Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-08
FORTY-FOUR- HOUR WEEK
MEETS WITH OPPOSITION
Employing Printers, at Meetings
Last Night. Took Stand
Against Change.

Two resolutions opposing the 44-hour
schedule for job printing offices. which !
the typographical Union has put np
- the employers. fixing May | az the
effective date. we're adopted At two
special meetings Of employers last night.
At a meeting Of the job printers at the
r.. VI. Smith Printing Coz office, sO3
Orange street the following resolution
was adopted
whereas, The employing printers ~
Wilmington. Delaware. are faced with
a demand for a reduction Of the work
week 10 44-hours. entailing Increased
cost of the public in our product, which
.ve cannot obtain. or Justly ask. and
Whereas. A reduction in the work
gveok from AZ hours 70 "a hours. as
now demanded BY the printing trade
unions. effective May !, 1891. would
virtually mean the payment Of twelve
fnonthH wages for ten and one-haif
months work. and would result in wholly
m justified ir.crea#e in the price of print
ing. which lncreaze would have 70 be
borne BY the consumer. now therefore
be il
Resolved That the undersigned en-
blowing printers Of Wilmington, Del
aware. in meeting assembled. here and
nov unaiteraby and unequivocailv
pledge ourselves not to aocede 70 the
demand for the 44-hour work week now
or at any time. and we further pledge
ourselves not 10 make any individual
or local contracts with any employees
or body Of employees on a ba,yis OF less
that As working hours per week"
The resolution received the sigma
lures Of the following printing estab-
/ ishnents. e. VI Smith 90. Cam Bros
| 4 Kindig. Inc; Held & Co. Hurber1 a.
Roop. Charles H. Gray. Mercantile
Printing 90. and the Walsh Brothers
Printing Co. Other establishments are
expected TO sign during the day
At a special meeting Of the Typo
theta OF Wilmington talso employers,
| held last night. also. the following reso-
luton was passed;
/ Whereas. The scale committee Of
the Wilmington Typographical Union,
| No I23. has. served notice that Il Will
present a new contract. effective May
= 1921 in which contract the working
hours will be reduced from IS hours "a
"a hours per week, without reduction
Of the present minimum wage scale.
Whereas. Such demand IS not war
ranted by the present conditions. in
creased production being an absolute
necessity to the maintenance Of any
| thing like the present scale and TO meet
the demand on the part Of the consum-
ers OF printing for lower prices. there
fore. be il
Resolved. That the Typothet;e o.
Wilmington, at a special meeting heic
this date. to consider the matter. regis
ter their unqualified disapproval OF any
reduction in the present working hours
as being opposed to the economic re
duirements of the hour and pledg'
themselves TO resist to the utmost am
attempt on the part of the Typographi
cal Union or the individual employees Z
enforce such an unwarranted condition
IN the printing trade.
The local employing printers VIII h0i'
a luncheon next Tuesday at noon a
Iambros. to further consider the mat
: ter. special meeting Of representa-
| tives of local establishments win b
5 held next Thursday evening at the (
NJ smith Printing Co.'S Office. 90
Orange street, in the same connection.
The resolution adopted at the meet
( ing of the Typothetae was not unanl
. NOUS. il was learned this morning
0 though a sufficient number of votes wer
cast in its favor to pass it. A copy c
the resolution Will be forwarded to tn
International TypograI hical Union.
Fred Stierle, a member of the locs
Tvpographical Union. this mornin
: stated that a special meeting of tn
: union would probably be called for neg
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