Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-14

tenor vas delivered % me by . driv-
er FOR the Cush man Hollis comp 1nyr
Herman Koss.
80 Fifth street. Auburn.
We will not be able To Use you
Monday a. M Ford has already ..-ss.
arrangements for a man to come On
the Job. you may come IN th. frs- CT
the week. and possibly there will Do
sen. thing else.
CCSHNAN-HOLL,S GO.
I. F. E.
or Dcrooer Is 1915, I was sent o.
M German. h-aG os the C7Ited State
Employment Bureau in Lewiston to
the Luna 4 sweet Shoe Company. f.r
= Job as iuiling machine operate,
and l went Immediately. but wien
reached the saop the employment
manager told me enat mistake bAC
been made, that they wanted Good
rear pa.lsr instead % turn pUll-r
bat lad hired ore an hour ago I said
20 him that there vas ar advertise
menr In the paper for turn vorkr7en.
and he said jobs like finishing ma
chimes and room boys and That I
uouldn, want anything like that l
NAS nv cHAPiosc0 dAL4.SAk Ia
good reason to believe that the sew
erai shops visited By re we're in reed
OF help % perform tie kind OF WORK
which l was able ard competent 20 do.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I haze
hereunco- signed this .s.h Gay o.
October. 1875
(Sixnedl HSRAAS j hOSS.
Witness LOUIS ). B-anc-
STATE II Maine.
And-oscogs1E - Oc-ooer =, SIS
Subscribed and s~on 20.
Before n.
Louis BRANE.
Justice Of ,he Peace.
nave here AT AFFIDAVIT OF another
shoeworker b. the name OF Joseph
Bostany. which / will not read 20
you in oeta.l other than the ve:y
closing sentences OF the GTIlGavl,.
which says that lie had Ike expe---
snce IL attempting 20 get enplo~-
ment II the She shop At Auburn. te
vas ischarEec from the Lunn
Sweet CcmpaDy. attempted 10 Sc
cure employment. and ne said as co.
lows in respect TO his failure % g..
employ ment:
NO complaint vas ever made 20
me about the kind and quality t
my work and I was rot discharged
for that reason. I have been unable
20 secure employment IN the Other
shoe shops IN Auburn. although
have tried ard l know thsre is 4
shortage OF heip This affidavit was
signed on the 3s-h day q October,
1915
Now reE1en his gentlemen. e
making Up your minds on this ve-v
importap1 question. that these two
ner whose afidavits I have Just real
TO you attempted 20 secure employ
,,ent IT those shops IN Auburn while
the great var was In progress and
before its termination on the eleventh
day OF November: and remember also
that these men were sent to these
tire United States Employment b.
.eau. and that these shoe uaanufac-
: turers paid absolutely no attention
F.! to them. And remember something
further. tina: the mandate Of tie
! United States government was that
every man in time OF war. N time of
travail. and in time OF stress. might
be Il some use 70 his country and
! perform some useful service; and yet
these manufacturers over there in
! secret placed the blacklist against
the mandate Of government-work or
! fgh. These afidavi,s absolutely
! prove i.
! Now this Is not all have. and a.
tc- dSIar,S 70 pa1S ~
! one 70 ny mind is II exceedly in
portaat aHdavi. In the presentation
Of tkls matter. because It is the ex-
perisnce OF Z worker who lives In
f, Lewiston and who worked in AUbUrn,
and who has been substantially his
entire working HE Of 20 years
worker and employee in those shoe
shops. Now listen 20 what these mar
utacture-s did 70 this poor. unfo--
I tunate man with a wife and family
I dependent upoa his support. He says
as follows
STATE OF NAME
AndrcscosE:a Sc
/, Thomas AAleafdn, o. Lewiston.
county Of A.droscogsln and State 0.
Name. CT oath cepose ard say. that
my residence i. Lewiston. Maine and
that my employment is lasting in shoe
Stops and tina, I worked at lasting
SHOES in National shoesnop No for
three years: that worked n National
snoeshop No. a1out nine months; that
worked for he Foss L Packard Shoe
Company o. Auburn Maine. for abo1t
for- years; tina. worked az the same
rade IN Field Bros. & Gross stloeshop
in Auburn. Name. COR Aaariy twelve G2i
years: and tha: I worked for LINN &
Swee. shoe COMPANY % Auburn. Maine.
shoeshop for abost seven weeks; and
that left their employ ABOUT the arsr
OF August. lis Tat lasted on the
oest kind OF SHOES and Or the So np.z
shoes and ti-at ME work vas always
sAus.Aetor-; that az the time CT ne
leaving the Lunn & Sweet Shoe Com
paay I vas em-- Dyed = the Goodvesr
lasting room. john Reyrold foreman
and vas receiving ore doiia- ar!
e,gh-y-ave as pe. hIndred fo- ne
tip shoes and one dollar and seTeat!-
Eve cents Cl.-5t for the plain shoes.
PEI hundred ana at that tine. rarlelv
about August Ist lsla M Reynold tot
re that We we're 20 be 1u- down and
toIE him t!.at ! cocId ao- work for any
less ana that | wanted 20 give Z one
weeks notice ard told hin ina. / did
70. SPEAK for anyone but nyse.f. -a.s
talk vas Wednesday forenoon ! WORK