The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-08-30

should largely go to S. B. Marks, vice
president of the international Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants Union,
who has been stationed in Chicago
since 1918.
When Mr.. Marks began his organ
izing work here eleven years ago Web
Pressmen's Union No. 7, which en-
braces the pressmen employed on
daily newspapers, had but 68 mem
bers. Today that local union has
thousand members on its rolls.
That job completed, he started in
on the commercial printing plants.
Despite secession, illegal strikes, lock-
outs, injunction writs and many other
obstacles, Mr.. Marks drove steadily
ahead with legitimate, organizing
work, with the result that when he
decided to act he had the shops SO
per cent organized.
Robert E. Haskin, first vice presi-
dent of the international Brotherhood
of Bookbinders, has given Mr.. Marks
splendid support, as have Miss Mary
McInerney, head of the bindery
women and a vice president of the
Illinois State Federation of Labor,
and President w. w. DeWolf and
Organizer Larry Corlas, of Typo
graphical Union No. 1e.
The Sad Story of "Pete's"
Linotype Plant
The White Printing and Binding
Company is what is left of con-
solidation of Peterson's linotyping
plant, Regan's pressroom and the Hill
bindery, all of which became nom
union three years ago when Joseph j..
White came into control following the
ousting of City Treasurer Charles s.
Peterson, who got into financial diff
culties as the result of unwise outside
investments.
"Pete's" linotyping plant will be
remembered by printers in all parts
of the country. 1t was haven for
the travelling operator years ago.
"Pete," who started out on a shoe
string and built up one Of the biggest
union printing plants in Chicago,
liked skilled craftsmen and was will
ing to pay over the scale to get them,
and he invariably had job open, as
the operators particularly were too
busy seeing the country to stay any
place longer than necessary to get a
stake.
When the smart Mr.. White declared
the consolidated plant non-union, OBJ
tanned drastic injunction writ and
had the block in which the plant was
located filled with policemen, mounted
and afoot, three years ago, the plant
had 81 linotype machines working day
and night, with total of 81 members
of Typographical Union No. 16 en-
ployed in the composing room.
Cost Firm Big Sum; Old Injunc-
ton Invoked
Mr.. Whites adventure into the field
of non-unionism cost his firm the loss
of $350,O00 worth of contract publi-
cation work during the first three
months of the lockout. Recently he
has been unable to find sufficient work
to keep three linotype operators busy.
Before the present strike they would
come in the morning and sit around
all day in the hope that something
would be brought in. If something
did show up, they were only paid for
the time it took them to execute the
work.
The work that Mr.. White lost is
being done in union plants.
Charging that they entered the
premises of the White corporation in
violation Of an injunction issued by
Federal Judge Lindley, July IL, 1927,
q bill of complaint asking that the
heads of three of the unions involved
in the organizing campaign be cited
for criminal contempt of court has
been filed. Those named are Mary
McInerney, president of Bindery
Women's Union No. 80; Daniel M.
Rearson, president of Printing Press
mems Union No. 8, and Hugh Cram
bert, president of Press Assistants
Union No. 4.
1t is the opinion of officers of the
printing trades unions here that the
injunction issued in 1927 is not ap-
plicable to the present situation, in
asmuch as the White concern has
been reorganized under another name
and has removed to point far dis
tant from it's location when the in
junction was invoked. The injunction
was issued to the White Printing
House, Inc, 523 Plymouths Court. The
present strike is against the White
Printing and Binding Company, 1916