The sun., 1919-10-09
PRINTING UNIONS TO
WAR ON INSURGENTS
Label to Be withdrawn From
Shops Not at Peace With
International.
ELECTION BALLOTS SAFE
Horse Show Officials Unable
to Get Prize Lists Put
Into Type.

The international heads Of the print
ing trades unions plan TO open Tgor-
Gus offensive to-day against the insur-
gent pressmen and those members OF
the Big Six who have walked out indi-
vidually in defiance of the anti-strike
vote of the typographical union, At
meeting of the board of governors OF
the Allied Printing Trades Association
In Washington It was voted to withdraw
the union label from all printing offices
where any but members in good stand
ing of the international unions are EN-
ployed in any departments.
Most OF the international presidents
returned to New York from Washington
yesterday and the withdrawal of labels
10 to be begun Immediately. 80 1t was
said last night at the Hotel knicker-
booked by Major George L. Berry, head
of the international pressmen. The &C
ton, II Is stated, has the support OF high
officials in the American Federation OF
Labor
The New York Allied Printing Trades
Council received official notice yesterday
from the secretary of the board of gov
ernors of the action that had been taken
1t Is signed by all of the international
presidents and says:
THE president and secretary Of the
New York Allied Printing Trades Coun-
Gil are hereby instructed and directed to
withdraw the union labels from any Of
fee or establishment now in possession
of such labels which fails or refuses to
employ in all the mechanical depart
ments of such Office members Of such of
the FIVE International printing trades
unions as have Jurisdiction.
The execution of the foregoing order
to withdraw labels shall be put into
operation upon notice from the presi-
dents of any of the five international
unions making up the Allied Printing
Trades Association"
The statement issued by the board
of governors condemned the leadership
Of Pressmens Union 81 and the Frank
lin Press Feeders Union 20, two OF the
insurgent organizations, and accused
them of being responsible for the in
dustrial chaos now existing in the
printing trade here. The hope is ex-
pressed that the pressroom workers of
New York will return to the interna-
tlonal which is in turn affiliated with
the American Federation Of Labor.
The board of governors gives its full
approval to the attitude Of the Printers
League Of America, the Closed Shop
Branch Of the United Typothetae of
America and the Periodical Publishers
Association in their declaration that
they will employ only members or the
international unions, which are said to
stand for true American trades union
principles and against the Bolshevist.'
Fear that there would be delay In
setting up the new registration lists,
the Official ballots for the coming cleo
t.tN 4.
by October 81 through the refusal OF
$50 printers and pressmen employed
by the Martin b. Brown Printing Com
pany at SO Chambers street to continue
work on the IS hour schedule was dis
PEELED yesterday. The strikers returned
to work at / o'clock in the afternoon
following the action of the firm in
granting the A hour week. Both sides
agreed to submit to arbitration the. de-
mands of the men for a S14 weekly In
crease In wages.
Officials Of Big Six were jubiliant al
the action of the Brown company, which
they said. would break the backbone
of the opposition and cause other en-
ployers to take similar action in the
near future.
In the meantime, however, officials of
the National Horse Show Association
are In a quandary through their inability
to get printed the 5000 copies of the
prize lists which have been ordered The
entries close Wednesday, October 20, and
the show is to be held at the Madison
Squart Garden from November II to 21
for the benefit OF the Salvation Army.
The secretary, Charles w. Smith, said
yesterday that some other means might
be adopted to place the prize lists be-
fore the prospective exhibitors.
The new unions which are being re-
cruited by the international from among
the former members of the insurgent or
ganizations continued 10 gain members
yesterday. The Association of Employ
Ing Printers announced that six of the
largest printing establishments in town
were ready to reopen with pressmen
from the new unions but that they were
prevented from doing so by compositors
who went ION vacation" Pressure was
brought to bear upon these compositors
who are member of Big Six by the Allied
Printing Trades Council. backed by the
American Federation of Labor, and
| threats were made to revoke the union
cards of the recalcitrant workers who did
not return.
The general situation is to be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Printers
League at the Hotel Aston at 10 O'Clock
Friday morning.