The Connecticut labor news., 1923-09-22
Pressmen Strike
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workers claimed gave them one good trimming in his decision. Even the publishers admitted that some Of their grievances were we'll founded
 and kept jockeying the question along
 until finally the pressmen got tired of being fooled and suddenly walked put.
 President Berry was in New York, reported to have a new agreement in his pocket to submit to committee
 of the publishers on Monday. For
 some reason as yet unexplained, Der
 Try failed to do sa and this reused
 the pressmen to the breaking point
 and they quit. Berry immediately
 ordered them back to work, declar-
 ing the strike an outlaw but the men by that time were in a fighting mood and defed his orders. He again ordered the into return next day and they still dehed him, even when he threatened to rvoke thir charter, Qo- cal 25). The publishers, backing
 Berry up, Thursday refused to treat with Local 25 further and that after noon Berry went into conference with the strike committee trying to settle 1t.
 While nothing has been said about 1t in tn telegraphic dispatches sent out from New York, the strike has been marked with considerable trou- ble. The silence Is due to the pub fishers who did not want the world to know that they are up against 1t
 small number of men involved So the dispatches simply state that the strike IS progressing, the combined papers are being published and things are moving.
 Things are certainly moving ac- cording to personal reports reaching Connecticut. First off the publish CTS, although they had no reason to fear violence, strung cordons of cops about the newspaper plants. Anyone who looked like pressman couldn't get anywhere near the place even though they might have had personal business nearby This angered the members individually and when on Wednesday the publishers attempted to put out their combined" paper there was considerable trouble.
 The publishers did not attempt to use their own delivery trucks and hired taxi cabs for delivery Several of these were attacked by crowds, among whom it has been established was not one pressman,- windows were smashed, in two cases the cabs tipped over and the papers scattered through the streets and near riots prevailed At the time nine-tenths of the strikers were in session in their hall and this fact alone saved them from being held responsible for the The publishers silence on the matter proves conclusively that they know the pressmen did not start the. trouble Had the publishers even a chance of hanging 1t onto the strik- CTS, the news would have been broad casted to arouse public sentiment against the men. They didn't want to give the radicals" any notoriety eith- CT so the press associations were throttled and the public not let in on the trouble.
 Between the devil and the deep sea the publishers, although apparently coolly waiting settlement, are having troubles aside from the fact of the strike. The great department stores, the speciality shops, and the national advertisers who use the columns have been 'sitting on the necks" of the publishers demanding a settlement one way or another so they could get their messages before the public. The advertisers are not interested in how much the pressmen are paid or how they work. They feel the rates charged them in New York are so nigh that they are entitled to service 1 and by Thursday were threatening to a publication of their own, printed in some of the enormous job" plants in the city and getting 1 circulation of their wares that way. 1 They even go farther and threaten to | cancel contracts with the papers, | which they have perfect right to do | and this pressure did more toward | settling the strike than all the threats | ,f the union or the unions president | against the men.