The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 6, 1911, Page 6

Se Nk gS PITS SBS —_ a = —— rHE STAR—MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1911 . GAD ADVERTISEMENT, UNION MEN ARE YOU: GOING TO VOTE Against Closed Shop and Against Open Competition and in Favor of Monopoly? The Instantaneous Alarm Company has an ex clusive monopoly, The Instantaneous Alarm Company is spending thousands of dollars to continue their present mono poly. The Instantaneous Alarm Company has flooded the city with circulars requesting the voters to vote franchise against the National District Company's WHY? They want the voters to perpetuate their present monopoly. Vote for Competition Vote for Ordinance No. 19077 Which Is Proposition No. 1 Be Sure to Mark X, in Favor of Ordinance, on Ballot AS SHOWN BELOW IN FAVOR of Ordinance No. 19077, en titled “An Ordinance granting to the National District Telegraph Co. of S and assigns, the right to establish and conduct in the City of Seattle an electrical protection system, and to lease from other persons or cor- porations, wires or conduits for the operation of such system, and to construct attle its successors maintain wires upon poles owned by any corporation or person upon obtaining the consent of such corpo- ration or person, and to operate such system nf X | the assistance of the fire and police department of the City of Seattle.” and AGAINST Ordinance No. 19077, en- titled “An Ordinance granting to the National District Telegraph Co. of Seattle its successors and assigns, the right to establish and conduct in the City of Seattle an electrical protection system, and to lease from other persons or cor porations, wires or conduits for the operation of such system, and to construct and maintain wires upon poles owned by any corporation or person upon obtaining the consent of such corpo ration or person, and to operate such system for the assistance of the fire and police department of the City of Seattle.” Is it fair to permit the Instantaneous Alarm Com- pany to use your property (the City Fire Alarm Boxes, Wires, ete.) for private gain, and pay you nothing for the privilege? Is it fair to refuse the National District Telegraph Company the privilege of furnishing its own wires, boxes: etc., at its own expense, to permit it to enter into competition with the Instantaneous Alarm Company? A vote for the National District Telegraph Com- pany’s franchise means the payment to the City by that Company of two per cent (2 per cent) of its gross earnings. The Instantaneous Alarm Company pays the City no portion of its gross earnings. Can the Instantaneous Alarm Company Produce an Agreemens Be een Itself and Organized Labor? graph Company of Seattle and Local Union No. 77 International Brotherhood of Electrical Engineers THIS AGREEMENT, made this. | between the NATIONAI in the year nineteen hundred and ...., by and DISTRICT TELEGRAPH COMPANY, operating in Seattle, State of Washing ton, hereinafter designated as the “Employer,” party of the first part, and LOCAL UNION NO 77 of PACIFIC DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 1 of the CAL WORKERS, party of the second part, WITNESSETH: The Employer and-Local Union No. 77, 1. B. E. W. hereby agree to and with each other as follows: (a) Line foremen in charge of one or more men shall nc ($4.50) per day. ot receive less than Four Dollars and Fifty Cents (b) Journeymen linemen shall not receive less than Three Dollars and Seventy-five cents ($3.75) per day. (c) Eight hours shall constitute a day's work, to-wit: From 8 a. m. to 12 m. and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m GENERAL All overtime shall be paid at the rate of time and a half; Sundays and holidays double time. Holidays as New Years, Washington's Birthday, De€oration Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. (b) With the jurisdiction of above said Local Union upon all electrical work covered by this agree ment which is done by and in behalf of, or at the instance of the Employer, whether done directly by the Em follows: ployer or under contract or sub-contract by third party, or by their companies or parties for the Employer, that they shall pay and abide by the wage scale and conditions of employment herein contained and that only members of the above said Brotherhood of Electrical Workers shall be employed, provided that in any case such employees are needed and are not procurable, non-members may be employed, subject, however, that | being so employed, such non-members shall be discharged from such employment at the expiration of thirty | (30) days from the date of said employment unless within the said thirty (30) days they become members | of said Brotherhood. This agreement shall remain effective for one year from and after its date and thereafter until amended or cancelled, provided that either party desiring amendment or cancellation thereof after said period of one year shall give to the other party sixty (60) days’ notice of such desire, and whereupon the same may be can celled or by mutual agreement amended. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said parties hereto have hereunto affixed their hands and seals through | their respective officers the day and year first written above. Local Union No. 77, 1. B. E. W. (SEAL) Frew £° 96 */ $ Acknowledgment ae Seattle, Wash., Oct. 27, strict Tel. Co., City: Dear Sir—Enclosed please find agre®ment entered into by the National District Telegraph Company of Seattle and Local Union 77, I. B. E. W., with seal and signatures of the Officers of the District Council. I have also received a copy of the agreement entered into by the Company you represent and Local Union 151 of San Francisco, I am glad to note that-beth agreements call for a closed shop. Recording Secretary, Pacific Distriot aes | : (SEAL) i 1908. J. L. Husman, Supt. Construction, Nationa’ Copy of Agreement Between the National District Tele-| INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRI-| The Referendum was intended to destroy or pre- vent monopoly. In this instance the Referendum is being continue a monopoly, The National District Telegraph Company is a | Washington corporation and not a New Jersey corpo- | ration, as the Instantaneous Alarm Company would | have you believe. | The National offering Seattle the same protective service operated District Telegraph Company is by it in other cities, The citizens of other municipalities have welcomed these services as a valuable assistant in reducing fire hazard, assisting the Fire and Police Departments, and preventing burglary. ‘Be Sure to Mark X, in Favor ‘e*y- Ordinance, on Ballot AS SHOWN BELOW IN FAVOR of Ordinance No. 19077, en- titled “An Ordinance granting to the National District Telegraph Co. of Seattle its successors and assigns, the right to establish and conduct in the City of Seattle an electrical protection system, and to lease from other persons or cor- porations, wires or conduits for the operation of such system, and to construct and maintain 4 wires upon poles owned by any corporation or ’ , person upon obtaining the consent of such corpo- ration or person, and to operate such system for] the assistance of the fire and police department of the City of Seattle.” AGAINST Ordinance No. 19077, en- titled “An Ordinance granting to the National District Telegraph Co. of Seattle its successors and assigns, the right to establish and conduct in the City of Seattle an electrical protection system, and to lease from other persons or cor- porations, wires or conduits for the operation of such system, and to construct and maintain wires upon poles owned by any corporation or person upon obtaining the consent of such corpo- ration or person, and to operate such system fo the assistance of the fire and police departments of the City of Seattle.’ Why deny yourselves these advantages in order te perpetuate an existing monopoly? As the Instantaneous interests have gone into competition with the National District Telegraph C: pany at Spokane, why do they object to the National District Telegraph Company entering into competition with them in Seattle? They want to continue their present monopoly in Seattle. The Instantaneous Alarm Company fears competi- tion because their appliances are obsolete and unfit to : compete with the latest and best equipment used by the National District Telegraph Company.