The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-02
PRINTERS STRIKE
FOR FORTY-FOUR
HOURS PER WEEK
Commercial Printing Houses
of c. s. Hit Hardest.
Acceptance of Terms in Some
Cities Averts Crisis.
SOME PAPERS SUSPENDED
Situation Over U. S. Uncertain
Only Effective Locally.
One Canadian Paper Puts Out
ElectrOtyped Editions.
Acceptance of Terms in Some
Cities Averts Crisis.
SOME PAPERS SUSPENDED
Situation Over U. S. Uncertain
Only Effective Locally.
THE STRIKE SITUATION

Thousands of printers in America
went on strike today to fight for A.
hour week.
Some newspapers were affected and
forced to suspend editions. JOB
printing shops were hit the hardest
Leaders of the International Typo
graphical union declared a contract
signed with their employers in 1919
would put the 44-hour week and an
increased scale into effect this year.
Employers declared they cannot re-
duce working time and maintain the
present level of wages and production.
Most newspapers had signed con-
tracts with their printers. At Ian
caster. Pa, three papers resorted to
the photo engraving process. At AL
bany. N. Y, papers were not affected.
One paper was suspended temporar-
lily at Glens Falls, N. Y.
In Buffalo. n. Y. 200 commercial
printers walked out. The number of
strikers in Philadelphia was 400, no
newspapers being affected in either
city.
Two hundred quit work in Roches
ter, n. Y; 10 in Cleveland: 1000 or
more in St. Louis were on strike. In
St. Louis. 100 employing printers ac-
cepted the 44-hour week and prevent
ed strikes.
In WiIkesbarre. Pa. all job print
ers were out but newspaper workers
> signed up for a 4S-hour week. The
strike was effective in Harrisburg, Pa.
Printers in Mount Carmel, Pa, voted
an assessment to help the strike but
will remain at work under contract
expiring in February, 1922
The strike was especially noticeable
in the big printing centers of the east
but it spread thru the south and west,
also. and along the Pacific coast
Printers failed to report for work
today in Atlanta and Memphis, Oma-
ha. San Francisco. Denver and Anna
rillo. Tex. Several cities reported the
men were at work but expected to
withdraw later.
John MCFARLAND, indianapolis. pres
ident of the International Typograph-
ical union, declared the strike a. sue
cess.
Strike Is Not General.
Chicago, May 2-Acceptance by en-
ployers of many of the larger cities of
the forty-four hour week in the
printing industry today appeared to
have averted a nationwide strike in
book and job printing shops. aItho iso-
lated strikes in newspaper plants and
job offices had been called to take
effect today.
Local officials of the International
Typographical union were authorized
by International headquarters to call
strikes where employers refused to
concede the forty-four hours and in a
number of cities in the east. news
papers were suspended by strikes of
printers.
Other Unions Wavering.
In several cities strike votes also
were being taken by pressmen and
other unions allied in the printing in
dustry. About ESQ locals thruout the
country had signed Al hour week con-
tracts with some of the employers in
Guiding job printing shops in New
York. Chicago. Cincinnati, Milwaukee
and Indianapolis but in several cities
of the west and south, strikes were
expected today.
Members of the Big Six" local of
the international Typographical Union
of New York City, voted to defer in
stitution OF the A hour week for one
week, when it is expected to be in
augurated without friction.
No announcement was made at in
ternational headquarters of the Typo
graphical union at Indianapolis of the
results of the conference with Score
tary of Labor Davis and employing
printers at Washington. international
officials of the union were expected to
return today to Indianapolis
Spreads to Canada.
In Denver 900 printers announced a
strike effective today and in Salt Lake
City 130 voted not to report for work
today. -Four hundred printers in San
Francisco voted to strike when en-
ployers refused to pay the 4S-hour
week rate for a 44-hour week
In Albany. n. Y. 1900 job printers
are affected by failure to effect a
44-hour week agreement Cleveland
printers threatened a walkout today
unless the 44-hour week is granted by
employers when the men report fol
work today
The strike also spread to Canada
job printers in Halifax and newspaper
printers in st. Johns, n. F., voting g
strike. Newspaper officers in Cham
bersburg, Lancaster and Butler, Pa.
and Glenn Falls, n. Y, were tied uT
by strikes of printers, but one paper
in Lancaster used electrotypes made
from typewriter copy for Monday:
issue.
Thousand Out at Pittsburgh. Pa.
Pittsburgh. Pa. May 2.-Approxi-
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