The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-08

The Federated Trades council at
its meeting last night listened to a
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 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
I 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-
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 Oh
with the rights of organized labor, the
Pabst Brewing company being only one
of the brewing concerns OF this and othel
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 thu
Pabst Brewing company for boycott
under the above circumstances, thu
Executive board of the Knights of Labo
has perpetrated not only manifest in
justice on the Pabst Brewing company
which employs only union labor through
out, but upon the cause OF organizes
labor which can offer no valid reason TO
the placing of said boycott.
"Resolved, That it is the sense OF thi
, council, that it is the duty OF all organize,
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 tn
racooDition apd emOIovrnant nj enc
organized labor.
: "Resolved, That inasmuch as We knoV
: the charge that Pabst beer is a nor
union made product to be utterly falls
and without foundation, and believe tina
the boycott placed at Pittsburg has bee
melted and instigated by and through tn
, agents Of the Anhaeuser-Buschc ompan
| because of the rivalry existing betwee
> it and the Pabst company, we hereb
appeal in the interest of fairness to tn
: Pabst company as well as in the interes
: OF organized labor which cannot prospe
j. under the employment Of such divers
and unfair methods, to the Internations
: Brewers union to demand that th
Executive committee OF the Knights
Labor lift Immediately said boycott, al
that widespread public announcemer
be made OF the same when done.
7 Resolved, That a copy of these n
:. solutions be sent to the officers of Ii
s American Federation OF Labor at one
|. with the request that they adopt tt
same or other resolutions to the SAN
. effect"
w. c. PEACOCK & CO.,
Sole Agents for the
Hawaiian Islands.