The sun., 1919-09-24
PRINTING PLANTS
PLAN SHUTDOWN
End of Book and Job Business
Here Foreseen If Radicals
Win in Demands.
RREAK EXPECTED TO-DAY
Majority of Members Of "Big
Six" Do Not Approve of
Action by Agitators.

neclaring the concessions demanded
no the pressmen's unions to be abso-
mtely ruinous to their business, employ
,ro hook and job printers of this city
made arrangements yesterday for a
sbutdown OF all Of their plants a week
from to-day in event of strike being
called.
Heads of the various printing houses
discussed the matter at length at a con-
,erence in the Hotel Pennsylvania. AL
though no formal statement was issued
ot the close of this talk. one of the con-
ferees said:
.'What the unions ask OF us is a sur
render of all of our rights. We have
inst been informed that James ]. Bag
lev head of the pressmen, insists upon
permanent abolition of all contracts.
He saws that his union does not wish to
be bound in the future by any agree
ments whatever.
under such conditions would be utterly
impossible. An employer would not
know at what hour of the day his men
might leave their jobs. If he granted
their demands fgf an increase one
week, they might come back the follow
ing week with further requests. The
employer would not know from one hour
TO the next where he was standing. The
whole business would be thrown into a
state of chaos and uncertainty, and II
would be hardly worth while for any,
body TO remain in It. It would simply
force a general evacuation of New York
city by all book and job printers.
striking Pressmen Suspended,
THE attitude of the pressmen's
unions is the last word In Bolshevism.
Their own international organization
has so branded 1t. and has suspended
them for that reason. The men favor
ing a strike on October 1 have been
spurred on by irresponsible radicals
whose desire is not SO much to secure
higher wages as to promote general un-
rest and intolerable conditions. These
radicals would be well pleased II they
succeeded in throwing thousands of men
out OF work, for they think that 1t would
in some way help their cause. The offer
made by the printers is fair and lib
eral, but the Bolshevik element is de-
sirous of killing the goose that lays the
golden egg"
The employing printers who have Of
fered to arbitrate everything, even the
matter of forty-four week. with the
unions, will meet the representatives OF
big Six" typographical, union to-mor-
row afternoon at the offices of the AS
ISOLATION of Employing Printers in the
Fuller Building. This meeting has beer
arranged in accordance with resolutions
passed at the meeting of big Six
Sunday, which was ruled from first 'tc
last by members of the Socialist clique
which favors strife. Another meeting
viii be held Friday, when the member;
Of the Printers League will take up the
various phases of the situation and will
officially hear the results OF Tomorrow
meeting. F. A Slcox of the Bureau o.
Industrial Relations will attend boil
meetings.
The pressmen, headed by Bagley ant
Bernard Nolan, who have been oustet
from their international organization
because of their defiance of their owl
rules and disrespect for contracts, will
not be permitted to participate in to
fmorrow's conference. The employer
will have nothing to do with these bodies
because they are not in good standing
with the bigger organizations.
WaIkout Planned for To-day.
To-day the followers of Bagley ant
Nolan will quit their jobs in the various
book and job printing establishment
for the purpose of attending a strike
war dance. Contracts which thei
unions have with the employers provid,
for imposition of severe penalties fol
quitting work in such manner, but tn,
strike agitators say that they do no
intend to regard contracts in the future
Among members of big Six" yester'
day it was apparent that the strik
move was gaining no favor. Man!
p members expressed themselves as in nj
way inclined to shake the tree" fol
Bagley's and Nolans crews. They fee
that those outfits are trying to push
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