New-York tribune., 1919-09-19
lIob Printers
Help Unions to
Fight Radicals
Employers Agree to Grant
M-Hour Week in 1921:
Wages Will Be Arbitrated
il Not Agreed Upon Now
Strike Here Is Illegal
International Bodies Call
the Insurgcnt Leaders in
New York ''Bolshcviki"

rmnloyers and union leaders in the
.,;nting and publishing industry yes
,.raay joined hands in determined
.sort to defeat the purposes Of Dol
.sev;k" unions and their threats to
..r;ke unless demands made in viola
ron of existing contracts are met.
In an all day conference at the Penn
.r,vanis Hotel officers of the Intcrna-
,ional Printing Trades Unions and the
employing printers of the book and
;oh departments of the United Ty
notbetaa an agreement was entered in
~ which may be summed up as fol-
lows:
The proposed forty-four- hour week.
20 90 into effect May /, 1921, will be
accented without contest by the en-
ployers.
ready offered by the employers to
the allied printing trades Will be ac-
cepted as basis for arbitration by
both sides if an agreement cannot
be reached otherwise.
The demands Of "outlawc6" local
unions that the forty-four- hour week
90 into effect October /. along with a
si4 increase in pay, Will be con
tested by the international unions
associated with the A F. OF L. as
we'll as by the employers.
All Strikes Irregular
The conclusions reached at yestcr-
days conference are ncccptcdi by the
union leaders and publishers as effect
ively settling the outstanding differ
ences with the legitimate unions asso-
ciated with the American Federation of
Labor. Strikes now Will be impossible.
Key hold, except when called By the
"outlawed' or "Bolshcvik" organiza-
tons which have been expelled from
he national body.
At the conclusion of the conference
T. A. Silcox, director of industrial re-
lations Of the United Typotheta of
smerica, thus explained the work Of
he committee:
AT a meeting OF the International
'oint Conference, representing the
book and job branch of the printing
industry Of the United States and
Canada, including the four intern
.ional organizations OF the closed shop
section OF the employers organizations
md the four international trades
nnions, two important actions were
AIKEN.
ION the part of the employers it
vas reported by the unanimous action
q the closed shop branch of the
nited Typothet@ of America, the ma
'.onal organization OF employing
printers, at their convention just held
at the Hotel Commodore, that the reso-
lution TO establish d forty-four-h hour
vorking week IN the closed shop sec
ION Of these industries, to go into ef-
iec. May !, 1921, was ratified.
May Agree on Wages
The presidents OF the international
gnions, after careful invest cation of
the New York sitution, announced their
conviction that. without discussion of
the question Of the demands for wages
or working conditions, the propose Is
Of the employing printers were fair
basis for arbitration If no agreemens
could be reached at still further con-
;erences.
They also issued Joint statement
70 further define their attitude toward
the position taken by the local unions" "
ihls statement was given the unani-
nous support of the conference, in
which the following union leaders and
employers participates G. l.. Kalk-
hoH, closed shop section of United