TRADES UNION TYRANNY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 117, 15 June 1909, Page 4

TRADES UNION TYRANNY.

,Tiic tyrannous' -ruje of trades uniow wmi referred to in connection with the beaning of Hi'' dispute in Now Plymouth Hi" other day. But evidently we don't kimw what tyranny is. or what tyranny ihc li'itdc* IW'ons art i-iipiihie of. Head the following tVQm the New Vurk correspondent nf tin' Daily"Tclcgrapli:-"Now that prosperity js reviving in (he eastern States and the i>S'< building operations which were suspended diniiiß )'!<-' • s, i" n i | iUe "i? 1 "" y: o|ii'iiiii}t. one hears tile customary criticism of mere-ion uu<l domination by tlie hfbor unions. In tin: American metropolis the Jioil-earners made a rule that no man should use more than one hand in tilling his hod. Another rule is that '■no hod-carrier mav carry a stone, lie it la w'lilile of a capstone. He would lie i lined "fiti handling it. Tlie plasterers have a i'e;ni!itti;« Hint men must he employed in the order n{ llwir application, 'if a lazy drunkard" kp|Ayr; f or work in the morning and is denied, ami .1, steady competent man appears' in the 'ufttyooii ami is put to work, the employer' *>il) he obliged to dismiss the good man mid !W;.c .••■" t'l»' bad man, or keep lioth. and p«y (lit avrtJ-fer-iiothing the .same a> tile oilier, la a ci.-iiU'ii; t.Uy--1 scraper at -New York there was laid a huon/.e sill. It hail licen in posiliuii for m-eckis when it was discovered that the' ( pa-i,(<'r;i from which the ~ill had heen cast' had 'been made by a non-union patternmaker, fjw wicked man had since joined Ihe union, iijit ivlien he iiiiide that pattern he was a'"s.ca'b." 'j'h.i union ordered Hie owner to lake out tile sill, have it -lirokcii U|>, and get it recast from a pattern made liy a union- ' lean. He told tliem to go Ui Kiofiila,whereupon they called out all the men on the building, nearly three hundred in nuiniber, anil they remained out for ►i}- weeks. Then the owner was obliged to .suije.'idci-. but before the men would go back' tie bad to pav in full their vows for all tlie i.jme'llii'V had been ■ Hi'?' ' ""- ' "