The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17
N. Y. TYPOS
MUST FACE
new FIGHT
Printers League in Def
to Job Printers
BY H. M. WIcKs

NEW YORK, April 16.-The
New York Times carries a story
to the effect that the Printers
League the Closed Shop Branch
of the Employing Printers AS
ISOLATION, has served an "ulti-
matum on Leon n. Rouse,
pre- sid e nj of Typographical
Union No. 6, calling for the ne
gotiation of a definite arbitra-
ton agreement"
This action, according to the
Times, was taken at the sugges-
ton of the National Publishers
Association, representing the
leading magazines of the coun-
try"
Unless an arbitration agreement,
making arbitrable all demands Of the
publishers. is accepted the vain threat
is made to move numoer of big mag
azines away from New York. The de-
mand is further made that the agree
ment run for two years.
TOuoWS newspaper FldSSos
This move of the Printers League
follows close upon the miserable CAPT
tulation of the officers and scale COM
mittee of big Six" to the newspa-
per publishers. In the newspaper
scale negotiations the position of the
rank and file was weakened by
both their local president and
also by Acting President Charles
p Howard of the International
| Typographical Union, who had sol
EMMY promised the membership that
the Executive Council would back
them up in the newspaper scale and
then helped Rouse impose gag rule
upon the membership while forcing
them to swallow the publishers
proposition. The servile demeanor of
the local scale committee and of Act
ing President Howard in accepting
the publishers proposition on the
newspapers, encouraged the employ
ers in the job branch to also assail
the union. In less than weeks time
after the acceptance of the infamous
newspaper scale the job bosses fired
the first broadside.
The job scale expires in October,
but the employers realize that there
is serious unemployment situation
in the industry right now and are de-
termined to force a showdown if pos
sible. After the complete back-down
by Rouse and the local scale COM
mittee in the newspaper controversy
the job printers feel that the morale |
of the union is shattered and that
they can force long-term arbitration
agreement upon the demoralized Of
fcials.
Reaping the WhirlWind.
The nincompoop president of Big |
Six and his insipid scale committee |
have sown the wind of cowardice and |
impotency in the newspaper fight |
they now reap the whirlwind of a |
challenge from the employing print
ers in the job line They have prov
ed by their bungling of the newspaper |
scale that they cannot be relied upon
in struggle.
The membership, however, are de-
termined that Rouse shall not be per-
mitted to lead big Six" into another
disaster, and are preparing to change
the laws of the local union in order
to deprive him of his power to APP
point committees. They are determ-
ined that competspt scale commit
tee that has the intelligence and the
CUTS to fight be elected to handle the
controversy in the joe end Of the in
dustry
Tho the officials did yield to the
publishers in the newspaper scale
fight, this defeat will not be permitted
to become prelude to the complete
route Of all the forces. The COM
positors are facing a stiff fight and
knowledge Of this fact impels them
to greater vigilance Confidence in
Rouse, who is now serving his ninth
year as president Of Big Six, has been
destroyed. Acting President Charles
p. Howard, who is a candidate for
president OF the l. 7. u. has shown
himself as worse than incompetent.
Hence the membership realizes that
II must take matters into It's own
hands and fight for the elementary
demands Of civilized existence, other
wise the employers in combination
with inferior and stupid officials will
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