The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-14
Speaker at Labor Meeting Makes
False Statement in Regard to
The Evening News
NO CONTRIBUTIONS REFUSED
No Statement From the Unions Ever
Presented at News Office Since Pres
ent Troubles Between Unions and
Badger Brass Company Began

The meeting of the Union Laborers
at the Rhode opera house last night,
brought out the fact that 1aboring men
of Kenosha have been grossly misin-
formed ia regard to the position of
the EVENING NEWS in regard to ar
due to this paper and to the large
number of union men employed on its
force that the statements made at the
meeting be laid before the people of
the city in their real light.
During his address from the stage
at the opera house last night, A. d.
Grout, the international president of
the Metal Polishers Union, made the
statement that this paper had refused
to publish articles in regard to the
present labor trouble written by the
leaders of the unions in the city and
that when the matter had been
brought to this Office for publication,
the men bringing it had been in
formed that it would not be published
without the editor reserved the right
to use the blue pencil on it. There is
only one answer to this statement
and that is that the statement is a
simple LIE. Since the inception of
the present trouble between the Bad
ger Brass company and it's employees,
not one single line of copy of any
kind has been brought to this Office by
any preventative of the unions and
no member of the staff of this paper
has refused the publications. such
copy or has offered to use the blue
pencil as stated by the speaker.
Mr.. Grout stated after the meeting
that the statement was made on the
authority of one Jack Daily, one of
the leading men Of the union and in
reply to this it should be said that so
far as can. be discovered Daily has
never been ia the office of this paper
and he has never offered anything to
this paper for publication. The
statement that has been circulated
about the streets that the News had
refused 10 print statement from the
State Federation of Labor is equally
false, for this statement was never
brought to this paper, save in the
regular news channels a day after it
had been circulated about the city.
The EVENING NEWS is a newspaper
and is looking for news regardless of
whom it concerns. 1t has no friends
or no enemies to punish but it is in
the market for news at all times. To
the fair minded man the statements
alleged to have been made by Daily
and made by Mr.. Grout from the plat
form would have tendency to show
that the union men have taken
too much for granted and their state
ments we're not properly investigated
before being made.
The EVENING NEWS is a union shop
and the Kenosha Typogra phical
Union, the larger number of the mem
bers of which are employed in this
office, is among the strongest of
union bodies in the city. Every man
and woman employed ia the EVENING
NEWS shop carries union card and
it is a reflection on these union men
and women to have such statements
made from a public platform. AS
far as wages go this paper has always
paid more thatethe scale fixed by the
local union.
The EVENING News has no desire
to pander to any sect or organization
but it has the right to expect that the
truth be told in regard to it as we'll as
its policies when men are speaking
from the public platform and it is due
to the fair minded men of both union
and non union men to know that the
statements made Wednesday night
we're lies pure and simple. Mr.. Grout
has stated that he will make a public
apology to the EVENING News at the
time that he next appears in Kenosha
but it is due to us and to the union
men of this city that this statement
be made pending the return of Mr..
Grout.