Show STRIlUNG PRINTERS Some union printers in San Francisco Fran-cisco have now gone out on a strike and as usual with the craft are without an honest grievance They demanded the discharge of a few nonunion men and as this was not complied with they quitj work The strikers present no complaint against the character of the work and do not say the pay is unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory they merely want to starve other printers or coerce them into uniting with the union The proprietor propri-etor of the newspaper very properly informs the meddlesome impudent fellows that he proposed to manage his own property and business hiring hir-ing whom he pleased Such conduct as these printers are guilty of is one of the great faults of labor unions and the chief cause for the conflict between employers and labs organizations organ-izations The unions assume the right to dictate and control in matters mat-ters where they have no bu > > iness to interfere The societies are not in reality formed for mutual benefit and protection but for injury in-jury to others If unions would confine themselves to their legitimate spheres they would not only prove a thing of profit and strength to the members I but no cause for complaint against them could be found Fitch and Pickering ono the San Francisco Call It is theirs to do with as they deem proper They can if they desire stop the publication of the paper tomorrow morning and without consuiting any of their employees They pay theirprinters an agreed price for labor and are under no further obligations to them They can employ thirty forty or fifty men can get out half sheets or double sheets as they prefer pre-fer and who has the light to interfere inter-fere with their conduct or business ia anyway The printers union by its action denies all this and i impudently says to Pickering You must hire men that we select or we will injure and if possible ruin you It is unfortunate that the law does not permit the jailing of these fellows Employers can if i they will punish them for their unwarranted interference by refusing them work in future It is a wellknown fact that many excellent printers are not members Of a union while numerous muffs that are known in the craft a3 blacksmiths are members in good standing Doubtless the Calls nonunion non-union men are among their best printers aud if they were discharged the places might be filled with incompetent in-competent fellows tramps or disreputable dis-reputable chaos who might happen hap-pen to possess union working cards At anyrat the Call people did right in promptly rejecting the proposition of the strikers and they wll keep on doing light if they decline to receive back into their ollica any man who has now gone our There was a time in this country when a strike by printers was a serious matter for the office when occurred Fortunately that time is fast passing away The unions are not so powerful und allcon trolling as they were a few years ago and there are more printers in the country There are few cities in the United States when strike would prevent the regular issue of a newspaper or even seriously embarrass em-barrass publishers The Call finds no difficulty in filling the places of its i strikers and the Omaha papers were not much put out by the strikes in their offices the other day When newspapers shall form a combination combina-tion and compact to refuse employment employ-ment to any printer who strikes without just cause such as unfair and unreasonable compensation we will hear less of strikes for the power of the journals in this respect is more potent than that of the men |