St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-29
Street CAR STRIKE.
Another Manifesto From the
Late Employees.
CLAIM UNFAIR ADVANTAGE
Because Locked Out Without
Arbitration.
MANY ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.
Owing to the Work Of Men
New to the Business.
MANY ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.
HUNDREDS APPLY FOR work.

A great number of the street car en-
ployes congregated about labor head
quarters all day and up to late hour at
night. Numbers from Minneapolis also
called during the day. Last night a
number of the st. Paul men went to
Minneapolis to attend meeting there.
The men were quiet, except that they
talked among themselves behind closed
doors, or in groups in the adjacent
rooms and halls. The officers of the
union were about the headquarters
most of the day, and last night gave out
the following address to the public:
The street car men feel that their
side OF the controversy has not been
properly nor fairly presented to the
public by Mr.. Lowry and his associate
officers of the company, and therefore
make the following statement: The
street car employees are not trained
lawyers or politicians, like Mr.. Lowry.
We are not verSed in that diplomacy
which enables persons to present
their cause as that gentleman has.
Had we known that our correspondence
would be used by the company as a
Justification for lockout that had
long been contemplated, we would have
been careful to have presented our
grievances so that our fellow citizens
would correctly understand them.
'Our communications, which Mr..
Lowry so eagerly gave to the public in
connection with his own, was intended
TO be considered and construed in con-
nectiOn with other verbal cOmmunica-
tions made to the company.
10 those who do not believe that la
Dor is entitled to the same consideration
that is given TO capital, this explanation
will not be deemed unimpOrtant. Those
who believe that the employe is en-
titled to some consideration and fair
hearing, as well as the employer, will
recognize the force of this.
The cities of st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis are today suffering from the great in
convenience and injustice of the street
car service. that is so inadequate as to
be disgraceful. The people are more
particularly and directly interested in
knowing who is responsible for this
great wrong to them.
'We wish to say that, although we
have had ample reasons for striking,
we did not cause the present condition
of things. The company is alone re-
sponsible for the condition. Although
we said we would not longer submit
to certain grievances after Sunday,
Oct. %, we did not dos so.
and the dishonesty OF the state
ment that the company did not
propose to wait for the threatening
STRIKE is exposed by the fact that they
ordered the lockout four days after
Oct. %. This shows that the company
had dete rmined to crush our union re-
CARELESS of the rights of the public.
Like Vanderbilt, Mr.. Lowry has, in
effect, said. The public be DID,
''RecogniZiDg that strike should not
then take place, we did all in our power
to avoid it. Before declaring strike
we had withdrawn all our demands and
offered to arbtrate all differences, and
abide by the result. AS usual with such
corporations, our offer was spurred with
a sheer, and a strike invited; knowing
that life and limb would be imperiled
upon four-fifthS of the few trains that
could be operated by incompetent men.
Space is too limited to print full
statement of our grounds of complaint
but briefly. Ever since the formation
of the union the company has been
doing all in its power to destroy it by
substituting non-union men. The con-
ductors have been robbed by being COM
PEELED to pay for shortages that never
existed when they turned in the money.
We are prepared to prove all this, and
challenge the company to give US an
oppor tunity to do so.
ID. ID. BRYANT, President.
j. w. MCLAUGHLIN, Secretar y.