Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-10-24
END OF A LONG STRUGGLE.
knights OF Labor Win in Fight Against q
I.0ula Rrewery.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l7.-For the past
six days the mailing clerks in the gen.
eral offices of the Knights OF Labor
have been busily engaged In sending
to every district and local assembly in
the country an official communication
announcing the settlement OF the diff
Guilty between the order and the An
heuser Busch Brewing association, of
st. Louis, together with a copy OF the
agreement made by John Devlin on be-
half of the general executive board
and Adolphus Busch on behalf OF the
company.
The circular says that the settle
ment is on terms alike honorable to
all parties, that in the contest that has
lasted for upwards of three years the
order has succeeded in winning a Sig
nal victory, thus demonstrating its
power TO enforce just demands and to
defend its members against injustice.
The statement adds a warning To other
companies that are members of the
United States Brewers association to
follow this example and cease Their
unjustifiable war upon organized labor.
Members of the order are instructed
to give the fact of the settlement the
greatest possible publicity so that the
boycott may be stopped without delay.
In the agreement the brewing company
repudiates the imputation that they
desire to discriminate against organ
lied worl<ingmen.
employ in the ID \ rsgkhasS,
the boycott declared against their pro-"
duct. Second, in order to demonstrate
that they in nowise antagonize labor
organizations as such, the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association says that
they are friendly TO and cordially APP
prove Of the object of such organiza-
ton. fairly conducted, and they cite
as proof the friendly relations existing
between them and labor organizations
in other branches of their business.
They declare that they will not in any
way discriminate in their brewery
against organized workmen as such,
only requiring from all the faithful at
tention TO duty and obedience to proper
commands which is due by employees to
employers. Third, All other things be-
ing equal as TO the qualifications and
fitness of applicants, the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association further de-
clares that they will give employment,
when in need of men, to the members
of the Brewers and Matters local as
sembly, No. 1903, Knights of Labor,
and that they will not permit any OF
their agents or foremen to interfere
with the organizing of the brewers and
malsters in their employ. 1t is ex-
pressly understood that all employees
shall be free in spirit as well as in
fact. TO become members OF the Knights
of Labor, and that none shall because
of their membership in the order suffer
detriment in their employment, Fourth,
1t is understood and mutually agreed
that the shop rules ,iow in force in the
brewery shall be accepted, with an adj
| ditional clause which shall provide
| that any complaint of violation or in
| fraction of these rules shall be decided
| by board of arbitration composed as
follows: Two chosen by the Anheuser-
| Busch Brewing association, two
by district assembly, No. 4, or
| the general executive board,
and, in case of disagreement, u
fifth shall be chosen by the arbitrators
whose decision shall be binding on
both parties.