The sun., 1919-11-01
LIBERTY BONDS TO
SUPPORT STRIKERS
Freshmen Draw on $4,000
i'm Securities for Relief Of
Worthless Members.
TALK OF FINISH FIGHT
Free1 Exposes Plan for One
Big Union to Control the
Printing Industry.

Printing Industry.
The three oornered row among the
conservative and radical elements in the
printing trade and their employers.
which has closed most Of the book and
job printing shops here for almost Ave
weeks, seemed further away from a
settlement yesterday than at any time
since the strike began.
The Job and press feeders, thrown out
of work by the pressmen's' walkout. met
at Arlington Hall and voted to lend
s125. 900 in Liberty bonds. War Savings
Stamps and other securities to support
their, unemployed members. At the
same time the weekly benefit payment
was reduced so that. the leaders claim,
they can hold out three months more II
necessary.
James ]. Bagley president Of Frank
lin Union 20, one of the two that have
lost their international charters, said
last night his men had subscribed to
Liberty loan drive and he expected that
the fifst call for help would raise at
least t25o.ooo.
We are in this strike to win,' Mr.
Bagley said. I'VE will put the business
out of the city altogether II necessary
Four hundred Of our men were shipped
out of town to-day. The union is help
ing them get work and we find that the
single men are ready to leave New
York"
Expulsion Action Postponed.
The demand OF the American Fedora
ton of Labor that the Central Federated
Union unseat as delegates James j.
Bagley and Bernard Nolan. presidents
OF the two seeding pressmen's union,
was taken under advisement at meet
ing In Labor Temple last night After
considerable discussion, in which II APP
peared that an agreement would be dh-
ficult TO reach, II was decided to post
pone action until the general meeting of
the C. F. u. next Friday
The national organization besides in
sisting on the ousting OF Bagley and
Nolan directed the G. F. u. to rescind
resolutions previously adopted express
ing support of the strike conducted by
the insurgent pressmen.
A conference at the Hotel Astor was
held by the Printers League yesterday
morning and the league again submitted
an arbitration proposition to big Six
whose members are taking vacations
in sympathy with the striking pressmen.
Leon H. Rouse, its president. said action
would be taken on the proposal at
meeting of the union to be held to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock In the
nd
10th street.
The proposal is an offer to arbitrate
the forty-four hour week and all the
other demands II the 'vacationists' can
be persuaded to return to work. WILL
lam Green, chairman of the labor COM
mittee Of the Printers League, said the
league already has closed contracts with
the bookbinders and the mailers. but the
pressmen and compostors are holding
out
Striving for One Big Union.
At the Aston conference James Freel.
international president OF the Stereo-
typers and Electrotypers Union. charac-
terized the actions of the local pressmen
as part of a movement to make one
| big union in the printing trade.
Mr. Freel said the International Typo
graphical Union by n referendum vote
| had refused to sanction the demand OF
| any local union for a forty-four hour
week before May. 1921, by four to
one vote.
Rouse has thought It the proper thing
| to tie UP with the local secessionists,
| Mr. Freel said. Grouse Is the president
of the local typographical union.) De-
spite a letter from the international
| warning him against this he conspired
and Joined with the local pressmen's
unions. He has gone 80 far now that
don't believe he con control his men.
After the local typographical union
| had ordered It's men to go back from
their vacations they did not go back be-
cause the man at the head did not want
| them TO go back"
Mr.. Freel attacked James Bagley as
| pro-GerInan and said Bagiey's men want
| to control the printing industry and that
they believe in and advocate destruc-
ton of industry" In reply to this Mr.
Bagiey said last night that Arthur J.
| Baldwin. one of the leaders on the EN-
| ployers' side, had mentioned In a recent
| address before the Advertising Club that
| a man he knew had moved his manu-
| featuring business to Germany because
| of industrial conditions
Says Union Men VIII Work.
The strike of the electrotypers and
| bookbinders in the magazine publishing
| plant of Street & Smith. because that
| firm agreed to terms with the striking
! pressmen, was held TO be unimpcrtant
| by Mr.. Bagley. He said that enough
union electrotypers and bookbniders to
run the Street a. Smith plant had offered
| their services and they would be put
| on as soon as the publishing house
needed them.
| Martin Apy and George f. Garrison,
| presidents OF the Electrotypers and
| Stereotypers unions, would cay nothing
regarding the Street & Smith strike.
The November Issue Of the Pictorial
ReVteto, which has been on the presses
since the beginning OF the strike, may
be printed by strike breakers. II was
said yesterday.
William Green OF the Printers League
received a printed circular yesterday
! mailed in an envelope bearing the return
card OF the Bay Ridge Printing and
! Publishing Company. 4706 Third avenue,
Brooklyn. This circular was addressed
| 'Fellow Workers." and said in part:
| Are the comps going to accept less
than $50 for forty-four hours1 II they
do, will the machine operators accept II :
: What are the chances of Big Six leaving
! Nos l, 23 and 81 fiat and returninsr'
The circular attacked the press for Its
alleged hostile attitude. II was signed
by l.. Robinsrn Werner. Mr.. Bagley said
, he did not sl6w Werner.
| JOJTRNAI, MOVES TO ST. IOIJIS