Show Perhaps Is no better Illustration ot of the old adage ot of the pot calling the kettle black than afforded by the clamor raised by printers when major newspapers merge suspend or otherwise throw union memo mem- hers bels out of at work As witness witness- f cit In hi Los Lore An An- An t gales New York San 1 Francisco F r ace c I s C 0 other ether places the At fr flea of a aper pa per has cre a cry by fI lice union of r a publishIng monopoly c W Harder Continued concentration In Inthe Inthe the communications field is distressing And no business failure Is so sad as the demise of a newspaper yet who has been causing these sItuations to come about OperatIng with Immunity from antitrust kiss's the prInters unions have bave created a oly that drIves publishers to the wall wail Surprisingly printers among the most It if not the most liter liter- literate ate ote ot of all craftsmen have long refused to recognize that no business can payout pay out more than it takes In Publishers are vary vry much captIves of a competitive free enterprise They must offer alTer advertising rates d at corn corn- rates and at costs casts ad can afford eec Usually It is not the wages CI fir t fl and hours that cause the trouble but the fantastic non non- nonsense sense forced on publIshers by union bosses with vision so lim- lim limited that should not walk the streets without a seeing eye dog tee On In many metropolitan news news- newspapers papers for example the union enforces a most silly rule Many national pre pew pare their ads the precise way they wIsh them to appear To accomplish tOils this they hIre un sin sin- sinton ton Ion engravers et at al aI to make makeup up UI plates for the newspapers tee It Is these plates which are actually run but at the same time the union insists that the publishers pay printers to set setup setup up a duplicate ot of the ad which Is then scrapped Publishers are thus forced to pay for useless work because of tire the monopoly power exerted agaInst them by tire the unIons yet publishers adopt methods to survIve tire the unions immediately try cry monopoly Ce C CIt It seems obvious that It if after thousands ot of jobs disappear disappear pear In the past few years men with the intelligence of printers cannot understand their union leaders are working against their best Interests and take corrective steps there is only one remedy tee That Is to make unions sub too to the antitrust Paws laws Tills This proposal has bas been supported on several occasIons by the na lions lion's Independent business proprIetors votIng oUng through the National Federation of mOe Inae- pendent Business |