Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-05-06
PRINTERS
FIGHT FOR
LIFE is ON

The printers hSlf ~
eaasfer" printers refuse TO recognize
,ss value Of human life. Human iiNes
- fbeu are n9thing when compared TO
55.flsrs and profit Knowing that exist.
-. Conditions are taking away nine
- of life from their printers, they
- determined TO perpetuate these
EDITIONS. and have adopted the so
szIIsd american plan of individual
bareaining. long hours, low pay, and
early death for the printers.
Iaeal lob offices are all running "as
,.sYal" as the local newspapers would
issxa the public to believe. Five newly
created scabs and few imports are at
work. but TO say the shops are running
a. usual is not the truth. During the
tore mart of the week not a linotype
machine was turning with the excep-
,,on of one owned and operated by
,ronrietor. who has entered the ranks
~ the union busters. Men brought to
town To work in scab shops have left
as soon as they found the true condf.
ton of affairs.
Tnthe meantime, every member af-
fected by the trouble but FIVE have
the newspapers of the Twin Cities and
in nearby union towns. The union at
It's special meeting Sunday afternoon
voted solidly to support the strike to
the finish A 100 percent vote of con-
6dence in the International Typogra-
nhieal Union and the 44-hour drive for
longer life shows the determination of
every union printer in the Twin Cities
70 back their stand with united action.
The newspapers of the two cities are
not affected by the strike, they having
signed agreements extending until next
May
Job shops which have signed the
union agreement are: Cooperative
Press Twin City Review, Pease Print
shop. The Illini job shop is running
under union conditions although as
vet no contract has been signed. The
University Press is state institution,
and is under civil service laws. 1t Is
therefore not possible to sign contracts
with this concern. which, according to
law. must be governed by conditions
existing In the locality In which It is
situated. The Campbell shop In Ur.
hama has suspended business until FUR
ther arrangements can be made. Mr..
Campbell having virtually struck
against his own shop.
Leading up to the present trouble.
the facts are as follows:
Shorty after the close of the war ii
was realized by the employing printers
and the Typographical Union that a
reconstruction" period would soon
come. AT a preliminary meeting 1t
was decided that in the future any
movement changing existing conditions
in organized printing establishments
would be AGREED UPON by represen-
tatiyes of both sides concerned. To
this end the three employing groups
employing UNION printers tnon-union
employers and the United Typothetae
had nothing whatever to do with the
proceedings because they were in no
way concerned) chose four delegates,
and the four unions selected four dele
gates and the International Council
was formed and at meeting held In
April 1919, the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved. that both parties are to
submit to their respective bodies: that,
beginning May /. 1921, the forty-four
hour week will prevail nationally in
tho printing industry, and that each
side recommend the adoption of this
resolution to their constituent bodies
and report at the next meeting of the
International Joint Conference Coun.
Gil"
Following this, at New York, on Sep.
haFs ~ ell .4x~xx ola
tlon was passed by the closed shop
branch Of the United Typothetae:
Resolved, by the Closed Shop
Branch of the United Typothetae of
America, in annual convention assem-
bled in New York, on September Is.
1919, In accordance with the intent ex-
pressed in the National Joint Confer
enee Council, That we hereby agree to
the Introduction of the forty-four hour
week in the Closed Shop Branch on
May l. 1921"
The resolution establishing the forty
Tour hour week on May /. 1921, was
also ratified by every organization con
heeted with the International Joint
conference Council, and at each of
'he twenty meetings held since the res
"'o ehpHA1u AhClt pN'h
It.
Later, at meeting of the Joint Con-
ference Council held In Atlanta. Ca,
oh december Is and IA, 1920, ii was
Resolved, That this Joint Confer.
g Tnee Council considers ALL MEM
bEhs OF its constituent bodies are mo-
!@iy bound to adopt and put into effect
,ae, ,ae iiorty-four hour week on May 1,
Inc iulftlment of this agreement has
T' Tos oeen carried out by the proprietors.
me 1nsy have made II a scrap of paper.
ana are determined to put into force
=, sasI they call the "open" shop. with
is long hours under conditions I'm.
posed by the employer, and at what
e'ef hours he sees fit to adopt.
IA Al Monday nights meeting of the
issPographieal union, that body voted
rs.s, >. savor Of the 10 per cent assessment
3 sst.VpoSstlon, the proposition carrying
~ ~ {. The vote was taken bv every
d. printers union under the juris-
ieai ii'II IN oi The International Typograph-
Nd