Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-02
Printers And
Employers At
Odds On Plant
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY G. LYNN NISBET.

Raleigh, March 2.-This legislature
may establish a school of printing at
State College by moving the present
print shop equipment from the State
Prison, but if it does it will be in de-
fiance of the pleading of the man
who has paid it the highest compli-
ment possible.
James F. Barrett, speaking for the
topographic union, the boys whom he
dubbed "the working printers" as
contrasted with the "big boss" prin-
tiers, opposed removal of the plant
and establishment of the school. He
said the present plan wasn't so dan
gerous. What he and his clients fear
is the increasing prestige to be given
the school and the additional work
to be done in the shop, which might
be authorized by future general as
semblies.
eff the Lord would just permit
this legislature to sit forever, 1
wouldn't open my mouth" he de-
clared.
Mr.. Barrett is no novice in capital
labor scrapping. He boasts, rather
than bushes, about the number OF
towns he has been run out of and
the number of jails he has investi-
gated from the inside because of la
Dor activities. At present he is a sort
of rowing ambassador for the Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. The only thing he
dislikes more than legislation aimed
to deprive organized labor of some
advantage, is the rival CLIO.
But Mr.. Barrett wasn't the only
spokesman against the planto take
the print shop away from State pri-
son. The highway and public works
commission which administers the
prison opposes it just as strongly In
fact, Chairman Frank Dunlap said
that printing for the State was one
of the few markets left for prison
labor, and that if the print shop is
moved the prison will be ruined so
far as any hope Of being self sup
porting is concerned.
The master printers want the
school, They appeared in large num-
bers and had lawyer, Paul Irwin of
Charlotte They spoke of the diff
ficulty in getting trained men for
printing executive positions. The
master printers have all along OPP
posed the print shop at the college,
The working printers suggested that
the bosses are now asking for some
thing that will grow into lots worse
competition than prison labor.
Adverting to the statement that
there were no printers at the prison,
Mr.. Barrett said that indicated either
printers were pretty good or pretty
Slick. The prison shop doesn't offer,
serious competition to outside shops
or their employees. The proposed
college shop wouldn't either. But
Labor thinks it can control the prison
situation much easier than the col
lege Set-up.
One Of the union printers at the
hearing hit a hard blow at another
piece of proposed legislation to be
sponsored by his own group when
he said that he was just as much OPP
posed to legslating the union label
on state printing as he is to Nazism
That was NJ c. Bogasse, former
president Of the Raleigh local He
certainly doesn't think much of the
plan of his union to introduce a bill
requiring that all state printing bear
the union label and be paid for at
prevailing union scale Of wages.
1t was apparent from the talks
made before the committee that en-
ploying printers and employed prin-
tiers expect almost opposite results
from the school if it is established.
The boss printers want executives
and statesmen who know something
of the technical side of printing. The
employed printers see only a factory
for mass production of inefficient
and ill-prepared aspirants for the
jobs which the printers now hold
Attitude of the committee is that
neither side will get what it hopes
or fears, but that if the money can
be found for it some sort of instruc-
tional course should be authorized.
1938-Great floods in California.