Evening star., 1923-09-19
N. Y. PRESS STRIKE
HINGES ON PARLEY
Union Leaders in Conference
Newspapers Continue Com
bined Issues.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September ia
meeting between George l. Berry of
the International Printing Pressmen
and Assistants Union and officers of
the New York Web Pressmen's Union,
No. IS, called for today, offered vir-
tually the only hope of settlement of
the strike of pressmen, which has
materially curtailed publication of
most of the city's leading daily news
papers.
The strike, which began when
workers on morning newspapers left
their posts shortly after midnight
yesterday morning, continued through
yesterday and last night, with both
sorting to limited editions bearing
the title, The Combined New York
Newspapers, and carrying on the
front page the name of each paper
affected.
Orders Men Back.
Mr.. Berry in a letter sent to the
local union last night ordered the men
to return to work, declaring the strike
was unauthorized, and failure to COM
ply Immediately with his request
would result in a suspension of the
unions charter. Early this morning
he had received no answer to that
communication, but it was expected
the reply would be delivered at the
Inoonday conference.
The papers published this morning
were thin, eight-page acairs, contain
ing little or no advertising and no
editorials. Features were curtailed
and one of the leading stories on all
front pages was an account of the
pressmen's strike.
Truck Held Up,
Pickets were stationed at all news
paper plants throughout last night,
but, aside from jeers as the trucks
rolled away, there were few untoward
incidents. Police reported that
driver for the New York American
had been held up and additional men
were sent to guard that office. The
drivers union, however, refused to
allow patrolmen to ride in their
wagons or cars.
The Daily News, the American. the
World, the Herald, the Tribune and
the morning Telegraph manned
enough presses to publish eight-page
morning papers. Each maintained
it's Individuality except that about
one-fourth of the first page was taken
up by the banner, The Combined
New York Morning Newspapers, and
the captions of the ten publications
in the group. including the Times,
the Staats-Zeitung and the Progresso
Italo-Americano, which did not pub
lish. ~,
edi+ions, as were most of the usual
comics and features. Advertisements
were restricted to financial, steamship
and theater displays.
other Papers Boom.
Meanwhile the smaller English
daiIfes and foreign language publica-
tions not affected by the strike are
riding the crest of a boom. The for
mer have gained several pages In size
in the last twenty-four hours. Flar-
ing headlines are appearing Where
morning paper announced today 1T
was using all it's presses and those of
another non-struck plant in caring
for its sudden boosted circulation.
Several foreign language news
papers are appearing for the first time
printed in English from captions and
editorials to advertisements. News
stands which distribute out-of-town
dailies report selling thousands OF
extra copies.
Five men who said they were press
men for the World were arrested to-
day charged with malicious mischief.
Detectives said they seized fifty bum
dies of newspapers from an elevated
train and carried them in a taxicab
to the East river, ostensibly with
the 1ntenLlOn OIL destroying lHcuu-
. The newspaper famine was relieved
in the late afternoon when a COM
posite newspaper, representing joint
ly the eleven afternoon newspapers
affected, appeared on the streets.
The unique publication. which bore
the names of all the newspapers in
the usual typographical style used by
each, was the result of a conference
between newspaper owners and off,
cials of the international union. 1t
was there decided that the papers
would pool their resources to permit
the publication of a six or eight page
newspaper to contain whatever ad-
vertisements and news each OF the
dailies deemed 1t expedient to print.