The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-10
HATTERS ANSWER
BOSSES; SAY THEY
HAD To STRIKE
Union Men Declare Taking Out
OF Label Left Them No
Alternative.
WILL REMAIN OUT
UNTIL IT'S RESTORATION
Manufacturers Will Open Fac
tories Tomorrow Under
Any Circumstances.

A formal reply has been issued by
the United Hatters of North America
to the statement made last week
my the Associated Hat Manufac-
turers in regard to the removal, of the
union label from the hat shops, which
was followed by the union men leaving
the factories.
In the hatters' reply it is set forth
that the union men had no alternative
but to stop when the label was taken
out, as that is part of the agreement
with each firm that uses the label and
they cannot return to work until the
label is replaced
The reply goes into the origin
of the trouble at Boston with the
Guyer Hat Company and subsequent
trouble with the same firm when it
opened a factory in Philadelphia.
1t is also stated that the union men
and Women will insist on the 2estora-
tion of the label in the hat shops of the
members of the association. as it is
claimed that every firm that has used
it has been benefited to the extent of
thousands of dollars.
John A Moffitt, president of the
United Hatters' Union, said today that
he felt his organization would evnht-
ually win out, as the union men We're
determined to remain away from the
shops, and the women also.
shops to Open Tomorrow.
The manufacturers have completed
all arrangements for the formal open
ing of their factories tomorrow even
If they do not get enough men to do
much business. They intend to keep
f,,r
ciations>
There is considerable apprehension by
some of the local manufacturers in re-
gard to the attitude of the manufac-
turers of Danbury, Conn, who threaten
to leave the association if the trouble
is not settled very soon.,
The hating business is the principal
industry of that city, and since the
shops have been closed business gener-
ally has been dull there. Every effort
has been made by the storekeep-
ers, professional men and clergymen to
have the trouble adjusted by arbitra-
tion, but so far without success.
The interesting part of the statement
is as follows:
Let us now deal with the particular
misstatements, Misrepresentation and
GNdSlDnS III Tile DuDllSnP0
statement of the Associated Hat Manu-
facturers. They first say that in June,
1908, the Guyer company opened fac
tory in Philadelphia and made bill of
prices with committee of their en-
ployees, which was signed by four men
of the shops crew, In which the wage
schedule was substantially as paid in
all other Philadelphia factories, and
that this bill Of prices as we'll as the
bill of prices made in Boston was filed
in the national office of the union.
Deny Manufacturers Claim.
1--WE deny that the said Philadelphia
bill of prices was ever filed in our ma
tional office or that either the national
officers or the executive board had any
thing to do with the making of il. or
any knowledge that 1t had been made
The so-called committee of employees
consisted of four out of the five or six
men who comprised the entire crew of
the little branch shop of the Guyer
company. in Philadelphia. They were
members OF our organization. but they
did not represent or act for it in max
ing the said scale of prices The first
statement O. tho manufacturers is
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