The San Francisco call., 1896-05-15
WILL FIGHT THE UNION,
Brewers Association Declares
War Against Organized
Labor.
Strong Resolutions Passed Pledging
the Organization to Support
Non-Union Men.

There is fight on between the Manu-
facturers' and Employers Association of
California and the Brewery Workmen's s
Union. Inciden tally the trades unions
are involved in the struggle, and unless a
compromise is effected, there will be lively
times before many days.
The Manufacturers and Employers As
sociation was organized five years ago for
the sole purpose of combating any organi-
zation which pretended so assert that all
laborers must belong to some recognized
union. A merry war followed between
the association and the Federated Trades,
in which the former claimed a victory.
For tw o years there has been cessation
of hostilities. The recent activity, how
ever, in trade circles has stirred up the
association, and yesterday they held q
meeting at which the following resolutions
were passed:
WHEREAS By reason of the fact that there is
now no brewer upon the board of directors of
this body to represent the brewers among our
membership 1t becomes necessary to take
cognizance directly of difficulties between the
said brewers and trades unions; and whereas,
it appears that demand mas been made by a
trades union, known as the Brewery Work
mems Union, upon the brewers of this CITY
belonging to this organization that their
breweries shall be unioniZed-which is to say,
that they shall discharge, forthwith, such OF
tnelr employees as re1uSe 10 JOIN the
union in question and that in future they
shall employ none but members OF the said
union in good standing upon its books; and
whereas, ii further appears that in the event
of the refusal of the brewers to unionze their
breweries Dy the process above mentioned, il
is threatened that the union in question and
the other trades unions in the City and else
where affiliated with IL Will declare and en-
force boycott upon one or more of the brew
cries bel nging to the members of this associa-
tion; now, therefore, be it
lined hot "a I'd nf xfozt
and Employers of California by its directors in
regular sess ion herewith declares the demand
OF the trades union above recited to be insid-
lous and dangerous in the extreme to individ-
ual liberty and to good government; that the
demand for unionlZation and the threatening
OF the boycott is especially and deplorably in
furious to our scarcely reviving industries and
an absolute estoppel and debarment from the
investment of additional capital in new en-
terprlses or the extension of those now already
established; that IL is disastrous in its effects
upon the earning power of every workingman
in the City because OF the lessening and un-
certainty of employment consequent upon the
holding back or abandonment OF industrial
projects, and that it is direct and immediate
in the harm done to the UNEMPLOYED who
might obtain employment If the starting of
new industries were not discouraged; and, be
Resolved, That the Board of Manufacturers
and Employers OF California calls upon the
brewers in this organization to resist the de-
mands of the union above recited and per-
emptorily to refuse to comply Herewith and
to maintain the position heretofore held by
them, which is 10 give the workmen fnil
liberty to belong or not to belong to what they
please; and this organization extends to them
its support and assistance in this controversy.
And be it further
Resolued. That the brewers who are members
OF this body are herewith instructed that in
the event of O boycott being placed upon the
breweries of any OF their number they shall
each and all OF them discharge forthwith from
their employ any and all workmen belonging
to or affiliated with any organization engaged
in prosecuting the said boycott, whether the
same be trades union or not