The labor world., 1921-12-24

be. passed up.
-" Business Must Pay.
The Federated Ira les assembly is
cooperating with the Duluth Typo
graphical union and every buyer of
printing in Duluth will be told the
truth about the printers strike. 1t
will be shown to Duluth business
men that buyers of printing are to
be charged the cost of the strike to
the employers.
The trade papers of the printing
industry, declares the Typographical
union, have been advocating that
employing printers should add five
per cent to the regular cost of every
job they print to help pay the ex-
penses of the strike.
1t is pointed out that the Citi-
zens' Alliance has not made good its
claim that the destruction of the
unions would help business. The
unions declare that its campaign
against them has destroyed business
rather than union labor, which is
still on the job.
Know Their Friends.
Printers who know the inside of
the business have come to the con-
clusion that the strike would have
been over long ago were 1t not for
the Citizens Alliance, an Organiza-
ton which is sustained and support
ed by the business men. Merchants
get the bulk Of their trade from the
workers. They can't fight them and
hold their friendship and patronage
at the same time.
The struggle of the printers is to
resolve itself between all union labor
and friendly merchants on one side.
and the Citizens Alliance. nom
union printing employers and un-
friendly business firms on the other.
The sheep will be separated from the
goats. and every union home will
be advised who are friendly and who
are unfriendly and their patronage
will be given accordin. ly.
The following is the copy Of the
letter which will be sent to every
business firm in Duluth next week.
1t is to be signed by the Federated
Trades assembly and Duluth Typo
graphlcal union:
Seven Months Fight.
The labor unions of Duluth have
for more than seven months with
stood an assault upon their right to
exist as labor organizations, and to
have a voice in determining the
terms Of service unCcr which their
members may work.
hovo ouyoifo1 tn :
return of a reasonable state of mind
among their opponents.
They have patiently WithstOod
Misrepresentation and boycott OF
their members.
Your particular attention is called
to the strike obtaining in the com
mercial printing industry, which i:
now in the eighth month.
More than year before this strike
took place the employing printer:
were preparing for the population
Of an agreement made between In
ternational representatives of the
printing trade unions and represen'
tatives of employers.
The representative of the Duluth
employers sat in q meeting in New
York, in September 1919, that voted
unanimous ratification of this agree
mcnt.
Costs Are Increasing.
You have noted an increasing cos
Of your printing for several year.
past. You have been told that i
was due to the high wages and un
ceasing demands of the printing
trade unions.
The fact is that you paid $500
per hour plus profit of rs per cen
for the typesetting your printing
the wages of the compositor were
S7k cents per hour, the highes
wage ever obtained in Duluth fol
:, compositors in book and job shops
Ind this wage has been In force onl,
since April 1920.
You were stuck for high prices
on your printing-the employing
printers, on their OWL admission
made more money than they eve
made BEFORE"
When people began to look fol
relief from high prices, and whe1
resentment against the economic
conditions was developing, the enc
mics of organized labor, the Citi
tens Alliance, came to you and tolt
you that if the labor unions wer'
disrupted all would be well; tina
prices would ccme down and tina
business would be better than ever.
9Yau were told that l. the union
were put out of business you woul|
be relieved of high prices for build
ing, advertising, printing. ETC."
Freight Both Ways.
'After sticking you for high price
for printing, you were pursuaded t
= hid IN the fight against the union
morally and financially-that Is
tome Of you werc."
You were expected to give NOR
money to the same people that ha
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