The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-30

ing printers call their latest scheme
Now, who in America will dare t.
oppose real American plan in in
dustry, when industrial activities
have practically broken down and |
real plan is Of vital necessity
Thousands of naive people, who reat
in the newspapers that Boston print
efs are fighting for the American
plan may think that the strikers are
either hostile foreigners, or traitors
to the American people. But dom
be fooled. The plan is neither Amer.
lean or Russian. 1t is neither new
nor extra a-ordinary. It is the regula,
capitalist robbers plan. 1t was used
during the Lawrence and Fall River
Textile strikes. 1t was used during
the bloody steel strike, only supple
mented with armed forces of the
capitalists. In the same manner the
plan was carried out in West Vir.
ginia, Colorado, Ludlow and other
strikes. The capitalists and their
daily press always call their egoistic
and criminal schemes American, OF
Americanism, or patriotic. They all
ways want the people to believe that
strikers are un-American.
List of Particulars.
In this particular case there are
three main points in the employers
plan. Q) about 10 to 209o reduction
of wages, at present affecting about
1000 compositors, press feeders,
pressmen, binders and electrotypers;
(2) 4S-hr. minimum working week;
(3) destruction of unions. This is
the way they have proceeded to car
ry out their American plan Estate
ment of w. W. Barrett first vice.
president of the International Typo
grapnlcal UnlOn).
"The Boston Typothetae Board Of
Trade, in the present controversy
has violated and set aside all the old
established customs of the printing
industry by arbitrarily posting no
tees of a reduction of wages, which
in the past had always been settled
between the employing printers and
the printing trades unions by either
conciliation or arbitration.
"In the present instance the loca
Typothetae has simply taken ad'
vantage of trade conditions, and is
attempting to force reductions ir
wages on all of the printing trade
crafts without giving them an op
portunity to show Why their wages
shouldn't be cut. In so far as the
44-hour week is concerned, the short
er week was agreed to for May l
1921, some two years ago by thu
Employing Printers National AS
sociation, and this movement is sim
ply being used by the Boston Typo
thetae as an excuse to reduce wages
'The local Typothetae and all Other
employing printers, despite theil
statements to the contrary, are par
ties to the national agreement OF
the 44-hour week, and the actor
, taken here in Boston by the loca
branch is clearly reputation b,
the employers of their obligations
The employers have also estab
lished a strike-b breakers school at 81
Austin St., Cambridge, Mass. Her
is what they say about it:
"In view of the nationwide uniol
strike for a 44.hour week in plac
of 4S, and an increase of Sc pc
week in wages, scheduled to star
May LIST, coupled with the great scar
city of apprentices, the Boston opel
shop branch of the United Typo
thetae of America, an association o
master printers, has arranged wit
S. Heinzelman, proprietor of the Pu
ritan Linotype Co., to use his plan
as school. The school will accom-
modate 80 to 40 pupils. It is not tn
intention of the school managemen
to give the boys a complete journey
mems training, but to ASSIGl
THEM TO SOME AFFILIATED
SHOP as soon as they are qualifie
for some branch of the business"
The employers also carry on cor
siderable educational work anon
themselves, and a lot of dece
through newspapers, etc.
Here is sample Of the dope this
is being mailed out to all employer
in the district:
Slight against a. hours. Ha,
weekly meetings. Distribute 4-pae
folder telling what good Typotheta
! does among printers. Engage couns
in case Of fight. Assess members fl
having printing done. URGE MINIS
TIERS TO PREACH ON OPEN ar
CLOSED SHOPS. Write up adver
isements, news letters and editoria
ah0uf 44.hnur week. and enlirhts