Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-10-03
Read What Workingmen Saw.

So many falsehoods have been print
ed by the Democratic papers regarding
the treatment of employees of the Up
ham Manufacturing company, to the
effect that the company forced cou-
pom books uponits help lin payment of
wages, and then charged more for
goods purchased at the company's
store with these coupons than was
charged for cash, that the employees
OF the company and the citizens gen
orally feel disguised and outraged In
order to place the matter in shape
that can admit of no equivocation,
and to refute once for all these bare
faced falsehoods, committee repre-
senting the employees has gone before
a notary public and each for himself
has made an affidavit showing the
falsity of these Democratic charges.
Some of the men who make the afida-
Wits are themselves Democrats.
Numerous other dispositions could
easily be procured, BUTT was deemed
sufficient to take the sworn state
ments of those longest in the service
OF the company, as representing the
general view of the men on the matter.
The affidavits are as follows and ex-
plain themselves:
State of Wisconsin, Wood county. S.
Henry L. Brooks, Joseph o. Bruckert, h. j.
Thuss, f. W. Lueckenbach, Ed. Brackheimer
and Knud Hatteberg, each being first duly
sworn, on oath doth depose and say each for
himself:
am an employe of the Upham Manufact-
uring company of Marshfield, Wisconsin, of
which company W. II. Upham is president. 1
have meyer been forced or solicited to take
scrip or coupon books from said company for
wages due me, and do not believe that any
other emplOye has. / have always been able
to get cash from said company, if it was due
me, and believe that every other employee
has always been able to do the same.
have traded more or less at the store of
the Upham Manufacturing company and 1
have never found any difference in the pur-
chasing power Of scrip, coupon books or cash,
and do not believe there ever has been any
difference. believe that the goods sold at
the store of the Upham Manufacturing com
pany are just as good as are sold at other
stores in the city and that prices are Just as
low
Never to my knowledge has the Upham
Manufacturing company been sued by an
employe for wages, and never to nv know
ledge has there ever been a strike of the en-
ployes of said company, and believe that
wages paid by said company have been as
nigh as have been paid by any other com
pany engaged ina similar business
l brand as false the statementsmade in The
acknowledgements that the Upham Manufact-
uring company has ever charged it, milo as
more for merchandise flour and feed includ-
ed, when paid for in scrip or loupon books
than when paid for in cash.
HENRY L. BROOKS, American, RepubIi-
can. Am property owner. Worked for
company fifteen years.
JOSEPH o. BRUCKERT. American Ger
man, Republican. Am 2 property owner.
Worked for company seven years.
81. j. THUSS, American German, Democrat.
Am property owner. Worked for company
eleven years.
f. w. LUECKENBACH, American Ger
man, Democrat. Am a property owner.
Worked for company fourteen years.
ED. BRACKENHEIMER. American Ger
man, Democrat. Am a property owner.
Worked for company seven years.
KNUD HATTEBERG, Norwegian, Repub-
Ican. Am a property owner. Worked for
company twelve years.
State of Wisconsin, Wood county. SS.-On
this 24th day of September, A. D. 1894 per
sonally appeared before me the above named
persons, Henry l.. Brooks, Joseph o.
Bruckert, HI. J. Thuss, F. w. Lueckenbach.
Ed. Brackheimer and Knud Hatteberg. to me
known to be the persons who signed the