The sun., 1919-10-08
STRIKE MENACES
Ns. VOTING RECORDS
Printers Are Not Available to
erl- ~. Set Information of
yss,'"f Registration.
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ballots ALSO IN DANGER
employers Are Ready to Fight
-me Radical Labor Element
ssa j for Many Months.
ballots ALSO IN DANGER


ployees who have quit their jobs with
sasat authorization of their own unions
put sudden stop last night to the
-s.printing sof the records of the regis
tfation for the coming election and
.bthreatened to menace seriously the
'Ssssuanoe of the official ballots.
-, The trouble arose in the printing
q establishment of Martin b. Brown at
= 30 Chambers street. where all of this
material is printed, as well as the
sdlfp Record, and though conferences
Will be held this morning in an effort
sfte adjust the matter temporarily,
-nthere was nothing last night on which
70 base hope for such arrangement.
Il The job printing department of this
plant has been closed since last
Wednesday when all book and job
Sprinfers of the city were obliged to
shut down because of the demands
made upon them by radical leaders
OF uniohs under suspension of their
ewn internationais. The members of
ffrBig Six typographical union work.
- ing In the job department had also
!.auit in disobedience of the orders of
their own union, as have more than
1900 others in various plants.
-:- When the records of tine first day of
registration arrived yesterday after
noon from various parts of the city, an
effort was made to get the compositors
On The City Record to set them up:
tHeQa m hoxt
because they are working under news
paper scale contracts
Men Refuse to Work.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
fesistration records are considered
part of The City Record, and not a Job
Hat would come under the job printing
Head, the compositors when they re-
norted for work at 6 P. NJ refused to
handle the work.
Leon II. Rouse, president Of Big Six"
vas communicated with hastily, and he
arrived at the establishment within a
INV minutes, together with several other
onicers of the union. Then. with heads
of the establishment and representatives
81 the compoftors employed IN the
plant. he held a long conference, In
which, according to statement made
by one OF the conferees, he told the men
BY their fiat refusal.
At the offices of the Brown establish
h1ent 1t was stated that the work of
printing the registration records would
ordinarily be done next week. This week
would properly be devoted to setting
them up; the compositors working from
DAY to day on them. Last night moth
ing whatever wes done toward getting
-entTthe important paners which must be
widely distributed well In advance of
election, and huge bundles of the regis
tration data lay piled high on the floor
of the plant. o, -srz-zs
An official OF the establishment stated
that the work of printing the election
ballots would not be undertaken until
the latter part of this month Asked
how this was to be accomplished, he
unmarked, We. haven't yet come to
that"
Employers VIII Not Yield.
Nevertheless at the Association of
Employing Printers IT was said yester-
day that there was no reason to look for
an opening of the plants in the near
future. The employers, according TO Col
William Green, head of the labor COM
Inittee of the Printers League, are pre-
Iiared to hold out for months If neces-
kary to crush the Bolshevik element
which, it is charged. is responsible for
the trouble.
More than 200 members of the Print
egs League who gathered at the Hotel
Astor yesterday expressed themselves as
we'll satisfied to stand firmly in their
Hattie against the radicals. 1t was
stated at the meeting that hundreds of
letters had been received from adver-
Users assuring the publishers and print
efs tlrlt they have their full support in
their fight
Most of these advertisers have written
lftters denouncing the attitude of the
striking unions as one of plain BoIshe-
sism, and asserting that the elimination
OF this evil is the matter of supreme i'm
pprtance In the present controversy
Some advertisers had forwarded
checks for the amounts of the adyer-