Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-07-27
MAY ALL GO OUT LYING IN STATE
TROUBLE IN THE GOVERNMENT
PRINTING OFFICE.
Employees of the Bindery viii Re.
fuse to Work With Expelled
Man Whom President Roosevelt
Has Ordered to BE Reinsuated
Allied Trades May Also Quit.

Washington, July %. - President
Barrett, of the local Organization of
book binders, announces that every book
binder in the government printing Office
and the members of the allied unions
will quit work ii W. A. Miller, assist
ant foreman in the government print
ing office, whose dismissal from that
office the president recently revoked, il
permitted to resume work. The l,mal
union officials have sent a communal
tiion to secretary Cortelyou, of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
strongly expressing tn Air position
against Miller's reinstatement. The
unioun also gave out settlement
strongly expressing reciting the devel-
opments in the case and charging Mil
Ter with using scurrilous language about
those employed under him and Islander.
Ing the book binders organization, of
which he was member.
The public statement issued by the
Book binders Union in the Miller case
eays the trouble originated in charge
against MIR. Miller; that the charge
lied to adjust the differences; that
Miller refused not only to make an ex-
PLANTATION to member of the commit
tee author zed to call on him, but spoke
in an insulting manner.
"Our organization, the statement
says, "does not or cannot dictate the
policy OF conducting the affairs of the
bindery in the government printing
ocffie. The rules are the same as con-
troll all the union shops in the United
States.
"That Mr.. Miller has cheapened any
class of work for the government and
that that was the cause of his expulsion
is not true. Mllers' methods were the
most unbusinesslike of any foreman in
the office, and his tactics in Furnishing
men under him were contemplate. In
the office and public places he made
use OF scurrilous and insulting remarks
about employees causing a distrust in
his division as to permanence of en-
ployment."
the notices to appear before those del
egated to inquire into his case and al
leges that the testimony OF witnesses
sustained the charges to the satisfaction
Of the union. He is also charged hv
the union with having sought to nfu-
ence legislation derogatory to the in
terests OF the society and with having
furnished ga certain member of con-
gress with certain price schedules of
bookbindersies in other sections, in or
der to show that the bookb;nders in the
government printing office were not do
ing sufficient work with having given
to this representative an official copy of
his former trial." which the union al
leges was surreptitious act, the copy
being the property of the society. The
statement closes as follows:
"The union hes never requested Mr..
Miller's discharge from the government
printing office. IT shorld be noted,
however, that our constitution forbids
US to work with a suspended member
or one who has been expelled. We
learned that Mr.. Miller had been dis
charged on legal charges preferred by
the public printer in accordance with
the civil service law. Our evidence
clearly demonstrated that he had con-
stantly abused the public printer in
public places" The statement makes
personal allegations against Miller, and
says affidavts have been placed in the
hands of the proper officials for full
and complete investi eation.
Mr.. Miller is now in Minneapolis.