The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-09
FRESHMEN WANT A
 SYMPATHETIC STRIKE
PUBLISHERS ALkEGE THEY ARE BEATEN AND ARE MAKING MS.
 LEADING STATEMENTS.

Chicago. May Apparently beat en in their efforts to tie up Chicago newspapers. officers of the web press. mems union, according to stateincA issued by the publishers tonight, have started movement for nation wide strike of newspaper pressmen. This and charges by the publishers that the pressmen are using mislead ling statements in efforts to gain sym rathy we're the principal develop ments today in the situation
 Although policemen remained On guard at newspaper offices and many newsstands and accompanied dis tributing wagons about the city, to- day was the quietest since the trouble began More papers were distrlDuted and sold today and the publishers said they expected normal conditions 10 prevail before the end of the week
 The statement issued by the lub- fishers Is as follows:
 The newspaper strike in Chicago shows evidence of approaching disso lution Two body blows were given to the effort to tie up the entire in dustry when the maiiers union. by vote of nearly 100 to 6, refused to go on a sympathetic strike, and when the electrotypers union, despite ap- peals from members of the stereo- typers' union, declined even to vote on the proposition.
 ] James J. Freel president of the International Stereotypers and Flee. trotypers' union. continued his efforts to force the members to resume work and to call off their strike. called in defiance of his specific orders
 "The officers of the pressmen's union have started movement 10 in- yolve the entire country in the af fray Realizing that they have lost iu Chicago. they have been sending telegrams, letters and verbal com munieations from New York to Texas and from Vermont to the Pacific coast. ordering the pressmen to get ready for sympathetic strikes. They have also made appeals to various unions for financial assistance In some cities a small amount was vot- ed, in other cities they were told that the unions would not assent to assessments and that the Chicago pressmen would have to fight the hat tie themselves.
 The orders for a general strike contained many misleading state ments, They alleged that the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers associa- ton at it's recent meeting in New York had started a war of extermina- ton Son union labor in the newspaper offices of America. It was also set forth that a fund of s15o0oO had been raised for this purpose and that the l Chicago trouble was the first blow in the campaign
 No such fund was raised and no such war on unionism was contem- plated
 Ebert H. Baker of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. president of the Amer jean Newspaper Publishers associa- ton, took cognizance of the situation and sent letter to George l.. Berry of Chicago. president of the Interna. tional Pressmens union in which hs specifically, denies that the newspa per publishers association has apprl- priated $150,000 to conduct a fight on organized labor or that 1t is in citing a lockout in the newspaper business.
 Members Of the local typographical union held meeting to consider the pressmens troubles late today, but adjourned until Sunday without talk ing action
 President Lynch attended the meet ing and in a speech urged members to refrain from any action looking tp- ward a strike.
 Mir Lynch declared that he would not stand for any evasion of the contract which the printers held with tine publishers, regardless of what the pressmen and stereotypers had done or planned to do,