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Deportation of striking miners from Bisbee, Arizona, on July 12, 1917. The men are being forced to board the cattle cars provided by the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, and are about to be sent hundreds of miles with no food or water. Photographer unknown, public domain due to age.
In other parts of the world, movable type came earlier, but when we’re talking about the ITU, the European context is key to understanding why people thought it would last forever. Not only were printers’ unions the first unions in the United States, but they managed to stay ahead of the curve for most of their existence. The ITU and the unions it developed from pioneered not only new methods of labor organization, but they also pioneered many of the society-wide benefits I discussed in the last section .
Initially, ITU members and leadership thought that printers would be able to adopt the new technology and continue working. If done right, they thought, maybe they could even make more money working because their productivity would go up. So, they worked hard to embrace new printing technology and make sure their members were ready to work using new machines.
When the printing trade collapsed, tens of thousands of workers lost what had been a good career with good pay and benefits for centuries, and almost overnight. My grandfather says that at this point, workers had several options. He says that others stayed in the newspaper industry in various roles, and a few stayed on repairing electronics. But, they were few. The working conditions became terrible, with crazy things like foremen watching employees use the restroom to make sure they weren’t hanging out in the bathroom to get a break like they used to.
The biggest thing he misses about the printing trade and the ITU was the freedom to travel and try new places out. He had a “traveler’s card” he could present at any union newspaper in the United States and Canada, and they’d almost always have good-paying work. He took advantage of this quite a bit during his career, and missed the ability to freely travel and move around later in life.
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