The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-04-01
PRINTERS GETTING
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will be a strike in Boston, as there will
be on May 1st anyway if the 44-hour
week is not granted, and there is no evil
denCe to warrant the belief that the
printers will accept a reduction IN wages
at this time, nor any very great llkell-
hood of the accepting of any reduction
in the future as the printers feel that
they were never in the past completely
compensated for their labor and what
they have now they do not propose to
lose without a struggle.
In New Haven the methods pursued
at this time by members of the Typo
thetae are not surprising to the members
of the printing Crafts. Cases are known
where members of the Typographical
union have had propositions made to them
to accept padded" envelopes, work 49,
hour week and have two weeks vaca-
ton in the summer, and when the first
of Nav comes and a strike is called to
furnish automobiles to convey the men,
bcrs back and forth from their work in
the endeavOr to have them escape the
scrutiny of members of the union who
will be on strike.
In the label offices in New Haven the
printers in one Office in particular have
been notified to leave the label off all
printing, that which formerly bore the
label such as theatrical posters and the
| like, and not to use the label in any case
unless specifically ordered by the man
age1nent. Where the label is now used
the name of the firm is invariably left
off and nothing but the number of the
office doing the printing is put on which
is compulsory according to the agree
ment with the Allied Printing Trades
Council which owns the labels. In this
way these picyaune employers keep in
the good graces with the '113' open
shoppers and live up to some sort of an
agreement with them.
While some of the proprietors of the
printing establishments, and some of
their superintendent, are still members
of the Typographical union, the said
proprietors and superintendent are evil
IDENTIFY looking upon their union affiliation
as more or less of a joke. But the joke
may be on the wrong side Of the fence
before the conditions are settled. In one
of the label shops of the city there is a
superintendent who has the somewhat
doubtful reputation of being a comedian.
This gentleman came to New Haven
from Meriden during the memorable
eight-hour day strike of 1907, after he
with some other job printers, had been
locked out in Meriden printing plant.
| He was at that time glad indeed, to
accept the hospitality and goodwill of
New Haven Typographical union, and
the friendship and cooperation of the
| New Haven printers were a big factor
in this same gentleman being elevated
to the more or less wonderful position
of manager. After a few years of more
| or less feeling his way and becoming
successful (?) (mostly through the
means of teh union label), this said
manager has now begun to show the
comedian side of his nature, and has
ordered the union label from all print
ing in the plant that thrived on union
| label work for years. Gratitude Frank
A. Van Dyck, who in 1907 was secre-
tary of Typographical Union No. AZ, and
who now is the great hero of the Typo
thetae, who, as recorded in the daily
press, goes shouting down the corridors
Of the hall at the meetings of the Typo
thetae crying down with the Typo
graphical union" and who is patted on
the back by the aforementioned "113,
and believes himself a modern savior of
the printing industry is another instance
of the perhdy of man. Oh, manica,
tnanica, can you forget old Union street
and the retary-fOreman on the run,
late as ever? But then again, Van Dyck,
! like this comedian-rnanager has never
| been taken seriously, even in his own
shop. Memory how tickle thou art! But
this is 1921. More anon.
OF this manager and his clever come
dian (?) ways we shall probably refer
to in future issues but possibly not in
| a humorous vein