The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-14


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 in
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
company'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-union
labor is employed at a 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-
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 its 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 o 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
recognition and employment OF such
organized labor.
Resolved, That inasmuch as we know
the charge that Pabst beer is a nom
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 tine
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 of
Labor lift Immediately said boycott, and
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. G. PEACOCK & CO.,
Sole Agents for the
Hawaiian Islands.