The sun., 1902-11-21
WILL OPPOSE UNION TYRANNY.
BUSINESS MEN or SCHENECTADY
ARE AROUSED.
An Association 10 he Formed TO Protect
business Interests Of the city From
Further Assaults by irresponsible
Labor Leaders-DOycOtt q Failure.


SC HENECTADY. n. Y, Nov. 2O.-There
| Is movement on foot among prominent
| citizens here TO take steps to protect the
| business interests of the city against further
| radical and i'll timed assaults by irresponsible
labor leaders. The matter took its most
definite shape last evening, when meeting
of some thirty of the most prominent citi-
zens was held TO discuss ways and means
by which such preposterous actions as
that recently taken by the Trades Assembly
in ordering a boycott on the local trolley
roads. will bc rendered Intellectual in the
future
The Rev. DR.. Andrew V. V. Raymond
president of Union college. presided at
the meeting IL was decided to form an
| association whose main purpose will be
To oppose in the most practical manner
possible the tyranny which is now exer-
| cised. or sought TO be- exercised, by the
Trades Assembly over all classes Of citizens
in this town The plans Of the association
will be perfected at the next meeting
which will be held in few days.
There IL no doubt that these representa-
tive men are in earnest in their efforts
to protect the business interests Of the
city from further assaults. They feel
that the city's reputation for stability
and good order has received a severe blow
| and they propose to remedy the evil as
far as lies In their power. They say that
If movement of this kind il not perfected
the future Of the city will be ruined Al
ready II has gone to the four quarters of
the globe that Schenectady is now domin-
ated 10y radical unionism and the effect
OF this advertising Is sure To react upon
the prosperity of the town.
This IL the fourth day of the boycott
of the trolley roads here and there is no.
where evidence of the existence of the
embargo, Nearly the same proportion
of workingmen and working women ride
on the cars TO and from their work a. were
wont to ride before the boycott was de-
clared. The leaders of the movement
have nothing To say. They do not care to
discuss the situation.
A pretty fair idea of the feeling Of the
workingmen themselves on the subject of
the boycott may be had from the action
of tho local Typographical union. No. 1877.
which held special meeting this evening
and adopted resolutions denouncing the
boycott and deprccating the action OF the
Trades Assembly In declaring it, The meet
ing was largely attended. more than two
thirds OF the members being present, and
the following resolutions were adopted
with only three dissenting votes:
Res2lrcd. That the action Of the Trades
Assembly in placing the boycott on the
Schenectady Street Railway COMPANY was
tax rn without sufficient good cauS" and does
not represent the sentiment of this union and
Rcsoired. That before such action was
taken II Is the sens" OF this body that refer
endum vote should hay" been taken "a to
whether or not the boycott should be- declared
and, further
RcsQi,ed. That the delegates to the Trades
As.p .ir a
for the resembling of the boycott against the
railway company
William Potter, tho painter who was
expelled bv his union because of his con
nection with the National Guard, told The
sun correspondent this evening that he
had received two offers from firms in Albany.
have not accepted either of the offers, y
said Potter. "for | do not propose to leave
this city This Is my home and | won't
let any one drive me out of il
Potter is authority for the statement
that another labor organizat ion here, the
machinists' union. of which Henry V.
jackson. the president of the Trades As
semhly, is the secretary, warned one of it's
members, John O'Brien. who is also MEM
her Of Company F, Second Regiment
National Guard, AZ the time Of the strike
troubles on the Hudson Valley Railway in
October that if he oheved the order Of the
Governor and went to Glers Falls to aid in
supprsssing disorder there he would be
expelled from his union Since the ex-
pulsion Of Potter from the painters union
O'Brien got so worried that he resigned his
place in the machine shop of the American
Locomotive Comranv Works
"O'Brien told me-" said Potter tonight
that he had quit his job rather than be
expelled 10y his union He thought il
might smooth matters over by doing this
For my part, ! think he was foolish. He
might better have done as | did and let
the uniOn eXpel him