New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-07
To the People of New Orleans.


this city is denounced domneering despotsm, and
in which it is sought to convince the people of New Or
leans that the members of said Union have claimed the
right to dictate the in which the interior business
Of said Office shall be conducted In proof of this Rr
Iess brings forward letters from different Committees of
the Union dtorts them into meanings which can not be
sustained either by their letter spirit and draws con-
illusions at once unjust, unmanly and unreasonable
In view of this the Typographical Union its regular
monthly meeting held the 5th instant took the whole
matter into consideration and appointed the undersigned
as Committee to reply to this obnoxious article.
We beg leave to call attention to the following brief
statement of all the facts in the
Four or five months ago Mr.. Ieiss, for of his
chose to issue order in his office changing the
mode of asceraining the amount of compensation to
which each cnmpositor might become entitled Few
among general readers will understand either mode
the otlerwe therefore say nothing about it, farther
than this that recognized mode which secures JUS
tcr equally to the employer and the employed and which
is least complicated should be considered the best A
custom in that particular has obtained in this city with
the appreciation of nearly every employer who him
self practical printer by whom it has been investigated
No matter whether this custom is New Orleans dscov
cry importation from Timbuctoo in general use
throughout the United State facilitates matters guar
antics impartiay and therefore recommends itself
every practical printer different mode introduced
by Mr. H. into the Delta office, and after some slight
have ended.
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niustrousy took upon himself to call upon the propri
etors of most of the other papers in this city and in
formed them that he actually saving to his business
lyiS mode Of measurement, considerable sum weekly To
publisher he averrcd that the difference 30 to
ST5 per week; while to others his tune varied tre
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have been supposin to t inst what he ought to
have done but which doubt never occurred to him
Had he charged the members Of the Union directly with
fraud, should have known exactly where place him
but he preferred rather to refuse open manly answer
toa direct question, and dismiss it with (Does
this not avorof the tyranny capital ~ The Com
mitee in spirit Of Cancellation and courtesy, however
tried it again propoundug him four heterogeneous
which it seemed almost impossible to evade In reply
he only entirely sregaried the purport of the letter
written to him hut gave somewhat elaborate exposition
Of his views upon number Of questions wholly rrele-
tho issue (Was this spirit Of fairness and gan
tlsmanly forbearance'tl) This Committee. deemng Nr
II. quite intractabe, then ceased their labors.
At subsequent meeting Of the Union. Committee
appointed to ascertain-what had been the object Of
all the previous Committees operationswhat members
Of that body had ever dsfsauded the Delta office We
wanted their aau.s-it there were any-that we might
prune organization Of any unworthy men who may
have crept into it. This Committee addressed
manly and tgnied letter to Mr. Heiss. asking the
required information. Not only was the information
chnrhy Withhold U.s. but the occasion seemed op
perfume for John r IIess for the propresors Of the
Dslta to assail Ytuperayey in that Journal laying
strictly private affairs before tba public and seeking 10
brand whole class of citizens as dishonest and corrIp
And this must be cur apology-f indeed any is 1ecos
saryor cur present intrusion fipon Tie patience ii til
people Of NewOrlcaas.
Ia the article referred (Which rather lueeriy starts
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