Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

sale Butchers association is repre-
lsented by US. Through the wholesale
butchers the retail dealers have been
convinced that it will be well for them
| to sell TO such strike breakers as may
| wish to patronize them
Open Shop Sure.
Several timid stores have hung out
signs warning their clerks not to r de
ON the cars. Those signs are coming
down Everybody has been intimidated
| by the unions, from the millionaire
employer of labor down to the corner
grocer. We are now able to take
firm stand against this intimida
/ We have been able to make the weak
lneed stand up. The citizens ALI
ance stands for the open shop, and
that is just what San Francisco is
gong TO have.
OF the building trades Mr.. George
was equally positive He claims that
10000 non union skilled mechanics
brought here from Australia and
Europe, are scattered about the city
cleaning brick and doing other rough
work. while they wait for the break
ing of the back of skilled labor's or
ganization to go to work. He also
claimed for his organization a MEM
bershp OF $4,000, including all the
principal bankers and large employers
OF labor, who, he said, are prepared
to act as au nit in the pending strug
gle between capital and labor How
ever. this may be, the attitude in the
present controversy OF every San
Francisco enterprise. be it bank or
ten cent restaurant, is being careful
ly noted and intimidation and reprisal
are not confined to union labor. Nor
did Mr.. George appear to realize that
the law is as much to be observed by
the law-abiding citizen as the ordin.
Ance against brick throwing.
The Situation.
! Whether Georges statements are to
be given full credence, or whether
tn report on the street that soon
open shop signs will be displayed in
every store and shop, is a question.
Banks Stop Loans.
4 The banks have shut down on
loans. This puts the merchant up
lin the air A hundred incidents
could be given to show how serious
this is. For example, the largest
jobbers in building supplies held a
meeting with local representatives OF
/; eastern manufacturers and requested
that the representatives unite in ask
ing their firms for an extension oil
time fer San Francisco Before the
fire these jobbers were discounting
bills: since the fire they have been
buying at sixty days. Before the
fire it took about seventeen days te
get building materials to San Fran
: cisco: now it takes from three to
fotr months. So. even with sixty
days time, they have been paying
for their supplies from thirty to sixty
days before they arrive. When the
ranks shut down on loans, the job
bers. IS have most other establish
ments big and little, found themselves
( on the verge or ruin.
In the Building Trades.
l The action of the banks caused the
! bottom to drop out of real estate OF
4 both sides of the bay But building
! enterprises received even more serious
! set back Over 80 per cent of the
4 building operations going on are de
: pendent upon the banks. Whatevel
they may do with other enterprises
the banks will not advance dollar
/ far building. The result is that no
I only owners, but contractors and deal
Iers in buildin supplies, are pressed
, for money.
Contractors and dealers in ,buildin,
!. supplies are unable to collect ant
!, are fast reaching a place where the.
]. iwill be unable to pay their men
! Whether this state of affairs has beef
!. artificially created is much dis
!, puted matter. Partisans of the bank
: hold that the banks have loaned IN
!. til they cannot safely loan more
!. Partisans of the unions insist tina
the banks have entered into gigantl
. conspiracy to crush union labor
: The fact remains that the bank
!. have stopped making loans. are cal
!. ling in their money as fast as the
!. can. and that industry in San Fran
! cisco is almost at standstill. Recent
: ly the contractors held meetiR
! which was supposed to have been prs
!, grammerf TO declared fer the ope
!, shop. indeed. such motion wa
made. but the meeting fizzled out int
: the appointment of committee I
: make terms with the trades unions
! But the way affairs are shaping. tn
I, independent contractors who oppose
the open shop policy may be force
into any action their financial hacker
Z may desire The same is true
the merchants. Il is evident that !
: the present struggle non-combatant
/, are not to be tolerated.
!, Is This Free America?