The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1892-08-11
UNION PRINTERS
DenOunCe WhitelaW Reid aud the New
York Tribune.

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ca, New York, adopted the following
resolutions last Saturday:
Whereas, Whitelaw Reid has been
nominated for the Office of iVce Presi-
dent of the United States by the Ma
tional Republican convention, there
fore,
Resolved, That we, as members of
the Utica Typographical Union, No.
62, and as part of the great Brother
hood of Organized Labor, most ear
nestly and emphatically protest
against such action on the part of the
Republican party as being insulting
and humiliatingto to the workingmen
of the United States. We base our
protest on the following grounds;
First-Whitelaw Reid has been for
many years the merciless, hateful foe
of organized labor in every form, and
especially the Typographical Union,
and has lost no opportunity to calum
Mate and injure all organizations of
workingmen and their motives and
methods in the eyes of the public and
make them subservient TO the will of
the capitalist.
Second-We charge him with per-
sistently and maliciously attempting
to destroy the Typographical Union,
and as proof Of this point to his ac-
ton at the time of the strike on the
Utica Morning Heral |, when he fur.
nished Ellis H. Roberts with "rat"
printers to take the place Of those en-
ployes of the Herald who were endeav-
oring to obtain just compensation for
their labor.
Third-His nomination was pro-
cured by means of conspiracy be-
tween himself and a clique whose mo-
tives were entirely selfish, and whose
action has since been condemned and
repudiated by those whom they pro-
fessed to represent.
FourtA-We believe, and the state
ments of those who promoted his nom.
nation go to prove it, that Mr.. Reid
has made pretense Of acceding to the
demands of the union only for the
purpose of gaining the votes Of those
whom he has in the past so grossly
maligned and injured, and that when
he shall have attained the object
sought, he will repudiate all expressed
or implied obligations to union work.
= men.
Resolved, That we charge the Re
publican party with designedly and
Indignantly insulting the members o.
! this union and all wage-earners,
First By the appointment of Ellil
H. Roberts, editor of the "rat" Utics
Morning Herald and virulent antag
onist of organized labor, to the posi-
ton of Assistant United States Treas
urer in the Sub-Treasury at New
York.
Second-In the selection OF Warne,
Miller and Charles w. Hackett as del
egates to the National Republican con
vention at Minneapolis, knowing then
to be stockholders in the 'rat" Utic,
Herald.
> Third-In the appointment Of Chas
, W. Hackett as chairman of the exec
utive committee of the New Yorl
State Republican committee, afte
having been shown by resolutions 0
this union, that he is stockholder il
the Utica Morning Herald, and re
g quested not to appoint him to sucl
position.
Resolved-That we pledge oul
, selves not to vote for the Presidentia
: electors who represent Whitelaw Rel
for the office OF Vice-President of tn
United States, and We earnestly Ell
# treat all fair.minded men, whethe
20 20 members of organized labor or no
in and who believe that capital and nj
70 % nopoly should not rule this countr
al to the subversion of the rights Of otf
n ers, to lend us their aid in defeatin
lip the enemy of the workingman.
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