St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-06
THE BoYCOrr BUSINESS.

OF Il COMMUNICATION llOul OilS 0SOtSS u
Stewart. the printed heading of his LETT
ter indicating that lie is an enploye i'll
the local freight office of the Great
Northern road.
Mr.. Stewart appears to be sort of
grievance and boycott committee COM
bined. donble-neader as il were.
His grievance is the assertion that
the GLOBE curtailed the speech of MIR.
O'Hara made to the strikers at Market
hall on the Fourth. He adds:
you also say Penny Press was or
dered out of building. l now beg TO
contradict this statement, as it was the
Dispatch, which is no better tnan the
two mentioned" GLOBE and L. P.)
In the same mail which brought Mr..
Stewards illumination there was let
ter for the GLOBE from the president
of one of the local unions. explaining
why The Penny Press was ordered out
of the hall. The following is the let
ter:
Editor GLOBE: In your issue this
morning we notice paragraph in which
you say: "Some newSboys carrying the
Penny Press were ordered out OF the
hall, and told they could sell that paper
on the street. but that union men did
not want it,"
This is incorrect. The facts are these:
AT the A. K. U. convention the Chicago
lines was made the official paper, and
i'll order that our members might be
able to procure a copy we had them
sent from Chicago and sold i'll the hall.
Please make this correction, as it is
not our purpose to boycott any newspa-
per. u. a. MCLEAN,
President Local Union No. "a, AR. U.
When strikers, like doctors. disagree,
it becomes necessary 10 seek the truth.
and that search develops peculiar,
though not thrilling poipt. The A.R.U.
demands great liberality in the business
methods of others. but when it comes to
itSelf-presto change. Having ordered
several hundred copies of the Chicago
Times, it was necessary. in order to
make sure sale of them, to shut out
all competition, and hence the sale of
the Penny Press (Which is also a strik-
ers' organ) was tabooed as a matter of
business. The Dispatch was not Of
fered for sale in the hall. and was not,
therefore, excluded, as the veracious
Mr.. Stewart asserts.
1t was simply pro tenn boycott on
friendly newspaper to avoid pecunlary
loss to the A. r. o., all act which would
have been heinous offense if done
by an employer, and would have been
quoted as showing his contempt for the
workingman, but when perpetrated by
the Werkingman himself, is, of course,
entirely infallible.
Mr.. Stewart having stated his griev-
ance, which, as usual with men of his
type, was simply falsehood, proceeds
to the other portion of his double
headed duties and says:
II accept Mr.. O'Hara's boycott and
will no longer read any st. Paul
papers"
Possibly this will be more severe
upon Mr.. Stewart than upon the pa
pers. He may think of that after
while, and when he goes to reading
the st. Paul papers again the GLOBE
will call his attention TO Mr.. McLean's
card, which shows that it told the truth,
and he deliberately did not. We are
sorry that we are unable to commune
cate this little gem of information to
Mr.. Stewart. but as he has boycotted
the GLOBE it is impossible.
The GLOBE would regret to find that
the men who are lawlessly engaged in
destroying property and the business of
the country were approving its course.
The GLOBE always hopes to be de-
nounced by lawbreakers. 1t stands for
good order, good government and good
times and against anarchy-a word
which concentrates the whole gamut of
crime.
A so-called, possibly self-constituted,
A. r. o. committee recently waited on
the GLOBE to demand its Support under
penalty of being boycotted, the nature
of the boycott being kindly explained
by the statement that advertisers would
be called upon, and if they did not re-
fuse to advertise they would in turn be
boycotted by these universal boycotters.
This is in keeping with the PROPOSE
ton to prevent TWO men and their fam
lilies on the West side securing the nee
essaries Of life, and the threat that
those who sold them would in turn be
boycotted.
to see the logical conclusion of such
threats. 1t is the same spirit of an
archy which the strikers are attempting
to apply to the railroads, and simply
unites all good citizens and all BUSH
ness men in a determination to stand
together for law and order and sup
press and punish the mob attempts TO
destroy society and all its safeguards.
The GLOBE has but one straightfor-
ward course to pursue. 1t will print
the news fairly and truthfully of all
sides i'll the controversy. and maintain
in its editorial columns its opinions,
which are unalterably in opposition
not to labor or the interests of labor
but to the lawless and brutal methods
of the A. r. o.. methods which are
based upon the destruction of good
government-and, in fact, all govern
ment and society itself.