Connecticut western news., 1888-02-15
BREWERS AT WAR,
Recriminations Between the Employ.
 CTS and the Union.

The United States Brewers' Association has taken . hand in the trouble between the Mil yankee brewers aud their men. At meeting of the National Association, held in New York, . private circular to all the members of the association was drawn up. It was adopted by the Milwaukee association and distributed to members, The circular says in part:
 ''It becomes the duty of the United States Brewers Association to urge it's members to do sll that IS in their power to sustain the brewers of Milwaukee in their opposition to the des- potic rule of the outspoken Anarchists who gre to-day misleading the workmen in our em- ployment. The employing brewers of Mill waukee had cheerfuily entered into . contract with their workmen conceding all demands made in regard to wages, working hours, em- ployment of union men, etc. They faithfully lived up to this contract until they were boy cotted by their own workmen's nat onal crgani- ntion because they refused to allow the guid- ing spirits of the latter, . of whom are ram pant Anarchists, to dictate to them where the employers should buy their mat erial.
 Although thus shamefully deceived by their vorkmen, the brewers of Milwaukee, aware of the methods by which brewers employees throughout the land are being terrorized by interruptions leaders, concluded to retain the same scale of wages and working hours agreed upon in the contract wantonly violated by their employees. They would not have taken any other sction if their own workmen had not on the occasion of their masquerade ball boycotted their own product, doing with great ostentation, by purchasing . supply of beer, to be used at said ball. outside of Mil waukee. At the same time all of these men were then consuming large quantities of their em loyers' beer, which, according to an old custom, was furnished to them free of charge.
 "Convinced that great majority of their workmen were indignant at the despotic sway of their leaders, and would be glad to throw oil the degrading yoke which sIarchism had placed upon them, the employers resolved not to retain in their employ any members of Brewers' Union No g. The result of this ac- ton is that 92 per cent. of all the workmen have left the union and retained their places in the breweries.
 'sThis is simply . fight of employers and workmen against the outrages of Irresponsible and interruptions men, who, by trickery and treachery, by intimidation and coercion, have succeeded in terrorizing our workmen, and are now using their power in order to create strife between labor and capital, seeing that with out such strife the occupation by which they live and thrive would be lost"
 The Brewers Union has a'so issued . man. ifesto. After going over the details of the strike the circular says:
 "Just as the judicial murder It Chicago was intended to terrorize the universal movement for the emancipation of labor into timorous apathy, SO here, too, an attempt is being made to crush out organized labor and to cripple the Independent political power of the largest union in the Northwest. Mark we'll the effect: Every swallow of Milwaukee beer now means the sup port of non-union labor and the persecution of fair lapor"