| Show AN 1NTE1tSST1NG STKOGGLK There is a strike on in the cast which is more than ordinarily interesting time the maltsters agreed Some ago among them elves to boycott any labor brewer who employed nonunion It was a bold and almost desperate resolution and one which could not be justified by any theory of right It contemplated the taking of the employer em-ployer business out of his hands and his own placing it in the hands not of labor uoion It workmen but of a the denied him the right to go into open market to employ men and denied to labor except under to men the right conditions i imposed by the union the brewer must In plain words dictation of an submit to the association which had not a dollar of interest in him or go out of business Under the circumstances thing for the brewers there was but one to do and that was to mako the fight them and that Which was forced upon that upon they have done They agreed declared against a mem a boycott being Association for the bar of the Brewers nonunion men the employment of brewers would all boycott union labor employing no man who was a member union Only in this of the boycotting way could they hope to succeed they must stand together for mutual protection would other course tection bemuse any result in the brewers being slaughtered being one at a time no single brewer able to stand up against the boycott Yesterday morning the maltsters of Chicago went out as a protest against the brewers and the action of immediately the brewers of New York and other cities informed their men that after nest Monday they could not labor for them as union bands that if they desired to continue must do so as non they in their places union men The contest now is a contest con-test between unions employers against employees or vice versa it is a struggle maintain the right of the on one side to individual to manage his own affairs in the other to establish his own way and on shall tablish the theory that the laborer dictate to the master It does not need a prophet to say will end The how this contest must go to the wall maltsters union and its members will have to withdraw elsewhere than in or find employment their breweries The brewers can close establishments until such time as nonunion I non-union hands shall be forthcoming the which will not be long but maltsters cannot well remain idle Nobody will feel sympathy fir the union men They undertook arbitra dertook to use their power rarily and in a manner which could of right not be justified by any theory In thisaffair there should be found a lesson by other labor unions They in muet be fair reasonable and just their demands and conduct or they and to combine will force employers form associations for mutual protection protec-tion which will play havoc with unions If it shall not come to the point that employers agree among themselves to hire none but nonunion crash hands there will be a terrible and disaster to working mens unions |
