New-York tribune., 1918-11-04

Another labor union, Enginesr.
Local 403 of the international Unio,
of Stationary Engineers, has cast 4.
influence with the newsboys Of III.
greater city in their fight against the
Hearst newspapers and their doni.
neering agents.
The organization, responding TO a.
appeal by Andrew Stanton, the news.
boys leader, st meeting at 3o7 West
Fifty-fourth Street, adopted resolu,
tions indorsing the venders' strike 10,
better working and living condition,
and assured them of full mora
support.
In describing the plight Of the news
boys Mr.. Stanton placed the blams
solely on the Hearst managers and Ii,
attitude of the patriotic public to tn.
Hearst papers since the entry of thl
United States into the war.
Tribune Acted Justly
CONDITIONS were bad enough" b
said, before the war. But when til
war came and prices took jump
things became unbearable and v
sought relief from the publishers. A
usual. the big fellows hated to psr
with the money, but after a while the
were all generally willing to grant u
little more profit, except the pub
Usher of The New York American an
The Evening Journal We were par
ing s1.40 a hundred for papers az
wanted them for s1.2o. Only on
paper, The Tribune saw the justiu
of our claims and granted our request
THE other papers, being dominats
by the Hearst interests, held out wit
them, and when we decided to discon
tinue the sale Of the Hearst paper
to attain our ends, they told us "
would not be supplied with the oths
papers. Matters became still NOR
complicated through the attitude Of tn
public, great portion of which hs
refused to purchase The New Yor
American and The Evening Journs
because of their policies.
I'VE found ourselves nlaced in tn
position of being forced to hsndl
papers which we did not want to SCI
and which the people would not bu
for patriotic reasons. Nothing can b
more autocratic, ana yet Hearst is get
ting away with this stuff in this great
good, free country of ours. There arl
10000 of us scarcely making enougf
to keep ourselves alive, but we ar
determined to obtain more profitabt
conditions and be permitted to do oul
work as good, loyal Americans"
Text of Resolution
The resolutions, introduced lg
Thomas Dwyer, the locals presidsat-
read:
Whereas, The newsboys OF the city
of New York are making efforts b
better their living conditions and b
that end have requested the publisher:
of the daily papers of the city to al.
low them a little more profit so thai
they might be enabled to meet th'
present high cost of living, snd
Whereas, The said newsboys con
tend that their fair demands were re
fused them solely through the in
fluence of the publisher Of The NeT
York American and The Eveninc
Journal which papers, it is claimed
they are being forced to handle s.
though a great portion of the pubi
VIII not buy them for patriotic res
sons, and
Whereas, The newsboys have strutl
against these papers in order to attsII
their just ends. therefore be it
Resolved, That Engineers Loca
4O3, of the International Union o
Stationary Engineers, expresses il
sincere sympathy with and indorse
the strike of the newsboys Of tn
greater city for better living condll
tlons, and assures them of lis tuI
moral assistance