Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-10
NATIONAL POLITICS.
sruDEBAkERs' GOLD EMpLoYrs.

Chicago, Ill. = For many years the
Studebaker Bros, carriage manufacturers
at South Bend, Ind, have refused 20 en-
ploy members of the Carriage and Wagon
makers union. For that reason the lat
ter express great indignation over a
statement in morning paper that the
employees of the company are intelligent"
workmen, because they believe in the
gold standard. According to the officers
of the union, nearly every employe of the
South Bend works was brought over
from Poland for the purpose of assisting
the company in reducing wages. 1t Is
further said that no Germans, Irish,
Englishmen or even American citizens
can secure employment of Studebaker
Bros, because they will not work for
starvation wages. The following letter,
which appears in Chicago paper. gives
the feeling prevalent among working
men:
"Chicago, Aug. 6, 1896.-To the Editor:
| think the workingmen of America will
resent the insult cast at them in an edi-
torial in the Chicago Tribune of yester.
day. II said, under the heading Intelli-
gent Workingmen of South Bend:' The
employees of Studebaker Bros. took q
secret vote, and the result was 66 per
cent favored the gold standard
"Now happen to be- workingman,
and lived in South Bend for a number of
years, and within stones throw of Stu
debaker's works. Out of the 1858 men
EN- ployed, rs per cent are Poles that can
neither read nor write the English Ian.
guage, and very few can speak our Ian
guage. The average wages these men get
Is 95 cents to $1.05 day. Most of these
men are married and have large families,
and as result of Studebakers' starvation
wages, these families are very often in
need of the necessaries of life.
II have seen the wives of the men carry
their dead babies in their arms two miles
out to Notre Dame college and beg the
college authorities to bury them, because
they have no money to do it themselves
These are the people who the Tribune
says can take an intelligent vote on the
money question, but I, as an American,
thank God that these poor slaves of the
Etudebakers are not representatives OF
American workingmen. The Tribune
will find out that We are capable of think.
ing for ourselves and acting for ourselves
when the time comes. Yours sincerely,
"a CHICAGO W0RK1NaMAN."
The further claim is made that only
about Is per cent Of Studebaker Bros
employees are legal voters.
4 BOOMERANG.
| Chicago, Ill.-Those silver dollarl
| which number of merchants brought
from beyond the Rio Grande TO use as al
lob iect lessons" daring the presidential
campaign have turned ont to be the boone
rangs. Instead of changing the opinions o
the wokingmen, il 10 claimed that th,
| move has awakened their antagonism, ant
boycotting resolutions arc being circu
lated by various labor organizations and
reform clubs.
/ Not only boycotts are being declared
but it is said that the leaders in th,
scheme will be prosecuted for using ,
substitutes for the legal money Of th'
United States.
During the past week Willoughby, Hill
4 Co., Armour q Co., 5amelson 4 90. ant
several other corporations and firms have
put in circulation many Mexican dollars
The action Of the pnion printers Wed
nesday night 10 declaring boycott on a.
4 merchants connected with flooding tn
city with illegal money was the principal
topic discussed on ''labor row" yesterda,
and to-day.
| II Was said that the merchants engage,
in the warfare against the workingmeI
were sttem pting to bring discredit upo,
the money Of the United States ia orde
to bring more Of the product from th
toilers, and that the matter should be ex
posed in every labor organis alton in tn
country.