Show CHICAGO PAPERS SUSPENDED chicago has long been noted for its enterprising pushing population and its wideawake wid up to date newspapers it was the home of the seven day paper before the custom was adopted elsewhere and the papers have become a part and parcel of the social fabric second in importance to none for the first time in the history of the city it is about to have its newspapers shut off for a day anyway perhaps longer the cause of this is the strike of the in the printing offices they want a higher rate of compensation than the publishers are willing to pay and at this distance and considering these times the scale demanded does seem ra rather ther exorbitant the now receive for a days work of eight hours very fair compensation surely but they demand 4 and seven hours work an i increase all told of about 25 per cent this is on the face of it a demand that could only be granted under the pressure of some unusual emergency or a sudden and great revival in the business transactions of the country with things so near the bedrock principle as at present the wage worker should not expect to greatly exceed the condition in wages especially when doing so much better than many mamy others and any prospect of improvement is merely a hope not a tangible thing that the employers can realize on no just or reasonable person will seek to withhold from labor a fair rate of compensation for services rendered that the laborer Is worthy his hie hire to is evident from the experiences of mankind as well as by the precept of holy writ that question then remains as to what fairness and justice mean in such connection how they are to be ascertained certa ined and arrived at the chicago like many other craftsmen and laborers seem to have constituted themselves an ex parte tribunal and decided the matter for themselves without permitting the other parties in interest to have a hearing or representation of any kind it is wrong A As 13 an evidence of this it will be observed cb served that the employers are doing exactly as the employed did that is they decide their own case in their own way without calling in the adverse party how much better would it have been to make the subject one for joint consideration and if a satisfactory conclusion could not then be reached to submit it to the judgment of disinterested te parties friendly to both the dis mutants pu tants As it is the publishers will undergo a serious loss in money and prestige by reason of the temporary discontinuance the people will be badly discommoded for want of the news and this too at a time when the news Is more in demand than at any other period within three decades and being made acquainted with all the circumstances will in most moat cases hold the workmen responsible and perhaps visit resentment upon them so that they too may be losers in something more than the money of which they w will III be deprived there can be no reasonable fault found with men who work tor for a living securing as an much for far their str services vites as they are worth provided no unlawful or unjustifiable means are employed to effect such purpose fiut they ought always to keep in remembrance that their services are worth more or less legg at some times than at Ot others otherie heril and the compensation must also depend to a great extent upon the state of the business in which they are engaged it is not hard to see and understand that 1 l a days or a weeks work or work for any other limited period may be worth twice as much at one time as ano another or only halt half as much all depending 0 on how valuable it is to the employer that i is how much he realizes out of it i t behooves him to advance prices of con coin i sensation pensa tion when his business advances 1 I and the employed to consent to a re 3 when there is a marked marke ilin a off for either to refuse to re recognize 0 ize this rule is a form of tyranny and an such is objectionable in this free coun try |