Show preparations made fight the new york dec ac final preparations will be made this week by the and the typographical union NO 6 tor the fight over the closed shop and the nine hour work day in all book and job offices which Is expected to begin on january ast 1st A representative of the union baid yesterday the only demand we make is the eight hour work dary the nine hour rule caving prevailed up to the present ahe employers have refused the eight our demand and will try to introduce he open chop the fight will be a bitter one we are not afraid of the result we have more than available now and can raise it necessary in a statement on the preparations for the coming struggle William green president of the new york bays that its members are prepared to install competent comp elent nonunion non union machine operators and other printers in the various composing rooms he says these printers have been obtained ly a canvass of the various parts of the united states by field men representing the and also by graduates of the schoos for machine operators now in successful operation in new york city philadelphia bos ton chicago kansas city omaha and elsewhere in these schools as our experience shows competent machine operators may be turned out in sixty to ninety days and can produce more work than Is now being produced under union conditions and restrictions by men now in our employ |