Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-14
Shop Rules.

|. Hours of labor shall be as provided
| in the State notices now or hereafter posted
/ in the ~orkroom. All operative at work by
the day or By the piece will be expected to
! 20 to sork promptly at the times therein
named, and continue TO work during the
hours thereia stated, provided there is work
for them TO 10.
II. Smoking in any part of the factory
is forbidden
III. All operatives who do any injury
to the goods of the firm in the process of
me nufsc' ure or cause any loss, damage or
injury to the firm by inferior work or mis-
taxes. viii make good in value in all cases
out Of wages then or thereafter earned, the
amount of any such loss. damage or injury.
". Any operative wishing to be tenn
porarily absent from the workroom must
inform the foreman and obtain his consent
10 such absence.
V. All operatives before leaving the
employment of this firm shall give one
weeks notice of their intention so 10 do
and shall work cut such notice. In case
such operative shall leave without first Civ
ing and working out full time Of such no
lice all wages v hich may be due such ar
operative for period not exceeding ore
week shall be forfeited to The
firm. If, however, after giving
such notice and before the same has ex-
pired any operative shall be informed by
the firm of the fact that more than ore such
notice has hesu received within three days
before such notice was given from opera
tives in any one 70 1m, such opGr ,tives shall
thereupon withdraw such notice AMI If,
after being so informed of such fact, such
operatives leaves the employ ment Of this
firm pursuant TO such notice, all wages
which may be due such operative for a
period not exceeding one week shall be
forfeited to the firm. In case of any sus-
pension of part or whole of the manu-
featuring operations of said firm for any
cause, or in case of the violation of either
of the frat four of these rules or for other
reasonable cause, said firm reserves the
rigl,t and may terminate this contract OF
employ ment, without notice, with all
persons who may be emp.oyed in
any department 80 suspended, or
who may so violate sali rules, by paying
the balance of all wages earned up TO time
Of such suspension or term nation. Oiher-
VS. said firm-vill give all operatives, who
.hall have fulfilled this contract, one weeks
notice of their intention to discharge such
operatives.
VI will make reguisr pay
ments every Saturday of all wages 'lue up
to AMI including the previous Saturday L
ArHcRS, Me, - $50
In consideration Of employment at Au-
burn. Me, by --, assent TO the
for, going rules and agree to be bound
thereby ---------------.
TIE foregoing shop rules don take much
better with the new hands than they did
with the old Several of the new hands
left the shops today and say they 10 not
propose 10 sign any such contract. +
0re Young man was approached by the
.TorKxAL and it required just - seconds by
a stop-vatch to get him going at an Early
Bird gait
sign, We'll guess not. Look here! |
am. or was, working on piece work.
Whether there's work to keep me going all
day or not, have got to come at certain
hours ami cannot leave the room without
The foreman's permission. There is little
work nov, | cannot make my board. Sup
pose the Union compels the shops 10 run on
a small amount of work. where would
he?r
II don't know. Where would you be?'
In the k tile all over. for see here. II
| could get good job in Norway or Port
land give weeks notice AMI il the firm
Ion't want to let ne 20 all they will have
to DO is to say that there are one or two no.
tees ahead of ne In that case the agree
ment saws must withdraw my notice. L
don't ALLOW me 10 tven await my turn, but
no. must withdraw il. In the meantime
the firm can discharge the boy who sweeps
out the room and say he was the one on
notice. Bv this means the firm hope to
ke. D a smaller or larger number of hands
in their employ meut I am not going to
sisn ans paper that will take away all my
rights, You bet"
What about the rule regarding dam
aged zoois how will that work =
Just tlis way. workman discovers
defect he will let i 20 On through the
shop rather than cali attention to II. fear
iny the damage may be charged him. II
he causes the damage he will let it pass
last the same, and then it is apt to be
gsd by the firm to some one not to
blame for it, If there was no tine the
hands would try TO repair the damage or
call the foremans attention TO It and the
shoe NAV be made over all right. Sure
the firm should be protected from careless
wor kmen, bat in most cases the stock Is
responsible for damage to shoes IN the most
careful hands, aud under these new rules
the ope rsiives must pay because the STOCK
is poor That isn't right.
The quiet system of boycott is stii at
work and many who have come here have
been obi sei to leave town because OF the
difficulty in securing boarding places. One
man who came out of the shop a. the time
the lockout first occurred, bought out
cream route He mortgsged his house for
ssoo to get money to purchase the route. f,
Ister his wife deserted the union and went
back TO work. The husbands business in
the cream line fell of so rapidly that he
20. Obliged 10 sell out at 9 considerable
loss His business WAS largely with the
.tn.okasnsrs Nnn-nnion opefa atives are