The New York herald., 1921-05-03
Chicago Job Shops Close.

CHICAGO, May 2.--Union job printing
houses in Chicago We're closed to-day as
the result of q strike which also affected
more than fifty cities In all parts OF the
country. It applied to the book and job
printing industry and did not affect tho
newspapers.
The issue. according to the employers.
was the forty-four hour week and what
rate should be paid where 1t is installed.
In Chicago II was estimated that be-
tween 1000 and 4.500 Job printers
struck. The employers said 1t was a
walkout; the unions that it was a lock-
out.
William II. Barnes, secretary of the
Chicago Forty-eight Hour League OF
Employing Printers, declared tonight
after a meeting attended by ninety-three
employing printers who maintain open
shops that the employers would main
tain their stand for the forty-eight hour
week.
At st. Louis 1,50o members OF the
printing and allied trades. represent
Ing about half the job house forces,
We're said to be on strike. Many print
ers of northeastern Wisconsin were in
the agreement to the forty-four hour
week, according to reports to the Wis
Consn Typographical Conference at
Green Bay yesterday.
Three hundred country newspapers in
the Denver territory are affected by
the strike that is tying up the plant
there which supplies them with plate
matter and printed insert sheets.
Between $50 and 200 printers OF Salt
Lake City are reported out.
From Wisconsin and Minnesota paper
mills come reports of 1900 to 1850 men
out, due to the wage controversy In the
paper making industry. British Column
bia pulp and paper mills are reported un-
affected
PHILADELPHIA, May 2.--Union COM
tositors in Philadelphia. Lancaster. Har-
risburg, Chambersburg and Easton went
on strike to-day for forty-four hour
working week instead of forty-eight. In
Philadelphia the walkout was confined
to commercial plants.
A morning newspaper in Lancaster
planned, IL necessary. TO use photo
graphic process to get out It's edition.
other papers published with curtailed
forces. Two evening newspapers In
Easton published their editions. using
new men. In most cities of the State
The printers decided to defer action.
More than 500 men are out here, said
William Young. head OF Philadelphia
typographical Union No. 2. He denied
the men are seeking more than forty
four hours pay for the forty-four hour
week. While sixty-five shops are af-
fected, he said, fifty others already have
;rstituted the forty-tour hour pro-
eramme and are unaffected. He in
creased the estimate OF 90 per cent. of
union men out announced to-day, to 90
Ter snt.
julius Weyl, chairman of The labor
committee of the employers organiza-
tion, the United Typothete. declared
only 45 per cent of the union men were
cut
EAsroN, Pa, May All union print
ers in Easton were on strike to-day for
the forty-four hour week. Those en-
ployed on the Erpress and the Free
Press. the two local afternoon newspa-
pers, also walked out. New men were
employed
JAMESTOWN, N. Y, May May 1
was met with a strike on the part OF the
job printers of the city. demanding a
forty-four hour week. which the en-
ployers refused. The tinsmiths OF the
city have struck against a proposed re-
duction In wages. The building trades
are still at work pending an agreement
with employers. No trouble is reported
in any Of the factories.
AUBURN, ". Y, May 2.-Employlnc
printers in the commercial line having
refused to grant the forty-four hour
week the employees of all went on strike
to-day About twenty-five job printers
are idle. Several shops continue to do
business with non-union help.
WORCESTER. Masa., May 2.-Composi-
tors. pressmen and apprentices employed
in four printing establishments walked
e.. .7a.- utl.nv
notices they would not put the forty-four
hour week into effect. There are twenty
two on strike, according to the head OF
the Typographical Union local. The
plants affected include that publishing
L'Opi,ion Publique, daily newspaper
IN the French language. and that pub
fishing The Catholic Messenger, a
weekly
GLovERsvrLLE. n. T., May All
union job printing plants in Fulton
county ere closed to-day by a strike for
the forty-four hour week. All wage
demands by the newspaper printers have
been refused by the publishers, but the
men are continuing at work pending
further negotiations.
NIAGARA FALLS. Tay 2.---As result,
OF tho strike order effective to-day IN
the Typographical Unions attempt &c
force a forty-four hour week for job
printing competitors, the job printing
shops here are all cloged down or run
ming on an open shop basis to-day.
Printing pressrnen here have not re
ceived any order TO strike.
BUFFALO, May 2.--Ninety per cent oi
the compositors and pressmen employed
in job printing shops which have not
agreed to a forty-four hour week re.
rponded TO the strike CALL II was said
at Typographical Union headuuarter'
here to-day.
SPRINgTrELp. Mass, May 2.--Thre'
concerns employing only a small number
Of mon are affected ~ q strike OF th'
Typographical Union In effect to-day K
enforce forty-four hour week. Elgh
concerns are said 10 have granted th'
shorter schedule. The larger printing
and publishing establishments are nov
being operated on non-union basis ant
therefore are not affected.