People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-06-24

The VOICE claims that Whitelaw |
Reid is opposed by the labor unions. |
How did it happen then that his NOM
inatiOn was endorsed bya committee
of the New York Typographical I'm
ion sent to Minneapolis to urge his
selection upon the national cOnven-
ton? If the union printers of New
York do not know enough to
tell who are their friends
and who are not, we suggest that the
editor of the VOICE be appointed
their guardian.
The above is taken from the MOni-
tor of June II, and the VOICE con-
tanning the comment was not printed
and sent out until June IS. Mr..
Campbell, before getting so very flip
and commenting upon copy before
it is published, should read up on the
question and know little more about
what he is trying to hammer on.
This fight between the union printers
and Reid is not new thing, and if
Campbell was less prejudiced against
labor himself he would know a little
about it. The committee of the New
York Typographical Union, was not
authorized to urge Mr.. Reds nomi-
nation at Minneapolis" To clinch
what we have said we quote the fol-
lowing from New York associated
press dispatches, headed, printers
Whetting Their Knives"
APATHY is not the characteristic
distinguishing the attitude of the
printers of this city toward Editor
Whitelaw Reid. The spirit has de-
yelOped into one of earnest aggressive
ness. The printers have unSheathed
their knives; they are whetting them,
and the great arm of union labor is
being barred to strike a vital blow.
Not only are the printers on the
Warpath because their enemy is or, as
he says now, was an advocate of non
niOnists, but what they call the flimsy
and childish attempts to wheedle in
telligent men have embittered them
beyond measure. One of these
attempts was when Reid, seeing the
shadows OF coming events, turned his
office into union shop; the other was
the Endorsement" given him by a
committee pretending to represent the
the union printers of New York.
This latter has made the New York
typos boil over with rage. They have
already stirred up storm that threat
ems to rustic a dozen Reds. Not
only the printers, either. All organ
lied labor is with them. The motto
that emblazOnS every banner of banded
trade uniOniStS bears the motto: IAN
injury to one is the concern of all"
They intend to live up to this motto.
They intend to fight. shoulder to
shoulder, what they believe is a
common enemy. Never before have
all the trades unions had an Oppor-
tunity to vote on a question involving
the sentiment toward uniOniSm.
They say they will take good advan-
tage Of the opportunity they will have
at the presidential election, and not
only will vote, but will work with all
their enegy, against the New York
editor.
Union No. 8, in which the New
York printers are banded in a strong
brotherhood, has repudiated the
Endorsement given Reid by the COM
mlttee that went to Minneapolis
during the republican convention.
The action of the membership of
union No. 6 has been approved by both
republican and democratic union
printers. The claim iSmade that this
committee was not empowered to do
more than accept the Tribune office as
a union office; that it had no right to
agree to an Endorsement of Whitelaw
Reid that would bind the New York
union or the other unions of the
country to support him.
The union printers, both demo-
cratic and republican. have decided on
the most aggressive kind of warfare
against Reid, and will do all in their
power to create in all other trades
organizations the same feeling and