N. Y. Typos Stand Pat on 5-Dav Week
N. Y. Typos Stand Pat on 5-Day Week 3,000 Newspaper Printers Refuse to Arbitrate Fire-Day Week — International Considering Action jBW YORK'S 3,000 newspaper printers are standing _t for...
...On January 1st, 1930, the Old Age Assistance went nto effect in Milwaukee County, during the first week or two, several hundred applications were nade...
...F. J. Branton, and W. W. Denton...
...That is the present status of pejoOatJons which have been frigfing along for a year between metropolitan publishers and compositors...
...N. Y. Typos Stand Pat on 5-Day Week 3,000 Newspaper Printers Refuse to Arbitrate Fire-Day Week — International Considering Action jBW YORK'S 3,000 newspaper printers are standing _t for the 5-day week...
...From two sides come mechanical threats to the army of printers who operate typesetting machines...
...Great Advance Made Reviewing this year's progress in he Old Ags Security Mevsment in be United States, Abraham Eptein...
...SPRINGFIELD, 111...
...The plate will then be engraved and given to the pressmen...
...Pres...
...Laundry Workers Settle New York Lock Out The lockout by the AmericanFrench Laundry, located at 478 Sixth avenue, of members of Laundry Workers' International Union, Local 280, has been settled...
...At the Afternoon Session, "The Practicability of Old Age Penlions" was considered...
...Only 15 out of the 290 receiving pensions report any earnngs...
...Almost half of the'pensioners were in domestic service...
...As a matter of fact, it some of the wealthiest pubsshers in the world...
...Residence at the Baltinore City Hospital is the only provision made by the City of Baltinore for its dependent aged," deiared Dr...
...They eat bide behind the screen of •ecnomy which shields the 12ksnr day in the Southern cotton aula and every injustice under waica labor suffers...
...Revolutionary departures that will scrap press room workers are also foreshadowed in the prediction of Owen D. Young of General Electric that you will read your morning or evening paper through a device in the living room operated by wireless mechanism...
...He said that pension costs were only one-third the cost of maintaining Institutions for care of the aged...
...Wise onsen's Act T h e Old Age Pension law of Wisconsin...
...The total number of applicants for the first three months since the law went into effect is 545...
...This union though holding most of the soft coal miners organized in the field was by implication regarded as not regular by Green when he addressed the remnants of the old Mine Workers at their Indianapolis convention...
...Harold A. Hatch of Dee ring, iilliken A Company, textile manuacturers, pointed to China's stalility for thousands of years and ts respect for the aged and delared that pensions would insure . long career to the American Retublic...
...The Southwest Interstate Cox Operators Association has ordered its members in Kansas to withhold the checked off dues oi union miners, who have voted 1,700 to 40 for Springfield and against Lewis...
...Glassberg, "was adopted in 1925, makng Wisconsin the third state in the Union to adopt such a measure...
...It claims to have fought the union 3uccessWly in several Southern cities in P J past year and is in fettle for forther battle, aided, it believes, •/ the unfavorable industrial situation...
...in February, 1069...
...Unions Stiffest Fight The Intl...
...It's-not a question of econ•sy," onion officers said...
...He said that be average cost of the pensions >er inhabitant was eight cents a -tonth...
...J. M. Paul, administrator of be Salt Lake County Old Age Penlion Law told the history of the egislation in Utah and declared bat the law did not prove a great jurden to the state...
...Whereas 83% }f the pensioners in Milwaukee bounty were granted $20.00 a nonth or more, only 43c i or half ts many received such pensions in the five counties of the State...
...not the unionization of the unorganized, but the disruption of the union already in existence...
...Miss Catherine Burns, William Bailey, Mrs...
...During the past few weeks, jowever, there has been an average of about two or three a day tpplying...
...To begin with the teletypesetter will handle stock quotations and sports bulletins, but Gannett foresees the day when the complete- newspaper, including wire and local news, will be teletypeset "The teletypesetter tape," he said, "can be transmitted with great rapidity and the composing machine acta with greater accuracy than a hand operated machine...
...the union has shaped its tactics .to meet the rapidly changing conditions...
...A report rom Canada declared the experinent with pensions there successul...
...Elinor Panoast of Goucher College* Baltinore, declared that in January, 930, there were 4S8 inmates who ere over 65 years of age lodged n the City Hospital...
...It is reported that Lewis agents made a house-to-house canvass warning miners to keep away from the meeting, but without effect...
...But the "economy'' argument they poohpoohed, Jewish, Hungarian and •any other publishers h a v e irsnted the 5-day week, some with the hours as low as 30 hours a weak on the night shifts...
...They tort no desire to arbitrate the <sftt...
...United States Senator C. C. Dill,of Washington: Rabbi Stephen S.' Wise of New York...
...The -need of pensions on the iart of old women was declared to le greater than that of men...
...April has begun with heavy •eceipts and it is expected that hey will continue into May and >erhaps June...
...The law being optional, ony five of the smaller counties had idopted the Act...
...No institution was liscovered which took into account nvestment and depreciation costs...
...There vas also considerable discussion in he Legislatures of Rhode Island tnd Virginia...
...Walker is secretary of the reorganized United Mine Workers of America with headquarters at Springfield...
...James Daar, member of Metal Polishers' Local Union No...
...Big Six, basing its position on the a. P. of L. stand for the 5-day week as a method to relieve unemployment, can see no reason to wtanit a measure, said to be the only practicable method to put MBdreds of men to work, to the decision of any body outside the Publishers claim the 5-day week would be uneconomical—for them...
...30 of the 290 having been housewives...
...At last," he said, "it now ready for th: market...
...The checked of) dues will presumably be paid tc John L. Lewis and his provisional Kansas district officers to finance the Lewis war on the reorganized union...
...In case of a showdown it * ready to mobilize all its reTces of non-union printing •bools, scab newspaper offices «sd strike guards to beat down tat shorter work week...
...The A. N. A. P. has Isken a resolute stand to keep tat printing industry on a 6-day ktato...
...The machine is operated by a perforated tape produced by a machine printer for receiving telegraphed news...
...which they regard as out0^ the limits of controversy, gtadreds of experienced typesetters art out of work, others are •Htliif only part time...
...secretary, Patrick V. McNamara, president of Steam Fitters' Local Union No...
...Union officiala hold that undoubtedly the shorter work week would mean an increase in labor costs of 15 to 20 per cent...
...Torty-six percent of those reviving pensions in the state outride of Milwaukee are physically iisabled...
...The machine printer itself displaced the Morse code telegraph operator...
...ne institution alone was estimated to be worth over $3,000,000 in 926...
...Those elected to direct-the destiny of the league are, President, Harry Riseman, a local attorney...
...In addition, he pointed mt, the pensions removed a tremendous burden from the charity organisations...
...In rural districts where one would expect that taost people would own their aomes and farms, we find that T2% of the pensioners do not own beir home or any land...
...The New York newspaper publishing industry is not particularly known for its bankrtptey...
...The sheriff and city officials were also approached with predictions that the bloodshed at Royalton would be repeated if the Du Quoin meeting were held...
...Kelly speaks of "special defense preparations" undertaken by the committee, which are said to have caused many printers unions to relinquish 5-day week and other demands...
...Wisconsin's experience with the Did Age Pension law was stated By Benjamin Glassberg, Executive Secretary of the Federated Charities of Milwaukee...
...Howard, due at the printers' home is Colorado next week for i n important union meeting, will not bt in New York for at least two weeks...
...The union is waging a campaign for the employment of its skilled hand ironers and for the maintenance of sanitary conditions in places where they work...
...At Peoria William Deach, Powers Hapgood and Secretary Walker spoke to a meeting of...
...Miner Dying, 5 Lewis Men Under Arrest Davey, Injured During Attack on Germer, in Serious Condition — Terrorism Continues tar a New tea Sir Correspondent) ROY ALTON...
...Both Pritchard and Hart, the county officials responsible for keeping the peace, after a conference with Germer and Alexander Howat, advised the miners' leaders to "leave the county...
...The costs of inititutional care varied from $4.16 a nonth in the Maryland Baptist lome for Aged Colored Persons to 199.20 in the U. S. Marine HospiaL Explaining this great variety, >r...
...That terror controls the Franklin county mining district was evidenced by fear that there may be further disorders...
...The Laundry Workers* Union has ben making a gallant uphill fight against the 12 and 14 hour workday which prevails in many of the non-union laundries and the sucoess of the campaign has resulted in the formation of a socalled "left" organization whose aim seems to be...
...Every worker's organization of note in this City of Detroit was represented at the conference and the League will begin to function immediately...
...Conference on Old Age Aid Movement Speakers Find Great Advances Toward Pensions Made in Last Few Months ry.OGRESS in the Old Age Setr curity movement in North America and the need for the extension of state provisions for the iged poor were reported by exterts, economists, public officials, nd sociologists at the Third Antual National Conference on Old tge Security held in New York ?ity on Friday, April 25th...
...Several bill3 were presented in the •Jew Jersey Legislature with the esult that a Commission to study he subject was created...
...The only worker left when teletypesetter gets going will be the linotype machinist...
...They state that a great help will be given the union if those in sympathy with Its aims give their patronage to union laundries...
...declared Mr...
...Sixty percent of the appli:ants are men...
...One is the teletypesetter, which substitutes John Robot for the man at the Linotype...
...Publishers proposed a $1 a week Increase each year over a 3-year period, later withrew that sad now propose unrestricted arbitration of the points at issue...
...Qeainously enough, in the week Mowing the printers' vote to inlaw, oa the 5-day week, the American Newspaper Publishers Assodaaon met in New York to dis™*» labor conditions and newsprint prices...
...treasurer...
...Germer declares that the situation is "dangerously approaching anarchy'' in that county and be charges the agents of Lewis with responsibility for disorder...
...Walker's resignation only postpones the day of reckoning, however, as Walker is one of the delegates of this reorganized union to the Boston convention of th« A. F. of L. next October...
...and Chairman Harvey J. Kelly of the special standing committee...
...At that time he was forced to photoengrave copy written on a typewriter in order to publish a non-union daily...
...At Du Quoin, ten miles from Franklin county, Germec and Howat spoke to several hundred miners...
...HI.—Barney Davey, one of the victims of the Royal ton riot last week, is near death in a hospital at Zeigler...
...34 % have no other source of income...
...vice-president, Thomas Armstrong, general representative of the Fraternal Order of Eagles...
...Declaring hat Canada's experience with the >ld age pensions ha3 been exceedngly satisfactory...
...Telling of her ecent studies of the aged in the ^ty of Baltimore, Dr...
...Both processes were reviewed before the recent publishers convention in New York by Frank E. Gannett, owner of a chain of dailies and owner of the teletypesetter process...
...In bath Lawrenc:, Mass., and Hamilton, Ont., these "defense preparations" were undertaken...
...Gannett's New Beast Gannett now boasts that his robot typesetter...
...Another is the photo composing machine which entirely scraps both typesetter and typesetting machine...
...It's the issue of whether the industry has any responsibilities whatever - to the men who are now walking tat streets...
...Several Meetings Held Howat as president, Germer as vice-president and John Walker as secretary of the new miners' union have sent a statement to the newspapers in Franklin County which protests against the' armed ruffians and their work...
...miners in spite of threats...
...It is expected that a big forward step will be taken at the meeting of Local 280, on June 2nd...
...They are charged with assault to murder and were placed under bond of $1,000 awaiting action of the grand jury...
...A year ago Federated Press recounted the advances in Gannett mechanism, improvements which came too late to be serviceable to him to fight the printers' strike on his Albany paper...
...and Mr...
...Because of the grave condition t>f Davey, George Williford, the provisional secretary appointed by Lewis, Ray Edmundson, who led the gang attack on Germer, and three other supporters of Lewis were arrested in connection with the riot...
...Apparently this is an occupation to be avoided...
...Although this iraa an off legislative year with mly nine states meeting, active egislatlve interest was carried on a five states with the result that few York, the wealthiest and most Hopulous state in the Union ended an old age security law which rith one sweep of the pen will exend help to over 50,000 aged men ind women...
...536...
...Ibere are thus far approximately Tour hundred and fifty pensioners >n the lists In the few counties of be state where the law is in operation...
...Only* five counties renain to be heard from and it is cnown from correspondence that bese five counties are receiving ind investigating applications from be old people...
...He with Secretary Woodruff Randolph and two international vice presidents constitute tat L T. U. executive council, in whose hands lies the decision whether New York printers are to strike for the five-day week...
...The average monthly pension is $20.00 ser capita...
...Dr...
...But even he will lose his j ob if Gannett is correct in saying that "I feel confident that some- day photocomposing will displace metal casting machines...
...1; Board of Directors, Frank X. Martel, Judge Frank Murphy, Mr...
...Under the capable leadership of Manager L. Hekelman and Secretary J. Mackey...
...New York 5-day week •njOle seems to be posed bel**^ 1 two resolute forces, one ir**htible, the other immovable...
...Attempts at intimidation are being extended to other parts of the state but they are not successful...
...Sixteen lomea for the ageoT in Baltimore loused a total of 1,105 persons past 15 years of age...
...Therefore they see no point in submitnsf their demand to an arbitrator...
...There the credentials committee and then the convention itself will have to decide which union will be recognized...
...Only 7% lad any savings...
...To illustrate the kind of persons who find it necessary to appeal for state pensions in their old age he told tne story of a civil engineer on the Oregon Short Line Railroad who, due to a long illness lost his savings and is now on the pensioners' roll...
...Representatives of the Illinois labor movement will be able to hear all about the trouble in the miners' union when the state federation meets in convention in Springfield in September...
...Elizabeth Walling, Richard Garrity, Morris DeJung, Thomas Armstrong...
...Cnaries 1...
...If * « » » * • to an open fight, Amer*»• labor witll undoubtedly see JJ <* the most memorable bat°* its history...
...Typographical Union facing in the 5-day week demand its stiffest battle since 1922 when It fought out the issue of the 44hour week in job plants, must reckon on a new type of strike- • breaker In the robot designed by Gannett and now.in actual operation...
...The on fere nee was arranged by the American Association for Old Age iecurity and was held at the Grand >ntral Palace, culminating in a [inner at the Town Hall Club...
...Revolutionary Changes in Printing Industry Calls For Closer Unity of the Crafts Teletypesetter Improved Gannett Boasts—Publishers Using Machinery as Club over Labor By HARVEY OCONNOR REVOLUTIONARY d e v e l o p ments in tne printing of your newspaper may within the next decade swallow up the jobs of thousands of union printers, and within a quarter century relegate a craft dating from Gutenberg's days, to the pages of history books...
...F.P...
...The determination of the insurgent leaders to be heard is having a good effect and sentiment is turning against those who are using force to prevent any presentation of the cause of the new union...
...William Burleigh, W. L. Adams, Alex Swartzensen, Walter Steward...
...This riot was started by the partisans of John L. Lewis when they proceeded to beat up Adolph Germer, vice-president of the new miners' organization...
...Of this num>er 371 were tnen and 117 were vomen...
...JOHN H. WALKER RESIGNS CHICAGO < F.P...
...Old Age Pension League Organised in Detroit (Br a New Leaser Correspondent) Detroit,—An old age pension conference held in the Eagles Hall, April 7. organized the Michigan Old Age Pension League...
...This device will photograph columns of type as they are set on a machine similar to s typewriter, backed by camera apparatus...
...Slavin, Miss Julia Van Alsdale, Eugene Brock...
...For the first time in he ».story of the Bay State a -Masachusetts Committee on Pensions ilso unanimously recommended he adoption of a pension law...
...The doors of the Labor Temple were closed to them as well as the Knights of Columbus auditorium but the meeting was held in the City Hall with four policemen present to prevent disorder...
...Flagg says: "In all cases involved where the newspaper has prepared in advance to take care of its publication in any case, a new agreement has been reached with demand for the 5-day week eliminated...
...President Lewis of the old union demanded that Walker, his long-time enemy, be removed as head of the Illinois state federation but Green hesitated to do more than suggest a resignation...
...The local miners' union had invited Germer and Howat to speak and this action by the county officials may result in an appeal to higher authorities to obtain protection...
...Resignation of John H. Walker as president of the Illinois Federation of Labor temporarily r e 1 i e ve s William Green and the American Federation of Labor executive council of a most embarrassing situation...
...Instead they have asked tbt international executive council for permission to strike...
...Congressman Roy G. Fitzgerald of Ohio...
...has been at work in a small Illinois daily newspaper for six months...
...This situation they regard as more or less permanent, unless the work week a shortened to five days...
...If the pressmen and other printing trades unions will follow the union policy of working while the printers are on strike, publishers will be able to make shift temporarily while assembling: scab crews...
...During the month of Janlary, 1730 applications were revived at the State Office...
...Secretary of the American Association for Oid Age Security, aid that the year 1930 marked he greatest advance in old age lensron legislation...
...A large number of machines are now going through the factory and the complete outfit will soon be available to publishers...
...Meanwhile the scab recruiting goes on apace, according to reports by Chairman H. W. Flagg of the "open shop" division of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn...
...Representatives of the union state that the growing demand on the part of the public for hand-ironed instead of machine ironed work, because of superiority and economy of the former, has been of great help to the union...
...The headquarters of the reorganised United Mine Workers, with almost solid Illinois backing and with growing organization in Kansas and Ohio and elsewhere, are in Springfield...
...The Need for Old Age Securty" was the subject of discussion it the morning session ^of the conerence...
...Pancoast said: "The figures are be result of grest variations in >ockkeeping...
...The enactment of an old age penion system in New York was tailed as a significant step forward nd progress was also reported in he administration of the similar aws in other states...
...Discussing the 5-day week...
...The evening meeting of the ConTerence was held at the Town Hal) nub and was addressed by Bishop Francis J. McConnell, President of the American Association for Old Age Security...
...Pancoast...
...and in March 779, naking a total to April 1st of 3578 ipplications for State aid to the iged...
...John W. Hooley, President of the Electrical Contractors Association of New York, who outlined the recent pension alan adopted by the Electrical Contractors Association in conjunction with the Electrical Workers Union in New York City...
...The number ol :ases actually disposed of is 303, ind 158 of these have been granted pensions...
...Miss Lucille Eaves of Simmons College, spoke on "Old Age Hazircte of Women...
...D. Jamieson, ^airman, Toronto Old Age Penlicn Commisrion, outlined the hisory of Dominion Security legislaion: Describing tiie workings oi be California Old Age Pension aw, Miss Esther de Turbeville, 2hief of the California Division ol 'tate Aid to the Needy Aged, said n part: California and Utah "The first of January, u30, the late on which California's old age aw became effective, brought with t the expected flood of applicaions...
...It is estimated that >efore the end of the .year there v-ill be at least 5000 applicants egistered...
Vol. 10 • March 1930 • No. 13
