The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-01
nicaao Strike Causes Papers to
Come Out Today In Abbreviated
Form Because Of
Waikout.
WITHOUT A WARNING
,eoan in Hearsfs Composing Room
Who're the Linotype Opera
tors Had ! GrIev-
ance.

CHICAGO, March 1.-Union print
rs employed by the Chicago Evening
american and the Examiner, William
Hearst's publications, struck, and
he compositors employed on all the
ther Chicago papers may be called
but. The printers employed by the
bther Chicago morning papers are /
working pending the result Of con-
ference between the American News I
baper Publishers Association and the |
,nion officials. Unless the members |
81 the association can prevail upon
royersy all Chicago papers. both
morning and afternoon, will be tied
I'M At late hour the confer
ence was still in session and no
statement had been given out by eth
er side.
The Chicago morning papers we're
published this morning in abbreviated
form.
The strike on the Hearst publica-
tion was called at three o'clock yes
terday afternoon and sympathetic
strike Of all printers employed on
Chicago newspapers was called.
The compositors on the afternoon
papers responded, but at six o'clock
truce was patched up whereby the
employees of the morning papers
agreed to go to work pending the con-
ference Later in the evening the Ex-
amner's printers quit work, but those
on the other papers continued on
duty.
The trouble is said to have started
when the Illinois Publishing and
Printing Company, which publishes
the Examiner, and the Evening Amer
ican Publishing Company, publishers
of the American, installed in their
plants, wage and working conditions
different from those in other plants
of the Chicago branch of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
ton.
1t was claimed by the printers that
the Hearst papers did not pay their
linotype operators according to the
standard measurement of type, and its
operators were at disadvantage as
compared with the employees of other
papers.
Every scale of prices negotiated
under the bonus system" has been
based on what Is called 13h plea
line. If any newspaper in the associa-
tion reduced the width OF its columns
| to less than that length and insisted
on measuring the type at that re-
duced width it would mean a reduc-
tion of wages and new scale would
have to be made.
The lines Of type in the Hearst pa
pers are shorter than those used in
the other Chicago newspapers. and
not only is it impossible for the limo
type operators to get as much prod
uct'' from the linotypes used In the
Hearst plants in given time, but
their work, 1t is claimed, is more ardu
GUS than that on other newspapers in
Chicago It necessitates more physical
and mental exertion for less money
than can be earned on the other pa
pers.
Even If the Hearst papers did pay
their linotype operators according to
the standard measurement of type,
said a union operator. the operators
would still be at disadvantage com
pared with other members OF the
union doing the same work, as 1t Is
impossible to procure as much prod
uct' from the linotype machines IL
the Hearst offices as in those OF the
other newspapers"
Strike is Unauthorized.
The following telegram was receiv
ed by the Chicago Publishers Asso
ciation.
Strike unauthorized. illegal ant
without warrant. You are authorizes
to publish this dispatch.
James M. Lynch, International Ty
pographical Union"
President Lynch of the Typograph
cal Union is on his way here to settl
the strike. 1t is reported here toda
mat the printers in the Evenin
Journal Office might strike. but If the
do It will be against the wishes of tn
union
The Chicago Daily Socialist. el
larged in size. was scattered hroa'
cast throughout the streets and tn
huskies of the other papers slugge
the boys handling it and in turn wei
siugged. The afternoon papers cal
celled their early afternoon editions