Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-19
SHALL OUR HOME ENTERPRISES STAY IN
BUSINESS OR Be FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS

people, who are 80 Inconsistent, to
ask for and demand good wages, and
good hours, and living conditions, and
get his pay envelope. and walk down
the street and buy piece Of Seab
tobacco. or package Of seab made
cigarettes, or scab made cigar. and
walk into grocery store and order
some groceries and buy the bread that
Is made by seab firm and 60 home
and eat il, a real union man won't do
these things, for the sake of penny
OF two, when he Is receiving the con-
ditions and wages that he is re-
ceiving, and from no other tact than
that he is organized and belongs To a
union.
The Union man asks TO be recog-
nized and given work at "ood wages
and when these firms, such as our
bakeries have work. they call on the
union man to do the work. and pay
him the wages that are asked for,
and want to tell you that ii isn't
fair to the people, that recognize our
organizations, and give our union men
work, for any onion man or man that
carries a card TO patronize scab
bakery goods and firms that are not
fair to us, and that is what is the
matter today, and why the labor or
CARNATIONS are said To be inconsis-
tent.
Mr.. Union Man great percentage
of our own people don't live up TO the
principles of what they are asking
for and demanding, and where do
we expect to get by this method, stop
and think. Be honest with yourself,
for you have got to let the other
union man, and his family live, if you
are going to live, but you can't let
him live if you are going TO buy
Scab bread, and tobaccos, and spend
your money with firms that are not
fair with our organizations.
Here is an example of a union man,
tho | wouldn't call him union man,
would call him card mani. Well
anyhow, this man went into a good
union butcher shop one day, and
asked the price of some meat, and
when the good union butcher told him
the price, he said TO the Union Butch
err, why | can buy that meat over to-
a certain butcher shop, at a cent a
pound cheaper, and this butcher shop
was a non-union butcher shop. This
man was carrying a union card in his
pocket, and was taking the union
wages for his work, and wanting
good conditions for himself, but h
wasn't willing TO pay, just one little
penny more on a few pounds of meat,
so that the good union butcher could
have good conditions and wages like
himself. That is inconsistency, orl
selfshness, but ] don't believe real
good Union man, that had principle,
would do thing like that, anyhow
the writer never heard of real union
man doing these things, so it must
be just few of the men in our organ
ization that are only card men.
We can't be card men, dear broth
ers and get anywhere, We must be
union men, all the way down the line,
if we get what we should have for
our work, for if we are working for
principle, we must be honest with
ourselves, and live up to that prin-
ciple, and buy union made merchan-
disc whenever possible, and above all
buy our home made bread, which is
union made, and help the bake shops
of our Twin Cities TO keep our bakers
working. for they want to live, and
have good conditions the same as the
rest of US.
The writer is writing this TO see if |
you union men that read this paper,
won't be consistent and see that no
more scab made bakery goods from
out of town, goes into your home, and
the writer knows that if you tell your
good wives that you don't want any
thing but good union made bread, |
and bakery goods in your home, that
the union ladies of our city will see
that it won't come in the house, so
let's cooperate and give our brother
bakers the same chance to keep on
getting good wages and work, the
same as we want for ourselves, and
cooperate with the firms that are con-
sistent with US and fair TO Us.
The writer hones that after this
article has been read over by our
readers that the bakeries and other |
firms Of our cities will report an in
crease in business.