The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

tcopyrish. 1904 by Frank G. carpenser)
 Washington, D. C.
 Take on your hat and look inside the bendt
 If 1t has union label pasted there ii was made by union labor. Pull of your shoes. and you may find the union stamp on them; and if you go over your ciotn- ing bought in a ready-to-wear shop, you will. in all probability. find the union label of the Garment Workers sewed in- side the pocket or under the collar. Da- vid M. Parry. the anti-union organizer. was surprised the other day when he was told that his clothes were union made, and he would not believe it until the label was shown him.
 The Horses Must Patronize the Union
 If you are a horseman look well at the shoes on your steed before you go to the blacksm1th's, for if they are not union made your horses feet may go bare I talked the other night with Philadel- phia millionaire who has five-thousand- dollar team. He was driving last week or the outskirts of the City of Brotherly Love. when one of his horses dropped a shoe. The coachman picked 1t up, and the team was slowly walked to the near est blacksmith shop and the man asked to nail on the shoe. He looked at the horses and examined their feet, and blanl<iy refused the job. He said the shoes were non-union, and that the horses had been shod by non-union labor. and that he would not touch them for love nor money. They then walked the horses to the next blacksmith shop, where they met with similar treatment, and then to A third, where the smith replaced the shoe, but only on condition that he be paid four times the ordinary rate, be- cause the work in the first place had not been done by union men. The first two mer were told that if the shoes were not put on the horse might go lame. One man said he couldn't help that, and other did not care.
 Labels for Everything.
 am surprised at the growth of the union label in all sorts of business. It makes it's appearance on the loaf of bread that comes to me with my break-s fast. There is a union card in the shop where I get shaved, and If a little baby friend of mine could read it might see it In the bottle from which It's sucks its cordensed milk. was told the other day at the American Federation of Labor here that that body sends out twenty five million labels every year, and that each of these labels finds place on a union-made article. The United Garment Workers, who make large part of the clothing of the country, spend $50.000 a year advertising their label and warning people not to buy goods upon which It is not used. There are fifty different la bels indorsed by the American Federa- fioE of Labor, and those trades which cannot use labels have union cards hung up in their shops. The salesmen, bar Keepers and walters all have cards of their own. and labels are used by coop CTS matters, shoemakers, laundry leather workers, cigar makers and every union manufacturer under the sun. The first label was used by the cigar makers m 1880. the first matters labels were put out in 1885. the first printers labels in 1887 and the first garment workers n 1881. am not arguing for or against these labels, but merely stating facts.
 Mitchell and the Union Label.
 There is question in the minds of many as to whether the union label is not a kind of boycott. and some believe both the label and the boycott an outrage upon the public. In recent talk with Jchn Mitchell asked him what he Brought about it. Said he:
 "The union label is perfectly legiti- mate, and 1t Is one of the chief weapons of organized labor in it's warfare against ths unjust employer. It was started by the California cigar makers to protect treir work against Chinese cheap labor and it has now spread to every branch of the cigar trade. The Cigar Makers Union put it's labels on twenty-two mill lion boxes of cigars last year. The label stsws that those cigars were made by union men who worked for union wages under sanitary conditions.
 "The union label is now used by all sorts of industries MT. Mitchell con- tinued sThe Matters Union alone is- sues something like a million new labels every month. and every one goes into a union-made hat The merchant tailors have union label and so have the brick layers. The number of men who will use nothing but union goods is constant ly increasing, and 1t now embraces many millions outside those who belong to la bor organizations"
 The Right to Boycott.
 But" said I, ''do you think the trades unions have the right to boycott whom they please?'
 '-Of course they have" replied John Mitchell. '"rhe boycott Is not confined to organized labor. It is used by every class of society, by churches, and by all sorts of organizations as well as trades unions. Manufacturers are often boycott ted by other manufacturers and by job bers and retailers. The retailers are of- ten boycotted by the manufacturers. Ger tain firms are boycotted by banks and