Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — A Labor War On at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

A Labor War On at Lafayette.

A “walking delegate’’ of the labor unions has made life a burden for the Lafayette merchants by organizing all the clerks and then demanding that the employers do all the work and the clerks be given all the profits. In fact, dictating' to the merchants just how they shall run their business. The latter refused to accede to the demands pf their employes and a strike is *

the result. How or when it will end remains to be seen. The strike started in the Loeb & Hene store, the largest in the city, and sixty clerks went out. They are operating their store now with imported non-union help and declare they will close their store for good before they will submit to what they consider the unreasonable demands of the striking clerks.