The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-30
LOCAL PRINTING \ ! \ 7.
EMPLOYERS FAIL.
IN ..EQU|' 1Y CASE
Make Poor Showing; Mcknight
Advises Them to Take CON-
plants to Police Court.
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it that the strike insurance has failed.
Be as it may. in a leaflet issued by
local employmers, they felt sure at
the outset Of the strike they would
be amply rewarded during its exist
ence. The following appeared In the
leaflet:
The Power of Money.
1.-THE unions are taking special as
sessme nts from their members to pro-
vide strike fund-but if the unions
count on the power Of money to win
their unjust cause they are doomed
to bitter disappointment. because the
employers, ever since this movement
came to their attention, have taken
and their business
That daring statement should indi-
cate that the employers are so fully
protected that they have little reason
and no cause for action in a court
Of equity. However, If there is, any
doubt about it, that doubt would be
removed by the following reassuring
declaration taken from the same
leaflet:
That Strike Insurance.
while most of the protective meas
ures taken are not subject to public
discussion it will not do harm to re-
fer to one featuRe-which more than
counterbalances any strike fund the
unions may extract from their men,
bers. and that is strike insurance.
1T is we'll for all workers employed
in printing offices to understand that
this employers strike, insurance pro-
tects the employer from loss due to
a strike, the insurance covering both
his expense and his profits. And it
covers all, such losses every day for
a full year. So the employers are
not going to be scared by fear of
money loss.'
"No Reason to Worry.
Several employers have Dragged
that they had no reason to worry
for 800 days." They have also
claimed that with the addition Of
strike insurance to their income they
are making more money than they
did before the strike. Some have
declared that the unions could Lot
have selected a. better time to strike
as there is very little business now.
One of the claims made by the
employers in their prayer to the court
was that striking union men were
toting guns and were threatening the
lives of non-union men. 1t was shown
at the hearing. by affidavits that every
employing prihter had stated to rep
resentatives of.the union that he had
no personal knowledge of any union
man carrying a gun. So their petit
ton is all bluff. They would de-
ceive the court lin this respect at least.
Those "NoI- Union Contracts"
A, c.. Catlin. president Of Duluth
Typographical union, declared upon
oath that he had talked with various
non-union printers and all save one
admitted that they had no knowledge
of a strike when they were induced
to come to Duluth to work. Only
one claimed to have any contract
with his employer and that one was
terminable on two weeks notice if his
work did not prove satisfactory.
Mr.. Catlin further affirmed that
the employing printers hard conspired
not to- give any union man partici-
pating in the present strike employ
ment for the next five years and that
they were conducting a. blacklist
against union men.
There Has Been No Trouble.
Other affidavits were filed by Mr..
Mcknight sworn to by union men
doing picket duty affirming that no
threats Of violence were ever made;
that the only trouble which took
place was between non-union men and
outsiders and no union men partici-
pated In such.
Two union men swore that e. G.
Warnecke Of st. Paul, a son of a
superannuated member of the Inter-
national Typographical union. now an
inmate of the Printers home at Colo
RADIO Springs, who. is a strikebreaker
in Duluth, flashed gun on them
in Superior when he was under the
influence Of moonshine.
Later when M. I. Stewart, an en-