Show BOYCOTTING 1 NEWSPAPER The New York printers that is to say Typographical Union Ho 6 are indulging in a very silly game and one which will defeat the purpose sought to be accomplished The Union has begun the publication of a weekly paper the title of which I condemns the sheet and raises up enemie3 to its projectors and publishers pub-lishers The name is The Boycrtter and its professed object is to induce I people to refuse aid and encouragement encourage-ment to oppressors of labor in general 1 gen-eral and the New York Tribune in particular The printers allege that Whitelaw Reid the editor and chief proprietor of the Tribune is the most conspicuous con-spicuous enemy to labor in America Amer-ica they say that he never fail to discharge a man when he can replace him by a cheaper one that he has broken many pledges made to employees and that he is in everything and in every place the enemy and oppressor of the toiler This may all be true doubtless a good deal of it is true there is very little about Whitelaw Reid to admire ad-mire His associates as well as those who work for him say he is haughty proud overbearing full of egotism and severe where he has the right to command And yet the printers in their un wisdom are helping him and his paper by wide and gratuitous ad vertising What do the readers and patrons of the Tribune care for the abuse denunciation and threats by printers The latter shout in every column of their little paper Boycott Boy-cott the Tribune I They want to Boycott everybody who buys sells or advertises in the Tribune or does I anything to help or encourage the paper How long will it take the world to learn that people do not buy a newspaper or advertise in it to help the publisher or editor We will undertake to say that of the thousands who buy and read the New York Tribune every day and of the hundreds who send their advertisements to it not one does so to help Whitelaw Reid They care nothing for the editor and publisher any more than they do for the urchin to whom they hand the three cents to pay for the paper They read and advertise to benefit themselves and to cease would be to Boycott themselves rather than the Tribune Typographical Union NO6 after it has expended a few hundred dollars in money and labjor in a foolish endeavor to crush the Tribune will doubtless come to the conclusion that Boycotting Boycot-ting is a very unprofitable business It is hoped the printers will alsolearn what experience ought to have taught them many years ago that there is a good deal Jess money in railing at an employer who assumes to manage his own business than there is in working for the highest wages their services will command even if the pay be less than they think it should be |