St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

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| bear upon the non-union men, and one
of the members of the union offered to
refund, at the end of three months, all
| he had in to any man who would join
| the union if at that time he repented of
| it, At the close of the meeting a num-
Der of new applications for membership
were received, and the assembly went
into executive session. From the num-
Der of applications for membership, the
Indications are that the union will be
so greatly strengthened as to insure the
enforcement of higher scale of wages.
STRIKERS In HIGH GLEE.
They Claim There Will Be
Another Strike on Wednesday,
Supt. Scott Has No Fears.
The late employees of the street rail
wa company say that the strike is by
no means over. The new men taken
! on by the company are to be reduced on
| proposed by the company to its old
| hands. The strikers claim that the
new men will not accept this reduction,
as they did not come here to work for
any S1.50 a day. Should this be the
case, and the new men strike also, the
company will be in quandary. That
is where the fun will commence, say
the strikers. Supt. Scott said last night
| that so far as he knew. the men were
satisfied to accept the schedule, and
| he anticipated no trouble. The strik-
ers, ON the Other. hand, are jubilant
over the probability of the success of
| the strike through the very men who
are being used as instruments for its
| defeat. They are confident that the
men will quit work, and quote many of
! them as saying SO. In the meantime
the strikers hold out. They say that
not one of their number has gone back
| to work, and none have expressed a
desire to do so. None have applied to
| the company for work. None have
sought other jobs. Only one has left
the city, and he was going anyway,
even if the strike had not occurred.
| return under any circumstances even if
| the strike were declared Off by the Dis
trict Assembly K. of L. Many of
them say they would not even
| return to work at the old
wages. They are quite content to wait
! for developments. and do not propose
| to seek other employment yet awhile.
| Apparently they are confident of win
ming the strike and in few weeks re-
! turning to work for the car company at
| higher wages. One thing they say. is
! thdls oupDoolHS tiiCy looo tie StIlhe, til6
| street car company Will never have
| such efficient service or such trust
| worthy employees as it has had, and the
feeling of large class of people is so
strongly in their fal OF that they can
never make the lines pay.
! The strikers held a short session yes
T terday afternoon, in which it was deter
mined to stand finn. Money is not
lacking, and the calls for it are few, so
that the position of the strikers, ac-
| cordlng to their own accounts. is good
| The executive committee held short
| meeting last night, at which a few
| business matters were discussed. After
! the meeting a number of the men
| gathered in the room discussing the
| bus question. The scheme announced
in yesterdays GLGBE as having been
| projected at the meeting of the real
estate board, Saturday, of starting a
| joint Stock company TO run buses in
| st. Paul, was freely discussed and met
with the hearty Endorsement of all
present. Said one of the men, Not only
will we be glad to get positions as
| drivers, but number of us, and still
| to take small blocks of stock in the
company" Another man said: Il will
| put 5000 into it myself" The general
impression seemed to be that there
| We're many friends of the strikers in the
| city who would gladly put their money
| into such scheme: not exactly out of
| sympathy, as men do not go down into
| their pockets on that account. but that
| such company would pay we'll there
| was no doubt, and it was thought that
| many would be disposed to invest in it
| just now who might otherwise not care
I TO go in. One of the members of the
executive committee said: Half the
| stock ia such a company could be sold
inside OF forty -eight hours to friends of
| the strikers in small amounts varying
| from $50 to $3.50. 1t is great scheme,
and if the right men take hold of it will
be patraniZed by every laboring man in
the city" They were all anxious for
more information on the subject, say
ing they would watch the papers
closely for Developments, and as soon
the company was ready it would find
strong assistance from them and their
friends. There will be no difficulty in
getting all the drivers and barnmen
they need, as the strikers will willingly
take the jobs. and, according to the
statements of the street car company'S
officials, they are steady, compent set
of men, we'll calculated to fill the posi-
tons. This is no wildcat scheme but is
| backed by some of the heavieStreal estate
men liz the city. and developments. are,
expected inside the next few days. S.
+. Cronin was talking over the situation
last evening. Said he: "The strike is
not over yet by any means. We shall
get out second edition on the 1st of
May. and don't you forget it. Those
| new drivers are not going to work for
S1.50 day. That is not what they
came here for, and mark my words,
they will strike almost to man when
they get the reduction. We shall win
this strike as sure as fate, and if this
bus line gets started at once it will
leave the Street-car company so
badly in the soup that they
will not know they are run
ming cars, except when pay day
comes around. But the new company
should get started right away, inside of
the next few days, if possible; we can
sell their stock for them, and every
labor organization in the city will sup
port them"
4 meeting was held over on the West
side last night, at which MeSsrs. Peter
son, Reach and Phil Corcoran made
speeches i'll the same tone as formerly.
Mr.. Corcoran'S speech was RATHER, and
fine oratOrical effort. He did not deal
in abuse. but went to the root of the
matter, the outstanding and fast-widen-
ing separation of capital and labor. Mr..
keach's remarks were amusing, and
served to keep the crowd in a good
humor.
James White asks the GLOBE to cor
rect an error made by several papers in
reporting speech of his recently, in
which he pitched into the Northwest
ern Chronicle, paper supposed to be
published in the Interests of Irish
Catholics, for taking sides against the
eIr.il- DIR of u,,,n, ca;I
to be Irish Catholics. Several papers
L.a "a cfnfO nn1nf hot