The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
STATEMENT FROM UNION
Strike May Occur in Govern
 ment Printing Office.
President Barrett of the Bookbindere Says If Miller Goes to Work
 the Allied Unionists Will All aait

Washington, July 2.-Presidcnt Barrett today announced that every DookDiuder' in the Government Printing onice and the members of the allied unions will quit if W. A. Miller. assistant foreman in the Government Printing Office. wnase dismissal from that office the President recently revoked. is allowed to resume work. The local union officials today sent communication to Secretary cortel- you of the Department of Commerce and Labor, strongly expressing their position against Miller's reinstatement. The union also gave out a statement reciting the developments in the case. charging Miller with using scurrillous language about those employed under him and slam dering the bookbinders' organization, of which he was member.
 Union Statement.
 The public statement. issued by the bookbir ders' union in the Miller case, says that the trouble originated In ~ charge against Miller; that the charge was considered by committee eInpDw- cred to adjust differences: that Miller not only refused to make an explanation to a member of the committee. deputized to call on him. but spoke in an insulting manner.
 Our organization" the statement re- cites, "does not or cannot dictate the policy of conducting affairs of the bindery in the government printing oftiee- The. rules are the same as control all the union shops in the United States.
 That Mir. Miller had cheapened any class of work for the government, and that that was the cause of his suspension and expulsion Is not true. Mhler's methods were the most unbusinessiike ok any foreman's in the office. and his tactics in punishing men nnder .hlIn were con- temptible In ofice and public places he. mais sse ot scurrflons and ahuEtve epithets about employees. causing q dis~ trust in his division as to permanency of employment"
 Ignored the Delegates.
 The statement says he ignored the notices to appear before delegates to in- qulre into his case and alleges that the testimony of witnesses sustained the charges to the satisfaction of the union. He also is charged by the union with hav- ing sought to influence legislation dero- gatory to the interests of the society and with having furnished '' certain mem- Der of Congress with price schedules of book binderies in other cities with view to showing that the bookbinders in the government printing offices were not doing sufficient work, and with having given to this representative an official copy of his formal trial, which the union alleges was a "surreptitious' act. the copy being the property of the society.
 The statement closes as follows;
 "The union has never, requested Mir. Miller's discharge from the gOvernnAnf printing office. It should be noted. how ever, that our constitution forbids us to work with a suspended or expelled mem Der. We learned that Mr. Miller had been discharged on legal charges prefer red by the public printer, in accordance with the Civil Service law, on evidence clearly demonstrated that he had con- tinually abused the public printer In public places."