St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-12
THE STRIKERS MEET
And Talk Over the Situation with
Their Friends.

IneIF FRIENDS.
The executive committee of the union
met at the Labor Temple last evening
to formulate plan of action, to be pre-
sented to an open meeting of the street
railway and motor men. While the ex-
ecutive committee was in session in an
anteroom the rest of the strikers were
in attendance at the eight-hOur meeting,
in an adjoining room. where several
speakers made addresses on the subject
nearest the hearts of the men, in
which they were advised to steer
clear of all newspaper reporters,
and refer any newspaper man who
approached them to the regular
press committee of the union. The
eight-hour meeting was over before the
executive committee had finished its
labors. The hall was cleared and then
two street car men stationed them
selves at the door. and ushered the men
known to be reliable" and ''all right
into the hall one at time, after care
fully inspecting each one, in order that
no one who was at all liable to give
away anything to any outsider might
get in. 1t was II o'clock when
the executive committee finished
its labOrs. AS soon as the eXecu-
tive committee came in the meeting
was called to order. The committee re-
ported that it had carefully looked over
the contract entered into between the
street car company and the union year
ago May 13. This contract ran for one
year and was signed by c. w. Goodrich
for the company, and Simon McNulty,
R. W. Johnson, William Beauford,
Michael Nulty and w. L. Ryan for the
union. In this contract it was asked by
the union and agreed to by the company
that: First. the company pay the
street car drivers and conductors 16
cents an hour for the first three
months and II cents per hour after that.
Second-That motor conductors should
receive IL cents per hour for the first
three months and 81 cents per hour after
that.
Third-That there should be a stated
price for pull-outs from each stable as
follows: Nineteenth avenue. going
north, 25 cents; same, going south, 25
cents; Broadway, % cents; Monroe, 25
cents; University, 25 cents; Minnehaha
to Sixth avenue, 45 cents; Cedar to
Third avenue, 45 cents; Eighth avenue,
% cents: Fourth avenue, 25 cents; Win
dom, 25 cents.
Thlrd-That conductors and drivers
shall be passed over their own lines
free.
Fourth-That when an employe is ex-
cused for one or more days he shall not
be obliged to report until the time for
which he was excused has expired.
Fifth-That an emplOye who has
worked for the company six months OF
more and wants week or ten days off,
or in case of sickness, shall not lose his
place or go on the extra list when he re-
turns.
SiXth-That an employe reported for
violating any of the rules shall have
fair and impartial hearing.
Seventh-That the company shall put
closets at the end of each line, where
the city does not object to the same.
Eighth-To post all special notices or
orders on the bulletin boards at the
stables, so that they be properly signed
before being recognized by the en-
plOyes as being in force.
Ninth-To sell the regulation caps to
the employees at cost.
Tenth-To erase all black marks
against the employees at least once each
year.
Eleventh-That conductors be allowed
to stand inside the cars when approach
ing the end of the lines when there are
no passengers in the cars, and in cold
weather when it does not interfere with
ment to decide when it does interfere
with his duties.
Twelfth-To give full pay to all en-
ployes who have been such for three
months past.
Thirteenth-To so arrange the time
cards that each emplOye shall have as
near as possible ten and One-half hours
work inside of thirteen hours. This
alone applies to the motor conductors
Fourteenth-Thisa agreement shall be
binding on the company and on the
employees for one year from date.
This document was discussed in the
meeting at some length, and number
of speeches were made tending to show
that the company had violated nearly
every article of it. After long and
exceedingly animated discussion as TO
what course it was best to take ii was
decided that it was the sense of the
meeting that the street car men who did
not wish to cause the general public
any unnecessary annoyance by having
the street cars and motor trains stopped
for any length of time were perfectly
willing to leave the whole matter of the
strike to a committee of five disinter-
ested persons to arbitrate, 1t was
also decided that the men would
agree to stand by the result of the arbi-
trati0n, no matter how it turned out.
This we are perfectly willing TO do,''
said one of the leading men. ''as we
feel sure that our position will be sus-
tanned. we are not on the aggressive:
we have been forced into this by the
company, which was discharging the
old men every day in lots of four and
five. 1t was death for us if we did not
strike, so we went out simply as mat
ter of self preservation,