The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-01

see that we have the upper hand and they come down. Oh! 1t is dead easy II ycu know how to work it.''
 Unionists Who overreach Themselves There is no doubt but that many of the domands of organized labor are extrava- gant. They may not come from the unions as such. but from union men, So foolish that they overreach themselves to their own hurt"
 : heard the other night of two in- stances in connection with the National Cash Register Company of Dayton. Ohio. That company has been noted for it's kindness to it's men and for the sanitary condition and convenfences of its fac | torres. Among other things, 1t has free | bath houses for it's employees, and 1t had | furnished not only soap and towels, but | a certain amount of time off when a ran could take bath during working hours if he wanted to. As the union grew strong in the shops its members began to object to trifing things as contrary to
 union rules, and one day a complaint was made as to the bath house, The union complainer said that the men could not use the baths because the towels were not washed by union labor. But" said the manager, don't you know that those towels are washed by the widow of one of our old employees We pay her just as much as we would have topay at any union laundry. She is poor and needs the work. and we | thought we should like to help her" That makes no difference" said the unionist, "the woman don't belong to the union and we are bound to dry ourselves on union-washed towels"
 To this the boss did not reply. and the men went away. The next morning there were no towels, and when the employees | asked for them they were told that the | company preferred that every man should furnish his own towel so that he could have it washed where he pleased. A somewhat similar trouble arose later on in regard to a swinging door between two rooms. In one of the rooms the work demanded processes fumes and the door was put in for the comfort of the workmen in the room adjoining. One day a union mechanic employed in this second room in pass l ing through to the ill-smelling place happened to notice that the hinges on the door were made by non-union la- bor. A protest was at once filed and the men said that the hinges must come down.
 All right" said the manager, I've can take them down. We don't need NuG uOOt any ilOns anu NC Cdh JuoN SeAhS it away. And so they cid.
 "A few actions of this kind showed the company that sooner or later there must be a strike and they prepared for it. They said nothing, but pushed the work and laid up a large amount of extra stock. Then when an extrava- gant demand was made with the threat of a strike they refused to submit and the strike came.
 The company said nothing, but shut down the works and supplied the trade with the stock on hand. Two weeks went by and nothing was said A month passed and there was no sign of opening the shops, Then the work men began to be worried. Many of them had little homes which they had partly paid for. They needed money for interest on their mortgages and other things, and when they heard that the company was considering the moving of tt.e shops from Dayton to a place of better labor conditions they asked to go back to work. They did go back, and from that tune to this. I understand. there has been no com
 plaint about petty matters in that fac tory. Frank G. Carpenter.