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Show I THE BOYCOTT OF THE NEWS. The boycott instituted against the Deseret B News by the Typographical Union strikes us as B a small business. The News has neVer opposed the union, but it has insisted upon conducting B its own business, which is a natural desire. Then IB some consideration is due the News. It Is older B than the union. When it began its career it had IB to almost make its own printers. It had its days B of trial. Then it is primarily the organ of a creed, B and, other things being equal, 11 naturally prefers B printers who believe in that creed. The paper B in fact is but a part of a great system and It is B natural that it does not care to account to or B tiust its affairs to any other organization. The B Salt Lake Typographical Union has often been H most exacting. For years it has been in the habit H of insisting upon terms which the officers would HI hotly inveigh against were they employers instead B of employees. H Again, when this union issues a decree that printing offices that have in no way offended the union, shall boycott the News, that, as President Roosevelt would say, comes perilously near assuming as-suming control over other men's business, and very near being a conspiracy to destroy or injure the business of other men, and which is not only a direct violation of law, but Is a direct menace to the spirit and the life of free institutions. The fact that those who attempt this tyranny pose as the representatives ol organized labor does not change the fact. A tyranny Is a tyranny whether It is perpetrated in the name of justice or by brute force. |