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Show THE WAGES QUESTION. Typographical Union and the 'Tribune." I Salt Lake City, March 27, 1674. Editors Herald : Considerable, having been said oj late upon Tribune and IIerald mtn's private matters, I am influenced by the same to officially make some statements, and ask space to inform your readers of my ideas as set forth in. the following letter sent by me to the Tribune: Salt Lajce City, March 27, 1874. Editors Tribune: I am avereo to nulling into print, and always to avoid newspaper notoriety; noto-riety; if this were not a fact, I should , have penned you a line more than once in answer to some unjustifiable exagRerations that have been published pub-lished in your columns upon Typographical Typo-graphical Union matters. I consider now that patience ceases to be a virtue in this matter. I have ever looked upon diflerences between printer empbyers and employes, em-ployes, in general, and Typographical Union legislation, in particular, as things the public do not care about and should be attended to in our own immediate circle, but you have frequently fre-quently ventilated such matters, and 1 am justified, in the premises, of making some statements. The facts are plainly these: When Messrs. Prcsc ttand Hamilton Hamil-ton first took bold of the 'Tribune we received a caution from tho East that one of these gentlemen had a natural propensity lor lowering wages, and this, to some extent, influenced the Union in being set against your first proposition. You at that time expressed ex-pressed a determination to "rat" the office, so I was told, because you thought you had a "soft" tiling to last for a life time. Soon after that Mr. Prcscott went to Leavenworth, and we received inquiries about the trade, s he was trying to engage men at a low fiiure to come to Salt Lake, j Mr. Hamilton having been a member, of the International Typographical Union and . Mr. Prescott a charter member of one or two Typographical Unions, knew that arbitration was strongly recommended instead of force-work. The Hehald sent a second note, and a committco of arbitration was appointed, who waited upon theHKR-ald theHKR-ald proprietors; talked the matter pro and con, and each party was satisfied that a reduction should be made, amount agreed upon and report re-port submitted to the Union. In my oihciivl capacity I have nothing to do with a man giving or loaning another a bouse or a dollar, but as a man I would recommend and urge that employers and employes em-ployes have a mutual feeling of working work-ing to each others' interest; and I will also state, in the premises that, though your peremptory requisition tor the men to come on the Monday morning and work for fifty cents was not granted; the committee who came up to sec you on that morning were disposed to arbitrate and call for action upon it, but you were not disposal to have any talk at all upon the question. Your proposition to all tnko shares in the concern was refused, re-fused, I was informed, because the gentlemen were not. satisnca wiin your reputation, and they were alraid of being " bit" in accounts. We knew you both had been Union men for years and consequently looked look-ed for your actions in the premises being different from strangers to such legislation. You state that you determined to shake oft tho yoke at a recent date, hut I think I could show that your determination was mafic as soon as you got the handling of the reins, and that you have not hesitated to stoop low to accomplish that end. I will stato, in connection with this, that Mr. Real circulated a false report re-port about tho Herlad hands, to get men to work. cheap in your office, and when I went to him to correct the statement, he did not want to be correctly cor-rectly informed, and I see by your issue of Wednesday that you still glory in -making the false slate-men slate-men t. I have been askal to publish the fact that one of the above gentlemen is known in the West as the "rat breeder," but I wouldn't do it; ; I have been ask3d to express the sense of the craft upon one of you who used another man's paper after he was gone and against his wish but I wouldn't do it; I have been asked to repudiate any affinity with your alitors going to a man's house for information and stealing another's name but I wouldn't do it; I was asked to rebut your statement, upon testimony of men working in your news room, alout the Union men leaving nearly 500 lbs. of "pi" in your oflice but I wouldn't do it; I have been asked to condemn your not very honorablo way of wheedling into the position lately held in the Tribune Tri-bune by Messrs. Perria and Salisbury Salis-bury but I wouldn't do it; I might .ventilate your course in arranging with other offices on prices of advertising, Ac, only getting their figures so that you could and do "rat" them in this but I won't doit; And I leave the matter with the working-man upon your plea and my showing and the fact that you have no modesty or shame in having your otlice known, all through the East and West, as a "rat" oflice. You know its bud influence. I will conclude by using your own words: "Tho respectable and intelligent intelli-gent working-men of this free and progressive pro-gressive country can never get down to so low a level." Respectfully, &,c, Willi am Fuller, Prcsidont Deserct Typographical Union. |