St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-30

ping the rights or the people by Secur-
ing franchises. The people, he said.
should do their level best to make
settlement, and to make it in way that
they would be proud Of Aside from
this he declared that much might be
said in behalf of the employees. but the
substance of the matter, as far as unions
are concerned, is that the employees of
the company must be either all union
men or none at all. Ii Mr.. Lowry
should not submit to reason, he would
lind In time that he was OyerpOwered,
as this is fight of all the union men
against the course pursued.
Patrick Geraghty made an excellent
speech from union standpoint. He
characterized the fight as one between
capital and labor pure and simple. The
night is on moral grounds, and not on
the line of destroying life or property.
de appealed to the working people to
not ride on the cars until a conference
was granted by the company. That he
said, is all the street car men ask.
j. j. Ryder was called from the audi
ence, and made a speech in which he
advised the trades and labor assembly
to organize bus lines and the people to
ride in the buses and not on the cars
during the tendency of the struggle.
Col. j. II. Davidson had been called
for during the early part of the meet
ing, but declined to speak then because
Of a lack of information. He went to
the stage at this point and made short
speech. He complimanted the audi
ence on its demeanor and excellent
component parts, and spoke of the for
bearance the street car men have shown
in the trouble. 1t seemed strange to
him that Mr.. Lowry had so persistently
refused to confer on the matter. lie
c. of faIn nf hn nj
is responsible for giving the cities such
excellent car service, and that they are
the men fitted for the positions and
ought to have them.
William Rodger said he has seen
many strikes in this country and Eu-
rope and watched the contests between
capital and labor. He knew that there
are great wrongs in the street car Serv-
ice and it is hard to believe the COM
pany would not right them. The rights
given to the company by the city coun-
Gil, he said, had been too liberal i'll that
proper reservations were not made.
James Morrow, in speaking, SAID il
never had been the intention of the
street car union to strike, and the state
mentS i'll the papers that such was the
intention before the lockout were wrong.
lie declared the time is at hand when
the tide of sympathy is with the street
car men. Three times an effort had
been made for a conference with the
company and as often refused. Mayor
Wright had gone to Mr.. Lowry and
asked for conference. So had others
and lastly very prominent citizen. In
his view the men had been very for
bearing. A Judge of the district court
of this city had asked MIR. Lowry to
grant conference, but he was refused.
1t was wonder 10 the speak
er that man of the edu-
cation of Mr.. Lowry should
think he can disrupt labor unions. He
asked why churches and other bodies
are organized if it is not right to do so?
Mr.. Morrow expressed a hope that Mr..
Lowry would repent and recognize that
he is in the wrong, and for the future
will encourage labor organizations. The
fraternal and beneficiary features of
labor organizations were mentioned to
show how they take care of the poor,
the sick and the needy.
TWO PAPERS DENOUNCED.
The following resolutions were then
read by Mr.. Morrow. and on motion of
some one in the audience were adopted,
not voice dissenting:
Whereas, A movement has been inau-
gurated in this city by Thomas Lowry
to prevent respectable citizens and tax
payers from earning an honest living;
by depriying the wage-earners of their
rights as American citizens to organize
Whereas, The said Thorn
as Lowry has been granted
the exclusive franchise, by the
representatives of the citizens of the
city of st. Paul, of occupying the streets
of our fair city for the purpose of oper-
ating system of street railway trans
portatiOn; and
Whereas. Said Thomas Lowry, after
having received the exclusive franchise,
has at all times abused the privileges
granted to him, and has often failed
and emphatically refused to carry
out the provisions of his franchise,
always pleading poverty when requested
by the city council to make the neceS-
Sary changes and improvements de-
manded by the growth of the city and
the requirements of its citizens, but has
never hesitated to spend thousands OF
dollars in carrying out his tyrannical
methods of oppression and abuse of his
employees anu organized labor in par
ticular; and
Whereas, He has been assisted
in his nefarious actions by the
Pioneer Press and Dispatch of this city,
by diStorting the true facts of the situa-
ton and publishing false and misiead-
Ing statements, making it appear to the
general public that a strike had been
ordered by the street railway mems
union, when, in reality, the men were
locked out by order of the COM
pany: besides. these papers are edito-
rally and otherwise doing everything
WITHIN their power to strengthen the
position of the company in the eyes of
the Dublic. therefore he if
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
st. Paul, in mass meeting assembled,
do hereby denounce the attitude of the
Pioneer Press and Dispatch as I'M
worthy the patronage and support of
true American citizens.
Resolved, further, That we condemn
this last outrageous act of Thomas
Lowry as being continuation of his
weil-known hostile policy towards the
commercial interests of ST. Paul.
Resolved, further, That we request
that a special meeting of the common
council be called for the purpose of
compelling Thomas Lowry to live up to
the provisions of his franchise, or that
the same be revoked.
A man in the audience then moved
that a conference be demanded of Mr..
Lowry through the trades and labor as
Sembly, and the motion was adopted
with great eclat.
Some one then asked If the Pioneer
Press and Dispatch could not be pro-
ceeded against for libel. A hundred
voices shouted, Boycott them! Boy
colt the Pioneer Press and Dispatchp'
The meeting then disbanded IN
reluctant way.
Immediately after the meeting the
officials of the trades of labor assembly
held brief meeting and appointed a
committee to confer with MI. Lowry,
and it will go to Minneapolis today and
seek conference, and report to a meet
ing to be held tonight at Labor hall.