The San Francisco call., 1897-04-05
SCORED BY SACRAMENTO LABOR.
Governor Budd. the Examiner and tho
Chronicle Rebuked by Union
WorkjDomeD.

SACRAMENTO, CAL. April 4. - The
various labor unions of this city have
unanimously adopted set of resolutions
in which they severely arraign Governor
Budd for his action in vetoing the appro-
priation for the State printing office, and
the me m bers personally unite in denounc-
ing the Examiner and Ch ronicle for he
stan d they have assumed. The resolution
as adopted by the Sacramento Topographic
cal Union is in part as follows:
WHEREAS, Sacramento typographical Union
No. 46, branch of the International Typo
graphical Union of North America, and sffi Ii
ated with the American Federation of Labor,
being obliged TO tosler the interests of its
members and to protect them against the as
saults Of foes Wherever found, convenes in
special session to-day to protest against the
concerted action OF Governor Budd and the
San Francisco Chronicle ana Examiner in
their efforts to annihilate the State printing
Office of California.
Sacramento typographical union and all
sister unions stand for the maintenance o
that institution. They take that stand be-
cause it is one of the bulworkS of organized
labor in California and its fall would be a
severe blow to union wage-earners. Union
prin ters have received some setbacks of late.
chief among them being the introduction and
| successful operation of typesetting machines.
Against the iugen nuity OF man we may not de.
mur, but when a public officer in high station
throws ;he great weight OF his office into the
balance against the interest of organized
labor, then it is our privilege as 1t is our duty,
to make our grievances known.
The Governor of California has elected to
align himself with our business. This angry
man, made dizzy by the height to which labor
elevated him, now turns his back TO labor;
this angry man having a quarrel with one
union printer, seeks to revenge himself upon
all union printers.
The union knows nothing of the personal
difficulties existing between Governor Budd
anu the Hon. A. ]. Johnston, State Printer.
We know that A. j. Johns ton is our friend and
| the frie nd of organized Dor everywhere. He
| mas shown it by his deeds, not by his profes-
sions, and by bis deeds shall he be known. He
has hired none but union men, and has re-
peatedly declared that if he could not employ
union labor he would not employ any. He
has paid good wages and has doggedly set his
face against countless proposed reductions.
He has been the answering friend of labor at
all times, in season and out, and as such he
will be gratefully remembered when his de-
tractors have '.motded in forgotten graves"
On the other hand we have James II. Budd,
q man who breaches much good and practices
much evil. His administration, SO far as labor
is concerned-and in that are We mostly con-
cerned-has been one long carnival OF de-
lab0r-the attem pt TO close the State Printing
Ofice-he becomes the star in h ypocrisy's mas
querade; wearing the guise OF benefactor he
smiles in the face of labor and sticks knife
in its ribs. He performs act (by vetoing the
State Printing Office appropriation which
throws several hundred people out of work,
and then declares it to be '.good thing"
This union denies that the closing of the
State Printing Office will be good thing, not
withstanding the fact that Governor Bcdd and
the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner