The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-10-30
HOFER's WAGE ROLL
sALEM TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION
ANALYZEB IT.
Seven Printers At WaKcs Worse Than
Those Paid In Free Silver
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distributiOn 10 all Of the labor orSani-
sGtions throughout oregon:
whereas. The Salem typographical
Union. No 80, 10 q labor organisation.
suited for the purpose Of uplifting the
intellectual. moral and pecuniary stand
ard Of the working eiAHses. a. law
abinding eltisens. II IL. therefore. the
bounden duty Of each and every mem
Der. and members A. a whole. 20 fur
thcr our interests by any legitimate
action aiming 20 that end. Therefore.
it Ia not only in harmony with good
unionism, but II IL our duty 10 resort
to our rights OF suffrage when all other
efforts have failed b accomplish such
purposes. and when an enemy 20 our
cause and an antagonist 10 our prin-
oIples seeks political preferment at the
hands Of the voters. we. as organized
people with the right 20 vote. should
exercise that right in accordance with
the welfare OF our obligations: and
Whereas. We find such man In Il.
Hofer. editor and proprietor OF the
Salem Capital Journal. and candidate
for United States presidential elector
on the Bryan Democratic ticket. 10 be
voted for on the third day Of November
this year. For years Mr.. Hofer has
been a menace 20 labor and 10 It's union
in this city. working his employees at
starvation wages.
He had been petltloned many times
TO grant this union some concessions,
but without avail. until in the year
1891 his office was declared unfair"
and again in 1895 In the month Of
March, for the last time. 4 boycott
was then ordered by the union. and the
following notice printed in the States
man OF April by the secretary:
TO Business Men: By order OF
Capital Typographical Union. No. 2lO.
the following are the fair printing Of
fees in the city Of Salem: State, L. NJ.
Waite, II. T.. Moorss q Co.. and the
Statesman All other offices are 'un-
fair w. Il. Torrey. secretary
"On the following day. April 2. the
Capital Journal published the above
notice at the head Of half column of
abuse. denouncing labor unions and
their methods. Edltonally were sew
eral paragraphs devoted to members
Of this union. to-wit:
THE dastardly un-American method
OF debating to business men whom
they shall employ and whom they shall
do business with is played out and
ought TO be smashed here in Salem,
as II has been elsewhere "A few ciga-
rette-smoking blRtherskites cannot die
tate TO the business men Of this city
who they may or may not order print
ing Of Men who cannot run their
own business have no right TO dictate
to others how they shall run theirs.
1t remains to be seen whether a few
labor agitators can hold up the town
I'm the face OF all this Mr.. Hofer has
and Is now stumplng the state de-
claring that he is the friend OF the
farming and laboring classes, while one
week ago he discharged a typesetter
with family that he was paying IS |
a week and hired two in his stead pay |
ing one $3.50 per week and the other |
$3.50. He said he did It to cut down |
expenses'-of 81 per week. Three more |
typesetters he pays 81 each per week,
who have worked years at the business;
another 81 week, and his pressman |
50 per week. making total of s21 per
week for seven people-an average OF
50 per week. or a fair days wages for
one man. His foreman is a rat. and re-
ceives SO per week. And yet Mr.. Hofer
says he is the workingman's friend.
The sweat shops Of New York cannot
be worse. His employees are all poor |
people and depend upon their wages for
their bread. One young woman keeps |
herself and aged mother upon 81 per
week, and a man and his wife subsist
upon $3.50 per week. These are truths
OF record; therefore, be II
Resolved, That We denounce such
damnable oppression OF the poor la
borers and refuse to support any man
that is responsible for it. We, there
fore, ask the laboring classes and
unions to join us in the defeat OF Mr..
Hofer as presidential elector,
w. d. TORREY,
Secretary Typo. Union No. 2lO"
Attached to the above and forming
part of the circular is the following
affidavit:
State Of oregon, County of Marion. SIS.
l, o. d. Rennie, being first duly
sworn, on oath say that the wages paid
by the Salem Capital Journal to its
employees, as set forth in the resolu-
tions adopted by the Salem Typograph-
ical Union, No 21O, at its last session,
are correct up to the 18th of October,
1886 the time when l severed my con-
nection with that paper,
o. d. RENNIE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Goth day of October, 1896 j. C.
Booth, notary public for Oregon
In connection with the above 1t might
be well to inform the public that one
Of the Hofers holds lucrative position
at present-that of state printing ex-
Notwithstanding the fact that
their one-cent daily is always referring
to the ''pie-eaters" and "pap-suckers."
A hacking cough is not only annoying
to others, but is dangerous to the per-
son who has 1t. One Minute Cough
Cure will quickly put an end to it.
Charles Rogers.
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