The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-06-24
The GASStR BOYCOTT
FROM BAKERS VIEW
Mr.. Gasser In Cutting Prices Is
Not Actuated by Public
Benevolence. So
A Few Words Of Explanation On
Behalf of Bakers Union
No. 100.
(BY CARL PHuIPPS.)

Does it not sound comical to hear
a person squeal after he gave you
the permission to pinch him? Well
that is Just what Mr.. Gasser does.
Did you notice all the different ar
ticles and advertisements in the daily
papers Of Duluth during the last two
weeks? They all sing the same old
song for the benefits of the cum
munity. Help me to fight the union
(but between the. lines you read for
my own personal benefit Help me
to fight the unions they are dan
gerous. If I loose this fight I can't
make as much money in the future. as
I did in the past.) How is it that Mr..
Gasser can sell his bread so cheap to-
day? Why didn't he do that before?
Mr.. Gasser has run the bakery for
about two years, but up to June II
he has charged the same price and
even more than the union shops in
the city; but he never has paid union
wages. Now all at once he can sell
the bread that cheap. How long is Mr..
Gasser going to- sell it for that price?
I notice that the, sign he had hung
in his window Gone 10c loaf of
bread 7c) is taken down. Does ne still
sell it for 7c? and if he does how long
is he going to do so? Not any longer
that he can pull the wool over the
peoples eyes, for the same moment
that Mr., Gasser finds out that the
public has no sympathy for him he
will not sell his bread as cheap as ne
does today. It Is sympathy he is plead
ing for, he needs it now, and do
| ~ foi v@o}nSaS n
or woman can figure out. that he
don't deserve it. As you have read
in the Labor World Of last Saturday,
Mr.. Gasser said to the committee who
waited on him, go out and tell the
people that I do not want the trade
Of any union man. have not got any
use for them" Now every person who
sympathizes with the unions has
taken him at his word and boycotted
him. and now he is pleading for their
sympathy. Don't that make a person
laugh? In his anger he does not
know how to fight the union, so that
he will be able to win the public sym
patty. Mr.. Gasser, do you believe that
you will gain by cutting the next
mans throat? Again, I ask you why
didn't you sell your bread as cheap
before June II as you do now. In the
"open court" column Of the Evening
Herald, June fifth, g. gentleman, Mr..
Charles B. Maben gave the public an
eye opener. by figuring out that if
Mr.. Gasser paid the union wages he
would have to pay 5000 more to his
did not pay his men the wages which
was paid in other shops in Duluth,
and charged more than the other
bakers for the goods. Who got the
benefits, his men, or the public?
am not able to answer Mr.. Charles
s, Maben in the Evening Herald AS
that paper refuses to pring any ar
tlcle for the union. The "open court
is nothing but a fake, do not know
why the Herald refuses to publish
| any article for us, but they have re-
fused two articles. and the only rea-
son I can see for it is, that those two
articles were eye openers to the pub
! lie and hitting Mr.. Gasser. OF course
| Mr.. Gasser Is a good customer and
the Herald has got to look out for it's
advertising department. This caution
| of the Herald shows better than any,
thing else that what we need is a.
paper that is willing to print both
! sides Of the story. Mr.. Gasser said
| that the union has damaged his prop
! erty, such silly story. 1t makes me
! laugh, I wonder if Mr.. Gasser thinks
| that he will get the public sympathy
| by publishing such a silly lie about
us, because we haven't got the same
idea that he has? Mr. Gasser is blam-
ing me for all his present troubles,
| but he knows that he is wrong, and he
never was able to give reasonable
excuse for not paying after the scale,
| nor why he repudiated that contract
| he had signed. Mr.. Gasser ask your
| foreman If I did not tell him Thurs
| day, April 9th, that he should hire
that man which he told me that lie
had on hand, in my place and that
my time was out, the last day Of
April. whether you signed the scale
| or not.