Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-19
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1855.
A abstraction win a Difference.

Onr esteemed morning contemporary
the Times is OF late achieving great sue
cess in sort Of scattering shotgun dis
charge ON all questions OF public mo.
ment. In its plan whenever you see a
head hit it," it very frequently goes very
wide OF the mark, and its ludicrous
errors causes the iudicious to grieve. In
its remarks of yesterday concerning the
strike il indulges in the following extra
ordinary twaddle in its local columns,
while purporting to give the views OF
sAA Politician"
The strike is not Knights Of Labor
affair and not under the direction OF that
organization no matter what current re-
port may have said. Such reports hurt
the strikers and hurt the organization.
The X. of l.. has invited the men to join
and many of them have done SO and il
viii stay by these to the end, but it did
not bring the strike on.
III the matter is not settled when the
directors OF the road meet, then the work.
ing men will inaugurate strike that will
not end simply with the cable road, and
the affair will take on political phase.
We are 5000 strong in the city and il we
wish We can begin movement that will
elect labor ticket to the City Council
The franchise for this cable road was
given them by the people whom they are
now trying to grind down, and these
same people can take the franchise
away. We know that tue principal
stockholders in the road are Democrats
and this movement is a Democratic
movement. Should they not support
D7r. Jewett in his promise to hold the
wages at So they will find storm abou
their ears.
This politician" undoubtedly hangs
up his hat on peg in the Times Office
and OF all the later vagaries of tha
journal it is the most absurd.
In the first place, the Gable Company
between whom and its employees all the
tEoable has existed, is not in any sense 6
Democratic organization. The large
majority of its stock is held by Repub
licans, the control being owned by {
gentleman who represented this count,
as a Republican in the legislature o
California. The majority OF its directorl
Ao Iiftlft1Stl Ot lNtpuDllCduS.
OF the two Democratic directors, ths
Messrs. Hellman and Forman, neither
knew Of the order to reduce the wages O
the laborers on the Gable lines. Tha
order emanated by telegraph from Sar
Francisco, from the Republican Presi
dent of the corporation in interest, and i
was sought to be enforced by Mr.. Jewett
one OF the Republican directors. The
movement is credibly supposed to hav,
had its inception in q conspiracy OF
clique of Republican contractors, VIII,
have great deal of work on hand, ant
who desire to grind the face Of the work
ingman as an element of profit to them
selves in their prospective enterprises.
Democrats never meet and conspire TX
reduce the wages OF labor. Such au &C
would be foreign to their instincts aut
habits. Democrats devise to dignity la
1or and place it on plane in which i
shall be renumerative and independent
The attempt to reduce the wages OF thu
wOrkmen on the Gable roads was mad,
without The knowledge of Messrs. Hell
man and Forman, the two Democrats
directors of the corporationl When Mr.
l. W. Hellman, the President of th,
Farmers and Merchants Bank, heard o
it he at once denounced it, with the tru,
declaration that he never had been anC
never would be party to any plan to re
auee The wages OF the laborer.
Nice President Forman also at once
took the same stand, and he was sup
ported by the President of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank by the declaration
4hst he would be responsible for a con
tinuance OF the old rate of wages.
We are inclined to think that our read
ers will smile at this thinest and flimsies
Of political roorbacks. The workingmal
u not the fool the Times puts him up t,
be. He can tell q hawk from a hand
saw.