The Connecticut labor press., 1919-11-29
WHEN PURCHASING CIGARS YOU SHOULD
 LOOK FOR THELABEL
Many Makes of Goods Displayed That Are Not Made Under
 Union Conditions.
WARE OF THAT KIND
Cigarmakers Union First to In augurate Eight-Hour Day
 in This Country.
(By Label Committee of Cigarmakers'
 Union, Mo- 30.)

(By Label Committee of Cigarmakers
 Union, No. 39)
 The success of every Label Trade Union depends in a large measure upol it's ability to create and maintain { large and constant demand for mer. chandise bearing the Union Label. Nc union, regardless of how rich or how active it may be, can accomplish this result alone and unaided. If 1t is to be successful 1t must have the full SUD- port of organized labor and its friends Of all the Label Trades affiliated with the American Federation of Labor there IS none more entitled to the united support and cooperation of the organized workers, than the Cigar makers International Union.
 This union was organized in the year 1894 and IS therefore one of the oldest trade unions in the United States. Dur ing the 55 years of its existence it has gressive unions. working continually for the betterment of its own members and organized labor generally.
 Within a period of 39 years it has paid to its members i'll benefits $14,674,- 955.82 and has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to other trade unions to aid them in their struggles for better wages and conditions.
 Then, too, 1t should be remembered that the Cigarmakers Union was the first union i'll the United States to in augurate the eight-hour day. This action was taken May 1, 1886, and has been adhered to ever since. This 1egis- lation not only benefited the members of the Cigarmakers Union but encour- aged and no doubt prompted other unions to initiate this example So that the eight-hour day has become the standard not only for organized labor but many unorganized workers as we'll
 In order to identify the Union Cigar makers product and to enable labor and = its friends to distinguish union made cigars from the non-union and sweat shop product, the Cigarmakers Blue Label was adopted May 1, 1886, and is always affixed to a box containing union made cigars. Most union men know and remember this when purchaS- ing cigars. They know, too, that this label upon a box is a guarantee that the cigars contained therein have been made under sanitary conditions and by cigarmakers employed at living wage They are also aware that cigars bearing this label, especially those made i'll New Haven, are invariably a better quality than those that do not. For an em- pioyer who is fair and honest with his employees may be depended upon to give a square deal to the consumers of his products.
 Whereas the employer who IS so un- just as. to refuse to allow his employees to organize and who compe1s them to work long hours for low wage will, we may reasonably assume, give his patrons as little value for their money as he dare.
 That such cigars as the Peter Schuy- Ter, Blackstone. Totem, Muriel and the products of the United Cigar Stores do not bear the union label is fact known to most cigar smokers For it has been repeatedly stated that these cigars are made under non-union conditions.
 Although the Cigarmakers Interna- tional Union Is progressive and always active-and this is especially true of Local No. 30 of New Haven with its 100 per cent. membership-the truth is that were it possible for this organiza ton to increase its endeavors 1000 per cent 1t could not succeed and would fail without the support and cooperation of it's fellow trade unionists. Consequent ly we urge all loyal members and friends of organized labor to increase the de- mand for union made cigars and eSpe- cially those made i'll New Haven. First. by buying only union made cigars your self, and second by urging your friends to do likewise By so doing you will receive 100 per cent. value for your money and there is no way in which you can more effectively and emphati- caIly show that you appreciate and ap- prove of the endeavors of this progress sive ard loyal union, than by demanding and purchasing only cigars bearing the Blue Label.