East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-03-01
CHICAGO TYPOS GO
OUT ON STRIKE
VIOLATE THEIR OWN BY
LAWS AND AGREEMENT
Morning Papers in Windy City APP
pear In Abbreviated Form-Presi-
dent Lynch of International Union,
Talks.

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Lynch of the International typo
graphical union is expected here TO-
day to take action on the strike of
the ESQ union printers which Grip
pied the Hearst papers here. 1t is
believed the printers will be ordered
back to work pending arbitration.
Hearst type is being set in the Chi
cago Journals office by union print
ers today and the typos say a strike
will be called there today unless it is
discontinued. The Publishers asso-
citation declares that if they do that
all union printers will be locked out
in Chicago, All papers in the city
are getting out four pages today.
Chicago, March Chicago morn
ing papers are published in an abbre-
Waited form because of differences
with the typographical union. In
connection with the matter, the Chi
cago Publishers association made the
following statement for the morning
papers of March l:
"On February 8, 1910, James NJ.
Lynch, president; j. w Hayes, wee
president, and Hugo Miller, second
vice president of the International
Typographical union, together with
H. n kellogg, labor commissioner of
the American Newspaper publishers
association; Herman Ridder, presi-
dent of the American Publishers as
sociation, and Geo. c. Hit, publisher
of the Indianapolis Star, the six con-
situting the international board of ar
bitratiOn 70 adjust the scale Of wa
ges for printers employed in the Of
ficos Of the daily newspapers in Chi
cago, met here and made an award
tablishing a scale Of wages for
members of the Chicago Topographic
cal union, No. 16, employed on the
daily newspapers of Chicago.
THE award went into effect at once
in all of the offices. After it became
effective, a question was raised by
printers employed in the offices of the
Chicago American and the Chicago
Examiner, the printers claiming that
they We're entitled to be paid on e
basis of 12 1-2 ems per line, whereas
the actual type set measured less than
3 ems per line. The columns of the
Chicago Examiner and the Chicago
American are slightly narrower than
the columns of all the other Chicago
newspapers. Therefore in demand
ing compensation for type set on a
basis of wider columns, the president
of the union insisted that the print
ers should be paid for work which
they did not do.
THE management of these two
newspapers, in compliance with the
contract with the printers union,
agreed to submit the disputed question
for settlement to the joint standing
committee, a body authorized under
the contract between the Typograph-
ical union and the newspapers to set
tie all differences of opinion.
The offer of settlement was made
in the communication by Victor E.
Lawson, president of the Chicago ~
cal of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers association in a letter dated
February is. 1t was renewed in a
letter dated February 2S
In spite of these requests and all
so in spite of an offer made by the
management of the Chicago Ameri-
can and the Chicago Examiner, to de-
posit the small difference in wages
with the president of the Chicago
Typographical union, No. 16, to be
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