The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-09-03

daily journals has not even mentioned
it, one way or the other. Simply
stated there was to be meeting here
tonight. / ask you is not this sup
preston of the public news? Why is
it that they desire to suppress the
news from the public? In our diff
Guilty, with their endeavor to suppress
the news from the public, we adopted
this means, and the matter was laid
before the mayor of the city. He saw
it was good idea and said, This is
going to cost some expense, and he
handed out 50 bill. Every one else
that has been approached has contri.
buted to help defray these expenses of
this meeting tonight If l have not
called upon you, do not be discoura-
ged; if you will contribute to the ex-
pense you will have an opportunity and
it will be cheerfully received.
/ want to ask one question of the
citizens of Montpelier Do you think
for moment these girls done right
when they were approached by the
proprietors of the Argus Office, one
was personally asked, directly asked,
and the other indirectly. | know it
came from the office, and if the Argus
Office wishes to have the mayor of the
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prove it. They were approached and
they were told if they would repudiate
the union they could run those ma.
chimes What would you do, gentle
men? Would you repudiate the union?
Would you run the machine? Then
they were asked to work out two
weeks notice to help out of the diff
Guilty. They did not propose to stay in
there and give the benefit of their ex-
perience to this non-union help that
was taking their place, but they failed
to go back to work Monday morning.
What would you all have done? If
they had repudiated the union the next
question to be asked them would be
if one of the young ladies was going
to get married in year They would
have said you must not get married
or two years If you intend to get
married next year we will drop you
this year.
Gentlemen, this is slavery, and slav-
cry is dead in America Now, gentle
men, we called on Mr.. Atkins and
asked him if he did not advertise in
the public press for a non .union man
to take Brother Ryan place. He has
not denied it in his paper, and the
answer he made me was, 1--WE are not
talking about that " | told him / was
there to talk about that. | says,
1T is a most damnable proposition. 3"
Now gentlemen, if he wants proof let
him send to me, or to the Central
Labor committee, and they will fur
nish him with proof. read the ad-
vertisement myself 1t was answered
by the gentleman who was not union
man. but he was gentleman-he gave
us the information.
These are the facts that are present
ed to you in this case, citizens of
Montpelier. They have not denied
them. They have not denied that
they did not tell those girls if they
would turn down the union they could
have their job, or some part of them.
There is no need of my saying any
thing further.
In respect of Mr.. EaRan's criti-
cism, it was deemed by the Journal
the better way to await the develop
ment of the situation at the Argus
Office The Journal Office was one of
the parties to the May agreement 1t
believed it was in the best interest of
all Immediately concerned, and espec-
tally in respect of its duty to its asso.
ciates in the agreement, to make nc
publication of the affair till the
claims on either side were fully known.
Editor Journal.