The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-10-03
DO YOU WEAR
UNION BRAND?
BELL BRAND COLLARS THE ONLY
BRAND ON THE MARKET BEAR
ING THE UNION LABEL.
To Organized Labor.

q organized LABOR.
Greeting: The firm Of Ide Brothers
Company, Albany, New York, makers
of the Bell Brand collars and cuffs.
the only union label commodity of this
character on the market, has now
been in business nearly three years.
and despite the fact that there are
more than two million union workers
in the United States, a majority of
whom at some time or other wear
linen collars, the firm is unable to
employ regularly more than eight girls
in the manufacture of these collars,
which, to our way of thinking, is
direct reflection upon the integrity of
the trade union movement of the Unit
ed States. The purpose of this letter
is to bring these facts home to you
as union men, and to courteously and
urgently ask you to use your purchas-
ing power to aid the union girls, so
that we may be assured of steady
work and that more members may be
employed by YOUR purchasing union
made collars and cuffs.
| The average output for the past
three years has been less than one
hundred dozen collars per day. Much
money, time and effort has been spent
by the United Garment Workers of
America, in advertising these collars,
and calling to the attention of union
men the absolute necessity of their
purchasing the same, as it must ap-
peal to you that as a plain business
proposition, it is impossible for the
firm to continue along this Improbable
line for any great length of time, as
they are constantly meeting the COM
petition of non-union manufacturers
and their product in the same line,
whose goods in the main are inferior
to the collars which have stamped
upon them the emblem of fair labor.
WE BELIEVE, IN FACT WEI
KNOW, THAT IF EACH MEMBER
OF ORGANIZED LABOR WOULD BUT
SPEND rs CENTS FOR TWO BELL
BRAND COLLARS DURING THE
PRESENT MONTH, EITHER WITH
HIS NEAREST DEALER, OR, IF NO
MERCHANT IN HIS CITY CARRIES
THIS LINE, BY SENDING THE
SAME AMOUNT DIRECT TO IDE
BROTHERS. COMPANY, ALBANY,
NJ Y, THE EFFECT WOULD BEL
MORE FAR REACHING AND BENE-
FICIAL THAN ANY SIMILAR Eff
FORT EVER MADE IN BEHALF OF
A UNION LABEL.
We are making this appeal to you
not because of charity, but because we
feel that we are wholly within our
rights in asking that preference be
given to the product of union labor,
and that we have right to insist that
union men and women be consistent
and practice what they preach" by
spending the money earned under
conditions obtained by the trade union
movement, in aiding those associated
with us in sister unions, and at all
|
goods when the same can be secured
with the union label.
In view of the above facts may we
have the promise of your members to
vote in favor of Bell Brand Collars
by spending at least 25 cents for two
of them during the coming month? ?
If you knew how important your an
swer to this question really is to us,
the girls employed by Ide Brothers
Company, who make union made col
lars and cuffs, there could be but one
answer so far as You are concerned to
this important question-you are
really the employer.
| Anticipating an early and favorable
repl yto this request, we are frater-
nally yours,
| THOS. J. GORMAN,
President l.. U. 261.
| PEARL MATSON,