The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-18
On the other Leg.

Ia such matters as the Posts pres
ent stand up and knock down tight
with the printers union ii all de-
ponds upon whose OK II is which is
being gorcd. Last March n year ago
the editor of the EXAMINER was Gu.
gagged on the Austin Statesman. As
soon ms he concluded the arrange i
ment with the proprictors OF that
paper he was ordered to get rid of
the union at his own time and Ia his |
own way. The owners of the paper
were steadily losing money, and the |
union as steadily refused to hear OF
less price than i5c. per thousand
The publishers could not stand the
racket aud break became inevitable.
We knew that the printers union
would listen TO nothing short of l5c.
so we organized force and had IL
on the road before the union knew
that a change was impending. They
were appraised however by wire aud
waited ON the manager to know II the
report of the coming invasion was
correct. An affirmative answer was
given. A great howl was raised at
once over being thrown out without
warning &c. In reply to the ques-
ton, "would you have consented to
hold your cases at 81 1-2 per thous-
and Fan indignant "no" was ret urncd.
They stepped out and the now men
were at work on their cases in just
eight minutes after the train stopped
at the depot. This was our sin, this
the head and front OF our offending.
Immediately we were pla-
carded, "circularcd," and published in
every union office in the United States
and the Canadas as "dead beat,n O
scoundrel, failure, n villain, q muir
derer, thief, and the good Lord only
knows what else besides. Tho Post
this same delightful Post, then under
full sail on the tide of unionism and
its characteristic disaster, greedi.y lis
tened to and as greedily published al
the lying abuse of the Austin union
, which was sent to them by one of tn,
present employees of the Post, VIII,
: was then aud is now union printer
: one Johnston, by name. 1t was GU
OK that was then being gored. Nov
: il isn't.
Now it is the Post. Not being sat
istied with the price paid, the uuiol
q attempted to force the management t
9 retain a drunken printer on the fore
3 after he was discharged. That wa
70 not enough, but they went to the ex
y traordinary length of demanding thoi
pay every night, thing never befor
: heard of since printing was first in
L. vented. Tired of this, the poor, bad
: gered management sent oil aud oil
T. ganized force ofnon-union men an
succeeded in getting out their pape
without missing single issuc--a picc
of enterprise for which IL is |
is be commended. Then commence
the same old circular form OF slande
TIE Post men are being served out
the same spoon we were. TO say TIN
they have our sympathy would |
- false, and yet there is principle
the matter which rises far above ail
beyond all such feelings. The tyram
and injustice of the union is such TIL
it must finally mass and combine Q
the publishers of the country again
the exactious and injustice of the N,
who are not willing to scale their pa
L. by the ability of the enterprise, al
whose only connection with It WI
" and is to bleed il TO the last outsi,
cent oblainable under any and all pr
~ texts. There is no principle in Il
union scale or mode of conduciiu
things. Their game is purely one ,
As grab. This is apparent by the pr,
vision that no publisher, no matt,
Ia how long he has been n member ,
tie union, can hold AN active copne
ton with il when he becomes a pr,
p prietor. The minute he becomes
O. proprietor he is at war with the unto
and the union is at war with him, AN
1t is always battle TO the death, ger
: orally of the pro-union publisher
II the Post cuts loose from the unioi
1t puts its composition at u fair rat,
p such as II can stand, it will pul
through; but fit attempts to ruI
itself for the use aud benefit o
" the union alone, the day of the enfi
. not distant.
In this thing there seems to lurk
poetic Justice which can bring no tear
:, from us, and would receive no motto,
. whatever cn!y we want to drive tn,
lesson home while II is fresh in men'i
memories, and We want TO go on tn,
: record now, as at all other times
: against the tyranny aud injustice o
the union or any other combination
which acts unjusily and proposes tC
bulldoze its way to success over thu
ruins of every publisher foolish
enough 10 put himself In its power
IT don't seem that the Afghan ques-
iion is settled securely. War MAY
break ont on that frontier at any mo-