Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-11-21
HURST HIDES
CAN'T BE LOCATED BY THE
COMMITTEE
Millionaire Owner of Rat Newspaper
Is Chased From Pillar to Post
Without Success
(By Federated Press)


Seattle-A hunt for William Ran
dolph Hearst across the continent and
back and then up and down Califor-
MIA brings the striking printers on his
Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the con-
clusion that "It's rather hard to set
tie a strike when you can't find any
body home to consider your terms"
The Hearst Seattle daily went
openshop in June after it had kidded
Typographical Union No. 202 along
for five months after the other pap
ers had signed the agreement, mean
while mobilizing strikebreakers from
Los Angeles. The printers struck
and the stereotypers and mailers
walked out with them.
Since June the strike committee has
tried in vain to find a responsible
Hearst representative to negotiate
settlement The unions decided to
put the matter to Hearst himself who
has often publicly professed his
friendship for union labor.
The hunt was exciting but the old
newspaper fox escaped the union
hunters. Learning that he was leav-
ing California for New York
Sept. Is committee from the unions
hastened to New York only to find
that he had changed his plans at the
last minute and was still in Califor-
MIA. He would not be in New York
till late in October, his affable and
cordial representative declared.
So the union committee returned to
Seattle and set out to locate Hearst in
Coli a o+ 1iC on nm
acre ranch near San Luis Obispo but
the committee got in touch with his
secretary at the Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles. A meeting with Hearst
was to be arranged next day if the
committee would first telephone. The
committee phoned but the line was al
ways busy or did not answer. So a
letter asking for the promised inter
view was put in the secretary's mail
box in the hotel.
The next day more telephoning
with the same result until the COM
mittee tried a different phone in a
shop in the hotel basement. The Sec
retary Immediately replied, rather
surprised to find the committee at
the other end. The union men were
asked upstairs. The secretary was
most friendly but so sorry also the
| publisher was not in at the moment
and so sorry that the telephone serv-
ice was so rotten. But the meeting
would be arranged, probably that
very evening if the committee would
be ready to come at instant telephone
notice.
For two days the committee was on
the alert, ready to come and see the
friend of organized labor. But the
phone service seemed to be deplorable
again and they were not notified.
Then the committee phoned and was
told that Hearst was no longer in Los
Angeles but could perhaps be found
either at his ranch or in San Francis
co.
Back up the coast again. Nothing
doing at the ranch. Still less doing
in San Francisco except polite in
quiry from Hearst underlings as to
how the union committee liked the
California climate. The boss was
either at the ranch or in Los Angeles,
his representative said.
All along the line Hearst had care
fully sneaked out the back door, run
ming away from committee of union
men who wanted to talk business with
him along the line of his published
utterances.
"Al of his vast army of under
strappers had passed the buck" the
committee declares. "When it came
his turn William Randolph Hearst
had his secretary pass the apple
sauce. So the P.-I. strike is still on