The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-26

tain Legal Redress.
| The special committee of the Scran-
ton board of trade appointed for the
purpose of induirins into the alleged
"boycotting." which is going on in this
city, made it's report at a special meet
ing of the board, called for that pur-
| pose, at noon yesterday. The report
! enbodies the statements made to the
| committee by several persons who have
| already felt the effects of the boycott.
| and whose business has been effected
| III consequence,
| The meeting was called to order by
| Vice. President A. W. Dickson. and he
| immediately called for the report of the
commmttee. which was read by MIR.
Dimmick. as follows:
Scranton, Pa. Nov. y, 1901.
| 10 the Scranton Board Of Trade.
Gentlemen. Your committee appointed TO H.
vesigatc the subject OF boycotiug in this con-!
| iunity would respectfully report as follows ~
| though ii has been a matter of common KNOW.
edge that boycotting has been carried on, more
| or less. within the last two years. in scranton,
| your committee amazed and dunhiounued TO
| learn to what extent this weapon was being used
| by corporations. associations Oh employers "i
| labor, labor organizations aud merchants ana
| this subtle poison. The several cases. hc'enaitrf
| cited in this report. have been selected with
| the purpose that you might see under what diner
! ing forms and conditions this detestaole lhs'tu-
| mentality Is invoked, and your committee nc.
| licvcs that, iol the present at least, 1t woui
| be the part OF wisdom! to withhold, as far as pos
siblc the names of those who have Suffered from
or been guilty Of using the same, believing taC
| little would be gained by any attempt to furnish
what has occurred in the past. and that. the ac-
tivities of the board should he limited to the
future
Your committee has fully appreciated that. in
| an invest ication ot this nature. all sources OF
information should be most carefully selected.
and a,e able to state that, in each oi the III
stances cited, with the exception OF case No. !,
the parties who had been boycottcd appeared per.
sonally before your committee, were men OF
unqucsioncd standing in the community. ana The
statements OF their cases, appearing i'll TINS re
port were reduced 10 writing and submitted
to tlcir approval when possible before being dc.
ocpted. The facts as stated in No. reached
us through third party. but wc are prepared
to voueh for them, and il called nnon, would
susIanlae Them II is hardly necessary to call
Norr attention tn the fact that the cases selected
| cover an extended period. and are not limited
to differences growing out Of the present trlc-
tion dispute. in which connection yonr commit
tee would state that they have scrunulo,lsIy re-
trained nom entering on merits OF any disputes
between individual organizations. whatever
be lci, nature. believing that this investigation
has nothing to do with the equities of s,ich
disputes. or the sympatlies incident thereto, but
solely as 10 whether or NOS unlghtenuS instru.
mcntatiss were being employed.
CASE No. ].
'ri, covers the case Of an owner of a weekly
journal and iol, printing cstabli lish,ucnt and c,
be best given in his own words '.When the stree,
car strike first started | called up my men and
said we'll bows there is going to be trouble
with the Traction company. This strike may
last two weeks; it NAV last six weeks, but what
j want to know now is, that in case ride on
the cars and there il trouble whether or not you
will sli,l; bv me I do not ask you to ride on
the cat. but | am going TO ride ii any cars ln.
They all said We'll ii Won are willing to take
the chances, we are willing too for you are tie
one who will sufcr and | said. 1T | take the
chances. one or two of you will be laid OF for Il
short time; still they said they were willing to
| stick hy me- and wanted TO know ii they would
stick in the union. and they said they would
| up to the first of January. have three members
! in my employ, members of good standing, (havc
| been with me tonvtecn twelve and five years..
| In the first place after | had been riding in
| the ears a week [ received a letter from a union
| asking me to refrain from riding on the street
| cars I paid no attention to it and continued to
| ride on the cars
| | paid no attention TO other notices, and they
| again asked me 10 desist, but kept on riding
which read: We arc still informed that you
continue to disregard our prior notices, and YOU
are hereby notified that ii YOU do not cease
| from riding on the cars the union will be in.
| formed and YOU will lose what union work sou
| are doing Signed by the president and sccre-
! tary and on printed paper and that worried ne
iust a lttlc bit | was so worried about that,
az ! knew it was coming Just about time Tor
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