The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-23
EPlTHETS
UNION GIVES ITS SIDE OF THE
MILITIA CONTROVERSY.
Scurrilous Language Is Said to Have
Been Used.

Washington. July 2-President Bar
rett OF the local organization of book
binders today announced that every book
binder in the government printing Of
flee and the members of the allied unions
will quit work if w. A. Miller. assistant
foreman in the government printing Of
fee, whose dismissal from that Office
the president recently revoked is per-
mitted TO resume work. The local union
officials today sent communication to
Secretary CorTelyou OF the department
of commerce and labor. stronglp ex-
pressing their position against Miller
reinstatement. The union also gave out
a statement recfting the developments
in the case. and charging Miller with
using scurrilous language about those
employed under him and slandering the
bookbinders' organiza ton. of which he
was member.
The public statement issued by the
bookbinders union in the Miller case says
that the trouble originated in a charge
against Miller: that the charge was con-
sidered by a committee empowered to
adjust differences; that Miller not only
refused to make an explanation to a
call on him, but spoke in an insulting
manner.
Our organization" the statement re-
cites, does not or cannot dictate the
policy of conducting the affairs of the
Dindery in the government printing office
The rules are the same as control all
the union shops in the United States
That Mr.. Miller had cheapened any
class of work for the government and
that that was the cause OF his suspension
and expulsion is not true. Miller's meth
DDS were the most unbusinesslike Of any
foreman in the Office and his tactics in
furnishing men under him were contempt
ibie- In Office and public places he made
use of scurrilous and abusive epithets
about employees, causing a distrust in
his division as to permanence of en-
ployment."
The statement says Miller ignored the
notices to appear before those delegated
to inquire 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
having sought to influence the legislation
derogatory 20 the interests OF the society
of congress with price schedules of book
binderies in other cities with view TO
showing that the bookbinders in the.
government printing Office were not do
ing sufficient work. and with having
given to this representative an official
copy of his former trial" which the
union alleges was a "surreptitious" act.
the copy being the property of the soci-
ETY.. The statement closes as follows:
The union has never requested Mr.
Miller's discharge from the government
printing Office. II should be noted how
ever. that our constitution forbids US 10
work with a suspended or expelled mem
Der. We learned that Nj Miller mad
been discharged on legal charges pre-
ferred by the public printer in chnuec-
ton with the civil service law our
evidence clearly demonstrated thar he
had continually abused the public prln-
ter in public places
The statement makes personal aIIega-
tons against Miller and says that AFT
oavits have been in the hands OF proper
officials for full and complete investi-
gatIcn
Mr.. Miller is now in Minneapolis.