The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-04
SAL URDAY. APRIL 4. 1896.
THE RESOLU TIONS.

What was said on this page yester-
day morning in reference to an adver-
tisement offered by the Copper City
Clerks assembly. is made the theme
of resolutions adopted last night at a
meeting of the Deer Lodge Trades and
Labor council. The resolutions de-
nounce the Standard. We print them.
1t is well enough to state the case
There was received i'm this Office,
Thursday night, an advertisement re-
citing that certain clerks employed in
five business houses in Anaconda had
refused to join the Clerks assembly.
The names of twelve clerks and the
names of their employers were given.
Thereto was added request that the
public withhold IT'S patronage of the
clerks in question.
BY the way, why the twelve clerks
whose names were recited were select
ed for publication. we do not know
there are many more than twelve
clerks in town who are not members of
the assembly
This advertisement the Standard re-
fused TO print. our proposition being
that this newspaper will not be used in
order to blackmail any clerk into join
ing the Clerks assembly. or any other
organization; against his will
This morning. the Standard repeats
Its refusal to print the names of the
clerks and of the business firms aimed
at in the advertisement We renew the
expression of our ardent hope that any
newspaper publishing the matter in
question will be punished for malicious
libel; that is the penalty which ought
justly to follow any printed interior
ence with any reputable clerks right
TO earn a living on his own hook, II
that is what he elects to do.
1t was added. yesterday morning.
that. IL need be. these columns will be-
come. at any cost. the advocate of the
twelve clerks I'm question. That asser-
ton we also renew.
Thus the case is stated, and the
Standards relations to lit strikes us
that to say more would be wasted
words. We do not discover that the
resolutions adopted last night make an
opening for discussion: we admit the
right OF those who were assembled 10
praise or blame. as suits them. We
dismiss the whole subject OF the Stand |
ards relations to organized labor by |
reference to the record these pages have
made; IL that record is not satisfac- |
tory. we have only to say that. on this
score. the Standards future will be a |
close resemblance to what it's past has
been. That is to say. 1t will be such |
unless organized labor wants to pick a |
quarrel
That is the situation. II didn't take /
this office a minute to decide how 10 |
deal with the advertisement 10 which |
reference has been made. We are
opposed. first, last and all the time.
TO the process of coercion which IL is
proposed TO apply to individuals in this
community We shall oppose that plan
in every community where the Stand
ard has patrons-let no man labor I'M
der mistake on that score.
We are not casting about for a con-
troVersy with anybody. nor are we
throwing out challenges. That is use
less II we are right in believing. as we
surely do, that organized labor In |
Anaconda, as well as the business men
in this city. are in sympathy with the
position which the Standard has taken.
Figures made a few months ago were
the basis for a statement to the effect
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