Ogden Sun | 1905-09-19 | Page 2 | Independent Printers in Union Fight

independent PRINTERS IN UNION FIGHT chicago sept 11 concerted action between the members of the chicago and a number of the big independent employers oe printers was decided on today in an effort to oppose the demands of the union job printers of chicago the typographical un ion today filed demands on independent job and book publishing houses for an eight hour day and union conditions after january ast 1st after the union had ordered out men in eight of these houses for refusal to grant ho request of the union the chicago whose members are already involved in a strike invited the independent master printers to meet the members of the in an effort to devise means of fighting the union demands nearly one hundred independents pen dents attended the meeting A motion was unanimously adopted to have a committee of twelve appointed to arrange for the formation of an organization of independent master printers to resist the hour day plan pledges were made by most of the independents present that they would temporarily affiliate themselves with the chicago in the struggle against the union during the day more than fifty small independent establishments on whom the union made demands agreed to the proposal submitted by the union