Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-25
soHeMER REID.
A Member OF Big Six Tells Of the Inner Work
Inas Of His Campaign.
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New York Sun.
To THE EDrToR OF THE SUN--Sir:
There are more members Of typo
graphical union No. q than you imag-
inc who willtapprOye OF the editorial
paragraph in a recent number Of the
Sun, charging the present administra-
tion OF No. with dishonesty. 1t is
corrupt, and IL apparently does not
care who knowt II. / remember the
time when the union was smaller 10
numbers-when the Sun and the
Herald were the only two offices in the
city that paid the scale-I was proud
to be member Of No, 6. | am not SO
proud now. l recognize the fact that
the proportion Of rascals are at least Us
great in the union as outside of it, and
the fact OF a man having IL union card
is not necessarily n guarantee Of his
beinga good workman.
As the union Is at present conducted
it is joke. If there is to be anything
to attract employers toward union men
it must be the guarantee that the union
will furnish more honest, more skilful,
and more faithful men than could be
had outside the union. II it can not do
this IL had better go out of business.
To be in line for good situation in
one of the union offices in this city 1t is
only necessary to become u union
statesman Workmanship is not con-
sidered This is the CALLING part OF
unionism. To see incompetents read
ing proof or stritting around on the
floor for so much per hour is certainly
trying the patience Of the int lligent
eOmpositor who earns what be gets at
the case. This may be the fault OF the
foreman, but, TO great extent, it is
the out growth of union politics.
Fifteen years ago Whitelaw Reid
made the Tribune non-union office be-
cause he had discovered that a system
of robbery prevailed there. Under
the able generalship OF John Milhol-
land the Tribune has lately been ''un-
iOnized,h and a committee Of five from
No. 6 attended the Minneapolis CON
ventiOu and assured the Republican
managers that everything was lovely
between Whitelaw and organized labor.
Then they nominated Whitelaw to be
yice-president OF the United States,
election to take pace In November.
The committee OF five control every
thing. They are the boys who can
get their friends a good situation in
the Tribune Office, and they are the
boys that do it. Almost without ex-
ception the men who have gone into
the Tribune under the new order are
statesmen who left one situation
to go to another. The ordinary fry
have not been it. The gang that Is
now in the Tribune Office could give
the old gang of 1877 the fifteen ball and
beat EN- in scheming, and very much
fear that after election we will have to
declare the Office "unfairn and hoy
colt the Tribune again.
Speaking of boycotting reminds me
that the Union Printer which was
started with the object of fighting"
the Tribune, is now controlled by ennis
saries of Mr. Rod, and IL is safe to say
that before election it will be franti-
cally calling on all square" men TO
boycott Cleveland because he refuses
TO make the Evening Post and Courier
journal union offices.
Yes. you are right; mo is in the
hands of the most dishonest set Of
knaves that ever banded together to
rob employers"-or anybody else.
f. d.