The morning call., 1891-06-22
UNION CUT UNION.
holders Alarmed by the Employ.
ers' Latest Move.
How japanese Are Affected by the New Elk
clusion Act-Pavers Reorganize.
Brewers Officers.

Sixteen months ago the members of the
IrOn-m0ders' Union employed in the four
teen foundries controlled by the Engineers
and Founders Association struck work be-
cause the association declared that it would
no longer observe the unions rules. Tae
new Spaper-reading public knows how the
battle between the employers and employees
association wa fought, how the founders
employed "5cabs" in the East and how the
union paid the scabs to desert the bosses
and go back. This game of see-saW has
been kept up TO the present, and both sides
have suffered severely. The city has also
suffered, but that appears to be Of minor
consideration.
Whether the "scab" market has been cor
neIed or exhausted cannot be told, but the
bosses who positively declared that they
could not Afford to pay union wages or obey
uLl0n rules are importing union men from
the East-unlon mOldeTs, but not members
OF the International holders Union.
At the session of the International Mold
ers' Union held in Brooklyn in 1882 the ma
chlneIy-m0ldeTs withdrew to form union
Of their own, alleging that they had no
common interest with the men who nodded
iron fur fences, stoves and buildings. They
lett without the consent and against the
wishes OF the International Union, and be-
tween them and the International Union
war has waged ever since.
LABOR IsHMAELITEs.
They called themselves the Brotherhood
Of Machinery MOlders, and asked permits
sion to join the American Federation of
Labor, but the American Federation, in
which the international al Union is repre-
sented, refused their request whereupOn
they declared war upon a II declarations of
abUr and have played the part Of the Ish
maelte among unions. Whenever MEM
Ders of the International Union went on
strike the brotherhood molders took their
| places, and when the brotherhood struck
| the International mtn repaid their debt OF
| gratitude.
a DIX strike occurred recently at Chester.
| Pa, that resulted dlSastrously TO the BROTH
| erhood. They controlled one of the biz
| slip-yards in that city and struck work.
| Members OF the International Union, whose
| places they took long years ago, gave them
an eye for an eye and tooth for tooth.
| They took their places.
The Founders Association OF this city
| soon heard of the trouble and sent an agent
to Chester TO hire the brotherhood men
! whom the Chester bosses would not EN- plUy
! 10 take the places of the union men they
| would not employ Ola last Thursday even
| ing nineteen of the brotherhood men Of
| Chester set out for San Francisco to take
! the places Of the union men who have been
! on strike sixteen months. According TO
| President aIentlne OF the union something
! must have happened TO them between CheS-
! Ter and Cincinnati. tor when they reached
| that city but ten OF them were lett "When
they reach this city next Thursday night
said President Valentine, we Will do all
in our power To induce them to go back. If
;hey refuse, they will be treated as scabS
are treated"
AN ENDLESS WAR.
IL the 100 idle members of the brother
hood at Chester are brought to this city
President Valentine says the non. union men
now employed in the foundrieS will be dis
charged To make room for them. There can
be no employment for them otherwise he de-
clares, for the bosses recently stated when
asked 10 aTbitrate with the union that they
had all the men they needed.
The end of all the trouble will be" said
Mr.. Valentine, that our iuen and theirs
Will work in the same tCundries and there
will be endless war between them"
The Federated Trades came to the assist
tance of the union m0ldeTs yesterday morn
ing. The following telegram was sent to
the President of the BrOtherhoOd
TO John 4. PeHt0H, President brotherhood
trOit. Mich: Tie Pacne Coast Council FEEDER
ated Trades OF his ely have learned of men
from your organization coming here To work in
The struck fOundties. Cannot you prevent the
men going to work? II you persist united tabor
on his Coast will never recognize Them, but we
Will do all IN our power defeat your aims at all
times. ALFRED THURMAN, President
Ii. hRETLOW, Secretary.