Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 1 | Result of Printers' Strike Not Yet Known

RESULT Or PBIHTfUJ' ! STRIKE HOT YET KNOWN Eight-Hoar Agreement Si ;n :1 by Twenty-Four P Ii i lade 1-phia 1-phia Houses. I HII.ADKLPH1A. Jan 1 Twenty-four f the d0 printing firms In this city have signed th" agreement giving their employees em-ployees an eight-hour workday These tlrms, however, are not members of the T pothi tae. the inaKter printers' organization. organ-ization. The firms belonging to the Ty-pothetae Ty-pothetae refuse to concede the shorter w orkday. Claim to Fill Places. Although the printers' strike, which Is r ational In si ope. begin today. Its extent will not be known until tomorrow, because be-cause of the holiday. There are 1300 members mem-bers of the Typographical union employed In the hook and Job printing oiTlces In the clly. R. i cull) i-ighteen T pd t o tlrms anticipated the strike by locking out thetr hands, and the claim to have inure than lllbd th" places of the union men. Only Twenty-Five Fail "Kvery one of our lDbo members, with the exception of twenty-five, unswered to the eight-hour day roll call," was the Joint report given out today from three union meetings,