The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1916-12-16

he Central Labor Council last Tues
day night accepted the def of B. H.
Kroger, who told John Devering and
James Boyle of the Teamsters, that he
would break up every union in Cincin
natl before they could tell him what he
would pay to his drivers.
The Council last Tuesday night passed
a resolution that all locals be notified of
WI, WI Nroser attitude toward union Ia
poi, So lliat tlley can INFORM their wives
10 SPehG no more money IN ms stores;
lIe Coulicil went 1urther and placed
'ile IroViuent Savings BANK and Trust
company OH the weldon patronlze list.
WHICH means that all animated locals VIII
put llleir money III some other bank, one
account carried by an international Bro
thefhood with headquarters IN Cincin-.
nati IS said to be over seven hundred
t,lousand doilars, ana II is SAID strong
demand VIII be made that this money
De piaced elsewhere, Which no doubt Will
De done as the international IN question
needs the support of the Council,
members explained that their wives
VIII be through after the Christmas
money has been drawn out.
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Nrogers scheme.
The scheme of Kroger which brought
the bank into the controversy, was that
he forced few of his hirelings in the
nature of couple of underpaid daffodil
bank clerks and lady stenographer to
organize a fake teaming company to do
his hauling and take over his wagons,
when, as matter of fact, the company
belongs to kroger, as the clerks are
working Tor the rock bottom wages,
as ne requested the teamsters to do.
kroger mates union and he pretends
to organize this company and give scab
strangers chance to own wagon be.
tore he VIII pay union wages to his old
workers. Notwithstanding that most OF
MS trade IS among the wives OF men
who toll tor living and how anyone
can patronlze man so selfish as he has
been IN this matter is more than man
with real red blood can understand.
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meat shops who meet all the sanitary
conditions and pay union wages, so that
the wives of the butchers and teamstcrs
can also live-if such is the case why
don't union labor demand that the wives
of its members patrOnize those people
who are willing to live and let live.
The Times-Star, which is the organ of
all labor-crushing companies, particular
ly if they are advertisers, prints the fol-
lowing, and if any union man can en-
dorse 1t, he should be expelled from his
local
"The strike of drivers of the kroger
Grocery and Baking Company may be
adjusted in an odd way, as the result
of the incorporation of the Mutual
Hauling company with an authorized
capital OF 100000, by three clerks OF
the Provident Savings Bank < Trust
Company and two stenographers in the
offices of Attorneys Albert H. Morrill,
and Harry L. Gordon. Although none
of those directly involved would COM
ment on the matter Monday it was re-
ported that the new company would
give each of the striking drivers an
opportunity to go into the hauling bust