The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-11
MIMEOGRAPH USED
TO BALK PRINTERS
"Dry Goods Economist" Issued
Complete in Novel Form
Despite Big Strike.
DEADLOCK IN SITUATION
WalkOut Puts Forward Inven'
ton to Throw Typesetters
Out of Jobs in Future.

The strike of pressmen and feeders
which has paralyzed the book and Jop
printing trade in New York since Oc-
tober / continued in deadlock yesterday.
Meanwhile almost every business con-
Germ in the city Is facing shortage OF
commercial stationery, letterheads. bill
heads and thousand other printed
forms without which modern business
cannot be conducted.
Mime6graph and multigraph COM
panies are swamped with orders. They.
OF course, can only handle small frac-
ton of the Job trade. Two hundred
magazines, including Sciibner's. Nc
Clure's, Munsey's, Hdrper's. Century,
Popular. Golfers Weekly, Cosmopolitan,
Vogue, Vanity Fair. Delinedtor, Hedrsrs
and most OF the big trade papers, face
suspension until the strike is settled. A
delay of at least two weeks is inevitable.
Invitations have come from Chicago,
Boston. Philadelphia and elsewhere TO
the New York publishers and they assert
that rather than yield to the demands
os the so-called secessionist unions they
will move their plants TO some other
city.
Hnternecine Labor Contest.
The strike is regarded as contest
between the conservative and radical
elements in organized labor. The Sc
cessionists. led by James J. Bagley ana
Bernard Nolan. bolted their interna-
tional organization when ordered to SUBJ
init their terms to arbitration.
Marsden G. Scott. president of the In
ternational Typographical Union, who is
In New York to look the situation over,
said yesterday at the Imperial Hotel
that he was simply marking time. II
IL the first time in the history of the
printing trade that such a condition has
developed, he said. and the international
does not propose to give in to the rad
icals.
Two conferences we're held yesterday
without definite result. In the morning
the Printers League, which Is fighting
the strike as a unit, met at the Hotel
Aston. 1t was admitted that plans are
afoot to withdraw the union label from
such shops as the Allied Printing
Trades Council saw flt to punish. The
employing printers decided to take a
vacation themselves and will close their
shops until Tuesday.
A meeting of the labor committee of
the league was held yesterday after
noon at the Imperial. Leon H. Rouse,
president of big Six" left the meet
ing saying his men still are persistent
in their refusal to accept compromise
increase of Sc and still stick to their
demand for forty-four hour week.
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the strike without consent of their or
ganization.
Two weeklies Are Published.
Two weeklies managed to appear un-
der difficulties yesterday The Dry
Goods Economist, which has not missed
an issue for seventy-three years. came
out in mimeograph form. 1t contained
the usual amount of text and diagrams
pertinent to the textile trade and more
than the usual number of advertise
ments, The issue was run off OH 100
pages 81 by Z inches.
The Daily Bond Netcs, printed by
Charles D. Steurer at 149th street and
Bergen avenue. The Bronx, was set up
and printed by Mr.. Steurer and his two
sons, all their typesetters having quit.
The Steurer presses also managed to
publish the Y. NJ, {. A. weekly booklet
in The Bronx
A report that this weeks number of
the Literary Digest would come out on
the mimeograph was denied.
"A new method of type printing. which
win eliminate typesetting, Is said to
have been invented. This information
was given out at the office of the Pc
riodical Publishers Association, 200
Fifth avenue. but what manner of con-
trivance will be used was not revealed.
John Adams Thayer. secretary of the
association. said advertisers all over the
country have written to the New York
publications in which their advertise
ments appear assuring them of moral
support and requesting invoices as usual
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