The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-17


representative Of capital to WELD dom
ineering saw over his employees is an
object Lesson we'll illustrated, what cap
ital will aud can do when once in power
to dissolve and rupture labor unions.
What redress or prospect have the
street car employees in gaining the strike
when they have to encounter the stub
born and unswerving determination OF
this company Does not its menaclng
attitude to labor unions in other parts
OF the country show very perceptibly
that its full intent and purpose Is to
annihilato the labor organization OF its
employees here us well us in other
places? The only peNceable and sensi'
BILE redress the employees can resort to
is to have public meetings during their
strike, and hear addresses appealing to
the sympathy and support oil the pub
lie to maintain them in their fight for
Justice and American fairness against
oppression,
recommending the trouble to be brought
before the Council, is not as commend
able as first supposed, as the meetings
OF Council are few and far between, IA
that body is composed OF large num-
Der OF conservative fathers who are
sticklers on triiling points. The strik-
ers should not content themselves in
nursing the delusion that Council will
act Immediately on the Wheeling Rail-
way Company in regard to its fran
chise; and it il not probable that Man.
ager Jolly will retract his declared and
positive intention orreverse his former
decision as his ultimatum, as to how
the strikers will get reinstated in their
former positions.
The managers declared decision as to
how those men will got back, is as fol-
lows:
~ the undersigned, hereby make APP
plication as motorman or conductor on
your line, and il given such position
will agree to conform to all the rules
and regulations OF the company now in
force or hereafter put in force"
What concessions or fair treatment
could be expected from an employer
that says his employees shall conform to
rules and regulations that are TO be
hereafter put in forceP What unscru.
pulous exaction this is on American
citizens could it BIO any more stringent
or severe ii they were convicts in the
state penitentiary? II is vicious and
un-American method OF dealing with
employees, and demands the condemna-
tion OF every wage-worker and tuX-pay-
ing citizen Of Wheeling
Men who glory in the freedom OF our
institutions, in fairness and justice
should lend q helping hand to defeat
the tyranny and oppression OF this for
eign corporation and scourger OF tho
oppressed and downtrodden in its
vicious and nefarious scheme to exter-
inmate labor unions, The public press
in scathing terms condemns anarchy,
socialism, riots and violation oil law and
order. There must be some cause for
those disturbing elements breaking out
as lrebrands in the land, But the
cause is never given to the public by
the press, but the acts committed are
heralded over tho world. Is not the
avaricious greed for wealth, the oppres-
sion OF the poor and tho inhuman dis
regard capital has for labor that causes
anarchy, riots and violation OF law and
order? Does not such demands OF
tyranny as Jolly's imperial ukase have
an invigorating influence to enlist peo-
pie TO do and say certain things that
that they would not previously counie-
nance?
There was no violation OF law and
order by the Street Car Union or their
friends in this city until the venomous
spirit OF the railway company showed
its teeth. There were no bloody riots
or murder at Homestead before tyrant
Frick issued his proclamation notifying
his employees OF reduction in their
wages and forbidding them to belong to
or be members OF the Amalgamated AS
sociation OF lronworkers. There is no
anarchy and disruption OF law and
order where employers act with true
Christian charity, justice and fairness
with their employees. American work.
ingmen are all peaceable and law.abid-
ing when dealt with in a spirit OF justice
and moderation. And whenever they
depart from this line of action and be-
come anarchists and riotous mobs, the
lault will not BIO theirs, but must be
placed where it properly belongs, at the
door OF capitalists and employers.
The public is doing admirably in not
patronizing the cars to any extent since
the strike took place; and if the striking
employees would station themselves
along the line OF the company's tracks
and resort to moral suasion with the
citizens and quell the rowdyism OF the
boys, the company and its management
will soon get tired OF airing their black
sheep and cars over their lines without
profit. LOCAL UNION A. L. OF L., $685.
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