The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

or West Point is among the general public. We want our own sons or friends to have the places, and they never go begging"
 Non- Union Matters.
 You say that most of the matters use union men, MT. Phillips. l happen to know that the Stetsons do not and have Dunlap hat here winch bears no union label"
 .You are right about the stetsons." was the reply John Stetson won't have a union man in his factory. went over his establishment once. T met the old man, and when told him I was secretary of the Hatters Union he took me over the factory himself, showing me everything. During the walk said:
 "T understand, Mir. Stetson. that you have determined to never employ a union man as long as you liver
 That Is true was the reply. "'But how about when you dieT "'Oh, I will provide for that, too.' said the old man.
 After we had finished" MT. Phillips continued i've went back to the office, where I smelt some delicious fried oysters being cooked for the officers luncheon. MT. Stetson askedt me to come in and eat, and in reply my stomach cried out yes, but my reason said no, and I refused" "why did you refuse" I asked? "whyi If you knew our men in the union you would know why. If I had lunched with Stetson I could never have explained 1t in the world. They would have thought had been bought off by the chief non-unionist of the trade.'
 But how about the Dunlaps?" I asked
 "The Dunlaps employ union labor" replied MT. Phillips, but they won't use the union label. We never have any trouble with them. for they are especially good to their men, They mix with the men and are hail fellows with them. I remember once old Mir. Dunlap, now dead, called me into his office and said:
 "'John. want to give you a check for $1,000 for the union. We have had a prosperous year, and want to show the men that l appreciate them. You can put it in the death fund out of which you pay $500 every time a man dies"
 "'we can't take it." replied.
 "'Why not?" asked MT. Dunlap.
 |" For several reasons said I. First, if some of the men knew that we had that thousand dollars in the treasury they would not pay their dues, and, anyway, three deaths would about take 1t away and we would be just where we are now. Again, if we had any trouble with other factories and not here, the employees of the other places would say that you had bought us for $1,000, and we would also feel under obligations to you, so you see we can't take it."
 From the Docks of New York.
 A labor leader of quite a different type from MT. Phillips is James Daily, the head of the Dock Builders Union of New York city. He is as rough as Phillips Is smooth, and makes no bones of saying just how he gains his ends for his men. had a chat with him the other day. He said:
 T represent the men who build the docks of New York. We have three thousand of them in our union and we do practically all the building along the twenty-five miles of dock frontage in New York and Brooklyn. We drive down piles and fortify them with stone, sand and cement, and we also put down the caissons or foundations for the big sky scrapers.'
 ''Does your union control the trader" asked.
 man can work on the docks without he has a card from the union. We don't have non-union men, and if they are put on we strike"
 What are your wages and hours of work?"
 "The lowest wage is 8 per day of eight hours. We have been steadily raising wages since we organized and the mill lionaires have come to respect us.''
 What do you mean by the million airesr"
 "I mean our employers. the big con- tractors. Oh! they are rare birds When was first elected secretary of the union they talked nice to me. They called me MT. Daly and said that they hoped we would have no trouble and that they would make it worth my while not to have any. I told them that I must be for the union and that I could not be anything but honest for the men would soon find me out. Said I: I will do what I can for you, but I am for my men all the time."
 How do you go about raising wages2" I asked.
 That's an easy job." replied Secretary Daily, "but you want to know how to do
  will demand bigger wages six months from now Suppose 1t is January. we notify the capitalists that we must have more money after the 1st of June. They think the mater over and conclude to stop it. They fix it so that they will have but little work on hand June i, and arrange their contracts so that 1t would not hurt them if we struck. We know all about their contracts as well as they do and when the times comes we say nothing about wages. We just lay low and wait until there is a big job on hand worth several hundred thou sand dollars to the contractors, then we come us with our old demand for extra wages or no work"
 But don't the contractors object?"
 "They squeal, of course, but tell them we notified them in January and they thought they could fool us. They now