The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-15
BOYCOTTERS ENJOIN ED.
BUDWEIsER BREWING CoMPANT's
UTT AGAINST TINE X. OF T..

Its Busi-es. Greatly Damaged Because re
won't Compel It- Employees TO Joi- the
U.ior-Thrent-, Naturalization. and vio-
ience Against the Company, Its En-
pIoyess, snd ITS Customers Alleged
"A Temporary Injunction Il Granted.
Justice Edgar NJ. Cullen Of the Supreme Court
In Brooklyn, on the application Of the law arm Of
Grout, De Fare & Mayer, granted yesterday a
temporary Injunction in a suit brought by the
Budweiser Brewing Company against the
United Brewers Association, which constitutes
District Assembly No. 1890 OF the knights Of
Labor, 10 prevent the defendants from In any
way interfering with the business OF the COM
pany. Since the beginning Of the year the bud
weiser company has been boycotted 10y the
Knights Of Labor, and a score or more OF the
latter have been punished 10y the police Justices
for resorting TO violence in carrying on their
hostillties against the company.
In tho complaint presented to Justice Cullen
the plaintiff company alleges that President
McKernig Of the Brewers Association has con-
spired 10 destroy its business, has driven the
public away from saloons selling its beer, has
procured persons to commit many acts Of vio-
lence, and secured the issuing Of circulars warn
ing organized labor against drinking any product
OF its plant. The trouble started early In Janu-
airy, when delegation OF the Knights called at
the brewery in Franklin avenue, and told w. X.
Chairman, the Vice President. that unless he
posted up a notice directing all the employees to
Chairman informed the delegation that lie
would do nothing of the kind, and that 1t was
optional with the men whether they Joined the
union or not.
We will find means to make YOU v was the
threat q the spokesman OF the delegation.
President w. A. Brown depOsed that since the
boycott went into effect the receipts havc fallen
off between 40 and 30 per cent. The anldavits
of several saloon keepers were also presented,
setting forth that by reason Of their refusal to
boycott the Budweisyr beer they have been
almost ruined in business and harasssd IN az
500 Hicks street, who persisted in selling the
beer. details the troubles to which he was sub
jected thereby. Three times IA week regularly
The walking delegates came around to his place
and have tried to drive OF his customers ana
His brother and bartender, he alleges, have
been attacked beaten, and stabbed by the boy
%cotters. This Is one of the many threatening
letters he has reCeived:
BRooKIYS. n. Y, Aug. -, 1894.
DEAR sra HroH; You werp once a friend OF mine, but
b bs ..I, hH T ss sc ai '2 besr si and yos I pTaa 81 q to or your
customers what an Injustice the strikers wer. doing
Now, you aud your Sr%.her say 70 Vii sen The beer i
You that you win have grass srowinF at your door.
You arc no, an iT!,hman any m"r en- There c are hun nun
your place While YOU keep sab beer You were d9ins
n nop 1es os ssa, s MiI Sr, 'hs ySu G scr the dine dinerr rSss
now. A a friend / am telling you what ! hear the
people saying. You were well thought OF In this war.
untll you helped SIR. Brown out with his -csb beer.
You arr breaking yOur own neck. lOu hav" made q
lot OF enemies FOR yourself in the First. sixth, ond
Twelfth wards. Take my tip on II. once n friend anu
hundreds besides me, not any more though.
MAN WHO DON'T GIVE A DAMN FOR ANYBODY.
The drivers for the company also deposc that
when they leave the brewery with their wagons
they are followed all over the city. by the boy
c~otters and a tab kept on all places where
they deliver goods.
August w. Braumm, brew master Of the plain
tiff IppOSpS that no man has ever Dpeu dis
charged from the brewery because he belonged
to a union or association of laboring men. and,
en- the other hand. that no man. has ever been
discharged because he did not belong to a union
or association OF laboring men. He says that
the men work not more than ten hours a day,
and they receive the following Conversations
washouts. SIS a week; cellar, SIS = week
kettle and fermenting room men. SIS a week
and coopers. $ls n week, the head men of every
department receiving proportionately high
wages. He alleges that since March l.. 1894, the
beers and ales brewed by the plasntiff have
steadily decreased. SO that the output of the
plaintiffs brewery Is not more than 80 per cent.
OF what II was on March !. 1893, and that the
force OF employees has been reduced from sew
enty-six TO forty-fOur.
should not be made permanent Is returnable on
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