The morning call., 1894-07-04
FRONT AND BATTERY.


front of their offices all day Yesterday. as
they had done for three or four days past.
No business save little local trade was
being transacted. Clerks were idle and
draymen looked moulniully at their
sleepy horses, which they knew must still
be led and bedded, no matter how little or
how much trade was in progress. Then
when the news Of the turbulence at Oak
land was noised along the street, lassi-
tude apparently gave way to something
akin to alarm, and everybody began to
discuss the situation. The following are
some of the opinions expressed briefly by
various merchants:
J. A, Drinkhouse q Co.. cigars, 223 Bat
.tery-Personally we incline to sympa-
.thize with the strikers, but not with the
extent TO which they are now carrying
things.
L0ewe Bros, wholesale liquors, 217 Bat
tery-We deplore violence of any kind,
but want to see the workmen have their
rights.
:. Coblentz, Pike & Co., wholesale liquors,
213 Battery-We might as well keep cIoseu
for all the business we are doing, ana the
Fourth of July might as well be extendeu
-unln the close of the strike. Inc olfn-
Guilty should be compromised at once IN
some way.
.. R. Smith & Co., ship chambers, 21i Bat
tery-Our sympathies stand with the WORK
ing people, but change must be effected
some way. II the strikers resort 10 vio-
leDce. however, they will lose their fight.
The mails should be put through at all
hazards.
;. Secretary Samuel Heyman of the Harry
JTuna Wood and Willow Ware Company,
iI3 Iattery-I think strikes are wrong in
90 any case If men want to quit work let
them do it without molesting employers
property. In this case the men should
have given notice before quitting so that
people en- route on trains could have
reached their homes.
= J. NJ. Kutz & Co., shoes. 107 Battery
We think the strike is uncalled for. Un-
less 1t is checked within a fewIdsys we will
. have to close down our factory and turn
out seventy-fve men and women. We do
plore acts of violence. The difficulties
should be arbitrated.
DinkelsDiel & Co., dry goods, corner of
Pine and Battery streets-We do not know
where the wrong comes from. We cannot
lay it to Pullman or to the Southern
Pacific. But they are both wrong, as the
strikers are wrong. They both check the
business of the country.
Heyneman, commission, 50 Battery
street-Do not care to express opinion.
Did so in the Chinese matter over the
: woolen-mills and suffered in consequence.
P. Berwin, halter, likewise did not care
to express opinion. Merely shook his
head and said, ut is terrible. terrible"
Easton s. Schwarz, tea and mating
The railroads should run the mailcars,
with OF without PullmaDs, but we want o
mob law from the strikers.
Wertheimer & Co., cigars and tobacco.
~ 13 and 10 Battery street-We deprecate all
violence. Wish the parties in the struggle
would arbitrate. That is the olly way to
- adjust any difficulty. All matters should
be subject to it.
" A. & Z. Well Company. fancy goods, II
Battery streot-We should like to see the
matter settled by arbitration. 1t should
b6 done by the respective States without
Government interference.
Porter Slessinger & Co., shoes, and
8 Battery-We are with the Board of Trade
in the desire to bring the matter to arbitra-
ton imm edistely.
Hoffman, Alexander & Co., clothes. 2
and Battery-We cannot give a decided
opinion. but we know that we are greatly
injured. We are puzzled as to which side
is wrong or which is right. The mail
should not be stopped by either of them.
Seller Bros, stoves, 112 Battery-Ws do
not know where to stand. We want to
see the workingmen get their rights, but
they should not discommode the whole
nation for it. Besides, the railroad has
rights. too. The question is who shall be
compelled to carry the mails, the strikers
or the railroads? One OF the other must
be forced.
Jules Cert, cutlery, 10 Battery, without
hesitation pronounced the strike an out
rage. a boycott is a crime, and there
should be law against it.
Main & Winchester, harness and sad
dIery-We are not parties to the affair !;
but without doubt our sympathies are
with the railroad this time. If men want
to quit work they must not interfere with
employers property. The railroad, by its
contract, has to carry Pullman cars. That
is no concern Of the employees. The rail-
road must win. or there is no telling how
soon every business in the country may
be subjected to a similar outrage.
UOOu, Oldy o. OU.s commission ana
produce-Our sympathies are With the
railroad. The men nave done wrong to
leave cars stranded in mid-journey. 1t
appears TO US that they were in reason
bound to carry them through to their des-
tinations.
Along Front street the same Inactivity
prevailed as on Battery until news of the
rioting in Oakland and Sacramento was
made public.
Schultz & Sons, liquor-dealers of 523
Front. thought the strike had lasted far
longer than necessary already. 1t ought
to be an impossible thing for any cOmbina-
tion of men to accomplish such check of
BUSINESS as the American Railway Union
has brought about. The end must come
soon.
w. G. Price. commission. 427 Front-The
men have some right. but so also has the
railroad. The merits of the case are not
easy TO determine. ] had hoped our State
would escape this difficulty. but now that
1t has come we can merely wait for de-
veloDments TO determine what the end
shall be.
KoWslsky q Co., provisions, 317 Front
Now. that fighting has commenced, the
end cannot be far away, and the result
must turn out as it should-in favor of
the greater public, the Government at
large. Whatever the merits in the Pull
man matter, the strikers ran claim mn