Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-26
Central LABOR
union DECIDES
AGAINST STRIKE

Kerrigan, president Of the Central
union:
All members of all locals are to re-
fuse all goods at home or on the job
which Is delivered by non-union team
stsrs or truck drivers employed Sy dirm ms
care to deal with organized labor. Team
sters are to place union men with fair"
firms pending the outcome Of City Com
missioner Zimman's meeting with GER
union men in Omaha representing u.s.
900 citizens, the Omaha Central Labor
union believes this to be the most ef-
fective method Of dealing with the situa-
ton"
Prior to the meeting of the Cen
trail body Commissioner Zimman is
understood to have requested Off
Gals of that body to postpone def
mite action pending the outcome of
his attempt to bring the two fac
tons involved in the strike, to-
gether.
Officials of the Transfers and
Truck Drivers local stated that they
would comply with every recon-
mendation made by the Central
union.
Resolution Endorsed.
Following is the resolution pre-
scented by Thomas Reynolds and
endorsed by the Central Labor
union:
whereas. The mayor of Omaha was
steps to bring employers to conference
with committees from the Transfers
Union, or the Central Labor union, to the
end Of settling the Transfers contro-
versy, and
Whereas, In transmitting the employers
refusal to even meet representatives Of
organized labor. the mayor had no word
of criticism Of an action so autocratic and
contemptuous of the rights OF the public,
the chief sufferers in strikes and lock-outs,
but,
Whereas. In his talk to the organized
returned soldiers known as the American
Legion. the same mayor took occasion to
maliciously misrepresent the stand organ
lied labor has taken on the elemental
right Of labor to deal with employers
through their own chosen representatives,
and to basely SANDER a class Of citizens
just as law abiding as himself and with
record for soldiers furnished and loyal
service rendered during the war. second
to that of no other class, and,
Whereas, His indirect charges that r
ganized labor plans to flaunt the red
flag Of anarchy in the streets OF Omaha;
that organized labor intends to prevent
the delivering Of ice to the sick or milk
for the babies: and that organized labor
is planning revolution under German
influence. are not only basely false, gra-
tuitousy insolent and maliciously SANDER
Gus, but are the utterances Of a wouldbC
political kaiser, doing the business OF IN
scrupulous moneyed interests and are
more calculated to create bolshevism and
induce anarchy, rather than to uphold
constitutional government and the pre-
serve peace, and,
Whereas, Organized labor Of Omaha and
elsewhere has proven itself loyal TO
the constitution and more Jealous in its
support than the man who authorizes the
arming of employers to overawe and
perhaps shoot down striking employees.
and,
Whereas II anarchy threatens Omaha.
1t will be more largely the result Of the
autocratic refusal of certain employers to
treat with organized labor and OF the
arbitrary and insulting treatment by the
mayor of the more than 10000 citizens
embraced In Omaha unions than Of The
demand of organized labor that the city
commission compel employers to meet
with Its committees to settle the strike;
now. therefore. be it
Resolved, By the Central Labor Union
of Omaha, representing So constituent in
ions. Of nearly $4,000 workers and law
abiding citizens, that we hereby denouncs
the mayors actions and attitude in this
controversy as unworthy of a chief ex-
ecutive of all the people Of a great city;
as partial, arbitrary. and autocratic; as
calculated to produce anarchy, and to de-
signed to perpetuate industrial kaiserism
as dangerous to the rights Of humanity
as German military and political kaiser
I ism.