The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-04
/ he Protest f rom the
Colorado Springs League

u 80
This protest was sent broadcast over
the country, and it was up to the Home
management to get busy. On April 21
the Colorado Springs Typographical
Union held a hurriedly called special
meeting and adopted the following res
clution:
Colorado Springs, Colo, April %,
1906.-To the Officers and Members Of
All Sister Unions: Ladies and Gentle
men-At special meeting of Colorado
Springs Typographical Union No 80,
were adopted, with one dissenting
vote:
Whereas, A circular purporting to
emanate from the Woman's Label
League of Colorado Springs, rejecting
upon the character and union integrity
OF the Board OF Trustees and Manage
ment of the Union Printers Home, AMI
by inference charging every member
Of Typographical Union No. 81 with
disloyalty to union principles in per-
hitting to exist within its jurisdiction
conditions detrimental to the interests
oe the International Typographical
Union, has been circulated throughout
the I. T. U. jurisdiction, and
Whereas, The members of this union
are thoroughly informed OF the abso-
lutte falsity in every particular of the
statements contained in said circular
and of the malicious intent which actu-
ated them to be made and circulated:
therefore, be it
Resolved, That this union hereby in
structs it's Executive Committee to
prepare statement denouncing in the
strongest possible manner the whole
sale falsehood contained in said circu-
lar, and the perpetrators thereof, and
cause the same to be sent, under seal
of Typographical Union No. 80, to all
sister unions throughout the l. T. U.
Jurisdiction: and be it further
Resolved. That a copy of this circu-
lar be reproduced in the Typographical
Journal and in the Labor News of
COlOrduO springs.
w. J. SNYDER, President.
]. T. REAMES, Secretary.
This was sent out to every local
Typographical Union in the United
States and Canada, and was accom-
panied by the following statement OF
the local executive committee:
After the most careful and conscien-
tious investigation, this committee is
in position to state upon their honor
as union men, that the statements con-
tanned in the circular in question are
absolutely without foundation in fact.
| Investigation further develops the
fact that the circular was especially de-
signed as personal attack upon MEM
| bers of the Board of Trustees of the
Union Printers Home and its man
agement.
| with stated, in justice to the members
generally of the Woman's Label
League that they were probably in ig-
| norance of the contents and real pur-
pose of the malicious and false pub
1
| lication.
| During the course of the investiga
ton, the committee obtained evidence,
upon which charges we're preferred,
| under sworn affidavit, against a mem
her of Typographical Union No 80, ac-
cusing said member OF the authorship
of the publication. A committee was
Immediately appointed FOR the purpose,
and the trial will proceed at once. This
fact accounts for the one negative vote
to the adoption of the foregoing reso-
| luton
The Union Printers Home is one of
| the strongest forces for unionism and
the union label in the country. Every
article of use or consumption in the
institution bears the union label where
| it Is possible to procure the same, and
all the merchants with whom the Home
| deals are compelled to keep lines of
union label goods. At the present time
there is no Citizens Alliance here.
During the Cripple Creek labor trou-
hles nearly all the merchants in the
city became members of the Alliance
many being coerced into joining, but
the organization went to pieces eigh-
i teen months ago, and the merchants as
a class are not antagonistic to the
union label, and, in fact, have done
everything within their power during
the past several months to demonstrate
their friendship for the Typographical
Union and the Union Printers Home.
| You are aware that No. 82's mem
bership is not large, and that without
the material cooperation of the bust
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