The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-22

The Federated Trades council at
it's meeting last night listened to a
report from o delegation from the
local Journeymen's Brewers union,
and then passed by unanimous
vote the following resolutions:
"Whereas, The Executive board OF
the Knights OF Labor, in session at Pitts
burg, Pa, May IA, 1892, placed boycott
upon the Pabst beer OF Milwaukee lii
favor of the Anheuser- Bush beer OF st.
Louis, alleging that the Pabst beer IS a
non-union made product; and
Whereas, the situation relative to the
employment of labor by the two brewer
les is as follows: The Pabst Brewing
companv's beer is an exclusively made
union product. 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-unlon
labor is employed at greatly reduced
figure. Within the year unions IN
every branch of labor employed by the
Pabst Brewing company have been form
ed. and such labor Is 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-
ploved 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 its scale FOR the present year, secured
all requests sought by it and no dissatls.
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
PabS 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 10
the placing OF said boycott.
''Resolved, That it is the sense OF TIN
council, that it is the duty OF all organized
y labor TO give the same protection to EN-
blowers OF such labor in the Distribution
and sale of their product that Is demand
ed bv such labor of employers in tn
recognition and employment OF sue
orgaDiZad lahOr,
"Resolyed, Thatinasmuch as we kno'
the charge that Pabst beer is a nor
nnion made product to be utterly fails
and without foundation, and believe thu
the boycott placed at Pittsburg has bee
melted and instigated by and through II
AGENTS OF the Anhaeuser-Busch compar
because of the rivalry existing betwee
> it and the Pabst company, we heret
appeal in the interest OF fairness TO II
Pabst company as well as IN the lntere
of organized labor which cannot prosp
under the employment OF such ulVer
., and unfair methods, to the Information
ISL Brewers union to demand that &
on Executive committee of the Knights
ng Labor lift Immediately said boycott, al
to that widespread public announceme
the he made of the same when done.
asst "Resolved, That copy of these
as solutions be sent to the officers OF
tho American Federation of Labor at or
- with the request that they adopt
-, same or other resolutions to the sa
!, - effect "
ich w. c. PEACOCK & CO.,
srs' Sole Agents for the
Hawaiian Islands