United labor bulletin., 1912-02-29
DENVER MAY GET
HEARST NEWSPAPER
Hearst Representatives in Dem
yer Looking Over Rocky Noun
tain News and May
Purchase.

The Bulletin can state on the best of
information that representatives of the
Hearst newspapers are in Denver this
week looking over the newspaper plant
of the Rocky Mountain News with the
intention of purchasing that plant for the
Hearst string of newspapers. The Bulle-
tin has obtained this information from a
source that it believes to be absolutely
reliable. The Hearst interests are repre-
sented by two men who, 1t is understood,
have held several conferences with the
owner of the News, ex-senator Thomas
M. Patterson, but 1t is understood that
up to the present time no deal has been
consummated.
William Randolph Hearst owns a
string of newspapers across the conti-
nent, but up to date has not secured
paper in the Rocky Mountain region He
owns two papers in Chicago, but has no
paper under his control between that
city and San Francisco and Los Angeles
He has been negotiating for the pur-
chase of newspaper plants both in Den
yer and in St Louis, but no definite ac-
ton has been taken. 1t is believed that
he prefers a paper in Denver to one To-
Gated in st. Louis, for paper here would
come nearer filling the gap than one To-
Gated in the Missouri city.
w. r. Hearst publishes the greatest
newspapers in the world. both from
progressive and news standpoint. His
advent into the newspaper field several
years ago revolutionized the newspaper
business. His newspapers are sensa-
tional to a marked degree, but his spe-
cial publicity given to investigations of
great business enterprises, of politics
and of labor and industrial conditions in
the United States as well as over the
entire hemisphere, puts the Hearst pub
locations in a class by themselves.
The Hearst newspapers have always
been published under union conditions,
and we are safe in saying that they al
ways will be as long as the printing
crafts treat the great publisher with the
treatment that is due him. Although in
late years he has allied himself with thu
Newspaper Publishers Association,
seemingly for self-protection against
some unfriendly moves on the part OF
some of the trades that produce his pa
pers, yet this does not mean that he con-
templates any unfriendly move toward
the organizations affiliated with the In
ternational Allied Printing Trades Asso-
citation.
The coming of Hearst to Denver with
newspaper would mean something to
the printing trades of Denver at this
time, The Denver publishers are not
overly friendly to the printing trades or.
ganizations employed in their establish
have in the recent past endeavored to
organize the publishers for an open rup-
ture, but as yet have been unsuccessful.
Moves made during the past week do
not look good to the leaders in the print
/ ing trades organizations. The advent of
/ a Hearst paper into the Denver field
would almost assure the defeat of any
unfriendly move on the part OF Denver
publishers toward the trades involved.
Hearst could not enter into an open rup-
ture with the printing trades in Denver
without involving all the Hearst publica-
tions in the United States, and the other
| Denver publishers could not make
| move unless the Hearst paper was
party to the move.
| The printing trades organizations,
therefore. are on tiptoe with expectancy.
hoping that the Hearst representatives
may report favorably to the head of the
syndicate. 1t is said that the price asked
for the News is s625,00O, price that
may not be given consideration by
/ Hearst On the other hand. it is under
stood that the senator is not in the best
of health and desires. after the spring
election. to retire from the publishing
business as well as from public life.
| 1t can be said in this connection that
when the arbitration agreement expires
| in MAY that the Denver publishers may
refuse to renew the agreement, and that
difficulties may then arise that would
make the coming of Hearst to Denver a
thing for which to be more than thank
| full
The typographical union is on the best
of terms with the great publisher. It
was on request OF that organization in
convention assembled that Hearst
started the Los Angeles Examiner in OPP
position to the labor-hating Otis. This
act on the part of Hearst has not been
forgotten by the printing trades, and
| friendly relations are expected to exist
for years in the Hearst newspaper Offices.