The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-08
ANACONDA NEWS.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING
Held by the Anaconda Trades
and Labor Council.
COMMUNICATING A LABEL
Another Indictment Against the Gang
Which Was Operating at Lam
caster, Pa.-It Was Used
Extensively.
COUNTERFEITING A LABEL

An important meeting Of the Trades and
Labor Council of Anaconda took place on
Tuesday evening. Several important
questions were discussed.
Mr.. Murphy, one of the officers of the
council, presented to Mrs. J. Peckham
beautiful silver cup in recognition of her
services as treasurer.
circular which had been received from
G. w. Perkins, international president of
the Cigarmarkers' International union of
America, was read at the meeting. The
circular is as follows:
ITO the officers and Members Of Local
Unions: Some time ago information came
to me that gang of counterfeiters in
and around Lancaster and Lititz, Ninth
district, Pennsylvania were engaged in
counterfeting our label, and that they
were printing, using and selling these
counterfets extensively. l at once COM
municate with union 257, Lancaster, but
soon found that if this gang was to be
rounded up, it would require serious and
heroic measures then laid the case be-
fore the executive board am asked con-
sent to go ahead in an effort to secure the
necessary evidence, which consent was
granted. / called Mr.. Wood, general or
ganizer in consultation and laid the facts
in the case before him, telling him that
we wanted the evidence that would cause
the arrest and conviction of this whole
outfit of counterfeiters, and with no other
instructions to hamper tie him up he
was dispatched to the seat of the trou-
BILE
After many vexatious delays Mr..
Wood made two trips to Chicago for con-
sutation and advice, he succeeded in Sc
curing evidence against the engraver and
eectrotyper of the spurious plates and
the printer who was printing the labels,
all of whom were at Reading, Pa. He
also secured the necessary evidence
against j. C. Fleichmann, factory No.
1885, Ninth district. Lititz Pa; F. Frank
hauser, factory No. Ill, Ninth district,
Terre HILL Pa; John Burkholder, factory
No. 3S5, Ninth district Martindale, Pa,
and one Isaac Rchne<nd, whom we may
use as states eHRence, hence his name
should not ba gwen out at present. The
four nameo with James e. Norton, the
printer at Reading, Pa, are the chief
consprators in this gang of counterfeit
ers. All of the above named have been
arrested.
Mr. Wood also succeeded in capturing
the dandy roll by which the bogus labels
were water-marked; also about 40 coun-
terfsit plates ard the original wood en-
craving from which they were made. 1t
may take some time before these cases
are disposed of. as they have to go be-
fore the grand jury and circuit court.
Il have prepared circular and will
have it placed in the hands of every cigar
manufacturer and jobber in the Ninth
district, warning them against using
counterfeit labels. l trust that we will
be successful and that this will be the
means of breaking up this INSCRIPTIONS
gang of counterfeiters. l suggest that you
al once appoint a committee to exploit in
every newspaper in your town or city and
endeavor to get them to make a news item
Of these cases.
This circular is correct in every par
terview for the papers. This plan will ad-
vertise the label and effectively spread a
warning to counterfeiters of labels
and users thereof, and will be the means
of putting hundreds of union men to work
by union manufacturers who use the legit-
innate label in your own locality. L have
been, and will be compelled to make sew
eral trips in these cases, which has caused
loss of time, and is, | trust, sufficient eX-
planatio for delay in answering commu-
nications. At the earliest opportunity a
full history of these remarkable cases will
be written up, showing the methods en-
ployed and the manner in which this gang
was uncovered and the necessary evil
dence secured. Mr.. Wood deserves credit
for able assistance to the international
union in a most difficult and delicate
task