The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-09-06
FREMONT PRINTERS STATE THE FACTS
Strike the Hammond
Struck What the Printers Demanded Land hy--Th
Record fully and FRANKLY nHhePu

the two is dull of comprehension in
deed
The Hammond Printing company is
not objecting to the unionizing of it's
plant on the ground that it does not
want the union to manage it's bust
ness, although it would have the pub
lie so believe. 1t objects to union
izing the plant because it wants to
be able to take undue advantage of
the necessities of individuals and to
ignore the right of men to organize
and pursue the policy of collective
bargaining. 1t wants to maintain the
advantage that its longer hours and
lesser wages gives it over the union
printing offices in Lincoln and Omaha.
These are the real facts underlying
its opposition to making a collective
bargain with the Typographical Union.
The printers who walked out of the
Tribune plant did SO of their own
free will, and because they were
union men. The executive council of
the International Typographical Union
acted because it was forced to act
under the laws enacted by the very
men who struck. The talk of "out-
side interference" is the variest nom
sense and will deceive no one who
will take a minutes time to investi-
gate the facts. The Fremont unions
charter was surrendered, not as a
'sfaNro mi ont 70, 1n To- Drs~
ing company" but to force the issue.
just as it has been forced To say
that the charter was surrendered in the
hope that it would end the matter
is so wide of the mark that one ac-
quainted with the Hammond Brothers
is nonplussed to know how men SO
intelligent should be so ignorant OF
the real facts.
Let these facts be impressed upon
the public mind: The Typographical
Union does not, never has and never
will, demand the right to manage the
employers business. 1t does not de-
mand the right to make Office rules
regulating the employers. It only
seeks to make office rules for the
management and disciplining of its
own members. 1t demands only rec
ognition of the right of printers to
organize and to bargain collectively
for the sale of their product. It does
not fix an arbitrary maximum wage
scale. 1t does insist upon fixing the
length of the days work, and upon
the right to say what minimum wage
it's, members must demand. 1t points
with pride to the fact that it is the
Oldest trades union in the United
States, to the fact that it is a pioneer
in the arbitration of labor disputes.
to the fact that it resorts to the
strike only when all other means of
settlement have failed, and it's points
with even greater pride to the abound
| ing evidences that organization has
been for the benefit of the members
of the craft as well as the benefit of
the employers of the craft. 1t makes
better workmen, because it teaches
| loyalty to duty It makes happier
workmen, because it enforces better
conditions of employment. 1t. tends
to more stable conditions in the print
ing trade because it puts employers
on more equal footing and elimi-
mates the cut-throat competition that
so often results in bankruptcy.
The striking printers of Fremont
are asking no more from the Ham,
1nond Printing company than 5000
other employers have granted and
what they admit is eminently fair
and just after years of experience.
Upon these statements of absolute
fact the striking printers of Fremont
are willing to rest their case before
the jury of public opinion.