Evening star., 1923-09-22
NEW.YORk DA|LIES
SIGN PEACE PACT
Agreement With Internation-
al Pressmen ShOrtens Week
and Gives Pay Increase.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September $50 far
ss the New York publishers and OF
f1cers of the international printing
Pressrnen's and Assistants Union are
concerned the strike of pressmen on
the New York dailies, begun at MD
night last Monday, is ended.
The publishers last night signed an
agreement for members of the inter-
national union to man the presses
deserted by members of the local
Web Pressmen's Union, No. 20. which
dissolved through revocation OF its
charter.
Strikers Jeer at Terms.
However. the members of the out
1awed union may have the oppor--
tunity of returning to work with in
ternational union cards and they
will meet tomorrow to decide finally
their course of action in this re-
speet. When the terms were first
made known to them last night the
1000 members of the old union hoot-
ed and jeered and shouted that they
would not go back.
George L. Berry, president of the
international union, parent body OF
the, outlawed local, in a letter broad
cast last night asked all web press
men in New York and vicinity &c
enroll under the new terms
Terms of the new contract include
an understanding that the fnterna-
tional union henceforth win enter
directly into relations with the pub
fishers. provide for a reduction OF
working hours. from forty-eight| for
night and day men to forty-one and
forty-fiSe hours, respectively; a SO
weekly increase in the basic wages
with time and a half or double time
for certain hours. Settlement of
other points by conciliation is pro-
vided for, and, falling in that, by arbi-
tration.
The agreement provides for an
etght-hour day shift and night Shift
of six and a half hours. 1t was
stipulated. however, that the night
shift must work eight hours two
nights a week.
Reporter Is Beaten.
A morning newspaper reporter, bat
tered and tern, dragged himself to a
drug store on the. edge of the Bronx
early today and told of having been
kidnapped by striking pressmen dur
ing meeting of their organization
last night.
He was covering the meeting for
his paper. he said, when a group OF
the pressmen surrounded him, drag
Bed him from the hall, tossed him
into a taxicab and rode with him To
q desolate outskirt OF the Bronx
Hhere he was kicked about the head
ana beaten unconscious, he said
When he revived he was lying in a
field some distance frem where he
last remembered being in the taxi.
II also was revealed today thatthe
arr director Of a morning newspaper
had been beaten yesterday by a crowd
OF preSSmen or strike syrnpathizers
near an entrance of the MunicinaI
building on Park Row. His assailants
ned after infitcting numerous lacera-
tions and. bruises.
Business Heusex Suffer,
Advertisers were pleased today
over prospects of settlement of The
Retail trade in the midst OF what
should be the heavy fall buyjne
period has suffered from inability 80
use display advertising in news
Several makeshift methods of reach
ing prospective customers We're adopt
cd by stores. Although in a few
instances the advertisers reported
pealed for the resumption of normal
newspaper advertising conditions as
soon as possible.
One department.. store got out a
two-page advertising circular. Copies
were mailed to all regular customers
and handed out at each door as
patrons came in.
Another store obtained proofs of
its display advertising in New Jersey
papers and posted them in the win
dowS and about the store
One store induced newspaper to
give 100 lines of its limited space to
an advertisement saying that details
of sale would be described in circu-
lars distributed to patrons at the
doors.
Papers affected by the strike expect
TO continue curtailed editions today
and tomorrow. Each publisher gets
out his own paper, but it is labeled
with the names of all the papers af-
fected by the strike.
Accepted Wage Schedule.
The contract signed by the interna-
tional and the Publishers Association
contains the following provisions for
wages: Men in charge on day work,
S54 per week; journeymen on day work,
SAB per week; juniors on day work, SAP
per week; men in charge on night
work. S57 per week; journeymen on
night work, s51; juniors on, night