Daily Republican., 1882-08-11
THIRD EDITION.
MOIR'S CANNERY.
ALetter from the Manager I'm Ref.
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eRenoe 30 me ''Angry GIEls."
The following letter from the mana
ger of Moir's oannery has been re
ceived: -..r
WILMINGTON, Del, Aug, 9, 1882.
EDITORS DAILY REPUBLICAN,
Last night your paper just published
was handed TO me, ard to my surprls'
read very long article headed can
cry Girls" As it concerned the Can.
merry of which l am the manager, sup
pose you will not deny rue the right II
interfere aud express TO ycu my idea
on the matter.
Contrary to what you affirm, yoU
have had no correspondence with tn,
manager in charge as was not there
but away since the day before. l thinl
it would have been better If you ha(
ascertained to whom you were speak.
ing before you made any staten ont.
l am foreigner both as regards ma
tionality and language, 30 please ex-
cuse impertections in my letter on tina
account. l am French and perhaps 8
little backward in q good M any things
but fail to see if your object was moi
to hurt the cannery, and what reasons
you had to put such falsehoods and
nonsensical reports in your columns.
Were these statements true (Which
deny i should still take the liberty to
ask you to what exent it is customary
here, for people to interfere in what l
should call the private direction OF an
In, Il trial Establishment and In mat
tiers that do not concern them?
We are not quite 80 fast in our slow
country to sueak about things that we
know nothing about. If you have
written this |, ng article in favor Of the
girls who went to your Office or had any
thing to do with the stupid row brought
up by two girls jealous OF each other,
you have caused contrary result, as
the first thing did this morning was
to discharge them, and they were first
hands at IS and $3.50 per week.
certainly thiuk that this is not a good
result for anybody, and the press |
fancy has another calling better than
that of trying to upset or annoy an in.
dustrial establishment belonging to and
directed by foreigners, Git is true) but
that to my knowledge has not wronged
anybody, Is In competition with no one,
and has not taken away the trade of
any firm in this town and has since
about a, year ago brought little money
amongst the trade and work people.
1 had also to blame the person that
answered your reporter through the
telephone; the only answer you ought
to have bad, was that the Manager was
from home, and the required explana-
tion could not be given on that account.
To prevent all this in the future Ihave
given strict orders that no answer of
any kind will be given by telephone as
it seems the report is considerably |
altered through it, and if at any time
you are desirous to have any informa--
tion, will you please send to my Office |
and will answer you myself. As for
the girls or anybody else d.nouncing
the management OF the cannery It'll
matters very little to me, as in my
long experience of having to contend
with numerous people, have learned |
that 1t is very difficult to satisfy |
everybody. AS you speak of managers,
as if there we're several here, it may be
rs well to tell you that there is only
one manager at Moir's Cannery, who
5lkuS anu r6ualnb,
Yours very truly, A. BIARDOT.
In reference to the above we have only
TO say that there was no intention what
9ver on the part ofany person connected
with the REPUBLICAN to injuf Q in the
least manner the Moir cannery. On
5he contrary they are glad that English
capitalists have been attracted to Will
nlington to engage in business, and it
is not their interest nor their purpose |
that manufacturers whether foreign or |
to the manor born, should suffer through |
any misstaGements of newspapers. The
reporters of the REPUBLICAN were care |
full to give the statement of both sides !
in the controversy. After the girls had |
made their statement of grievances, the
remark was made that we did not wish
to do any injustice to Moir $ cannery
and the reporter was instructed to tele-
phone for the particulars of the other
side. ....... ...
That side having been heard from
the gentleman at the cannery end of
the telephone, who our reporter under.
stood to be the manager and designat.
ed him as such, both sides of the con-
troversy we're published in, as we
thought, an impartial manner. With.
out any reflection whatever upon the
nationality of the Moir Cannery Com
pany or upon Mr.. Biardot the mana,
ger, it may just be possible that they
expect the same leniency from the press
that is expected in tle limited mon.
archial government ofEngland or in the
FrenchRepublic where the press speaks |
with muzzled mouth.
No such restrictions happily exist in
this country, aud poor WORKING girls,
and hard fsted laborer have as much |
right to have their grievances voiced |
Though the public press as the more
fortunate representatives of capital and |
high social standing. The complaint of |
the girls was a legitimate subject for
local notice and had it occurred in New
York instead of Wilmington would |
have been given a prominent placs in
the leading papers of this free Repub-
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