Web Pressmen's Union No. 25 refused
lo aroept the decision of Judge Mar
| tin T. Manton of the United States
| Court of Appeals as arbitrator in arbi- '
1 ration proceedings on terms and con
ditions insisted upon by the union.
"For thirty yearsd he newspapers of
New York and the unions employed
by them have bt? n settling all labor
disputes by awh arbitration proceed
ings, and the newspapers now stand
on the ground that n body of men
which defaults upon Its signed agree
ment, made before a Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals, can
?io longer continue relations with the
j newspapers, which never in all the
? years of arbitration proceedings with
| any union have yet failed to abide by
an arbitratipn decision or have ques
j tioned their obligation to abide by it
| in the letter and in the spirit.
"The arbitration decision of Judrje
Manton did not decrease wages. It
i left the wages of day pressmen em
ployed by * every newspaper at Jul e
> week for pressmen in charge and *45 a
week for Journeymen workers, ar.d In.
| f teased the wages of night worker* from
*61 for pressmen In charge to J54. and
i from 145 for Journeymen prcsmen to
> $48 a week. '
"It fixed eight hours for ? day
work or a night s work, and decided tint
, the publishers should designate the num
I her of men to be employed on each press
[ H nd assign the men to their positions
| on the'press."
, Owners St.mil li> A n aril.
