A Strike Ended

The 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."

Seeing themselves beaten, the strikers gave in and voted to take out international union cards and go back to work. The newspapers agreed to take those whose places had not been filled in the meantime. Though the local union was dissolved, the men who returned to work got substantial wage increases and shorter hours. Even so, the newspapers were probably glad to get them back, since the emergency pressmen were receiving $20 a day.

The Hearst papers offered a reward of $2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who black-jacked and killed one of their strike breakers.