The sun., 1919-10-03
DISCIPLINE NEAR In
STRIKE OF PRINTERS
Head of International Typo
graphical Union Expected
Here To-day to Act.
ABOUT 1000 WALKED OUT
Rush Of Freshmen to Take the
Places Of Men Locked Out
by Publishers.

Marsden G.. Scott, president of the
international Typographical Union, is
expected to arrive In this city TO-DAY
for the purpose of taking disciplinary
action against those members of Typo
graphical Union No. who have Joined
the strike of the pressmen and feeders
without the consent of their union.
Mr.. Scott probably will arrive in time
for conference which Leon II. Rouse
head Of big Six" Is to have with the
employing printers at the Hotel Penn
sylvania this afternoon, and It Is be-
lieved that he will demand that the
local organization order the strikers t.
| return at once.
The action taken by approximately
1000 members of big Six" In walking
out OF the composing rooms after their
| union had voted in favor of further
peaceful negotiations with the employers
had really no material effect upon the
strike situation here yesterday
The pressrooms OF all of the plants
where these men quit had been closed
since Wednesday morning by order of
| the Printers League. which answered the
ultimatum OF the suspended pressmens
and feeders unions by banishing them
| from their establishments. The employ
| ers had endeavored to find work for
| those employees who remained loyal to
| them, and were doing their best to keep
the composing rooms open even though
there was no immediate prospect Of re-
| opening the pressrooms. The composing
room walkouts, 1t was said, did not
| therefore harm them, and as the men
have decided to give themselves "a holi-
| day." as they cay. they are merely re-
lieving the employers of unnecessary ex-
pense.
Offer OF Complete Surrender.
The action was decried. however, by
Col. William Green, chairman OF the spe-
| cial committee OF employers in charge
Of strike arrangements. as being an ex-
| ample of the mob spirit which Is respon-
| sible for all of the local trouble. 1t was
pointed out that Mr.. Rouse and other
heads of big Six" had stated that the
| trouble makers were acting on their own
| initiative, and that the union had vir-
| tually washed its hands OF all RESPONSE
bility for the actions.
In statement issued from the head
| quarters of big Six" in the Pulitzer
Building II was admitted that the sus-
pended pressmen's and feeders unions,
headed by James ]. Bagley and Bernard
| Nolan, on the eve of the lockout had
| made desperate efforts to procure REIN
| statement in their International organi-
| cations, even offering to furnish a bond
| to guarantee the observance of any con-
| tract that might be made. This was a
| complete surrender of the mo contract"
| attitude adopted previously by Mr.. Bag
ley and others.
The offer was rejected, however. by
Major George L. Berry. president of the
| International Printing Pressmens and
Assistants Union, who has declared that
| the local unions cannot come back until
| cleansed of the radical trouble making
| element.
| Major Berry's new international or
ganization which ne has created to re-
place the Bagley-Nolan outfits appeared
yesterday to be making great strides
Its headquarters in $50 Nassau street
were besieged by telephone calls from
pressmen and feeders desiring to know
how they might Join. and many in
| Quirers stated that men in their shops
were planning to break away en- masso
| from the Bagley-Nolan unions and flock
to Major Berry's standard.
1t was learned that certain of the
| largest plants in the city may reopen IN
| the near future with members Of the
| new international union manning their
presses. Pressmen representing en-
ployees In two of the largest printing
houses in this city have informed the
international officials that their asso-
ciates are ready to Join the new union
as soon as It shall call upon them They
| said that the men In their pressroo,ns
were sick and tired" of the Bagley-
\ Nolan methods.
| Employers Remain Firm.
Col Green. In speaking for the en-
ployers at the offices of the Association
| or Employing Printers In the Fuller
Building, said their attitude was un-
changed. "The publishers are in full
accord with us in everything we do to
] wipe out the radicals Of these unions"
he said. I'VE have closed our plants
because II was impossible to keep them
running while the pressmen's and feed
| ers unions persisted in unreasonable
and unjust methods. We will keep them
closed until we are able to open them
with men on whom we can depend. That
Is why we have announced henceforth
we will employ only members OF the In
ternational Printing Pressmen's ana
Assistants Union"
Col. Green, F. A. Silcox, Industrial
director OF the United Typothetse of
America, and other employers and rep
| resentatives will attend a meeting In the
| Hotel Aston at 10 O'Clock this morning,
and will also confer with Mr.. Rouse at
the Hotel Pennsylvania at 1880 this
afternoon.
Col Green announced last night that
| the plants IN which members of big
Six" have Joined the striking pressmen
and the number who have quit are as
follows: Fleming & Reavely. 6; Atlas
Press. 8 McGraw-Phlllips Printing Com
pany, 8; Charles Francis Press, rs !;
Isaac oldmann Company, S. Charles
SchweinleT Press, 81; Wynkoop, Hallen-
beck. Crawford Company, 1875; Federal
Printing Company. 1876; Eilert Printing
Company. Inc. 60, and williams Print
ing Company 125. With the exception
Of the first three named these concerns
are engaged in the publication of well
known periodicals and trade papers
The Publishers Printing Company,
where pressmen and feeders launched
premature strike last month, has not
been closed. This concern was only ham,
pered temporarily by the sudden move of
the Bagley-Nolan crew last month.