The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-06-27
TO THROTTLE THE
CRACKER TRUST
SOMETHING ORGANIZED LABOR
CAN SURELY ACCOMPLISH,
BUY THE PRODUCTS
OF UNION FACTORIES
Shutdown Of Chicago Factories Only 4
Sehsnes to Starve Union Men and
Women into Submission. =:

Sen9nso 70 Starve Union Men ana
Women into Submission. :;
Determination on the part of organ
lied labor throughout the United States
and Canada to administer crushing
rebuke to the National Biscuit Com
pany will send the stock Of this pow
erful Trust tumbling and bring the
directors to their knees.
Drunk with is success in stiffling
competition, this Trust has virtually is
sued challenge to organized labor to
try conclusions with it. The Biscuit
Trust is endeavoring. in Chicago, to dis
rupt the unions engaged in the baking
business by shutting down some of their
factories and trying to starve the work
ers into submission. This shutting
down has been going on all over the
country, at times, for many a factory
has been absorbed by the Trust only to
be dismantled and the trade absorbed
by the other Trust factories. The plan,
however, has not always met with sue
cess, for there are already thirty-seven
union cracker, cake and candy factories
the country.
Just how many factories the National
Biscuit Company has absorbed it is
hard to tell. 1t now has some 159 fac
tories in operation covering all sections
Of the country. It is the child of the
United States Baking Company and Of
the American Biscuit and Manufacture
ing Company. both Of which it abb
sorbed in 1898, incorporating under the
laws Of New Jersey with q capital stock
Of $55, ,o00, 900. Both of the old concerns
were on the unfair list Of organized la
Dor, but no sustained effort was ever
made to bring these monopoly -fostered
corporations to terms. The unions
themselves were weak and the atten-
ton Of the public was directed in other
directions.
But organized labor can whip this
Biscuit Trust. Except for, possibly, Sc
cret rebates with the railroads, it can
not sell any cheaper than it's rivals
which are beginning to spring up all
over the country. It is only necessary
to leave the products of the Trust fac
tories severely. alone, to- call for the
union bel of the Bakers and Confec-
sstioners' 's 1nterna ional union, to insiak
IL g 81 a1lp un-
Ion men ma somens tradess 4haH csases
to sell OF expose for sale the products.
OF the Trust factories, and the victory
is~won. -:
The latest circular issued by Secre-
tary Harzbecker, Of the International
Union, reads:
Cleveland, Ohio, June 5, 1903.-Sisters
and Brothers.: Again we desire to in
form organized labor, our friends and
the sympathizing public at large, that
no settlement with the cracker trust,
known as the National Biscuit Com
pany, has been made.
Do not listen to the talk Of the many
agents employed by that non- union con-
cern, stating that our grievances have
been settled
This is not 50! This trust has closed
down two OF its factories in Chicago,
ILL.,, thereby causing lockout of over
one thousand of our members.
Reliable information has reached our
office that the Cracker Trust contem-
plates opening up the Chicago factories
again, as soon as they have secured a
sufficient number of non-union men
and women, thereby keeping your sis-'
ters and brothers in Chicago out on the
street and making them submit to the
dictations of the trust.
After they have succeeded in running
their Chicago plants with non-union, or
scab labor they will close one or more
factories somewhere else. now employ
ing members of our International Un-.
ion, and repeat the same as now done
in Chicago, until all their plants can
be run by non-union labor only.
It is very plain that no settlement
has been made, but that the flght has
begun in earnest. -:
We also call your attention to the
fact that the boycott against the Nc
Kinley Bread Co. of st. Louis, Mo-. is
still on. =
This concern absolutely refuses to re-
cognize organized labor and boasts that
it sells now more of it's scab product
than ever. II this is true, then it seems
organized labor does not do it's duty
Both concerns, the National Biscuit
company and the Mckinney Bread
Company Of st. Louis, are on the unfair
list Of the American Federation OF La--
Dor, and We realize that we need yours
help. The assistance from yon at this
time will bring a speedy settlement In;
our favor. We shall not rest:- we must
win. =. II.
We do not ask your financial support,
but your moral help, to which we are.
entitled. Do not patronize stores, ho-.
tells, restaurants, boarding houses Or
any branch stores in which the goods
Of the National Biscuit Company or thu
Mckinney Bread Company are Tor SALE
Whenever you buy bread zee: that. out.
label liz on the Loaf, and when purchas-
ing cakes, crackers, or candies, dsmands
that our label is on the box, package Or
barrel. By doing this we win soon hays
our label, which stands for short hour1
Of labor, reasonable pay and fair treat
ment, on the market - s.
&. Women e and children. especially are re-
quested to kindly favor MS By damand- 8
ing the union label on. ali bakery goods
Refuse to handle goods made by. tho
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