The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-08-03
Treat Them Like Men.

Underlying the question of wages IN
volyed in the recent railroad strikes, says
the Pittsburgh Post, is the question OF the
treatment of employees as human beings, ,
having some rights to courtesy, and some
sense of their own manhood The Tact has
cropped out in all the manifestations around
here that the petty tyrany of railroad OF
ficials had quite rs much to do with the dis
satisfaction eliminating in the strike as
the question of fair days pay for fair
DAVIS work Mr.. Arthur, the head II the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. III
n letter to the New York Hcratd, says
"Instead of underwriting to cultivate
friendly feeling between themselves and
their employees. some of the railroad officials
repel them by their naughty, overbearing
and arbitrary conduct, and arouse feel-
ing of hostility Of which the recent out
breaks are the fruits This may be put
ting it a little too strong, but the antics oi
men welding little brief authority were
a contributing cause. We can think of no
class of men to whom the public should
feel equally grateful as the train employees.
Millions of people, we might say, have been
carried into and out Of Pittsburgh during
the past year. and an accident by careless
ness of EN- ployes by which a passenger lost
life or limb can hardly be recalled. Yet
what Slight inattentiOn on their part
would throw whole families into mourning.
In every hour of he twenty four, and every
minute of the hour, these men ever have
been on the alert-capable, sober and
wat ctful of the lives of the vast mnitltudes
under their care. OF what other pursuit
can the same be said to the same extent.
Their is no avocation in which men deserve
more liberal wages or more courteous treat
ment. Everybody knows the best work is
willing work, with no sense of injustice or
humiliation ranking in the breast. The
UerdId, in a leading article, has these
sound views on the treatment OF railroad
! employees
A railroad is great and, complicated ma
chine, but it is "A blundcr in him who manages
! il if he considers the men who help him to work
It only machines also. They are men, human
{ hopes with tempers more or less good: they
( are CHARGED with serious responsibilities, ana
. no man who travels much ty rail but must often
have been struck with the tiightful risks re
would on Journey of several hundred
miles if a great NUN her of men. working at all
/ hours and i'm all wcathers, and mostly under
/ disagTeeaLle circumstances, were not absolute,
: management would treat the men thus en-
I played in a friendly, considerate anu Christian
! sIlirit: would show constant and sincere inter
( est in their welfare: would study out and bring
| into use expcdiCnts to better the condition Of
! their families. and in these ways would
deator to form a corps Of 10y al, interested, con
4 tent ted wOrkmeH. 1t any man says ms Is IN
H nossihIa we rep!v frankly that he is untit to
have charge OF great and permanent enter
/ stous and which h;rs thcreforp not TO provide
[ for the one contingency which emburra-scsthe
manufacturer or mill owner, who may be COM
| nHi!cd hy hard times to cisniss his men IT any
man says that such policy would not win toe
men he does not know workingncn.
THE SITUATION OF THE ROADS OF THE
. PENNsYLvANIA CoMPANY.-TO Mr.. Cath
cart Taylor, the Pittsburgh correspondent
Of the Philadelphia Times, Nit. A, j. Cas-
satt, Sd Wee President Of the PcnnSylva-
Ma Railroad, made the following summing
up of the situation viewed fion the Gem
pauy's standpoint early on Tuesday morn
ing last:
''The Company has fully resumed all its husi-
! ness and has fairly gotten down TO regular
work. The men are ali coming in promptly.
ev, engrrly, and signitg .he paper Request ing
the Company {" put 'ht..H {" work. To sho"
you th" changed condition "i affairs au iuci-
dent which occurred this morning may be re-
lated. las FRIDAY week. whch tue s'ribc pc
gan here, Committee oI 1--we strikers waited
on Mr.. Pitcairn and myself. and jnsoicntly de-
manded thar the Company should return 10 the
old wages the dcubl.-hriders lie discontinued
and ali strikers taken back without question: ::
cuusidc .ed 10y u~' Now this morning TWO Of
tins very C3mnittee sent !u TO Us hnG we sup
posed thcS hhd come 20 renew 'htlr "Hrrs IN 4
less arrogant form. but when they appeared
and humbly asked whether tney would be per
mitted t. go To Work. ihey were simply retv "a
o the di-I'atchrr's oifcC to report. The Fort
rcce wing ana transmit tHg freight over mat
road at this end. The Indiana portion of the
road is still clOgged, tn" Governor having re-
fused the Company the assistans4 OF tl.e troops
referring the matter to the civil authorities,
as both ends of the line ar" now nt work thts
stoppagc will be or very short duration. Yoa
solutelr no strike on any of the 5000 miles OF
road controlled by the PennsS wanna Railroad
Company The men have come without any
conditions: they simply resumed; How TO
/ deal with those who have been prominent in
troops whatever have been used on trains, and
I an Immense qUautIty OF freight uH6 live stock
has hcen nIsivca. AS tn reminding our works
/ i'm Pittsburgh we begin to-mOrruw morning.
putting up on the found ttion OF the old Juiou
with all its necessary roctnS FOR the work OF
the Company and cIuvcni nee of ls>engers.
ed this morning that the project OF removing
/ the Centennial building here should he uban-
|
| y THREE-YEAR-OLD HEROINE.-A re-
! rnaIkable feat was performed by the little
three -year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Smith, of Pelican, Mimi, and niece
of Mr.. and Mrs. 5. VI. Woodworth, of Au-
dubon. While Mrs. Wood worth was ON a
visit to her sister one night, Mrs. Smith
was taken alarmincly IL. Mr.. Smith was
away from home at the time, and no one
near the house TO render assistance save
Mrs. Wood worth and the child. Mrs
WoodwOrth could not leave, so she called
little Angie and asked her to go to the
house of neighbor, threc-quarters of a
mile distant, aud summon assistance. The
child did directed in an Incredibly short
space of time, and upon her return with
the neighbor il was found necessary to sum
mon physician. 1t was nov nearly dark
aud storm brewing yet this brave little
heroine again took the road and went to
the nearest ucighbor's house. a distance of
one and fourth miles in the opposite di-
rection from her first trip, where she found
a man To go for IA physician. Ere her re-
turn to her home the storm had so increas-
ed as to render her progress very slow, and
the vivid and consl ant lightning might well
have stricken terror into the heart OF many
an older pedestrian f; yet this three year-oid
child bravely and faithfully performed her
mission and returned i'll safety.-Aud,t6on
Journal.
The n. Y. World notes the fact that
: BiSloD Eerfpnt of the Pro, esfopt t E,,iecn