THE REASON WHY 



MAGAZINES PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK CITY 



WILL BE LATE 



DIFFERENCES between certain local unions and their in- 

 ternational unions have closed every magazine printing es- 

 tablishment in New York City. Some of the local unions 

 have retained their membership in their international union, while 

 the pressmen, feeders, and paper handlers have seceded and struck. 

 These local unions demand a 32^ to 44-hour week and an in- 

 crease of $14 per week, with double and triple pay for overtime, 

 to take effect immediately. The international unions contend that 

 the men should return to work and the entire matter be left to 

 arbitration. 



The publishers of the magazines meanwhile must suspend pub- 

 lication until the unions tight out their differences. This means 

 that Collier's Weekly, McClure's, Pictorial Reviezv, Cosmopolitan, 

 Hearst's Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Good Housekeeping, Har- 

 per's Magazine, Metropolitan, Scribner's Magazine, Century, 

 Munsey's, Popular, Delineator, Everybody's Magazine, McCalVs, 

 Popular Science Monthly, Vogue, Vanity Pair, Motion Picture 

 Magazine, and 152 others, as well asmany of the largest trade 

 papers in the country, will not appear on time as usual. 



Some of the publishers are making plans to remove their 

 plants from New York to other places, and many Western cities 

 are bidding vigorously to induce these publishers to consider their 

 particular localities. Three very large publications have already 

 completed plans for permanent removal, and their printing ma- 

 chinery and paper supply are now being shipped to Chicago. 



The millions of readers of the publications affected by the 

 strike are requested to be patient and to refrain from writing 

 the publishers concerning delays in receipt of magazines. It will 

 be only a question of a short time until the presses will again be 

 running. 



(Signed) 



Periodical Publishers' Association of America. 



New York City, October 10, 1919. 



