The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-25
INVENTION may I
DOOM PRINTING
TRADES UNIONS
Britisher Reveals New
Typesetting Process
BIZ 4. N. WIcKs

tioU assembled at tne Eu8SWdeCI
Beach Hotel in the city of Chicago
listened yesterday to a remarkable
address by A. E. Goodwin, London,
England, director Of the Federation
Of. Master. Printers Of the United
Kingdom and Ireland.
His analysis of British conditions
re-echoed the analysis of A. A. Pur.
cell before the labor convention at
Atlantic City last week. And there
was as much Of chasn separating
the mental processes Of Goodwin
from the American employing printers
as was evidenced in the case Of Pur-
cell when he addressed the fossils of
the American Federation of Labor.
Describes Unemployment.
In discussing the economic condi-
lions in England, Goodwin hit the
nail squarely on the head when he
said that "the rise of industry among
oriental people is cutting into British
manufacture. Japan and India too,
are becoming strong competitors of
my country in eastern markets, there
by injuring industry in the England"
He said this competition was respon-
sible for the large unemployed army.
Of course he did not propose any
remedy, as did the noted British labor
leader who addressed the convention
Of American labor leaders at Atlantic
city.
Sees End Of Typesetting
Goodwin, in dealing with the tech
nical side of printing, revealed new
invention that, if put into effect, will
mean the doom of typesetting as we
know it today, and throw thousands
of printers out of employment. In fact
it will at once blow destroy the whole
basis of both the international Typo
graphical Union and the Photo-En-
gravers' Union in this and all other
countries.
Goodwin described new machine
now being perfected which he declar-
ed reproduces any figure, letter, or
photograph almost instantaneously by
transfer to a sensitized film base.
81. R. C. August and E. X. Hunter
of London, have been working secret
ly on this machine for the last four
years, and they are about ready to
demonstrate it to the world" Goodwin
said.
1.-THE machine operates like type
writer but the whole process is almost
instantaneous. The film is wound on
a spool two inches in diamter and
three inches wide and one spool is
equivalent to 300 founts of type.
at is readily adaptable to radio
control and with it man in one city
can set book pages or newspaper
pages in another city"
Thus the invincible march of the
machine threatens this, one of the
most skilled trades, in modern indus
try.
Scab Herders Perform
Another speech before the sessions
was that of E. E. Sheldon of the Lake
side Press, owned by the notorious
scabherder and strikebreaker, Donnel-
ly, of Chicago. Sheldon described a
trade school conducted by the Lake
side Press wherein 500 apprentice
boys and young men are taught print
ing and also citizenship, idealism.
"Americanism" (the scab Shop plan)
and other illusions of the capitalist
class. He described how this sort of
education" will make the slaves loyal
to their masters and how it is profit
able inasmuch as it reduces the labor
turnover.
Berry in Evidence
George l.. Berry, strikebreaking
president of the International Printing
Freshmen and Assistants Union, was
in evidence in the Hobbies, where he
was completely at home among the
menagerie of employing printers from
all over the country.
Probably he was striving to get an
opportunity to speak before the con-
vention and convince them that his
system of strikebreaking was far
superior to that of r. r. Donnelly,
Rand McNally's, Poole Brothers and
others of the big scab bosses in the
city of Chicago.