Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-06
TO PREVENT STRIKES.
Trom the Montpelier Argus.)

OFrom the Montpelier Areus)
For simplicity the plan Of c. NJ. Post
Of Battle Creek. Mich, to prevent labor
troubles Is ahead of any other brought to
public attention. The WASHINGTON bureau
Of the Employers and Employees union
is receiving hundreds of letters every day
asking about it. The plan. briefly stated
is this:
"Fmplovers and employees join and each
deposit two per cent of wages in bank or
trust company each pay day until tine
total amounts to 81 on the part of the
employer for each member of his force
and s25 on the part of employe. This sum
Is to be in charge of a trustee and held
as q guarantee fund.
"The contract agrees that employee sell
his labor for six months at a fixed price
and employer agrees to purchase same.
"FmpiCVe reserves the right TO quit If
sick. incapacitat-d or i'll treated, but shall
not quit to secure higher wages. and shall
not interfere in any manner with any EN-
rloye.
employer reserves RIGHT TO dismiss en-
rloye if unGt or incapable or in any way
unsatisfactory, but shall not discharge to
secure labor at lower price than agreed
upon for the contract period, and will IT.
no way interfere with employe seeking
work elsewhere.
"Emplcyes shall have unrestricted right
to purchase their own supplies.
.\Pl'lfT tIfllllDN' I ill flllIllpNt ciAA "
a member Of any confederation union or
agreement, which. by combination ~,
otherwise. seeks to force wages down or
up.
Three months after employee ceases
work for employer, both employer and
emploYe shall be paid the full amount OF
| the deposit fund which applies 10 said
employe. provided that the terms Of the
agreement have been kept. In case of
failure to keep such agreement the party
breaking shall forfeit to the other"
Thus fun responsibility is assured with
out any cumbersome machinery and
every Individual is allowed complete lib
orty. II would seem as II this might meet
the situation in many cases where some
thing OF the sort is desired. 1t bears more
heavily on the employer by causing him
to make a deposit for each employe but
there seems to be no other way of assur-
ing responsibility of both parties unless
by many bothersOme processes.
THE SHINING FARCE.
(Trom the Essex Esgle.)
At more or less frequent intervals the
Swanton Courier imaGines the people Of
Vermont are to lose their liberty and rat
if SEEMING in Chan,plain is prevented by
law the State will become a despotism.
If the Courier Is talking in the interest
Of a few Kanuck Frenchmen, who by
some misfortune or other, have drifted
into Swanton and can make a living only
by depicting the waters of Lake Cham
plain Of the fish that swim therein, then
this paper has no space to waste on the
subject,
But il the Courier is not a joke sheet
and is right down in earnest about this
seininc question it should be laborcd with
and proper chastisement administered
The latest emission by the Courier is
here printed:
" - t. Il.-.l II
biennial ghost dance In regard to seine
fshine is about to come off at Montpelier,
We suppose 1t can't be helped. but 1t
would please the people who are inter-
ested and who know something about sein .
ing If those who are so violently opposed
would inform themselves on the subject
sufficiently so their frantic endeavors
against SEEMING would at least have the
merit Of being intelligent,
Every resident of the State presumably
knows that Swnnton has a fish hatchery,
Eut 1t is doubtful II they all know that
this hatchery. which keeps one or more
persons IN the employ of the State, is
maintained or the revenue from SEEMING
licenses. Is this why the Courier belches
and fumes that SEEMING he continued?
Can II he that the superintendent Of this
hatchery and his assistants are so help
less without the revenue derived from
SEEMING licenses that the poorhouse stares
them In the face We want to know the
inside facts about this much mooted
Swanton hsh incubator.
Thc editor of this paper Is Disguised
with the fishing he has had in Lake Cham
plair and is that egotistical that he be
lieves he kpows how to fish What Is
more he Is not alone. And a step further,
MIR. Courier, any one who knows enough
to know his name Is well aware that sein-
ing does not induce FISH propagation in
lake Champlain, II there IL such an one
= 49,. - 70 L,.- a., ~ mi,
OF the year and see the thousands of bar
reis Of Ash that are shipped from that one
point alone,
Perhaps the fish hatchery is essential
10 the welfare OF Swanton. If II were
abolished the village might become a
scattered hamlet. For all this we extract
Il tear ard will DO our prettiest TO main
tain swanton's present prosperity, but
IN somc other way than with funds Sc
cured from SEEMING licenses.
What we want, what thousands of ma
tives and hundreds Of visitors every sum
mer want, Is fish in Lake Champlain,
| psta.a ignit tho 1li1htaat ,laaGtra 10 Ia.