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...average New Yorker is a European and the average European has a tough stomach. It was perhaps on this account that New Yorkers were able to assimilate " combined " newspapers for ten days during a pressmen's strike (TiMB, Oct. 1). By the tenth day the strike had dissipated its force and New York newspapers resumed their separate identities...
President Berry of the International Pressmen's Union had dissolved the local union which struck without sanction and had negotiated new and more favorable terms with the newspapers. Samuel Gompers telegraphed Major Berry: " Unless the pressmen redeem themselves from this awful blunder, you are justified in resorting to every means within your power to keep the faith, uphold the good name of your organization and the good-will of employers who may want to maintain beneficial contractual relations with the union...
Modern civilization in its complicated forms is built around the press. A city without newspapers is like a room without air, and the larger the gathering in the room, the less can air be dispensed with. Yet last week New York City underwent a pressmen's strike and still breathes. And this is the story...
...newspapers, on the same night that the public went confidently to bed, were confidently going to press. At midnight almost without warning, the pressmen suddenly abandoned the presses and " tore " off the " webs," destroying the evening's work. By the next afternoon enough men had been mustered to put out eight-page editions. The reporters functioned as usual; the editors then deleted most of what was written; the paper was set up in diminutive form and run off. The " combined " heads of ten morning papers and eleven evening papers were used as a joint protection so that...
...pressmen struck because of a long-standing grievance. It was, however, an outlaw strike in breach of contract. President Berry of the International Union dischartered the local, and made a new wage agreement on more liberal terms with the newspapers. The outlawed union's members were invited to resume work as members of the International Union, but, thoroughly angered, refused. One man was killed working for the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Reporters who tried to attend the strikers' meetings were roughly expelled...