The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-02
order upon the trustees to show why the
petition should not be granted.
PROTECTIONIST MEDOLE.
How He "Rats" American Labor in
His Everyday Business.

George ]. Medole is running for Assem-
bly, in the new Fourth district-THE
NEWS mentions the fact because it is not
generally known-on the basis of McKin-
leyism. alleged protection to American
labor, and giving workingman all he can
earn at the highest rate of wages paid
anywhere in the world.
As politician MIR. Medole is of the
black and tau order, and quite appropri-
ately, perhaps, ne is "ratlef"
While pretending to encourage Ameri-
can labor he is swindling it. He runs
printing office on ''raU" basis--grinds
American labor down to any scale of
wages--no scale at all, in fact--that he
can compel men to work for He refuses
to pay union wages. and his office in New
York is not known to the Labor union.
Due inquiry has been made by the Typo
graphical Union of this city and the TACT
duly attested. Here is the evidence:--
New York, October 81, 1891.
To schom 1t may con Germ
as George j. Medole'' under the head of or
ganized chapels under the jurisdiction of Typo
graphical Union No. 6, of New York.
JAMES MCKENNA,
Editor of the Union Printer.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION NO. 8.
SATURDAY, October 81, 1891.
Friend Mcleod
There is no Union office in this city run under
the name of George J. Medole. There is a non
Union nnce run by man of that name.
VIM FERGUSON, Secretary.
STATE OF New JERSEY, ss
Hudson County.
Duncan Mcleod. member of Typographical
Union No 81, and Thomas ]. Seaman, President
of Typographical Union No. a. upon oath and
being duly sworn, do testify that the statement
of William Ferguson, Secretary of Typograph-
ical Union No. g. is correct to the best of their
know ledge and belief.
DUNCAN McLEoD,
THOMAS ]. ScANLAN.,
Sworn and subscribed to before)
me, this second day of Novem-
Der, A. D. 1891.
HENRY MARTINEZ
Justice of the Peace.
And yet this man pretends to be a dis
iple of McKinley-an advocate of the
principle of protection to American labor
of paying to American printers the
very highest rate or wages that 1t is pos
sible to give them.
1t Is not too much to say that Mr..
George j. Medole seems to be very
highly accomplished political liar. II
the people of the new Fourth district
want to be represented by such man
they should vote for Medole, the 'rat-
ter"
On the other hand, it they desire to be
represented by true friend of labor-a
man sprung from the labor ranks-who
believes that the laborer is worthy his
hire-let them vote for Patrick II. O'Neill,
and they won't make any mistake.
LABOR MEN INVESTIGATE.
When the labor organizations were in
formed of Medole's claim that he was a
labor candidate they decided to enquire
into its truth. They sent Duncan Nc
Leod, foreman in the composing room
of The JERSEY CITY NEWS, and
- .
on the same paper, both prominent men,
bers OF the Typographical Union, to New
York to ascertain the record of Medole as
a FRIEND af the laboring man and organ
lied labor.
These two gentlemen called on George
". Ferguson, Secretary m Of Big
cal union in America. Mr..
Ferguson, when asked about Medale's
record as a friend of the working man,
told Messrs. Mcleod and Seanlon that
'It is very bad. Z"
He added that Medole was the foe to
organized labor. That in the print
ganized labor is not recognized
He conducts a non-union office and
will not permit his employees to have a
union Office. He is, in fact. like every
Republican boss, the driver of working
men and not their friend.
dShcu InI. nCLIFOu why uu6 ldUOI
unions had taken SO much trouble to find
out Medole's record and he replied:-
s"Our only preservation lies in protect
ing ourselves. We do not care for Me-
dole's politics, but his attitude on the
labor question. We wanted to assure our
selves that Medole would be favorable to
questions that interest workingmen,
should he be elected, and before we
voted for him we made inquiries We do
not find anything that assures
us that he will be friendly
to our interests. We do not believe he
will. He runs non-union printing Office,
and that alone stamps him as being foe
TO organized labor. He is not. in ouI
opinion, the kind of a man we want in the
Legislature, and we will not vote for
him."
Mr. Scanlan said about the same thing.
He believed that when his record was
known no member of any of the branches
of organized labor would vote for Medole.
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