New-York tribune., 1919-10-30
Pressmen's Return
Brings ON a Strike
OF Electrotypers
Union Men Quit When the
Publishers Sign Agree.
ment With 'Secessionists'
and Re.employ Til e m

Union yesterday carried out the threat
made at the outbreak Of the lockout Of
the so-called secessionist unions of
pressmen and feeders that it would
call out its men from any plants who
ventured to break away from the Print
ers' League. tie organization of en-
pioylng printers, and conclude agree
ments with the secessionists,
The electrotypers employed at the
plant of Street & Smith, publishers of
several magazines, walked out yester-
day when it became known that the
company had met the demands Of the
sece sionists and a number of them
mad arrived at the plant to resume
work. Announcement of this was made
at meeting of the Printers League at
the Hotel Astor by William Green,
chairman Of the labor committee. Mr..
Green said:
With the exception of this one firm,
there is no indication in the ranks of
the Printers League of any wave ring.
The league voted its confidence in and
cooperation to the committee without
dissenting vote. This means we will
all stick together in this fight against
direct action tactics. Incidt ntally,
the action of the electrotypers who
refused to work after Street & Smith
had signed an agreement with the
secessionists shows the futility Of
dealing with the men not recognized by
international unions. Even if members
! or the Printers League did deal with
the secesslonists they could accomplish
nothing when the electrotypers walk
out"
The Martin B. Brown Company. 80
Chambers Street, one of the largest
printing firms in the cit, which has
done the city's printing for years, was
notified yesterday b. the five nresi
dents of the international unions Of
the printing trades, representing the
photoengravers, stereotypers and cleo
trotypers, pressmen, compositors and
bookbinders, that the company mus,
cease to use the label Of the Allied
PRINTING Trades on their work un ess
thcy supplant pressmen now employcd
IN their shop from the ranks of the Sc
cessionlst unions with men in GOOD
standing with the International Print
ing Pressmens and Assistants Union.
Inc notice served on the Brown Com
pany stated that the five intcrnationals
are JOINT owners of the label. The
brown company granted TIE demands
OF the secessionsts some time ago.
,, Arthur i. Baldwin, vice president of
/
and chairman Of the Publishers Com
mittee OF Five, representing the Peri
odlcal Publishers Assoc iation. told 300
members Of the Advertising Club at a
luncheon at AZ East Twenty-fifth Street
mat the trouble with organized labor is
that the don't earn what they get"
Victims of "Rebellion"
:, he said that the printing trades Of
ne" ne" York were the victims of the "re-
bellion" now in progress in the ranks
OF organized labor on the part Of the
RADICALS against the conservatives.
he assalled unionsm in general and
said that 1T was succumbing rapidly to
tne craze for direct action, which he
characterized as by-product Of Prus-
sianism.
The only kind of union the Amcri-
can people should recognize" Mr.. Bald
win said, "is the Union which thcy
fought to establish in 1873 and to pre-
serve in 1861" Mr. Baldwin was "a
bitter against the intcrnationals of the
printing trades as against the 80
called secessiOnsts.
IT became known yesterday with the
arrival OF Life" from Boston, whore il
is being temporarily printed, that the
publication has been compelled to "kill"
pressmcn Of that city, who threatened
to quit unless this was done. The
cartoon depicted an assailant in the
act Of striking woman and ransack-
ing her house. while two policemen
at the door refused to take action on
the ground that the ussa;lant had a
union card. The Boston pressmen con-
tended that the cartoon was q gross
! libel on organized labor.