Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-30

you 20 over your clothing bought In
r,ady-to-wear shop, you VIII, In all
probability, find the union label of the
Garment Workers sewed inside the
rocket or under the Collar David 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
lobe was shown him.
THE HORSES MUST PATRONlZE
TEE UNION.
II you are a horseman look well at
the shoes Oh .our steed before YOU go
TO the blacksmiths, for II they are
not union-made your horses feet may
so bare. | talked the other night with
a Philadelphia millionaire Vao has 4
$4,000 team, He was driving last week
on the outskirts of the city Of Brother
~ Love, when one Of his horses drop
ped shoe. The cOachman picked II
up, and tho team was slowly walked to
the nearest blacksmith shop and the
man asked TO nail on the shoe. lie
looked at the horses and examined
lie said the horses We're non-union,
ond 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 third,
where tile smith replaced the shoe, but
only on condition that he be paid four
times the Ordina-y rate because the
work In the first place had not been
donc by 'inon men. The first two men
were told that II the shoes were not
put on the horse might go lame. One
man said he couldn't help that, and
the other did not care
LABELS FOR EVERYTHING.
am surprised at the growth Of the
union label IN all sorts OF business. 1t
makes its appearance on the loaf Of
bread that comes to me with my
breakfast. There Is union card in
the shop where | get shaved, and II a
little baby friend OF mine could read
II might see 1t In the bottle from
which II sucks its condensed milk. |
was told the other day at the American
Federation of Labor here that that
body sends out 25O00,000 labels every
year, and that each of these finds a
place on unioR-made article. The
United Garment Workers, who make
large part Of the clothing of the
country spend $4,000 n year adyertis-
Ing their label and warning people not
to buy goods upon which II is not used.
There are so different labels Endorsed
by the American Federation OF Labor,
and those trades which cannot use la
haNO Ia,
their shops. The statesmen, barkeepers
and walters all have cards of their
own, and labels are used by coopers,
hatters shoemakers, laundrymen,
leather workers, cigar makers and
every union manufacturer under the
sun. The first label was used by the
cigar makers in 1880, the first hatters'
labels were put out In 1885, the first
printers labels In 1887 and the first
garment workers In 1891. | 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 IL
not a kind Of boycott, and some be-
lieye both the label and the boycott,
an outrage upon the public. In a recent
talk with John Mitchell asked him
what he thought about IT, Said he.
THE union label is perfectly legti.
mate, and II Is one OF the chief wea-
pOEs Of organized labor In it's warfare
against the unjust employer Ii
was started by the California cigar
makers 10 protect their work against
Chinese cheap labor, and It has now
spread to every branch of the cigar
trade, The Cigar Makers union puts
its labels ON 10000 900 boxes of cigars
year. The label shows that those cl-
CARS were made by union men who
worked for union wages under sanitary
conditions.
The union label Is now used by all
sorts Of industries Mr.. Mitchell con-
tinued, "The Hatter's union alone Is
sues something like million new Ia
bells every month, and every one goes
into union-made hat. The merchant
tallors have a union label and so have
the bricklayers The number OF men
who use nothing but union goods Is
constantly increasing, and It now EN-
braces many millions outside those who
belong to labor 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, THE boycott IL not confined
TO organized labor II IL used by every
class OF society, by churches, and by all
sorts OF organizations as we'll as trades
unions. Manufacturers are often boy
Cotted By other manufacturers and by
jobbers and retailers The retailers are
often boyCotted by the manufacturers.
Certain firms are bOycotted by banks
and certain banks are boycotted by the
general public, In the business world
men Of all kinds boycott for certain
reasons, and why should not the trades
unions do the same2 There Is no doubt
about the legal right TO boycott No
one can compel John Smith TO buy
goods Of John Brown. No one can com.
pei him to travel In the same ear, sit In
the same church or eat az the same ia
tie. think, however, that the boycott
should he open and above board, and
that the man TO be boycotted should
have the right 20 be heard before the
boycott IL enforced, don't believe that
the boycott should De Incorporate or
unjust, | don't think for instance, that
~ is llBIl 70 ulNHllsS SCHOOL leRfnci
because her father worked during a
strike. nor allow the children Of union
workmen In school 10 boycott the child
rem OF Non-union workman, II would
be uniustlllable TO refuse the last SER
vices to dying man. whatever MS past
record has been and ! would disapproVe
az any boycott which should IN any way
disturb the burial Of such man.
THE LEADER OF TEN THOUSAND
HATTERS
Speaking about the hatters, label
had an interesting talk IN New York
the other day with John Phillips, the
secretary OF the United ilatters Of
North America, who number 10000, 40
army as large as that which Xenophon
led on HIS march 10 the see, MIR. Phil
lips has been secretary Of the Hatters'
union Tor many years, and he knows all
about hats and the men who make
them Referring TO the union label
h. said.
I'VE give our labels 10 the union
shops and tAoy are put inside OF every
union made hat Many men viii not
buy a hat without u has our label anu
We md that the label greatly helps the
union, 40 Il Is now nearly the whole