The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-06-17
FORTY.FOUR
HOUR BULLETIN
Number Six
LET the Called Jade Vince"

clrcuIar-unuer UHe neau Employ
ing Printers of America (Open Shop)."
This circular is filled with false and
malicious statements, the usual resort
in a losing cause. Our members are
wise to this sort of campaigning and
it will not hoodwink any of them.
The ten per cent assessment is being
paid and our members are as loyal,
earnest and confident of victory as
when the forty-four- -hour-week battle
was started. This fight, primarily for
universal Saturday half-holiday, has
through outside influences now devel-
oped into a fight against the intro
duction of the open shop in the print
ing industry. The employers can not
secure non-union help in sufficient
number to be of any assistance and
now resort to unscrupulous methods
to break the morale of our members
on strike In the circular mentioned
the open shoppers refer to members
of the International Typographical
Union as Goose e-steppers, puffed
shock troops of labor union autoc-
racy" They say further Man
ufacturers and trade associations an
nounce that no business will be given
by members to any printing firm that
accepts the forty four hour week, 4"
T
yer, Spokane and many other cities
the business interests are giving their
sympathetic support to printing firms
resisting the slack work-week." So
much for their threat of boycott.
In a futile effort to break the mo-
rale of our members on strike, they
say" -"Strike benefits paid by the
unions thus far are so small in COM
parison to the wages to which the
strikers are accustomed that the
strike is already being financed to a
| large extent out of their personal
savings. Bitter complaints are being
voiced because of suspected partiality
| in the distribution of strike benefits,
some localities being mysteriously
favored and others painfully sighted" "
They say further-'C Confronted with
disastrous defeat in the present
strike, union leaders in some locah-
ties are already attempting an infil-
tration movement, quietly instructing
certain picked members to get their
| Jobs back on the forty-eight-hour ba-
sis if possible" And once again we
are compelled to say-"Lies; all
lies"
The meat of the entire campaign
of these industrial disruptionists-
| Employing Printers of America
Open Shop")--is in the following,
which is taken from their bulletin:
Let the men come back only when
they decide to tear up their union
cards and sign individual contracts .
That is precisely what they want
thatsis precisely the condition they
would enforce if they could defeat the
forty-four- hour movement.
The following kilograms just re-
ceived:
Albany, n Y, June 7, 1921.
81. B. Lyon Company, employing
two hundred members of Typograph-
ical Union No 4, who refused to grant
forty -four-ho week on May /, today
signed up forty-four hours, this in
addition to twenty other shops. Ex-
pect to sign all shops within the
week HART, Albany"
Sioux City, Iowa, June 7, 1921.
"Forty-four- hour week agreed to in
all shops and also job and newspaper
scales agreed to.
CHARLES RHODE"
Toronto, Ont, June Z, 1921.
First real break in typothetae.
Southman, thirty-fve-card office, con-
cedes forty-four hour week with pre-
vailing wage. JAMES DRURY."
In addition to the foregoing the fol-
lowing unions have secured the forty
four-hour week covering all offices in
their jurisdictions. These are the
gains since the last bulletin was is
sued:
Albuquerque, N. NJ; Ashtabula, o.;
East Liverpool, O.; Elmira, n Y;
Mattoon, H.; Glens Falls, N. ";
Marysville, Cal. ST. Hyacinthe, Que;
Mason City, Iowa; Oroville, Cal;
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont; Somerville, n.
j.; Victoria, B. C.