The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-08-26
UNION LABOR WINS.

After making strenuous war on or.
ganized labor for four years. and In
voking the aid of the federal courts In
its efforts to overthrow the move.
ment through the writ Of injunction
and prison sentences against some of
the chief officials Of the movement.
the Bucks Stove and Range company
of st. Louis has made a complete sur
render to the unions. and declared Its
purpose to grant their demands in fu-
lure. The plant Of the company. un-
der the agreement which has been
reached. will be thoroughly unionized.
and all causes OF contention will be
immediately removed.
The agreement between labor repre-
sentatives and the company was reach.
ed in the Cincinnati Office Of the In
ternatiOnal Molders' uLion short
time ago and was signed by William
81. Cribben and Thomas ]. Hogan Of
Chicago. representing the Bucks Stove
and Range company and the Stove
Founders National Defense associa-
ton. and by the officers Of the several
unions involved.
This battle between employer and
employee. which has now passed into
history. began In the fall OF 1906 in the
great stove works Of the Bucks Stove
and Range company In st. Louis The
1Ixk sHr<A
day instead of the ten hour day which
they then had. President Van Cleave
refused to listen to the poIishers. and
the stove concern was placed on the
unfair list In the publications OF or
ganized labor throughout the country.
President Van Cleave took the matter
into the courts on the ground that the
American federation's unfair" Isl
constituted boycott and secured the
decision.
In the meantime Mr.. Van Cleave
was elected to the presidency Of the
National Association Of Manufactur.
ers. an organization whose chief pur-
pose is resistance to the demands of
labor. Then IN the Christmas holidays
Of 1908 came the decision Of Judge d.
Thew Wright. formerly Of Cincinnati.
which sentenced Samuel Gompers to
Jail for one year. John Mitchell. vice
president Of the federation. for nine
months and Frank Morrison. its secre-
tary. for six months. The sentence
was pronounced because the federation
officials had not needed the judges In.
junction to cease naming the Bucks
company in the unfair list. The labor
of1cials immediately appealed to the
supreme court. which will render its
decision in October.
The appeal from the contempt pro.
ceedings and the Jail sentences pend
ing In the supreme court Of the Unit.
ed States will not be affected by the
agreement. except TO the extent thai
the attorneys for the Bucks Stove
and Range company will no longer
figure In the case. That has become
government case and its manage
ment is In the hands Of the attorney
general Of the United States.
The agreement which has ended this
controversy il Of the greatest import
ance to organized labor. The contro.
versy itself. In its nature. the persist.
ency with which Il was carried on and
the consequences involved. was the
most considerable and far reaching the
slabor movement has ever engaged In
And its adjustment on the terms de.
handed BY the adherents Of that move,
ment Is the most signal and significant
triumph they hare ever wnn. In ef-
feet. Il prociaims and emphasizes the
TACT that. after exhaustine MI its re
sources In an unholy crusade agains,
the toiiers Of the land, ard securing
many temporary advantages through
the aid Of I subsefvient and biased
judiciary. the Bucks 6fove ana Range
company. with the National Associa.
ton Of Manufactures behind 1t. has
been compelled to confess itself beaten
and accede TO everything 1t has beer
lighting against. The outcome Is m.
Other striking proof that the claims Of
organized labor are rfghteous. and that
the American people ArknowIedge they
are. when left to con4adcr them apart
from personal interests and embittered
partisan feelings zcore one. and I
large one. Ter justice. freedom and
equal rights.-Ainaasota Union Advo-
eata.