Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-19

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and If thrown into the manholes 1t will hold
the cables. If you did that it might hurt
the company, stop the cars and we might
gam the strike, but, boys, We want no vio-
lence. no violence. If any does that,
let us see that 1t is not laid to our doors.
L nope you have understood me correctly 4"
What the Association Has Done
But, Mr.. Job, do you think your employ
ers' association is really making matters
better? Have you done anything"
I'VE have done a great deal, and we are
going to do more. l have told you we have
given the non-union man the chance TO
work and we have protected the employer
in numerous instances. Take the Kellogg
strike, In which 500 men left work and tried
to prevent the business of the plant from
going on. The employers had put non-unon
men in their places, but the teamsters' union
joined them and would not deliver goods
nor permit others to deliver them. We in
yestigated the matter and waited upon tie
mayor, who issued a proclamation warning
the teams to keep off the streets in the
vicinity of the Kellogg plant. We had po-
licemen go along with the wagons, and we
that the goods went in and out, regard
less of the demands of the union. Before
that strike 30 per cent of the men in the
Kellogg plant were members of the union.
The shop is now non-union shop, and it
has 800 contented men doing the same work
that go strikers did, and a the same time
turning out % per cent more of a product
Union VuSn.
I'VE have had a number of similar
cases." continued Mr.. Job, lin which we
have helped the employers, and we are
ready at any time to defend the rights of
the non-union man. Take the case OF
Chester B. Blish, who was non-union
elevator boy in one of the downtown
buildings. He was threatened. bulldozed
and bluffed by the unionists, but his father
wrote a letter to this association and we
% Ia fn hon hn
lists that tie power and wealth of the
employers association was at the command
of a simple colored boy, whose existence
the aSSocia ton had never dreamed of I'M
til he became bold enough to work as a
non-union man, they began to realize that
the employers of Chicago proposed to pro-
tect not only themselves, but all unor-
ganized labor as we'll
Again, take the recent street car
strike continued Mr.. Job. The strikers
had promised there would be no disturb
ances, but there were hotheads out in force
to stop the cars. and the union teamsters
tried to block the road. 1t was largely
through the employers association that
1000 police were put on duty in the strike
territory, and through il all other team
sters were kept out of the way. The re-
suit was that the cars ran and the men
were protected. When the coal transfers
struck in sympathy and refused to haul
coal to the street power house. the EN-
ployers' association undertook the delivery
of that coal, and sent the wagons, guarded
by policemen, to deliver it. The result
was that the street car companies won
their fight for the open shop
Where the Public Stands
How about the people, are they with
you in this matter?'
Il think they are replied Mr.. Job. In
the street car strike they We're entirely So
and they have been so in most of our other
fights. We are not waging a war of Of
Tense, but of defense. We have no chip on
our shoulders and We do not seek quar-
rels, although are ready to fight if we
have to. Before the association was
formed our newspapers here were some
what apathetic on labor questions, but
since then at least one-half of them unite
in indorsing methods. The same ~
true of the politicians, and l think our
work has also aided the judges in showing
them that their injunctons to prevent
such outrages have the Endorsement of the
best of the business element of the COM
munity.
I'VE are not only doing good here but
also in the other cities of the United
States, where are looked upon as the
originator of this movement. We are help
ing to organize them, and in doing We
feel that we are approa ching the nearest
practical solution of the present Industrial
problem"
FRANK C. CARPENTER.