The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-02-14
TO
END TROUBLE
ARE'FAILURE
international Officers Declare Men
Should Have 0beyed Original Order
to Go Back TO Work, Following Con-
ferences Yesterday--New Haven
Typographical Union Working to
Restore Harmony, Another Con-
ference VIII be Held Today.

Conferences with the publishers by
Cornelius N. Ballard, president of the
New Haven typographical Union, John
E. Mclaughlin of New York and A. J.
Dunham of Springfield, organizers of
the Typographical Union, followed by
a special meeting of the New Haven
Typographical Union last night, failed
to make any change in the newspaper
publication situation in New Haven,
which for the past two days has been
at standstill. Except for discus
netted nothing and at the meeting Or
ganizer Mclaughlin did not order the
printers back to work, but declared that
they shauid have obeyed the orders to
go back, given them by President Bal
lard upon receipt of orders to that eff
feet from President Scott of the Inter
national Typographical Union.
Further conferences will be held with
the publishers today at which it is hoped
that some solution will be reached. The
meeting of the printers last night was
an especially lively session, especially
in discussion of the order to return to
work. Organizer Mclaughlin declared
the men should have obeyed President
Ballard and left their grievances to set
tIement later. In answer many MEM
bers declared that when the order to
resume work, or stay at work, was re-
ceived here, there wasn't enough men
left to get ont the papers.
An unprecedented event took place in
New Haven Thursday when all the
daily newspapers suspended publication
because, through designations Of the
printers there were not enough men left
to get them out. The publishers is
sued forms, blank except for an an
nouncement in large type, that the sus-
pension was due to the violation of
their agreement by the Typographical
Union and the refusal of the men who
left the shops to return to work on or
ders of their international officers.
This charge the Typographical Union
officers emphatica11y refute, inasmuch as
the Typographical Union had absolute
1y nothing to do with the matter until
yesterday afternoon when a special
meeting of the local Union was held
take up the matter. The men in resign
ing acted as individuals, most of them
taking withdrawal cards from the local
Union and going out of the city for
other work. Those that remained in
town, but quit, did so because they saw
able to carry on the task with their
small forces. At no time even up to
last night were the papers left COM
pletely without men, number obeylng
the order of their local officers to re-
main at work. .. .s..
While the question of an increase
in wages is undoubtedly large factor
in the trouble, the overtime they had
to put in to get out the papers since
the war began was the real cause of the
designations, according to the men. Be-
cause the scale of $50 week, granted
here a few months ago, is in from Sc
to $40, lower than is paid in nearby CT
ties printers could not be induced to
take jobs here and therefore the print
ers, instead of working the six days a
week at eight hours day, were in fact,
working seven days week with any
where from nine to ten hours day.
The demand for printers outside New
Haven at higher rates, especially in New
York following the big strike there is
so great that many of the New Haven
printers sought jobs elsewhere and re-
signed. The designations finally became
so numerous that even more overtime
work was in prospect SO others, even
to some of the veteran New Haven
men also handed in their designations
and prepared to seek jobs elsewhere.
The exodus began a week ago and
the officers of the local Union were call
ed in by the publishers and insistence
made that the agreement whereby
the $50 a week. was granted, be
adhered to. Efforts on the part
of the local officers to order the men
who had resigned, back to work were