The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-06
INDICATED
The Leaders Triumph,
THE PRINTERS UNION RETRlEVEs
ITSELF.
It RecOnsiders It's Action Whereby Union
Men We're Ordered 10 Quit Work
in the Leader Office.

Men We're Ordered 10 Quit Work
in the Leader Office.
The Sun Again Misrepresents the Leader,
and the Union Takes Sides
with the Leader.
Two months ago a rupture took place
between the LEADER proprietors and
the members Of the union in their en-
ploy. A strike was the result. After
a time such fIcts came to the knowl-
edge of the men as convinced them that
Il wrong had been done the Leader.
Animated with a desire to repair the
mischief they had done, and in order to
establish harmony, union members
waited upon the owners of the Leader,
and the two parties soon arrived at an
understanding. At the dictation OF
one of the Leader owners, an agree
ment was drawn up wherein the union
made all reparation in its power. 1t
ever agreed to suspend its rules against
the non-union men in the Leader office,
and allow union men to work in the
office while non-union men remained
there. BY resolutions passed at the
monthly meeting, by circular, by the
public press, by private sources of com
munication, the union men determined
to take back every word they had
said against the Leader and declare
their faith in the honorable intentions
of the Leader proprietors toward them.
This done, the Leader proprietors
agreed to fill such vacancies as might
occur in the future, with union men,
but would permit no interference with
the force now in their Office.
Ab hlOSslhB VI nv Al1dCC uLllOI VI
the Cheyenne printers held Wednesday
afternoon, a resolution was passed
which declared the LEADER Office en-
titled to the respect OF union printers,
and the action by which the union or
dered its members out of the LEADER
Office, two months ago was recon-
sidered.
The union printers now acknowledge
that, in ordering the LEADER force to
quit work, a hasty step was taken.
They therefore place the LEADER office
on a footing in their estimation equal
to the fairest and best office III the
country.
The result arrived at Wednesday was
brought about through n calm discus
sion of the points at issue by members
of the union and the owners of the
LEADER. When an explanation was
made in this paper a few weeks after
the strike of its employees, it was said
"No man was employed by us who was
opposed 10 the union; no man was put
to work at wages below the scale pro-
vided by the printers union; no anti
union men had ever been communi-
Gated with by us with a view to their
employment; We had repeatedly assured
the union men in our employ that we
intended to continue paying them their
union scale of wages, and, hrally, every
man in pnr arnnI,u 70 In,, 60 rnn,f,;r,
the same rate of wages as ha been paid
in Cheyenne for years to union print
ers."
These facts appear to have had their
effect upon some of the thinking mem
bers of the union, and not long after
ward, while in conversation with the
wner of the LEADER office, several of
them ventured upon "a discussion of the
disagreement. 1t was soon found that,
as had been claimed in our printed nc
count of the strike, many members Of
the union had voted, while laboring
under q Misrepresentation, to call out
union men from the LEADER Office.
The matter being talked over further,
the truth gradually came Ito light.
The cause of the rupture was
namely, the revenge of n man who
was disappointed of getting a preferred
situation in the LEADER office, and
who laid in wait for a chance to get
even. He took advantage OF a tech
nical infraction of union rules, called a
union meeting on an hours notice, told
his story, excited the members of the
union, and the precipitate action of
ordering out of the Office the union
men working for us was the result.
In agreeing to return to work in this
office, the union men waive n Of their
Important rules-that of not permitting
members of their union to work with
non-union men. They admit that, if
it had not been for their course, non
union men would never had a fOothold
in Cheyenne. They also believe that,
when they gave situations to non-union
men, the LEADER managers imposed
upon themselves the obligation to re-
tain the services of these men until
they forfeited their places.
The printers have also taken upon
themselves the task of giving the same
publicity to their present action as
they did TO their strike. Credit. is