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Show I - the "0-4 4 Hub, they decidei to remain out. ;l:iis disobeying their own orders. .So, while technically not on strike, the types-.tr-r-, a3 individuals, are working in the closest co-operation with the other umon.s in maintaining: one. While tacitly tacit-ly obeying the orders of their local union, they are carefully disobeying them. With the exception of a few small plants which have capitulated to the demands of the srriKrs, the printshops of New York are c:o?ed. The other morning an Italian woman, in ho"d and shawl, was muttering about the strike, as she dusted off her small supply oi" meErazincs'and newspapers- A3 she looked like a hard-working woman, the reporter tr.oupht he was safe in venturing ven-turing a remark auout the working people having to live. "Yes, but I have to live, too," shouted the woman, fourishincr a bony fist, "and I ain't rot noding to sell!" In New York, at least, the age of individualism indi-vidualism is still with us. Comedy of the Printers9 Strike By Frederic J. Haskin. j NEW YORK, Oct. 10. You know, of course, that there will be no issues next month of most magazines unless thousands thou-sands of striking compositors, pressmen and other employees of the printing Plants here can be induced to return to their work within the next few days; or unles3 the publishers can ship their material ma-terial and have it printed in other cities. At the time this article is written there is not much hope that there will be any November literature at all. The printing employers and the printing employees are at a deadlock, while several of the largest publishers arc stoically preparing to lose millions of dollars. A few have shipped their equipment to Chicago, which they may make their permanent hoadquar-. ters, if they like it, but. they make no promises or throats. As one of them declared de-clared yesterday: "Who can teil in these troublous times of radicalism? As soon as we get comfortably com-fortably established in the middle west the same thing may occur there, and then we will have to move back to New York again, New York has been the victim of many peculiar strikes, but none more peculiar than this rebellion of the printing trades, which, although technically riot a strike, is ono In e fleet. It all depends upon whom you are talking to. If it happens to be a printing employer, you have no hesitancy in calling it a strike, but it you are talking to a printing employee and value your life, you speak of it as a lockout. The most discreet thing to do Is not to talk at all, but to let each side pour out its grievance to you. In the first place, be it understood that the printing of the numerous books and magazines that pass through your hands every year is not done by the people who publish them, but by many job printi ng establishments, some 2r0 of which are affected by the present rebellion. The publishers in this case are an interested but helpless third party. Perhaps that accounts for the fact that, while losing tremendous sums of money through the hold up of their publications, many of them view the whole dispute with amazing amaz-ing impartiality. "Nothing is safe with all this Bolshevik Bol-shevik propaganda going about," declared the business manager of a large trade magazine which will not go to press this month. "On the other hand, I suppose tho working people lind it hard to keep up with the hum cost of living. The nerve of it, though to disregard the orders of their own unions!" The New York printing traces have been showing evidence of discontent for some time, so that the walkout of thousands thou-sands of typesetters, pres.-feeders and pressmen on October 1 did riot come as a bolt out of the blue to their employers. The employers were ready for them or thought they were. Hut as it turned out they were not at all prepared for what actually happened. The first threads of a strike were hrd last year when the various local printing unions demanded certain reforms in their working conditions on the penalty of shutting off the grea rest print t-:mps in America, At that time the r.a t ion was at war, and printing was c-vtremeiy important. im-portant. Any interference v.i:h it mer.r.t the becking of valuable war pro:'a:ium:t, fcfo the matter was brouL'h.t before the war labor hoard, which ahowr-d trie printing print-ing trade an Incrasf- of a week in w a i? e s and admonished it i o be content wir h t ha t and not a in:: nore uri ; i ! t::e agreement e ; lr i on C t o r c r 1 . Pan a special ciau.-o wa s ad Jed to the agreement which i rovid-d that the case mi'ht be r-opened or, Vav 1. 1?::-. With the war over, the printers- ) ean to eon-side eon-side r the ad visabiiitv of taking advantage advan-tage of this ciaj.i-. They wou'd not ask for an Increase in wae.-, then, they decided, de-cided, but for a shortening of their f'orty-e:t;hi-hou'- working w. ck to forty-four hours. On April -l tlie employers were pfih'ially i;oti:"ied of this fa'-t in a conference confer-ence bet wee n their m u; 7i t ion. known as the r.r-aue of Prm;:g limp'.overs. and the lead-;-1 s of : h-1 I" 1 ; r in ters" unions. Thi.-i meeting was quite peaee iv le. The em; lovers nrc-d to i..)i,.-:ri.-r 'b- matter, and thev d:d, 1 ut not f .vorab'.y. "snrpehe wo had a. lowed t . p forty-four-hour w- k at th.? t.m-1." s:d one of them. "That would i.'ive q-.iieied t':!t.- U-r a t:ir.e, !i;t how do we know I. a. :'.(. un.o:: -. nM n--t d- m.ir.d an j lie :'e t.,' of v. a :eS on 'Ct'O'T 1?" Ti e r:r. plovers P a g ar.ee over the conn : ry, d: -covered t hat tne print ::i a anca'de .i r. i ha' py. an i d'-:ded th :h-y ''oud nor mak- a!'.v ''.rtr.er coa esjon-f. Th:s d--.U l.';ed :f o!:'.:'? of t:- Interna;. ..r..r. Tvp. -: aphi.'al union ',;h w .-) io al pri n ' t mnenf all over h . onntr. are -a hi m'. a ror; ni i " t of l h e ( :v. r o ve rs In ( ' : a .: , and ,i::rol l'- .it the ; . -r t v- l'ou r-b-- ir w. e was to be pestj on.cd until 1 f 1 . WIt n the newi of t'-is meet i tic raehd I New "ork it w.,s !.ke a ton b ;l:r-i'n ,'.:,! the r.'iT.ks of tiie pr::i:i-- '.rad.s. Mas--tne. w re ' "'d; s: e- 'Ve for in- f or: - fur- '-on r rk w r- made to rronns etf i.mi ilnr.vL: the noon hoi:r; the Intel i:a: un il "as d . o-: n v, . and fnaly it Io.-mrio known tn t. in add : t :.m to the fcr ' "-f o ur-hour ci W', prin: rs would a ;. o demand ! I 1 ; w eel; Itici ease m a.:'-5. Nat uraPv, th employers wer" a ware of th.. proeee Innw. Thev scented a ntr.ke. mi ins:e ,i of waiting for il to rome thev dec :cd to mec; it. 1:1 t !e third wei 1; in SC ti'in'.'i r, shortly 1 efore t h.e war labor hoard cm Tact emt ed, thev bejan ettim; rid f the ohbf a::i-tao-s Pi th. ir i'!nn;s Vv tho sinmle tnei'iod of tir.m: them. When ;hr men's unions pr ot est d , 1 ) e r m p!ovei's i n fo r m ed them that th.ey conld no longer lo bu-ncs bu-ncs whh them, be--am;e tliev were not mend . rs of the I n t err.a : ion i ' unions The unions retaliated by calling out all of their men. M an Mine, the oftb-ii's of the International Interna-tional Tpoura nbhea; nnam arried in New York aiid b-i: an lormim; new unions under Its d'rectiou to take tho places of the men who were tired. Hut the member', mem-ber', of these new unions had to be i e-ernited e-ernited lantelv from the old oims. so ibat the International P-und It.1 task extreme-lv extreme-lv difficult. liven so. it mit;ht have sue-caeded sue-caeded bad l! not been fot- the mutinv hieh occurred In the ranks of the International Inter-national the feature whi.-h has made this strike different from anv other (hat has ever occurred In New York. One of the union s. k iiowti here as tlie "HP: St v," consist : tu: of hundreds of tvpesetters. was a part of tho International. Interna-tional. "The Hlg Six can't desert unless: we lei them." declared a member the In I erna t ional. "and wll h all the coin -po-itors at work wo can easily fill the lit hT place!)." Tills was absolutely true. The lt!-r Six could not deau't. because It bad Important Impor-tant contract a with (he International -mortuary mid other IwMielits on which the union had been payim; assessments for yen r a and could not a h'ord to lose. 1 ;u t the Individual uiomhern of (lie union bad no Inleiitlon cf se( i hm t vpe foi- im-cn-.cs li in n ned bv sea bs. t o 1 1ey- .va Id. So. while ret n i nlnn their membership In the Kb: Six. thev formed another oianur .-.a -(Ion known as the :,n - I , nh ( .a w a ;;cs for n fort y foil r- hou r weeK hei in: the terms the men ;i re !h;;tni.. f,.ri( whhdl di'Ci ei d a walkout, ,y. nn-uh vn of (lie P. In Six Ihey could not strike, hut. as members of the ai. club this' Is what th v .11.1: (Ml the morning of October 1 the typesetters type-setters walk ed Into the pnutim- !anl-i at. the mual hour. Put tbe ,, nol s!a' very Ion-. (Jolng up to t 'i,- sui'erm-lendeut, sui'erm-lendeut, each man demanded, "Is it f 1 1 - PI "Xothlnc doln-:." was the reply. "W'i'll, I'm I'olm: on n a ca ion ' then d.clared tho tvpe-adte,-. nd left the shop Now here ht tho aooi dm; p.(;- ,,f if The eni'lo er:i I mined ial .d not Six of Pie acl ion ol" l( a m, Mo whlcl'i was ia-nt ra iv I o tho .e del s of t he In: erna er-na 1 ii ma I lin Ion. P.1-; Sl m oi e.;;,c,l to he lu.Mc.liant, A lueetlm; of lis iiienibois v ea lied, a u. Pie , I V me men ho wall., d out of f be print he; p':iMf i f,.l inornlm: m d-u ed tlirnrvh e-s back t liat a fi ertioon. I Pail the miiio evening, an i,iubciM of |