The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-02-16
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ENDS AGREEMENT
WITH PLAYERS
John K. Tener Announces viii Be
No Discrimination Against
s. Any Member
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NEW YORK, February 1.-THE Off
eials Of the National League met yes
terday and after some discussion de.
cided that baseball shall he in future
played rs they see TT, and that the
agreement which the league has had
with the Baseball Players Fraternity,
shall die n speedy death--in fact was
dead already. In future. the national
magnates decided, the league will deal
direct with its players, and the frater.
nifty will go by the board. ..
This was the anbwer Of the chief
officials of organized ball to the threat
Of the players fraternity to call n
baseball strike and its move to affiliate
itself with organized labor by applying
for an a. f.. of l.. charter .
President Tener stated the position
taken by himself and President John
son in no uncertain terms. and was
yindietive toward the players frater.
nifty, ..
| said, twill be carried on between the
player as an individual and the club
| owner. The fraternity cannot use the
major Leagues, which have treated them
so fairly, as hammer to coerce inter.
ference in o minor league affair which
| is none of their business"
President johnson recently said that
II had been decided to cut off all rela.
tons with the players as an organiza.
tion, and that neither major league
would make any more concessions to
that body.
President Fultz, of the Players Fra.
ternity, stated that the players re.
NAMED steadfast in their stand and
would await developments He de.
clared that any move to arbitrate
| would be welcomed.
Discuss Strike At Length
The two league presidents discussed
the strike situation at length at re-
cent meeting in this city. President
Tener stated that he. was in favor of
union labor, but he did not think union
men should sympathize with a labor
movement where the principle involved
was wrong. He stated that the strike
| Wy was u HIGul
| injustice on the part of the major
| league players because they had no
grievance whatever to- strike for He
said that the major league officials
could not interfere in any way with
minor league affairs,aoSer which they
had absolutely no jurisdiction. ..
| President Tener said that the major
leagues through the national commits
sion in 1912 had met the representa-
tives of the fraternity, had dealt fair
" with them and had granted all theii
demands. He pointed out that in spite
| of the fact that they admit that they
have no grievances against the major
leagues, they have threatened to hold
out. This he gave as the reason why
the major leagues decided to cut of
all relations with the organization; as
far as the National and American
Leagues are concerned, the fraternity
has ceased to exist.
President Tener said that none OF
the clubs of the National League had
taken any steps to collect new play
ers to use on their teams in the event
the fraternity members carry out theil
threat to strike. The American League
men do not hesitate to say that they
will go ahead and build up new teams
to take the place of the strikers.
In taking their present defiant stand
against organized ball the players firm
ly believed that the national commits
sion would be forced to step in and US,
it's influence with the minor league of
icials to grant the demands of the
minor league players. They maintain
that it is purely minor league matter
which has nothing whatever to do il
any way with the major leagues OIL
| their DlnYPrs