the local
mail rooms of the various papers the
sympathy of the entire labor move
ment is with the men,
There is but one thing the news
paper owners fear and that is pub
licity. There is not a line in any Of
the papers about the battle of the
mailers for living wage and humane
hours of employment. Not even the
Leader, the so-called "friend of la
bor," which has large working class
patronage, is publishing a line about
the strike. Feeling is running very
high because of this silence Of the
press.
All Papers War on Union.
The Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton has declared war on the union
and is importing scabs from Phila-
delphia and Baltimore. Cots have been
placed in the mailing room of the
GaZette-Times and food is being
carried in to the scabs
The following big papers are Grip
pied in their mailing department by
the strike: Times, Chronicle
Telegraph, Dispatch, Post, Sun, Press,
and the Leader.
All of these papers have been
hurting big gobs of political mud and
slime at each other, but they were
bound together in an unholy alliance
to keep the mailers from organizing
a. union. Now that the mailers have
organized and are making demands
upon them they are one in their bitter
opposition tc the union. "~'S
Bosses Refuse to Meet Men.
l1LScI4 IlAO1lIlS dSO Tie newspaper
Mailers' union was organized, and re-
peated efforts were made by repre-
sentatives of the union to meet repre-
sentatives of the Newspaper Publish.
ers' association, but all these attempts
failed.
One one occasion Manager Smith
of the Gazette Times ordered the wage
scale committee of the union from his
office with an oath, threatening them
with arrest if they did not leave al
once.
The same fate befell the union
when it's representatives sought to
deal with the Leader, the so-called
friend OF labor. The manager of that
sheet refused to deal with the union
committee.
Angered by the brutal treatment
and the bluff of the bosses the mail.
ers walked out of every office in
town.
The men strenuously object tc
the miserable scale of wages being
paid in all the offices in the city
Miserable Wages Paid.
Journeymen mailers were getting
from 81 to $12 a week for seven and
eight hours day, seven days a
week. Overtime not paid for. On the
afternoon papers men often worked
until o'clock at night, and were not
even given supper money.
In opposition to this condition OF
ab1ect slavery the Newspaper Mail.
ers' union demands recognition OF the
union and SIS week for journey.