PRINTERS' STRIKE.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1920, Page 4

PRINTERS' STRIKE.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 9

for over a* week there has been a printers’ strike in Manchester. It has / ■ arisen from the not uncommon cause of ■ the men declining to recognise the bargains made by Llieir leaders. In Ibis instance the was remarkable Manchester was deprived of its newspapers From a business point of view this was serious, for merchants, manufacturers, and stockbrokers ivto without their usual supply of. daily information on the course of the markets and the quotations of stocks and shares. Within a few days the principal leading journals were able' to issue miniature editions. I done by typewriter and duplicating machines. These crude little sheets of a few pages “sold like hot cakes.” They . deserve preserving as souvenirs, for : they are excellent morsels of potted information. It is surprising what a mass of interesting and really useful news they summarise in a small space. One „f these little sheets, which is issued ft om the office of a paper with a worldwide reputation (the “Guardian”), which claims to be a leader of public opinion, manages to publish a pointed leader in brief, asjivell as a summary of the day’s happenings. One comment upon these events has been repeated in a London contemporary. The speaker was a typical Lancashire man on ’Change. He said, “Aye; these little papers are handy enough. There’s all that matters in them. But 1 don’t know’ as we wants owt about th’ weathei ia Manchester We can tell it’s raining ' fo- oursens” *