Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-16
G0ULD'S LATEST GAME.
An Attempt tp BuHdozo Ono of The
Bee" Editorial stan.

An Attempt 10 BuIIdozo Ono Of "Th,
Bee" Editorial stan.
Having failed in the recent attempt t
obtain money under false pretenses, ant
also in the futile endeavor to boyc9tt TIN
Bee, the pro TEN presiding genius of the
Omaha Typographical Union takes a new
tack in an attempt to bulldo2e Mr.. d. c,
| O'Regan, one of tho editorial staff of this
paper. How far he succeeded will be
seen by the correspondence below. MIR,
0'Regan is a printer of twenty years ex'
perience, has always been an authority in
matters of dispute wherever he has beer
employed, was twice a delegate to the In
ternational Typographical Union at their
Washington and Albany sessions, and 9
member of the body that framed the In.
ternational constitution. He is known
by printers from New Orleans to st.
Paul, and from Omaha to New York, is
universally liked by union and non-union
printers, who uniformly speak of him as
lone of the whitest men in the nowspa.
per business" Although in the editorial
department of newspaper work for years
he has always taken a warm interest in
"the boys" and been of much service in
securing them advances and other advan.
tages in offices in which he has been en-
ployed. While little else is needed to
show the injustice of THE BEE printers
strike, yet his testimony will add another
straw to brek the back of the camel of
calumny that has been brought forward
10 bear the matchmaking burden intended
for The BEE:
THE CORRESPONDENTS.
MIR. OREAGAN:-l am authorized by
the board of trustees to request you to
come out of The BEE office and also to
appear at Union hall at $50 Sunday
morning for initiation.
KELLOGG o. GoULp,
President.
May 8, 1884.
MIR. X. o. GoULD-Dedr Sir. Your
note received, and contents duly consider
ed. You will pardon me if | beg leave
to refuse acceding to the request of your
self and the ''board of trustees" either
to ''como out of The BEE office" or to
''present myself for initiation" etc. My
refusal is based on several grounds, the
first and principal one being because your
demand is absurd, and being absurd is
only insincere on your part, and merely a
preliminary step to turning on to me q
portion of the volume of vituperation
with which you have been so liberal since
the ill-advised and cruel strike precipi-
tated in The BEE office a
few weeks ago. | say ill-advised because
it was a failure before it was begun, and
because it was dead before it was twenty.
four hours old. ! cay cruel because 1T
has been such a bitter blow on some of
the printers who we're called out from
their work at a time when they could so
lily afford to be idle, and who have, with
their families, since been suffering from
the lack of sufficient employment. Ano-
Their reason | refuse is because / fail to
see by what authority you can dictate to
me where l shall or shall not work. ]
mad imagined that the recent trouble was
a printers strike-not q strike by the ed
itorial staff of The BEE. As far as I am
informed, there has been no complaint as
to their salaries by members of the edIto-
rial profession in Omaha, notwithstand-
ing a few of them are willing to give
their services for much less than any
competent printer can earn on any paper
in this city. Indeed, | am reliably in.
formed that a former editorial employee
of one of the morning papers-who has
recently, both at the meeting in the city
hall and last Sunday in H~ascall's park,
been very breezy in his championship of
''downtrodden labor" and who is asso-
ciated with you in an occasional
and rather questionable publication
would have been perfectly willing, and
so volunteered, to displace myselfon The
BEE editorial staff at a salary 50 per
week less than | have been receiving.
But even if l were in the line OF ~typograph-
ical work, | think under the circumstan-
ces of the recent strike, l should have re-
fused to obey the unlawful alleged action
of 1.-The Omaha Typographical Union. 1t
was ordered aud carried on at every step
in c~ontravention of all the rules of the
International Union, which forbid a
strike without being ordered by irregular
ly called meeting of the local
union; which forbid the voting on this
question by any member who has not
been a resident of the city for at least six
months; which forbid a strike calling for
a change inthe standard and measurement
of any type; and which emphatically for
bid the use of v~iolenco and epithets i Ii
the conduct of a strike. | have no OBJ
lection to joining any typographical un,
ion, even though for some years | have
not been much employed in that special
line of work; but | cannot in self respeci
connect myself with a body calling itself
q typographical union that 80 ruthleSsly
trods under foot the laws of The
head society from which it receives
it's power The violations | have cited
you can easily see l am correct in, by
reference to the laws and constitution o.
the international Typographical Union
l am certain of it., for | had the honor
of being a member of the body that put
that constitution and those laws in being
There is much mere hat l would like t;
say in this matter, but the public hai
already had a surfeit of it. But | vii
say that if it is your purpose to causelessl,
and ~unprovokedly Willy and traduce m(
or to number me among those you hav'
marked for assassination of character, OF
account of my refusing to obey a ridicu
lous mandate, l am prepared for il
Whatever my human f~railties may hav,
been in the past, and whatever virtues
may not have possessed, / will claim tina
l have never finched in the lack o
moral courage to do my duty either il