Printers' Ink Volume 47 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...-is a portfolio containing mounted color reproductions of three of Frederic Remington's paintings depicting the settlement of the Louisiana Purchase territory. There will be twelve of these pictures altogether, one appearing each month with the fiction number of Collier's. They will be added to the collection as fast as published. Mr. Conde Hamblin, general manager of the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press, thinks the following of interest to every employer in the United States: Conde Hamblin, of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, is testing a question that will interest every employer of union labor in the country. The question at issue arose in the manufacturing department of the Pioneer Press Co. The company has a contract for two years with the Journeyman Bookbinders' Union, made last November, in which it is specifically stated that there shall be no strike or lock-out during the period covered by the contract. Recently the bookbindery girls formed a union and demanded that it be recognized. Upon the refusal of their demand they struck. The journeymen bookbinders thereupon quit substantially in a body and at the same time, but claimed that it was not a strike because they quit as individuals and did not officially consider it a strike. Although both strikes collapsed, suit has been brought against the journeymen's union and its individual members for damages, not with a desire to secure compensation for the loss entailed, but to secure a ruling whether the members of a union can quit as individuals and evade the responsibility of a strike. If they can, there is not a contract with a labor union in the country that is worth the paper it is written upon. To each solicitor of classified advertising for the Philadelphia Record is given the following instruction sheet...