The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
NO QUARREL
WITH FIRM
Opponents Try to Make
1t Appear That the Buck
Stove Company Is Still
Fighting Unions
BY John P. Frey,


Editor International Moders' Journal.
When the press dispatches announced
the recent hearing before the United
States supreme court of the now fam
Gus injunction and contempt cases aris-
ing from organized labor's dispute with
the previous management of The Bucks
Stove and Range company, then contain
ed the information that the attorneys
for this firm appeared before the court.
The presence of The Bucks Stove
and Range companys attorneys before
the supreme court when these cases were
heard, has led to the erroneous opinion
in some sections that the relations be-
tween the company and organized labor
were not friendly. This misconception
has made it necessary to submit brief
statement.
Last year an agreement was reached
between the present management of this
company and the representatives of or
ganized labor, including President Sam
uel Gompers, by which all questions
which had existed were adjusted to the
satisfaction of all concerned.
This agreement, among other provi-
sions, provided that "The Bucks Stove
and Range company n will with
draw its attorneys from any case pend
ing in the courts which has grown out
of the dispute between the American
Federation of Labor and any of its
affiliated organizations on the one hand,
and The Buck Stove and Range company
on the other and the said company will
not begin any proceedings in this court
against any individuals or organizations
growing out of any past controversies
between said company and organized la
bor."
After the agreement had been placed
into effect in all of the departments of
the plant, it was discovered that the
clause just quoted might interfere with
the desires and plans of President Com
pers and his official associates in the
American Federation of Labor, to make
the injunction and contempt issues a
test case before the supreme court of
the United States.
1t was upon the request of the presi-
dent of the American Federation of La
Dor and the approval of his legal coun-
sci, that the attorneys for The Bucks
Stove and Range company appeared be-
fore the court, and it was understood
that they were there as parties to
friendly suit, so that the desire of or
ganized labor to make the issue which
had been raised by Judge Gould's in
junction a test case would not be de-
stroyed because of the friendly rela-
tions which now exist between this COM
pany and organized labor.
The opponents of organized labor AMI
the advocates of the mon union shop"
policy have given many evidences of
their displeasure because of the policy
OF the present management of The
Bucks Stove and Range company.
They endeavored to make it appear
that no agreement had been reached be-
tween the firm and organized labor and
now they have endeavored to do injury
by creating the impression that the
presence of the firms attorneys before
the supreme court of the United States
was an evidence of its unfriendliness.
In measure, the present management
of The Bucks Stove and Range company
has been placed on the "we don't patron
ize list" of the anti trade union asso.
Citations
Organized labor knows its friends and
will not be misled. 1t is now aware that
efforts are being made to injure this
firms business because its present man.
agement advocates friendly relations
with organized labor, and to counteract
this unfriendly influence it will do its
duty by assisting this firm to place its
goods upon the market.
1t cannot do otherwise and be consist
ent