The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-07
A Row in the Association
Causes a Cut in
Prices.
One of the Members Was Read
Out and Another Has
Resigned.
The Union Workmen Claim a Great
Victory After a Struggle of
Five Years.

The local brewers are on the verge of a
beer war. In fact the preliminary fight
ing has already Begin and the members
OF the Brewers Protective Association
are very apprehensive of serious results
before peace shall be restored again.
A little red label is the cause of all the
trouble, because the label is the emblem
of the United Brewery Workers Union of
San Francisco. The Enterprise Brewery
insisted upon its right to place these red
strips of paper on all its barrels, indi-
eating that it was friendly TO organized
labor.
The story of this trouble really dates
back nearly five years to the time OF the
great brewery workers strike.
The breweries felt the force of the big
strike, and the first TO yield was Ulrich
Remensperger OF the Enterprise brewery.
From that time his product was in demand
among all workmen. This success caused
him to go a step further, and he placed
npon all his barrels the unions red label.
Before doing so, however, he notified
Rudolph Mohr, secretary of the Brewers
Association, and the EN- ployers organlza-
lion OF his intention. This raised a merry
row in the association, which decided 10
barrel for every package on which the req
label was found.
A detective was sent out to keep ''ta /, y
on the red-labeled barrels, and in about
four days the fines amounted to nearly
$500. Again Remensperger was notified to
quit using the label, but upon the advice
OF his attorney the brewer notified the
association 10 quit filming him, claiming
that he had resigned from the association.
1t seems that his resignation was laid
on the table and never accepted. Right
here was Joker that all knew existed in
the pack. Remensperger mem bership
deposit il the association amounts TO
nearly $4,000 and the ASSOCIATION kept on
piiing up the fines until they more than
euuaied this amount, and still would not
accept his resignation.
Matters were further com plicated by
another transaction. 1t seems that
while the Enterprise man was still in
good grace he borrowed $1,000 from the
association for which he gave his note.
This was Endorsed by J. c. Bauer, hop
merchant, also a mem Der OF the assocla-
ton. After the trouble began Bauer was
called upon to pay up the note he had in
dorsed, ana from what can be learned he
was willing to do so. The attorney Tor
Remensperger stepped in and notified
bauer that if he did so he would do so on
his own responsibility.
The association could not begin law
suit against one of its own men bers, so to
get around this the association expelled
The hop merchant for not paying money
due to The association. The next chapter
of this interesting tangle will probably be
told in court.
Meanwhile the entire brewing fraternity
is suffering. The old agreed price for
steam beer was So a barrel net or S. so and
the driver allowed to spend 90 cents on
each delivery. One of the brewers stated
last night that there is now no fixed price
on beer. Offers are made at 81 and some
say as low as 50 rs per barrel.