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Show I THE EXAMINER AND THE LABORING MAN. The Ogden Examiner feels offended offend-ed because Tbe Standard published a communication from a labor union committee which alleged that the Ogden Og-den Examiner refused to print a complaint com-plaint from Ogden workmen in reference refer-ence to a certain contractor who was building the cereal factory, who is charged with Importing his laboring men while refusing to give the Ogden workmen a fair chance. If The Examiner refused to voice the complaint of the union men, it j I was unfair to the workmen who wished to bring their grievances be-force be-force the public God knows that the workmen have a mighty hard time to support their families during the present high prices of food and particularly so when they are denied work to earn an honest dollar If, under such conditions, the newspa- -i pers close their columns to tho work-i, work-i, en, what chance has the poor man m this world' Anarchy, starvation and suicide would be all that would be left to tho workmen, if they could not apical ap-ical to the public for fair play. The Examiner has been posing as the people's friend. As such, the Ogden Og-den workmen had a right to expect The Examiner to give them a fair hearing, and the workman had a right to come to The Standard with tftCir complaint. The pollc of tho past 25 years of The Standard, in glv-Irg glv-Irg all sides a fair hearing, was a I guarantee that the complaint would ' be published. This policy does not mean that we approve of any communication pub Ii8hed In our paper, but to the contrary, con-trary, we reserve tho right to en-i en-i dorse or to condemn any matter sent j to us for publication. The Examiner says it Tould have j refused to prim the letter if The Standard had done as The Examiner did, namely, denied the workmen a hearing That would be worse still; ' if The Standard assumed the same Jrttltude Tho Ogden workmen, In-deed, In-deed, would be effectively muzzled Tho Examiners reply Sunday to l the committee from the Ogden Buildings Build-ings Trades Council is vicious, unfair un-fair and brutal To call the members of this committee loafers and blackmailers, black-mailers, simply because they requested request-ed The Examiner to print a letter reciting re-citing their grievances, is going a little too far. |
