Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1873-11-05
THE OTHER SIDE !
the PRINTERS UNION AND
THE ENTERPRISE"

tn6 Rt9Gs
In the Enterprise Of Tuesday morn
ing appeared a statement Of what pur-
ported to be the true Issue between the
Enterprise aud the Printers Union.
As we have not the free use Of the col
umns OF any paper, we hope the pub
lie will overlook the fact If our expla.
nation should appear somewhat
lengthy. In June last, Mr.. Goodman
went to San Francisco and purchased
an entire new job office. Upon his
return he brought with him one
George Daily. who had been a member
of the San Francisco Typographical
Union and had been expelled. The
members Of the Printers Union here
knew Days antecsdents, and know
ing him to be the most notorious FRAT
on the coast, looked upon his advent
among them rs an omen boiling no
good. They ascertained that 1t was
not his Intention to remain, he DAILY
giving out that he had only come TO
Virginia for the purpose Of arranging
the new job material, which would
take about a fortnight's time, when
he would return to San Francisco,
where he still held a situation. Under
these circumstances, and not Wishing
to be captiou, or arbitrary In the mat
ter, the Board OF Directors granted
Mr.. Harlow, the President Of our
Union, and who was then employed
In the Enterprise job office, permission
to work with Daily until such time rs
he thought DAILY was to DO perma-
nently employed, or until he DAILY
had completed the special business
Tor which he was brought up. In due
time the office WAS ready for work,
when Goodman Informed Harlow that
he had concluded to keep Daily for a
while. Mr.. Harlow resigned his situ-
alton, and Informed Goodman that In
case Of All excess of work In the job
office, no printer here, as they all be-
.longed to the Union, would work with
DAILY on account OF his being a "rat."
The time did come-the Union printers
were true to their principles, and Mr..
Goodman, In defiance Of Ills many
boasts rs the advocate and friend OF the
laboring man, inserted advertisements
In the San Francisco papers for print
crs, to replace those who we're working
here. In this he was unsuccessful, MS
all tho printers In California knew the
nature Of the trouble. DAILY tfen went
to California, and after "a short stay
engaged one of his friends to pick up
a set of men who did not belong to the
Union, aud for weeks the threat of dis
placement was held over their heads.
We now believe that Mr.. Goodman,
when lie hired Daily, did IL for the pur-
pose of breaking up II Union.
Now, a word or two rs to the Union
refusing to admit DAILY. When he first
came up here, In a conversation with
the late foreman Of the Enterprise. he
represented that he had been greatly
misused In San Francisco. He was
told that IL he could %substantiate his
statement, that we would endeayor to
admit him into the Union here. This
he declined doing ut that time. Find
Ing that printers could not be obtained
in California by advertising, We pre-
sumo it was deemed advisable BY DAILY
and his employer, the more effectually
to accomplish their ends, that the
..rat" should JOIN the Union here,
aud, under the cloak OF honesty and
fairness, bide HIS time to undermine
and break up the organization. Ac-
c0rdingly, application was made. A
law OF the International Typographical
Union Of America under which sub
ordinate Unions work.. prohibits one
branch admitting a printer coming
from u city where another branch
Union exists without the consent OF
the Union in the city from which the
applicant halls. In a spirit Of the
greatest concession and Difference to
the wishes of the proprietor Of the
Enterprise, the Union Of this city
wrote to the San Francisco Union to
grant permission for the admission
Of DAILY. Knowing the un~princlpled
f character Of the man, the San
Francisco Union unanimously re-
fused to grant such permission. This
left the Virginia Union powerless to
admit him. DAILY had still left the
right OF appeal to the President Of the
international Union, whose decision
might have permitted Union printers
to work with him until the next scs-
sion Of the International Union, by
which the question would have been
finally settled. This right hc did not
exercise. The Virginia Uuion then
even went to the expense Of telegraph
ing to the President Of the Interna-
itonal Union at Washington to know
II Its members could work with DAILY
pending Gan appeal and a decision
thereon, and was informed that they
could not. Thus the last resource that
could honorably be resorted to was
exhausted by the Virginia Union to
avoid the difficulty which was steadily,
p%erslstently and insidiously pushed
upon It by the proprietor OF the Enter
prise and the frat" DAILY. All these
facts, every movement, every effort
made by the Union to conclliate were
made known to the proprietor OF the
Enterprise as they occurred-and yet
that ~veraclous individual says that IL
was "only upon their final aud abso-
lutte refusal to accede to any accom-
mediation Of the difficulties" that they
were discharged?
In regard to the statement In the
Enterprise that 1t was understood be-
tween the printers Of San Francisco
and Virginia that tho application Of
DAILY should rest In suspense. thereby
allowing him to work with Union
men pending final action rs to his ad-
mission, we take issue. No such prop
osition wal ever entertained by the
members Of the Union, as such a pro.
ceeding would be making a farce Of
the rules governing It.
Specimens Of job printing turned out
by the Enterprise job office slnce the
employment Of DAILY therein are suf-
flclent ~refutation Of the unsupported
assertion Of his interested employer
that he was universally acknowl-
edged to be one OF the very beat job
printers In San Francisco" There are
at least three members Of Washoe
Typographical Union whose skill and
taste can be readily recognized Us In
flnitely superior to any similar quail
ifications ever manifested by DAILY,
while there are perhaps as many as
thirty job printers In San Francisco
whose skill he has not the mental