Century-old Ti — Strike looms

This is the latest in a series of posts about news reported a century ago in the Ticonderoga Sentinel.

Rank-and-file employees of the Ticonderoga International Paper Co. mill were scheduled to vote April 17 on a union proposal to go on strike May 1.

The result seemed a foregone conclusion.

“Union leaders said there was no doubt the resolution would be overwhelmingly adopted,” the Ticonderoga Sentinel reported on April 14, 1971.

IP was part of a coalition of more than 20 paper companies in United States and Canada that was collectively insisting employees take a 30 percent pay cut and extend the standard working day from eight to nine hours.

“It was learned that the manufacturers have realized for several weeks that a strike was likely. A man in a position to know said the manufacturers would rather close down than attempt to operate under the labor conditions that have prevailed in the industry the last two years.”

In other April 14, 1921 Ticonderoga Sentinel news:

The Ticonderoga High School baseball team won its season opener on the road against Crown Point 15–3 on April 8.

The South Ti correspondent reported that a card party and dance was held at the Ledge Wood House.

“Mrs. Whitman’s supper was so fine that it will be long ere we cease recalling how good everything was. Everybody had a most enjoyable evening.”

The Graphite correspondent reported that Willie Frasier and Fred Bolton were having their Ford automobiles painted.

Click here to read the most recent previous post in this series.