The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-07-27
O'BRIEN'S BOYS.
They Make Another Vigorous
Kick to Enforce Their
Demands.
They Insist That the Union
Shall Decide In Regard
to Apprentices.

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ed business in Sedalia in the tObacc,
and cigar trade, being an eDergeti
and industrious man. who knew how
to apply himself TO his business,
frst-clsss mechanic well versed and ex
perienced in the tobacco business, b,
manufactured a good article and
knowing how to present it to the pub
lie, he naturally throve in business tc
an extent which soon gave him a liv,
trade and leading position in hi.
calling.
When the great tidal wave of agita
tation and labor union craze struck
Sedalia he became shining mark for
the shafts Of the envious trouble
breeders. Being an honest man him.
self and recognizing the rights of Ia
Dor to unite or otherwise plan for its
rightful recognition and benefit as
guaranteed to it in this free country,
he was disposed to yield to every de.
mand within reason and law and soon
became identified as a "friend To the
cause" and indeed for a while took
an active part in lis success, never
draining of the ex ent to which it
proposed to 60 or TO the extremes to
which it was leading during the late
strike, his place became a sort of
headquarters for the boys and he did
a big if not a very paying
business with them, but as time rolled
on, and the designs of the leaders and
schemers in the great agitation began
to develope into the lawless tyrannical
aud bitter fruit, which was their
natural outcome, and real object, Mr..
OBrien being a law abiding citizen,
began to grow alarmed, and luke
warm in the cause. This of course
was quickly noticed by the leaders
and the more determined of the COM
munistic outfit, and every effort was
made to keep him within the traces.
About this time,
A POOR ORPHAN Boy
made his appearance in Sedalia, pen
niless and cripple, The world looked
dark and formidable to him, but with
a spirit born of independence, he did
not propose 10 be charge upon his
kin ,r the community, and sought for
such work as he was able to do. He
applied to Mr.. O'Brien, and through
the influence Of friends and relatives
secured a position as an apprentice,
and under the rules of this new asso-
citation, to benefit he laboriug man,
and to protect the orphan, the widow
and the cripple of the honest, but
"downtrodden" yoemanry. Mr..
O'Brien could not take but one APP
prentice. His men all belonged to
this "noble order" therefore they
went to him and demanded the dis
charge of one of the apprentices.
Thinking he knew his own business,
its requirments and needs better than
they did, he declined 20 acceed to
the request. They demonstrated
but Wi hout avail. They threatened
with the same result the apprentices
staid. Then
BOYCOTT
was instituted. Unfortunately for it,
however, its palmy days had passed.
somehow the people of Sedalia had
rot it into their heads that they had a
right to patronize whom they pleased,
to eat and drink and chew and smoke
and wear what they pleased without
asking the advice or listening to the
whims or dictates of anybody whether
they styled themselves Knights
plebians or peasantry. The atmOs-
Dhere was not salubrious for the poor
little boycott and it "died almost a
Dornin'." The consequence was the
men returned to their work and Mr..
OBrien was allowed to make their
wages for them in the good old-fash-
oned way by close stick-to-it-iveness,
md seeing that his customers got their
worth, and everything was
,nce more serene until yesterday,
when another terrible row was kicked
up and the three employees Of the es-
Adjustment
WALKED OUT EN- MAssE.
the Objectionable apprentice
ound other employment with Mr..
Boutelle, where he believed he could
better advance himself to sphere of
Independent usefulness. He went
With the best wishes of his late en-
oloyer. Mr.. O'Brien, however, need
ID some one to fill the vacant place.
His late employs advancement had
eft a vacancy for some other poor,
put good honest boy who desired
% make himself a useful,
productive citizen, and at the
same time contribute his little mite
toward the support of the mother. who