The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-08-29

The Federated Trades council at
its meeting last night listened to
report from a delegation from the
local Journeymen's Brewers union,
and then passed by a unanimous
vote tie following resolutions
Whereas, The Executive board OF
the Knights OF Labor, in session at Pitts
burg, Pa, May II, 1892, placed q boycott
upon the Pabst beer OF Milwaukee in
favor OF the Anheuser Bush beer of St.
Louis, alleging that the Pabst beer is
nonunion made product; and
Whereas, the situation relative to the
employment OF labor by the two brewer
les is as follows: The Pahst Brewing
union pfoiuct. All its ingredients are
prepared by union labor, while the malt
used by the Anheuser- Bush company, as
alleged, is bought largely at malt houses
located in small towns, where non-union
labor is employed at greatly reduced
figure. Within the year unions in
every branch of labor e3n,sioyed bv the
Pabst Brewing company have been form-
ed, and such labor i now working under
a scale perfectly satisfactory to them and
which continues in force one year from
its adoption. The Anheuser-Busch
! labor, which is represented both in the
! union and knights Of Labor, operates
under the jurisdiction OF the international
/ Brewers association. The labor en-
! ployed by the Pabst Brewing company
/ also operates under the jurisdiction of the
same association The labor employed
| by the Pabst Brewing company, in set
| Ting it's scale for the present year, secured
all requests sought by it and no dissatis-
faction exists relative TO it among any Of
said employees, and
| Whereas, There appearing no reason
why organized labor in any form should
| complain at the Pabst Brewing company's
method of dealing with its employees or
with the rights OF organized labor, the
Pabst Brewing company being only one
| of the brewing concerns OF this and other
cities in which the same scale is in use,
all working under the same jurisdiction
OF the International Brewers union
therefore
"Resolved, That by selecting the
Pabst Brewing company for boycott
under the above circumstances, the
Executive board OF the Knights of Labor
has perpetrated not only manifest in
justice on the Pabst Brewing company
which employs only union labor through
out, but upon the cause OF organized
labor which can offer no valid reason for
the placing of said boycott.
Resolved, That it is the sense Of this
council, that it is the duty of all organized
labor to give the same protection to en-
ployers of such labor in the distribution
and sale of their product that is demand.
ed by such labor of employers in the
| repOonitiOn and emDlOvpoant ut s;,cb
organized labor.
"Resolved, That inasmuch as we know
the charge that Pabst beer is a non
union made product to be utterly false
and without foundation, and believe that
the boycott placed at Pittsburg has been
melted and instigated by and through the
agents of the Anhaeuser-Busch company
because OF the rivalry existing between
it and the Pabst company, we hereby
appeal in the interest of fairness to the
Pabst company as well as in the interest
OF organized labor which cannot prosper
under the employment Of such diverse
and Unfair methods, to the international
Brewers union to demand that the
Executive committee of the Knights O
Labor lift Immediately said boycott, anC
that widespread public announcement
be made OF the same when done.
Resolved, That copy Of these re-
solutions be sent to the officers OF the
American Federation of Labor at once
with the request that they adopt the
same or other resolutions to the same
effect"
w. c. PEACOCK & CO.,
Sole Agents for the
Hawaiian Islands.