The record-union., 1894-07-03
THE ISSUE SQUARELY STATED.
PACIFIC OFFICIALS DE-
FINE THEIR POSITION.
Why the Company VIII Not Run
Trains without Pull
man Cars.
Special to the REcoRD-UxroS.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
SAN Francisco, July 2. The position
of the Southern Pacific Company, which
may be accepted as the position OF all
other railroads. parties to the existing
controversy, is formulated by the officers
of the Southern Pacific Company, as
follows:
A difficulty arose between the Pullman
Car Company and the men employed by it.
That difficulty did notrelate to the opera
ton of railroads nor to the rate of wages
to railroad operatives, nor to the hours OF
labor, nor yet to any other matter or
thing between the railway managers and
railway operators.
AS a means of coercing the Pullman
Car Company to conceding the scale OF
wages and the hours of labor demanded
by its employees, the American Railway
Union demanded that the Pullman car
service used by the railways of the coun-
try should be discontinued.
The railways answered that the cars
used in many cases were rented and in
others owned by the railways, but that in
no case were the railways parties to a
| controversy between the Pullman Car
Company and its men. That to .concede
the demand would be concession estab-
fishing the principle that the use OF
! locomotives, the product of manufac-
turers having difficulty with their en-
ployes, would be denied, and thus the use
of the locomotives of any manufacturer
! in the United States would be at the con-
slant risk of arupture between the factory
| producing them and the men employed
| therein. That the policy was analogous
to one that would demand that, in case a
foundry had strike, the railroads should
not carry iron or coal to that foundry, or
carry away the machinery manufactured
by the foundry.
The railways contend that the under
lying principle sought to be established
is that railways having harmonious re-
lations with their employees shall have
that relation disturbed in consequence
of trouble in establishments over which
they have no control, and in the settle
ment of disputes to which they are not
parties.
The Southern Pacific Company claims
to have operated its lines thirty years
without a strike on the part of its en-
ployes, and that this harmonious relation
has grown up through policy of regard
for the rights of its employees. Itdeclares
that if it comedies the demand made by
the American Railway Union it will have
no inducement to treat its mployes well,
because that treatment would not be a
guarantee for the continuation of har-
monious relations.
1t claims that in this instance the hos
tility to the Pullman cars is an incident,
and that no matter what the merit may
be of the controversy between the Pull
man Car Company and the men employed
therein, the case would not be different as
related to locomotive works or cars man
ufactured in other shops; and thatth de-
mand made by the American Railway
Union, that the Southern Pacific Com
pany shall become party to quarrel
between Pullman and his employees, is
unreasonable, unjust and untenable, and
will not be conceded.
The company comedies that it could run
| trains without Pullman cars, but to make
that concession would invite further
aggression and would concede away the
principle involved in the controversy.
1t therefore intends, regardless of conse-
quences, to stand by the principle that its
relation with its employees shall be de-
termined solely by agreement between
itself and the men employed by it; and
while it stands ready to redress any
grievance growing out of it's own con-
duct, it will not be party to the redress
of grievances growing out of the conduct
of Eastern manufacturers of cars, loco
motives or other rolling stock. The
Southern Pacific Company claims to be
making the fight of The whole community
in the position it has taken. 1t claims
| that concession to the demand now made
will make The arrest of transportation or
mail weapon in the settlement of every
ontroversyarising in every manufactory
of the country. Thus every citizen inter
ested in the movement of freight will be
an unwilling party to every controversy.
The issue, as formulated by the South
ern Pacific Company, is as follows: Shall
! the entire inland commerce OF the United
States be arrested in the settlement of
labor disputes in car factories, locomotive
works, steel-rail works and foundries
doing business with railroads, or shall
such difficulties be settled by parties
Immediately interested III their de-
! termination?
RIGHT TO THE POINT.
senator Davis of Minnesota Speaks
Very Plainly.
WASHINGTON. J uly 2.-Senator Davis
of Minnesota to-day replied as follows to
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