St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-04
MANY IDLE MEN.
The Street Railway Can Find
Room for Only Few of the

The Street Railway Can Find
Room for Only a Few of the
Strikers.
Manager Scott, of the street railway
company, looked happier yesterday than
he has done for some time. A burden
was lifted off his shoulders Thursday
night, but the worry and annoyance of
the past three weeks does not seem to
have told upon him very much.
Everything is quiet" he said. 9Th e
company just stood pat. We made no
concessions of any sort. and the men re-
turn to work on our terms. Between
forty and fifty have been taken back up
to this afternoon. We are not dis
charging anybody to make room for the
old men, but are simply taking any we
have room for. We have not presented
what you call the IrOn-clad agreement to
In reply to question as to whether it
would he presented, Mr.. Scott said: g.
can't say anything about that yet. All
l have to say is we made no conces-
siOnS, and the men are being taken back
OH our terms. 1t was only question of
time. They could not remain idle many
weeks without starving, and things will
60 along now just as they did before the
strike.''
Labor headquarters were deserted
yesterday. and 10 one could be found
who could say anything about the status
of affairs beyond the mere fact that the
strike was over and they had nothing to
say. Meanwhile the cars ran with
many of the old drivers in their old. po-
sitions. The BUSES continued to ran
at intervals on few lines, but the ma
jOrity of them were returned to the
owners. A little short of $500 was net
. ted on the buses during the strike,
after paying for the horses, rigs, sal
aries and feed, so that it was demen-
strated that money could be made by
a company running first-clasS bus
service in the city.
At labor headquarters last evening a
meeting was held to make final arrange
ments for the sale of tickets to the bali
to be given next Friday for the benefit
of the strikers. James Burns was
found and asked for an expression of
opinion on the situation. WELL" said
he, 1.-The street car drivers have de-
clared the strike off, but no other labor
organizations have taken any action.
You may remember that they all passed
resolutions pledging themselves to
walk rather than patronize the cars.
This resolution has not been reScinded
yet, and it is not likely that any men,
berS of labor organizations will ride on
the cars while non-union drivers are
being employed. want you to under
stand that it was the car drivers them
selves who declared the strike off, and
nobody else has taken any action. AS
they have seen fit to declare the strike
off, our duties as their executive COM
mittee have ceased. 1t now only re-
mains to be seen whether the company
will carry out its agreement.
1t led us to believe that room
would be made for about two-thirds of
the men. and that the non-uniou agree
ment would not be put in force so far
as the OLD hands were concerned. A
great deal depended Oh whether it
keeps to this agreement or not. l wish
you would correct the statements made
in some of the papers that we are max
ing money out of this affair. The only
man among us who Is paid anything is
Mr.: Cronin, and he simply gets his reg
ular salary as secretary of the order.
Mr.. COughlin and myself have lost
time and money helping the men to
fight their battle. 1t really did not
affect us materially, except that it was
blow at organized labor, and organ
lied labor determined to help the men
fight it out. If we had not helped
them, the strike would have petered
out in two or three days, as most of
them were unorganiZed, and they
could never have stood out"