Arizona republican., 1907-12-11
CITY DIRECTORY Is
 AGAIN IN STAIU QUO
An Odd Entsngement of industrial Forces and Public Policy.

The matter of a city directory is again in statu quo and the situation is quite embarrassing all around. Just what sort of a way out" will be found is hardly yet apparent on the surface. The board of trade at the meeting of the board of directors yesterday pass ed the following resolution:
 Resolved: That the Phoenix and MaricOpa county board of trade does hereby endorse the proposition of w. II. Teasley and associates for the com pilation and publication of a directory of Phoenix and the Salt River valley and does request its members and the business men of Phoenix. Mesa and Tempe to assist said parties so far as possible to the end that said proposed directory be full and complete. and that the president and secretary of the board of trade are hereby authorized and directed to furnish the said parties proper evidence of the passage of this resolution. provided said printing be done in Phoenix.
 The resolution at first presented lacked the last seven words which were added at the request of member of the board of trade, though not a director The proviso is in line with the general policy of protection that one community has against another. one nation against another. and on the face of it no good citizen could hardly object to the principle of keeping the money at home when the work could be done here as well as anywhere else.
 But the complicating facts are that MT. Teasley and Fletcher Ford. repre- senting d Los Angeles printing com pany, both entered the directory field about the same time. Phoenix did not want two directories and at the sug- gestioIf of the board of trade the two interests got together and made a compromise, Mir. Teasley agreeing to give the printing to Mir Ford at stipulated figure and MT. Forf agree ing to withdraw from the feid. That i seemed satisfactory to everybody. Now comes the printers union with d proposition embraced in the seven iwOrds above referred tO. a principle that no one can object to. However it develops that MT. Ford represents a non-union establishment. whi-h If it does the work will be a bigger thorn in the side of the union than the other one. the printing of the book in any foreign quarter and the taking of money from the town. It is not under stood that the printers union has the slightest objection to Mir. Teasley or his associates, but 1t chances that in the enforcement of the union policies. 1 Mir. Teasley is the victim, as he Ina. | already signed contract with Mir Ford which he cannot well get out of except bv Mir. Ford's acquiescence. ' Unless he can in some manner secure 1 this or make some arrangement not
 now open clearly to the vision, it i would look as though neither man ] could get up directory that would he
 complete for neither would care to do
 SD at loss which would be apt to be the result. with the opposition of the
 union and it's friends in the commun- ity. Mir. Teasley would prefer to print the book here and had planned to do Tso until the situation made the com i promise necessary and if the other
 man were to take the job off his hands ' now he would meet with equally as i strong an opposition from the union | Union representatives state however that they would have made a fight
 anyhow, against the work going out 1 of town. even tO a union shop.
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