The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-02
PRINTERS JOIN IN
 NATIONWIDE MOVE
 FOR AMOUR WEEK
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the Bradley, Scovdlle Company, Inc, and Samuel z. Field.
 John Demarest, of the Wilson H. Lee company, president of the local Typothetae, said after a conference of the employers, that all the shops in the city were working. In some of the large ones the composing room force had been cut down fifty per cent, but on a whole the employers regarded the situation as satisfac- tory.
 MT. Demarest said that the employ CTS stood pat" on their previous answer to the Typographical Union that there would be no reduction in wages or hours, that while trying to get the shops back on a pre-war basis there had been no cut in wages. The demand was for an increase of SIS per week over the minimum scale of l S3S making the weekly wage $4S and | the A hour week. The original de- mand was for $55 a week.
 MT. Vandyck is president of the State Employing Printers Association and chairman of the local typothetae committee on industrial relations; l and MT. Field is treasurer of both i the state organization and the local typothetae-
 New York. May 2-The A hour week has been granted the 15,00O printers employed in the book and job printing plants in New York city, the employing printers league an nounced today. The shorter work week becomes effective the first full fiscal week after May l. As typographical Union number six has approved the agreement, no trou- bie de is espseted in the o printing question, officials of the league said but they pointed out tht the question of wage cuts still was pending.
 Chicago, May 2-Between 5000 T workers walked out on strike here today. H. G. CantwelI, labor commits sioner of the Franklin Typothetae of Chicago, declared the strike closed every job printing plant in the city. The men quit work because their de- mands for a A hour week were not granted.
 Pittsburgh, May 2-Printers in 131 commercial printing offices walked out this morning in the nation wide move ment of the International Typograph- ical union for a A hour week. There are 1900 printers out here. Newspa- per offices are not affected. Only a few one man job shops were operat- ing today. The printers now are paid $45 week for 4S hours. They want $44 for A hours.
 Reports to the Pittsburgh Typothe- tae headquarters say that Wheeling, w. Va, Benaire, SteubenvilIe, East Liverpool, Martins-F'erry and other towns on the Ohio border line are closed so far as job shops are con- cerned. Work from these towns will be taken care of in Pittsburgh so far as possible
 At Butler, Pa, the two papers are reported to have been forced to sus- pend for the day at least, due to the refusal of the printers to work
 Glens Falls, N. Y, May 2-The Post-star "a mornfng daily, did not 10 sued stating that the printers had struck for 45 hour week and an in crease from $36 to S39 a week. The publisher terms the wallzout ''an out law strike,' and sent a telegram to International headquarters that the men be forced to return to work.
 The Evening paper, the Times, will not appear today.
 Albany, N Y., May 2-With ap- proximately 10000 union workmen in the printing building and paper trades in northern and eastern New York idle today, the result of strikes, these sections are facing the most serious industrial tie up in their his tory.
 The building workers refused to accept wage reductions of from 10 to 25 per cent, the paper makers re- jected a proposal to reduce their wages 30 per cent. and the printers
 
 for a A hour week were not accepted.
 About 1900 commercial printers were not at their machines in this city today Newspapers continued to be published, however, as the men in these offices work under separate agreements.
 New York, May 2-Denia1 that the Grand Lake Bag Company of Wood land, Maine, has agreed to retain the
 
 workers for another year, was made here today by J. H. Stannard, general manager of the company.
 This denial was prompted by the statement Saturday by J. B. Burke, President of the International Pulp, Su1phite and Paper Mill Workers Union at Glens Falls. N. Y, to the effect that the Grand Lake Bag Com pany had deserted the paper manu- lecturers who are urging revision of the wage scale
 Boston, May 2-About 1,SOo paper workers in New England were idle today as a result of their refusal to 20 to 80 per cent The employees of the Oxford Paper Company at Rum ford, Maine and the $. D. Warren Paper Company at Westbrook, Maine, accepted the new scale. Sev- eral other concerns, according to union leaders, continued the old rates.
 The International Paper Com panys plants at Livermore Falls. Chishold and Rumford, Maine, en- p1oying 1,500 persons, suspended operations and a thirty per cent. re- ductfon announced at Franklin, N. H., was rejected by the union there.
 New Britain, Conn, May 2.-The job printing department of the New Britain Record has agreed to the A hour week demand of the union printers, thus preventing a strike at that plant today. Other union job printers have also agreed, with the exception of the New England Weekly Printing Company where the printers are out on strike
 Cleveland. Ohio, May 2.-Between 25.000 and 30,O0O men. employed in more than 20 crafts affiliated with the building trades council, left their jobs this morning immediately after report ing for work on budding contracts controlled by the Cleveland Building Trades Employers Association.
 The mems demand for continual tion of the wage scale for the year ending yesterday was not met by the employers, who insist that a new