Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-17
ANOTHER CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
THE REPUBLICAN BANNER.
Tennessee Soldiers Discharged 10
Make Room for Northern Rats.

NASHVILLE, May 10th, 1867.-Deeming
it necessary to bring this matter before the
public a second time, from the fact that we
have been wronged, grossly wronged, We
wish to have our rights vindicated, as hon
orable men. We know full well that this
community, always just and liberal in its
views, will decide with us that we are right
in taking the steps that We do.
We published card in Wednesday
mornings issues of the UNION AND DIS
PATCH, Gazette, and Press and Times, stating
our grievances-that we had been thrown
out Of employment at the Republican Ban
ner Office, and a set Of men brought here
from Cincinnati and st. Louis to fill our
places.
Weexpected the Banner would say some
thing in reference TO it on Tuesday morn~
ing, but it did not therefore we came ont
in our card on Wednesday morning. We
see that the Banner did not answer us in
Thursdays issue, but instead, we find the
following item at the head of IFS edito-
rial columns
w uust AlAiOh OuA1CihC7 Oii tic hAlu
indulgence of our readers for a few days.
An indispensable reform in our Topographic
cal management has rendered it necessary
for us to change our corps Of compositors.
The most ample and energetic measures
have been adopted to meet all our engage
ments with the public, and to place new
Ind improved system Of business on a per-
manent and successful footing"
Why have they changed their corps Of
composition They stated, on Monday
morning when they discharged us, that we
were good printers that we were gentle
men-that they had no ill-feeling toward
any of us, personally. There are plenty of
printers in Nashville ready and willing to
do their work, if they will employ them.
But no, they ran off to other cities and
brought these usurpers here, and they can
not procure a sufficient number of them to
fill their establishment; for high-minded,
honorable printers who are members Of
our Typographical Union, will not work
with such men as they now employ.
The Typographical Union is q society
formed in every city and town throughout
the United States and Great Britain, where
there are nine journeymen printers en-
ployed, for the mutual welfare of all
printers who see fit to become members of
it, not only TO govern them in their scale
of prices charged for work, but to govern
themselves; to make rules and regulations
by which they may act justly and fairly
with each other; for the printing business
is SO complicated thatit is absolutely mecca
sary to have such rules and regulations.
This, however, is only one feature; it is
ako benevolent society, enjoining visit
ing Of sick members, the relief of those in
distress, the burial Of the dead, etc, like
other such organizations more familiar to
The public.
These men at the Bonner did not belong
to the Typographical Unions of Cincinnati
and St. Louis. If they had, we would not
have one word to say. We would con-
slider that our situations had been filled by
fair and honorable men. The Banner re-
fuses to employ members of the Typo
graphical Union. Why? Let the Banner
answer
We again appeal to this community, and
ask if this is right, if this is Just, that we,
men who live here among you, whom you
know, some of us having families depend
ent upon our labor, should be thrown out
of employment simply because we belong
TO a society for our mutual welfare-one
that has been in existence in this city for
the last fifteen or twenty years, and to
which they themselves, the present pro-
prietors of the Banner, were attached, and
enjoyed all the benefits, while journeymen
printers.
The FORMER EMPLOYS OF THE REPUB-
LICAN BANNER OFFICE.