The news that the newspaper strike has come to an end in Dublin, means that that elly which has been without newspaper since July 27, will now receive its usual services from such sources. The strike arose of the question of wages and working contions, but eventually the struggle assumed a more serious form, by reason of the demand of printers and ypesetters to. be allowed to decide, ]what they would or would not set in ype or print—in ther words. the establishment of @ trade union censorship over what was to appear in the papers. Tt was only proper that a demand of such a nature should be fmet with a stern refusal, and. the: owners declined to negotiate with the strikers until that objectionable demand had been withdrawn. The strike, however. continued until very' Hiarge'sums of money indeed were lost to the newspapers, the owners lot which, nevertheless, Kept up a thard and stubborn fight. In this they were helped by the newspapers in Jother cities, who in view of the principle involved, entered into a solemn Undertaking not to take any advantage of the conditions prevailing In Dublin, for the furtherance of their Jown ciretlations. This, in fact, had the result of aligning, the whole of the newspaper ownership aga ricer, s/t very well should have been, in view of the workers' demands, but It also meant that, for the fine weeks of the strike, Dublin Was, practically without ary newspapers. The terms on which settlement. has been Teached are not stated in the cable "which appears. in another column, but whichever way went ater the withdrawal, of the feensorship demand, it is clear Serhan mel have cent oth sides Jan enormous amount of money, in respect of which it may be said that that does not matter so long as the principle involved was vindicated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.