Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
CHANGE THEIR DRINK.
The K. of L. Pronounce One Beer Un-
fair and Request Members To
DRINK A COMPETING FIRMS BRANI
The Board Is After the Whiteley Machine
Company Again.
FARMERS ALLIANCE ASKED TO ASSIST

The Knights of Labor are never daunted
in placing boycott. Pahst beer is now on
the list. and the drinking members of the
organization will be asked to drink An.
heuser-Busch.
Yesterday the Executive Board wrestled
with a number of questions, and among the
number was that of the Pabst
Brewing Company, Of Milwaukee.
This company Is very large one
and is the principal competitor of tho
Anheuser-Busch concern. The Pabst Com
pany is now discharging all the union men
or demanding of them that they leave the
Knights of Labor 1t will not give any
reason for its action, nor agree to settle
The Anheuser-Busch Company, of St.
Louis. is employing nothing but union
labor For this reason and because the con-
Germ is the principal competitor of the
Pabst, the board thought it wise to ask the
Knights to use it. There is great deal OF
the Pabst product sold in Pittsburg, and
this request will be hard test on the allie
glance of the Knights
Appealing to the Farmers' Alliance.
The Whiteley Machine Company, Of
Springfield, O., is to start again, and it has
given out it will not recognize union
labor. The Executive Board Yesterday
appointed Secretary Hayes and John Dev-
lin to visit the National Executive Commit
tee of the Farmers Alliance and ask it to
help them in bringing the concern to set
tlement
The Whiteley company has quite his
tory. About three years ago it asked
all its employees to sign an agree
ment that they would not join
any labor organization and if
they were members they must leave the
uhion. But few of the employees signed it,
and all who did not were discharged, andthe
works were shut down and practically re-
mained so ever since. The plant was worth
81, SOC, 900.
As soon as the company discharged the
men itput up sign covering the side of the
building. bearing the inscriptions: "None
but Free and Unrestricted Labor Employed
Here" The Knights at once put four men
on the road to sell Mccormick
machinery. They were kept out for the
whole three years and paid $50 per month.
All the county and State fairs were visited,
and at the end of the three years the COM
pany was sold out for 5000, ZOO.
Stuck to the Sign Above the Door.
Several times the company were willing
to settle on the condition they would be al
lowed to have the sign up, but this was al
ways refused
Amos Whiteley, the older member Of the
firm, is now starting the plant. This inscrip-
tion so much objected to by the knights is
still on the side of the building, and Mr.
Whitelev refuses to remove it. The Execu-
tive Board has every hope that the Alliance
will stand by them.
The board has heard nothing of the strike
of the New England granite cutters and say
there is nothing in it. The granite cutters
are well satisfied with their wages and the
story that they want more is not probable
The much -talked-o trouble with the Gin
cinnati harnessmakers has not come up vet.
The board do not give the case much promi-
nence.
The work will all be finished up to-day.
The members of the board want to get away
Monday. 1t is expected that quite num-
Der of local grievances will be brought in
to-day.