The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
PRESS STRIKE IS
STILL SPREADING
Chicago Stereotypers Join
Pressmen, Newsboys and
Wagon-Drivers.
(Natfonal News Association


CHICAGO, May 4.-The strike on
the Chicago newspapers was further
complicated early today by the action
of the stereotypers who joined the
wagon-drivers and newsboys in a SYM
pathetic strike to help the pressmen.
Morning papers today were issued in
4page form, but distribution was
greatly handicapped No morning pa
pers were on sale in the downtown
sections except in the newspaper Of
Aces and very few were sent to the
suburban stations.
Plans were made today to resume
street selling. Extra guards will be
furnished the newsboys who desire to-
handle the papers. following attacks
yesterday on newsboys in many parts
of the downtown districts by thugs
and sympathizers with the strikers.
At least half a dozen boys today are
in hospitals as a result of the inju-
ries they received. In some cases the
police found it difficult to cope with
the situation and extra patrolmen
were rushed to the corners where
the attacks occurred
May Spread Farther.
Possibility that the strike may
spread to other mechanical depart
ments of the newspaper was faced by
the publishers today. Some of the lead
ers of the compositors have objected
to the setting of type for non-union
pressmen and sympathetic strikes
have been discussed. Most of the prin-
ters, however, have urged the men to
stay at the work declaring that their
contract ought not to be violated.
A spread of the strike to the coal
wagon drivers preventing delivery of
coal to the newspaper plants has also
been discussed No strike has been
called.
A riot in which three arrests were
made and shots were fired, occurred
today in the alley back of the Tribune
building. Max Annenberg, circulation
manager for the Tribune, was attack
ed as he stepped into the alley. After
he had been struck number of blows
he managed to draw his revolver and
fire several shots. His attackers fled
but three Of them were captured by
policemen attracted to the scene by
the shooting
The men arrested gave the names
of George Bell, former driver of the
Tribune; C. M. Stricken, former dri-
yer Off the Examiner, and George
Reader, a laborer.
Asks For Protection.
One pressman who refused to go out
has asked the police for protection.
He has received letter from the stri-
kers, he says, which threatened him
with physical harm and asserted his
home would be dynamited unless he
stopped work. The threat against his
home sent him panic stricken to head
quarters. Police today are guarding his
house.
The men themselves are not thor
oughly in sympathy with the strike,
according to the publishers, who say
that many of them have gone to the
publishers and told them that they did
not want to strike but they were fore
ed to leave their work by threats of
violence. =
The publishers themselves have de-
termined to carry the fight to the end.
They will not yield to the Union, they
assert, and will continue to operate
with other pressmen unless the press
men themselves make the first advan-
ces and the concessions.
The strike of the stereotypers fol-
lowed the refusal of the publishers to
negotiate further with the pressmen.