The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-02
PRINTERS STRIKE

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mately one thousand printers IN lSI
job printing shops struck here today
to enforce their demands for a forty
four hour week.
Other Crafts Walk Out.
Cleveland, May 2.-Between $4,000
and $4,000 men employed in more
than twenty crafts affiliated with the
building trade council, left their jobs
| this morning as a result of the refusal
of the Cleveland Building Trades EN-
ployers' association to continue the
wage scale for another year.
| Omaha, May about seventy job
+; printers from eight or ten shops were
out today because of demands for a
! 44-hour week, John Martin, president
| of the union announced. He said the
men were not on strike but had been
| locked out" having been told Sat
urday not to report today unless they
desired to work under open shop con-
ditions.
Denver, May 2.-Unfon job printers
of Denver were on strike today, fol-
lowing a unanimous vote in favor of
a walkout because demands for A.
| hour week were refused. About $50
| printers are affected.
| Rochester, N Y, May Com
mercial printers to the number of IT'S
to 200 walked out today on demand
| for the 44hour week.
Philadelphia, May 2-SeveraI hun
| dred printers, members of the Phila-
delphia locals of the Typographical
union were expected by union leaders
to go out on strike here today to force
their demand for a 44-hour week. The
strike will not affect newspapers.
Wichita Falls, Tex, May Print
| ers working in commercial job shops
result of the refusal of the pro-
prietors to grant 44-hour week with
out a reduction in wages.
ST. Louis, May 2.-Early estimates
today were that between 1900 and
$500 job printers were on strike as
the result of the dispute over the Al
hour week. Union officials declared
approximately 100 job shops had &C
cepted the 44-hour week.
Cleveland, May 2.-Approximately
$50 commercial printers in job print
ing establishments here walked out
today.
Albany, N. Y, May b-With the ex-
piration of wage and working agree
| ments. members of the Typographical
union went on strike today for an in
Newspapers are not affected.
It is estimated that fully 900 men
are out of work as a result of the
strike in Albany, Troy, Schenectady
and other cities and towns within a
sixty-mile radius.
Indianapolis, May 2.-"The back
bone of the employers of mmercial
printers is broken
This was the statement Issued today
by John MCFARLAND. president of the
International Typographical union.
MCFARLAND said reports of strikes
all over the country were pouring into
his office, but that it was impossible
to tell how many were on strike.
He said employees were dealing with
employers individually because the
employers had no tangible national
organization to work with.
Lancaster, Pa, May demands
for a 44-hour week were refused the
Lancaster Typographical union by en-
ploying printers here and as a result
$50 journeymen printers are on strike
today. The three newspapers. the Ex-
aminer. New Era. the Intelligencer
and the News-Journa1, are publishing
with curtailed forces. The employees
changed their 44-hour deme nd late
last week to a demand for three to
| five dollars more pay. The publishers
then daaIar0d