The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-10
4 Statement BY the Employees Who
Walked Out.
THEIR WAGES WERE SuMMARlLY CUT
After They Had Bccn Working on
short Time without Protest for
II Long While.

! return OF prosperity 10 iO4ioM sooA aslei
the election of the Canton major. some OF
| their employees became as enthusiastic FOR
| the Ohio man as We're their employers.
| They have encountered the "udal wave.
| First their wages were cut and now they
are out OF jobs entirely. Hundreds OF cop
les of the following circular have been cir
eulated among DaIlasites during the last
| few days. The circular is The statement
as 10 why tsey quit made by the striking
employees:
The following statement; WIGS handed to
| the Dallas News aud the Dallas Times
Herald for Sundays edition, /, was not
published. The Times Herald, when seen
about IL. said IT came too late, tAc News
said the communication had been found on
/ the city editors table and not put IN be-
cause OF an uncertainty as 10 Us genuine
ness. We have been around to these offices
every day for the pas four days, and the
nearest We have come TO gealus the article
| IL these papers was IN ouer from the
| Times Herald 10 publish it tor $i1.50, which
was finally reduced 10 $40 Tar News has
made continual promises 10 publish it,
which 1t has continually broken.
| We have had these circulars printed to
let the public know the principles that ami
mated Us when we walked ou--o. Moshers
| shop. as we'll as 10 Inform m8ahluls,S and
moulders lie other cities that he strike is
still on. as Mr.. Mosher has induced men TO
I come to Dallas upon the representation that
the strike was oil. This preface Is not in
tended as a criticism OF the papers that
have denied lis admission TO their columns,
but as an explanation Of this rather un
usual mode that are forced TO 10
Jet the public know our reasons for strik
Ing II these papers think it best in all
controversies between employer and EN-
] al
man NAV have 10 say for himself and IL in
ne present case they choose u publish only
I the Mosher side of this difficulty, TO MIS-
state fatts and call this a sympathetic
strike, representing liz as acting without
rcason--that is their business. These papers
are private property. Their policy is their
own to make It what they choose. and 1t
may be more profltahle for them 10 side
wiki the rich,
The following is the publication that we
have pdtieD'ly. We; vainly, epdcavored 10
have published in these TWO da.lies:
The strike in the Mosher Manufacturing
company was caused by a reduction In the
wages OF the moulders and lnaehinists from
30 to 2I16 cents an hour, Twenty and
one-half cents an hour may seem high
enough wages al first glance. but when the
fact is considered that She workman does
not get In half time during The year, 1t be-
comes proposition OF a different color.
Mcsher Manufacturing company did not
average over So a week, not because the
wages per hour Were lew, but because the
| men did not work over two days week.
and these days Of but eight to nine hours
Nearly all of Mr.. Mosher's men have been
with the company for years. working on
short time when the trade was dull going
in debt and waiting to pay out when The
busy season opened and they could work
full time. They have been faithful IN their
services, aud when on short time the SUPER
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fo.s.SIS has told the
| uiuulders that they have turned out rs
much work in nine hours as In ten. But
Mr.. Mosher was not satisfied with this. He
must cut WAGE This he did on February
l6. This strike is the result.
The moulders protested Immediately
against the reduction. bu. as they are A
part OF the National Iron Moulders' union.
they could not strike until that body or
dered it. The 9Acts we're laid before the
National union ana after a patient and de-
liberate investigation. the moulders were
ordered out on April II, the company being
given ten DAYS notice. The company gave
but four davs' notice OF lis cut IN wages.
and this without explanation to their en-
ployes. the notice bring served on a slip
of paper IN their pay envelope that After
February 16 your wages will be 2712 cents
an hour"
The wages Of the machinists We're re-
|
There is no lnachinist union in Dallas.
These men were not organized and hence
we're slow in taking action, They worked
| on, protesting against the cut, but at the
same time expecting that wages would be
restored when the spring work opened. At
Inst they reached the conclusion that the
| Mosher company would not put their
| wages back 20 tho old scale, and having
made a final request on Wednesday for a
restoration and meeting a refusal the ma
chnists laid down their tools and walked
out Of the shop.
! In doing this. these men have been ac-
uated not only nv their own self interests
In trying to hold their own wages up 10
living scale. hut also by the Inore hui
nlnne motive Of trying TO keen MP the
wages of men WORKING In other shops
Thirty cents an hour is the regular scale
rcl. uiculdtrs aud machlnists that is paid
IN other shops now IN operation in Dallas.
As long as all nav the same wages they
are upon the same footing in competition:
but If one shop beats down the wages of
, its employees. ii viii have n tendency to