Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Russian Typos Alarmed. [ARTICLE]

Russian Typos Alarmed.

The type-setters of Russia, and especially of St. Petersburg, arc alarmed for their trade, because they have heard that in this country certain type-setting machines are superseding the type stickers and putting them out of work. The St. Petersburg compositors, fearing that these machines may be introduced there, have sent to New York for information about them, asking if their use is profitable to their employers, and if it is detrimental to the interests of the old-fashioned compositors. A reply has been sent from here tc i the St. Petersburg Inquirers, telling then of the various kinds of typesetting machines that have been invented, of the extent to which they are used in the newspaper, book, oi job offices in this country, and of their influence upon the interests of typesetters. A reporter who has seen this reply says that its effect will be to relieve the minds of the Russian typos. Italy is an exception to the rule in Europe. It had a good wheat crop i this year. Still the stalwart sons ol I that- land will expatriate themselves to supply other people with banana/ and popcorn.