The sun., 1919-11-02
BIG g. TO VOTE ON
ARBITRATION OFFER
Mass Meeting To-day viii
. Consider Proposal Made by
Printers League.

typographical Union No. will hold a
mass meeting this afternoon in the New
Star Casino. 107th street and Park ave-
nue., at which the compositors will con-
slider the latest proposal of the Printers
League for adjusting their differences.
The league has offered to arbitrate the
forty-four hour week and other de-
mands, provided the men who quit work
in sympathy with the striking pressmen
will go back to their jobs.
Pressmen's Union No. 81 will meet
to-day in Beethoven Hall. 210 Fifth
street. Bernard Nolan, president of the
union, SAID they were going TO call on
their members for Liberty Bonds and
hoped to raise $4,000 to support the
strike.
Mr.. Nolan said that 2s5 printing shop
foremen in his organization were loyal,
but he would give any one who asked
for II a letter sanctioning his return to
work and would permit him to work
with any pressmen that might be en-
ployed in the same shop II the foreman
did not sign up with the International
union. George l.. Berry, international
president of the pressmen's union, has
lTleu 10 TeOIEdlllLS the sN - but iie''
not succeeded in signing more than
thirty or forty, Nolan asserted.
VIII Consider Ultimatum.
The big Six" meeting will discuss the
action of Chicago Typographical Union
No. 16 in voting down an assessment
to aid the New York compositors idle
as a result of the strike. 1t will con-
slider also the employers ultimatum that
the arbitration offer must be accepted
or rejected in twenty-four hours.
big Six has issued a twenty page
pamphlet setting forth its side of the
printing mixup. The union charges its
international president. Marsden G.
Scott, with neglecting the interests OF
the local union and ascribes to him the
failure of the efforts to win forty
four hour week.
The pamphlet points out that al
though Mr.. Scott has been in Nnw York
since October 10, neither he ncr rep
resentatives have had any Il rise
with the officers of Big Six" ac-
cuses him of siding with the emp. Jyers
ut will be noted in the addresses OF
Messrs. Scott and Berry and in the pro-
nunciamentos of the employers" the
circular states, references are fire.
quently made to contract breaking. The
charge is never made bluntly that No.
has broken any contract, but the im-
preston usually conveyed by innuendo,
inference or crafty inslnuation is that
such Is the case.
Contract Is Not violated.
"It may be here stated explicitly that
No. has not broken any contract what
ever. and the employers and Messrs.
Scott and Berry are quite aware of that
fact. In addition, we now set on record
the fact that we have broken no Inter
national Typographical Union law, also
fact well known to Mr.. Scott
'-The law of the I. T. u. is so framed
that while ultimate power is given TO
the executive council to withhold sane
ton for a strike. the locals are per-
mitted to use the moral effect involved
in its possibility. the intrusion of l. T. U,
authority not being provided for until
the affected union stands upon the very
threshold of strike, the specified time
for l. r. u. interference being that mo-
ment when sanction is asked. Then anG
rot till then are the I. T, U. officers EN-
powered to act.
THE possibility OF strike has alway:
been recognized as a moral asset o.
great importance. and the right to use
it, as such, to the utmost has ever beer
upheld by our laws. In this instance
considerable water could stin hav,
passed under the bridge before drasti,
action became in order. Scotts suddeI
injection of himself in the situation
however, deprived us of all power to US,
this asset. Il being rendered useless by
premature refusal of a request tC
sanction a strike-a request We nevel
made"