Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-23
THE STRIKE PRACTICALLY
BROKEN.

IT is now beyond the region OF
reasonable doubt that the strike of
the street car men has rollaprei.
While the strikers were being en-.
c0uagei, by those who pretended to
be itheir friends, TO hold out and
success would lie achieved. We have
stated the other view. To us the
step was an ill-1dyised one, because
the conditions rendered defeat in.
evitable. We are satisfied that some
Of those who We're the lou1est in
their exhortatiOns 10 the men to
come out aud hold out had no more
Idea that the effort would be sue
cessfJl than we had. What the
agilatOrs wanted was for the men
to remain out until their places wenr
filled. This advice has been taken.
and now a large number OF m.n are
thrown cut Unemployment.
In view OF this self-evident state
Of Affairs ''the fciloEihy petition
which Is being circulated 10y the
strikers and their .frieHdsr Quoting
the Ii erAl oryml Is MT aha;
might, at this late Tate, b. regarde,I
rs premature:
we, the citizen. Of salt Lake City.
wh0 are in favor Of equal justice TO all
men, hereby appeal TO the City Rail
way Company for justice only 10 their
employees, and we think this would be
accomplished by the said company
arbitraiing this question with a com
miuee OF their employees, and il they
still persist in their rolnSsi, then we
would appoint the following named
committee OF disin;erested citizens to
take up the matter Of difference be-
tween the company and their en-
ployes, and hereby request them 10
serve:
Hon. George n. ssp:t. Gsbrss Ar
bogast, Esq, Fred Ausrbich, SImuel
Ewing, NJ. X. EFIus. Hon. Hiram
johnson, II. l. 4. Calmer."
Ii looks on its face rs IL the friends
aud not the strikers md prepared
the document a Il contains two
propositions. First, that the COM
pany confer with 4 committee com
posed Of their employees. Second, in
case the company declines 10 trea.
with the men, that 1.-THE following
COMMITTEES, =" etc. take up the matter.
Now, would it no: have been
much better to have tried one prom
Osition at time, before even stating
another? Perhaps, however, If an
settlement had been reach
ed between the company aud their
employees on the first proposition
without stating the second, an op-
portunity would not have been az
forded to people not in the contest to
figure before the public as frie.icls Of
the workingmen. 1t does notappear
TO be necessary for a committee
composed Of members Of as'Liberal''
Central Committee and others not
interested in this matter
TO appear in 1t. We believe the men
have brains aud business tact enough,
if let alone by political manipula-
tors, to manage this difficulty them
selves. The company has stated
that they have been ready to treat
with their late employees, but only
In that capacity aud no other. An
outside interference was not wanted.
Speaking Of the strike aud its in
evitable result, We would ask why
sGcn men as +. NJ. Byron, a chronic
Liberal" stumper. should have any
weight with them? While spread
lag himself in one OF his fiery
speeches, calling upon the strikers
10 stanl by their manhood and main
tain their position, he should have
sppsad cut the palms Of his horny