Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-02
LOCKOUT IN n. Y.
10000 Printers Forced
TO Quit Work
Follows Refusal of I'D Employing
PRINTERS 70 Grant - -our Week
snu Increase OF 81 Week IN All
Wage Scales

New York. oct. Ten r1uusan :
members u LOCAL PRINTING trades un-
IONS employed IN % local plants
winch publish vir-uaIly all The craGe
journals anu magazines issued here
ana a large percentage u -ne books.
We're forced pUI ~ wnr+ IpGay ny I
simultaneous lockout" ana '-sr-ike %
This ac-lnu follows ne refusal NJ ne
employers n grant 4 - hour week,
effective To-Day ana q weakly increase
III 81 II all wage Scl.laE
The most IMPORTANT development
tuliav WIS ne strike Of 459 compost
tors. representing three establish
nerls II supper II t:le striking
printers and IN defiance u me Inter
naLlonA! .-DIugrf@phlcaI Union.
winch. with the oInar 4uterTla Iiorl:.l
bottles. mas denounced me strike an :
out iGwed" rile striking pressInpn.
Tie cumpasiiors. VINO 2ad preVIousig
agreed 70 submit their demands 20
arbitration. are asking FOR ~ hour
Week and q S5D wage scale
lE tbth-tUA IL fll4liktlS " DIS IL -
1ered last night Uy Jne Printers
League section N Tie Association u
Employing Printers. when * SUD
ported by the international printing
pressTnen and assistants union u
North America. affiliated with ne
american Federation nj Labor. Four
local presrnen ana feeders unions
are involved.
The men affected ny The lockout
announced thai they We're on strike
beginning TINS morning. The employ
ers issued orders that their plants
were 70 remain closed until sucn time
is tnev can Je ~s-opened with torses
cpInposea exclusively Of members of
the International Cuiun They SAID
tila1 25u men already hao deserted
the local unions for me international.
Cntier an agreement oetween the
employing printers ana the Interna-
rIonal | mon. the +4-nour weak Is 70
BECOME effective May !. 1871. The TO-
cal unions insisted -.at II become
effective ruiay and they refused n
aI''1ltrute tins point. although they
agreed 70 submit their wage Demands
have offered 20 artIItTate both the
questions o1 hours anu wages. offered
wage increase uf So week winch
WIS rejected ny the men.
John Adams Thayer executive sec
-eIar-- NJ the Periodical Publishers
Association. tonight announced lie.
list Of per1udicais If national N,cu-
latIDn wnlCn have suspended puDiica-
ton 10 Juin IN tne lookout. They
include Golfers. the Christian Her
aid, The Metropolitan. Current Opin-
ION. Epnd Housekeeping. Harper 8.
Baseball. Hearsts' House and Garden.
The Independent. McCalis. Mct 'lure s.
The cosmopolitan. the outlook. the
People Home Journal. The Pictorial
lerIsw. The Theatre, Today, The
Housewife. Vanity Fair Vogue. The
Woynau's World The DeiinsaIur. Ev-
.s,-t nndv's. The Eome Ser,ur and The
Designer, Rs well as many 1uplica-
lions issusA by the Frank A. I%snsev
Company.
the publishers have received invita-
tsons 70 move out of New YORK by
boards Of trade Of large cities III
Michigan. California. OHIO. Oklahoma
Connecticut. Maryland Virginia and
Kansas. bur that. at the present at
ieiIsi. they would ratiler crush ON
tiIe radicals in New York than move
elsewhere anu taee tine s1Ine problem
IL Anothel' territory"