The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-02-17
STATEMENT FROM THE UNION.
They Blame the Company and Indulge ii
Considerable InvGctive.

NOubluNEUulD AhNtbltGs
To he public:
Tho Street Car Union has conceded
TO the railway company propositions
that were fair and reasonable, tending
to reach an amicablc settlement. But,
Notwithstanding all efforts on their
side, the company has spurned all at
tcmpts at reconciliation with the most
extraordinary degree OF cool contempt
and intolerance known TO the labor
unions in the Ohio valley The over
bearing insolence and naughty dispose
ton OF this foreign corporation to as
sumo tho arrogant and absolute power
to annihilate the Street Car Union is an
act so unblushlngly bra2en and dicta.
torjal that it demands the attention OF
every fair-minded citizen Of Wheeling
and vicinity to resent it by refusing to
patroui2e tho cars or pass one word OF
sympathy in its favor. The exclusive
privilege given this corporation over
the principal streets OF our city is no
more appreciated than II tEey were sole
owncra OF our fair city.
After getting the franchise over our
streets they wero granted tho privilege
OF tearing up those streets ono year
ngo, IRON one end OF the city to the
other, and they have lett those streets
in such condition that IL is hard for the
taxpayer to distinguish whether it was
men or hogs that gave them the last
finishing touch. The condition OF tho
streets in the Sixth and Eighth wards
Is so deplorable and obnoxious to the
citizen who takes an interest in well
paved and clean streets that with muir.
mHrs Of regret and condemnation to.
ward the board OF public works and
CITY Council that granted such privi-
legos to this overboaring and foreign
corporation eXClaims against the du.
pliclty OF tho company and the utter
disregard Of tho board Of public works
and the duty impressed on them, in
their failure to have tho streets put in
tho same condition they were in before
being torn up by the privileged com.
pahy, When this corporatod body dis.
regards It's obligations to tho guardians
oil I he city In placing our streets In rs
good condition as thoy found them, is it
any wonder that thoy would insist on
Their employees to accept tho iron.clad
oath or agrcCmont, to bind themselves
down by their signatures to GgrcO 10 tho
rules the company dictates that may
hereafter DO put In forCc2
Now, will tho citizens Of Wheeling
anu vicinity give their approval to the
manager OF this company in his un.
American and tyrannical act TO search
tho blue Law" OF old England for his
IRON clad agreement banded down by
tho leudal tyrnnts and oppressors OF
lNbor in the hiiecuth and sixteenth cen
turies, and impose II upon his employees
IN thlscnllghlencd AGO OF the nineteenth
century who arc all American citizens
ana taxpayersP Is tho public prepared
10 condemn the spirit aud manhood OF
American wage.workors when they will
not obey in humble submission tho
dictates of this oxacting aud arrogant
representative Of foreign Capilal2
should think notl America properly
belongs to Americans, aud II would be
inconsistent and unboco ming indeed
under tho freedom OF tho grandost rOy-
eminent on earth TO censurO American
wage'workors when they resist attempts
TO mako slaves and soris out OF thCn-