Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-15

age in the printing line. An lnvea-
tigation of a number Of our various
tablishmets will show that any
of our jobbing houses send abroad
for most all of their printing:
that many OF cur merchants,
who are opposed to p"opl sendin&
abroad for anything in their rospcc-
tive lines, buy their stationery from
out of town houses; and that our
bankers, who are so anxious to nave
the money kept al home, buy five
dollars worth Of stationery abroad
for every dollars worth OF printing
they have done in a Pine Blum
printcry And W. support and
maintain a Board OF Trade, tn j.
tensible purpose Of which is the pro
motion Of home Industries ana
Enterprises, and yet every letter
that is sent out by this Board o.
Trade from Pine Bluff is written
on 4 letter head, and carried III all
envelope embossed by some printing
house in Dallas. Galveston, or 81.
Louis.
We submit that the foregoing
practices are unfair" TO our loc2!
printing establishments. There arc
five printing houses In Pine Bluff.
giving employment to at least fifty
men and women with an aggregate
payroll of several thousand dollars
per month for labor alone. This
money is spent at home, among our
local real estate men, merchants,
dry goods men, srocerymen, drug
gists. restaurants. boarding houses.
and all local enterprises generally.
including even a few deposits with
the savings bank department OF
some of our local banks.
1t is also to be remarked that all
Of our local printing houses. are un-
ion offices and employ only union
labor. paying in fact above the I'M
ion scale of wages. Much of this
work sent abroad is sent to open
shop" offices, which do not employ
union labor. and as Il rule, do not
pay the union scale We ask. thcre-
fore. in view on the Dement'S to be
derived along all tines in patroniz-
ing home industries. if II Is right.
fair. Just or eXped' ent to send
abroad for anything in the printing
line
Furthermore, We would ASK OF
our iobbers. manufacturers. mer-
chants, bankers. and business men
generally who are SO anxious to
have their own enterprises patron
lied by home people, if what Is
sauce for the goose is not also
Sauce for the gander, and ii the
same principles should not DC prac-
ticed when it comes to giving out
printing, even though the product
per thousand.
Why do not all OF these people
their own individual affairs. take IN
to consideration the same princi-
MI 10 sxsr
those engaged in different lines
from their own?
Moreover. We ask OF the Union
people OF Pine Bluff if they think
it IS fair that the Pine Bluff
printeries employing local union
men. should be Disseminated
against in favor of the open shop
establishments in foreign cities.
Therefore, We call upon the me- n
bers of our local labor unions 20 see
to t thai the stationery and print
Cd matter o: The local merchants
and business men bears MON : -
imprint OF Pine Bluff 5-.-.--z.z
house Those W4o ask I'll -yarrG2-
asa Of hone people, should N turn
beerow hetr patronage loon home
81 ror'se<; and tho" wao a."
mc1bar5 o. !abor unions snou!d 8
hat M employers OF union labor
are protected from OUT Of town ana
Unfair comp tition.
This article IS written II the in
arcs+ Of ali: in behalf o. every Ell
fcrpri&e. industry, manufactur 7,
me- .hant banker, real estate man,
orof sional man. printing house
and citizen OF Pine Bluff.
The Graphic believes in me uni
y9rsal practice Of patronizing h,Ne
industry wb"re ever it is possible =
do 50; for by so doing Jna commnn-
ity is not only enriched. but 'aeh
ind vidual Is benefited as weN,
Do