Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
Nothing to Do with It.

The statement that was telesraphed
TO all parts ut the country that the
Central Pacific railroad company had
aCceded 10 the demands OF the tmeri-
can RAILWAY Union, and abandoned
the use OF Pullman cars, has caused
the President oi that company To tell
what lie knows about the matter,
which shows to what desperate straits
the strikers are driven TO for support
of their waning cause He SAYS:
There's not a word of truth in that
story. The Central Pacific has never
used Pullman cars. 1t has always
owned and operated the slcepers run
over its roads. They are made at
Dayton, o., and Pullman has nothing
to do with them. Another thing the
public should know is that the Pull
man company is not suffering from
the present boycott. This is season
OF year when the Pullman sleepers do
very light business. In fact they
are operated 1T a loss during the sum.
mer. The boycott was made at the
wrong time to AFFECT Mr.. Pullman. No
doubt it suits him very we'll just now.
He's actually saving money by it.
Everybody who understands the situa-
ton must see that the strike is mon
strous folly. All talk about arbitra.
ton OF the matter here is idle. This
is only one point of a vast field OF dis
turbance. The center is at Chicago.
It's there that settlement must be
made ii anywhere. The Central Pa
citic has nothing to arbitrate. 1t is
prevented by the strike from running
its trains and all because Of a quarrel
with which the company has nothing
to do, between a manufacturing con.
Germ in Illinois and its employees.
That manufacturing company is an
entirely different corporation from the
Pullman company that operates sleep.
ing cars. Another thing to remember
is that the Southern Pacific is but one
Of the large number of railroad sys.
TENS affected by the strike. The fact
il that all the talk about Pullman
cars is mere pretense. The strike had
been incubating for months. The
trouble in the town OF Pullman was
seized upon Is a pretext to enable the
American Railway Union to show
what it could do in the way of tying
up things. This strike is mere mid
summer madness and must soon sub
side. Unfortunately it is inhicting
loss and inconvenience on millions of
innocent people. The responsibility
should be laid where it belongs and
not upon the railroads, which have
always been and remain ready to move
all their trains in the usual and regular
way"
Mr.. Huntington further said:
"Our Oldest employees give us very
little trouble. The whole trouble il
created by new element and many
not in our employ at all, men who are
out of work and who have drifted into
California, so to speak, from the silver
States. These men naturally gravi-
tate toward larger trade centers, and
too many are found in the ranks of
the disorderly. The company has
been interfered with by the unlawful
stoppage of its trains, and it has been
compelled to lay off a large number of
its employees whom it would be glad to
restore, not only for the company's
sake, but for the mems ALSO"
Replying to questions as to whether
there was a probability of a speedy
termination of the strike, Mr.. Hunt
ington said:
THAT is difficult question to an
swer. / suppose no railroad has any
intention of yielding to the demands
of the mob. as probably large major
ity OF the surging and lawless masses
that are now destroying property in
Chicago and other places are not now
and never he'd been railroad employees,
and to yield to them would be almost
an invitation for them to create dis.
turbances."