Show FOUR HOUR MONKEY WRENCH THE national editorial editorial association went vent on record very firmly at tho the st augestine Auge florida conven tion this spring in opposition to the demand odthe of the international typographical union tor for a 44 hour week it is difficult to believe that tile rank and tile file of 0 the union printers of america have become so inoculated with the theories of 0 radicalism that they honestly believe it possible to conduct the printing industry on tho the basis ot of a 44 hour week avlo money involved in wages is not tho the vital point of 0 issue the printing industry would be perfectly willing to continue to pay me 48 hour schedule for is 48 1 hours work in ili fact it is estima estimated ted that hat 50 per cent of the printers are receiving over th the scale today the groat great big issue the bur trent lo 10 tent and feature of the matter is that tile the international Typo typographical graph acal union is demanding that the industry ind of america doss clog down one month out of 0 the twelve that the wheels of 0 the industry cease to revolve one twelfth of the time what it amounts to cutting ott off tour four hours of 0 every week tho the printing indu industry siry cannot do that and service under present conditions dit ions the only answer the printing industry can give is that it can no longer submit to the domination of 0 tile the union which attempts to force such a preposterous demand and hence the printing industry ot of america is going to the open shop forthwith by the time this issue of 0 the bulletin reaches its readers the die will have been cast and the open shop will be an accomplished fact in most of the shops of 0 this country monthly bulletin of 0 the national editorial association |