The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09


refuse to make good.
This is manifest from the plain an
NJ Wyatt, a paperhanger from Chicago
by the Feeders Employment Agency
breaking agency from coast to coast.
Was Out of a Job.
Wyatt was out of job and in reply
to an advertisement in a chicago
paper he called on Feeders in the
company of a man named Joseph
Smith. Feeders assured both men
that there was no labor trouble here.
Just open shop" he said. The story
of their. experience can best be told
in Wyatt's own language as he related
it here and to which he made affi-
davit 1t is as follows:
George NJ. Wyatt, being first duly
sworn, says that he is a resident OF
the city of Chicago; that he has been
paperhanger by trade for more than
twenty years; that on or about the 9Th
day of June, 1921. he read an adver-
tisement in the Chicago Daily News,
which read in substance as follows:
Wanted, 4 paperhangers for out of
town work Transportation furnished.
Apply employment office, "a South
Canal street,
"Together with man by the name
Of Joseph Smith, I went to the above
employment office on the same day
where we met a man by the name OF
Tedders The employment agency was
operated under the name of Feeders
Brothers. I told Mr.. Fedders that 1
had come in answer to the ADVERTISE
nent for paperhangers. He told me
s~I~ 1,,kH YH
that if proved to be good workman
that would receive $1.00 per hour
and possibly $1.15 per hour with time
and one-half for all work over eight
hours day, and double time for
Sundays
!"-"He showed me a letter. containing
IN substance the same information.
This letter to the best of my knowl
edge and recollection came from the
Citizens Alliance Of Duluth, and was
signed by man named Mr.. Whalen.
II to Feeders: Now. there is no
labor trouble there. is thereo This is
NO strike job. is it?' Feeders said,
NO, they arc just short of paper
hangers In Duluth. 1t is open shop
He also said, You will receive time
and one-half for all over eight hours
you want You will also receive trans
portation to go up. and if you find that
conditions are not satisfactory when
YOU get there, they will give you trans
portation to come back
II said. All right. I will 60 Fed
ders then told us to be at the Grand
Central depot at $3.50 p M. and to
have our tools and grips with us.
L@ OF ft,a
appointed time, where we met Fed
dcrs Mr.. Feeders insisted on check
ing our baggage to Duluth. He also
refused to give us our tickets hut said
he would deliver them himself to the
conductor, which he: did.
"Just as the train was about to pull
out Mr.. Feeders said. oh, forgot to
get YOU to sign contract and he
pulled a yellow slip out Of his pocket,
together with a printed card and
handed them to us to be signed. !
= signed mine and then glanced over
the yelloV slip. I noticed some ref
erence to labor trouble and said to Mr.
Feeders, 7 thought there was no
strike up there and Mr.. Fedders said
There is no trouble and it Is open
shop
ders took the papers out Of my hand
= and jumped off. Smith and l then
talked the matter over and I sug-
gested that we get off at the Western
Avenue station. Smith said that we
could not very we'll do that, as our
grips and our tools had been checked
and we're then on the train.
$50. after talking it over at some
y do6 to f0 D,,1u r
= II it developed that there was labo,
trouble there we would refuse to work
and would demand our transportation
hack to- Chicago. Feeders gave US g
letter to Mr. Whalen. addressed tc
Room SIS, Providence building, Du:
luth Mimi.
When we reached Duluth on the
following morning we went direct tt
= that office and delivered the letter tt
Mr.. Whalen, who said, You boys will
have steady work kere and can get ir
all the overtime you want at time anc
one-half.' He sent us to the Savoy
hotel and told US he would come over
after US in a short time and put u.
right to work. We waited at th<
Savoy hotel from 9 a. m. to 4 p. M
= butt no one came after us.
I'm the meantime we learned at thu
hotel; that the painters and paper
hangers OF Duluth were on strike
so We went over to the. Citizens Ali
ance headquarters and talked will
Mr.: Harris. i told him about the mis-
representation under which. we hat
been sent here and said that we would
= not work under strike conditions.
Mr.. Smith also went up to see Mr.
Harris later and when he came back
he said to me that Harris was going t.
send us toEHibbing where there wa:
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