TRADE UNION TYRANNY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9467, 9 June 1909, Page 7

TRADE UNION TYRANNY.

Now that prosperity is reviving in the eastern States (writes the New York correspondent of the .-Daily Telegraph), and the big banding operations .which were suspended during the slump are again reopening, one hears the customary criticism of coercion and domination bv the labour unions. In the American metropolis the hod-carriers made Hale that no man should use more than one hand in filling his JiodAnother rale is that no hod-carrier may cany a stone, be it a pebble or a capstone. He would be fined for handling it. The plasterers have a ‘ regulation that men must be employed in“tbo order of their application. If a lazy drunkard appears for work in the morning and is denied, and _a steady, competent man appears in the afternoon “and is put to_ work, the employer will be obliged 'to dismiss the good man and take on the bad man, or keep both, and pay the good-for-nothing the same as the ocher. In a certain skyscraper at New York there was laid a bronze sill. It had been in position for some weeks when it was discovered that the pattern from which the sill had been oast had neen made by a nonunion patternmaker. The . Wlo £®J man,had since joined the union, bat when he made that pattern he was a ‘‘scab.” The union ordered the owner to take out the sill, have i broken up, and get it recast from a pattern made by |a union man He told them to go to Florida, whereupon they called out all thef men on the building, nearly 300 in number, and they remained out for sis weeks. Then the owner was,obliged to surrender, but before the men would go back he had to pay in full wages for all the time they had been idle.