The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-06-19
INDIAN MOTOCY-
Gle STRIKE.


on the job. This shows in fgures,
what splendid results the members
of the Springfield, Mass, Metal
Pelishers Union have archieved.
Here is the whole story in
mighty few words:
The Indian Motorcycle Co.,
(Hendee Mfg. Co.. Springfield.
Mass, used to employ 5000 men.
Today it is giving work to 500.
Any base ball fan can figure the
Indian Motorcycle batting average
instantly.
The 125 members of the Spring
field Locai Metal Polishers, etc.,
were forced on strike January 5th,
1914.
That strike is still on.
Do you wonder that these union
brothers are holding out when they
struck because their wages suffered
reduction of 81. 10 the day.
And not single man deserted
from the ranks.
Every man is standing out,
steadfastly Loyalty, sternly, hon.
estly and he will stick until we'll,
you know the expression, he will
stick.
Do you know that many Eastern
4 tracks whereon races are run, have
barred the Indian Motorcycle the
product of the Hendee Company
Do you know that union labor
and their friends throughout the
entire nation has been infoi med
that organized labor is on strike at
the Hendee Co., the Indian Moto-
cycle2
Do you know that the 125 origi-
nal strikers are still holding out
against the demands Of the Ipdian
Motorcycle Co?
Oh, very well
When the strike started the Hen
dee company employed 3 900 men.
Today Hendee employs about
500 men.
Think that over.
We peed not devote time nor at
tention to the fact that the Hendee
company is capitalized at more than
a dozen million dollars; we need
, not worry that they used methods
rich in subterfuge in trying to
make the members of the meta
t polishers' union work at rediculou:
wages, we need not worry nor bt
unhappy that as a result of the
! firms attitude toward union labor
5 that its product has fallen off tc
: such an extent that it now has 50t
employees when at the time of the
strike it employed 5000 men.
The striking union does not re,
joice that 2, 500 have lost their job
Indeed, the strikers lament this
unhappy fact. But the fight these
men are making is fight for the
many; not for the few. This fgh
is fer living wage what wouls
any skilled workmen think wer,
his firm to tell him that his wage.
was to be trimmed ST. 10 day. !?
The metal polishes have demand
, ed nothing unreasonable of the
, Hendee company; the workers Oh
strike have been subsisting care
fully, &C onomically. living, indeed
from hand to mouth, but they ar,
living hopefully, buoyantly, ant
filed with the belief, that, a
progress indicates, in the end tn,
Hendee company will be compelles
a to treat fairly with organized labo
f they will have much TO charge III
! to Experience. These men
t however, need help. Month afte
D month has seen them idle. Ye
t they have not been idle, except a
e to the pay envelope. Though the,
t have earned no money, they hav,
E been working night and day, ad
= vancing the cause and paying, b,
\ example, the toll that loyalty ant
] steadfastness exacts from ever,
r conscientious union man.
t These men do not ask aims
e Far from it; but they do ask tha
d every loyal unionist remember tha
: the Hendee Indian Motorcycle i
produced in shop that once hire,