The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-02-03
LONG & ALLSTATTER co.
Failed to Live Up to Agreement With Iron Molders'
Union and Men Refuse to WOrk-Believed That
Movement is But Start to Open Shop

Last week the Long & Allstatter
Company in statement published in
the evening papers sent up sad wall
that brought tears to the eyes and
saddened the hearts of the reading
public 1t was all brought about by
those nasty, bad, bad molder boys.
The company in its sad plant for pub
lie sympathy told how it wanted to
do so much for the boys that they
(the boys) just wouldn't behave, so
that they (the company decided TO
run them away all together so that
it could go on with its open shop plan,
and hoped that the public would un-
derstand (and of course place its sym
pathy and sentiment where it was in
tended that the advertisement should
place IT'D 1t isn't known at this time
that the public was so much concerned
in the placing of six molders back to
work (as explained in the advertise
ment) as to call for an expensive ex-
planation. The cost of the statement
advertisement would have paid the
extra dollar per day in controversy for
the six molders for two weeks
But that isn't the thing at ALL 1t
isn't the question of the dollar day
per man saving this is involved. 1t
is move for the open shop that is
involved 1t is we'll rumored that the
Long & Allstatter Company has had
the open shop bee buzzin' for a long
time, and just such move as it
started last week has been looked for
1t is suspicioned too, that the Long
& Allstatter Company is about ready
to start up with a big force and that
the calling in Of six molders with an
offer of dollar day reduction in
wages with the expectation that the
men would refuse to accept, was only
part Of a carefully prepared and laid
out plan, which worked out as expect.
ed it would. that is, it worked out
as planned up to the time the mold
ers refused the wage reduction.
The plan, no doubt, then called for
going to the public with the statement
of how nice the company wanted to
be to its employees. 1t told how the
molders refused to 'help us under the
present conditions and at the $500
per day wage" but it didn't say that
the arrangement to "help us" is to
be only a temporary one and that as
soon as things opened up the men
would again receive the $6 day min
imum wage They didn't say in their
statement that they serve coffee,
cakes and sandwiches and allow an
hour twice day for a smoker and
furnish the smokes to the boys. They
didn't say all this, but one could al
most believe that such is the case
after reading the advertisement. The
whole thing of the advertisement is a
laying of foundation for public sen
timent when the real bow-off comes.
Public sentiment is a mighty strong
factor and valuable asset in time of
Industrial disagreement, and the Press
is willing to give the Long & All
statter Company credit for having
enough gray matter for realizing this
fact. But from all that can be learned
at this time the public so far hasn't
shed many tears over the matter.
The company in its statement says
that it called in six of its former mold
ers and asked them to work for $500
per day, and that these men agreed
to accept the same under the present
conditions. 1t further said the men
continued to work pntil induced by q
labor union agent to quit Local
Molders' No. 68, in a statement, deny
every bit of this They say that when
the company told the men that they