The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-15

Waggorer began work a. Boulevard IN
June. 1891. - trackisyer at s. day, was
promoted, TO use Mr.. Adams word. TO
be laborer, az the same wages. again 10
&c car cleaner, a. the same wages: has &C
ceptea the same cuts and terms as the
others until on March the cut 10 81 day
vas made. Then he quit, as promotion
was going in the wrong direction. TO again
use ~. Adams language, and the next
step would have brought him 10 the poor
house or Jail.
Mr.. Dahls,rom's case. summed Up. is as
follows: Has family and home. IS cit
izen and voter: began work as wiper March
:. 1898, at $50 per month: wages cut IN
July 10 s45; in November he began work
as coal HEAVIER at 81 per day. lifting an ave-
rage of 1900 pounds OF coal four feet
every day. exerting the equivalent OF eight
and two-thirds horse power. Proving able
to handle the coal in tive hours, he was re-
quircd TO wipe engines the other half OF
the night, receiving Tx cents extra Tor
five hours Of this work. lie quit because
on March he was required to do all the
work described for 81 a day. Mr.. Adams
then went on:
Now. gentlemen. the railroad compa-
MES have refused TO hear grievance COM
mi.tees. Their Hobbies refuse 10 allow our
legislatures TO enact laws TO protect US
from their avarice. The doors OF their
courts are locked against US; only the po-
lice court welcomes Us.
"The strike has become obsolete. The
iaborers' boycott has become boomerang.
We cannot flee TO the land and build
homes The railroads have that and they
forbid trespassing. We must be wage
workers. Must We be also wage slaves!
In our extremity we have come To you.
Do you deny that We are brothers; that
the mechanic has claims upon your Let
Us see.
Mr.. Adams proceeded to tell how, to
meet the demands of commerce. hobart
Fulton, the mechanic, made the steam
boat. and Peter Cooper the locomotive,
others the telegraph and telephone; lie
tod it in graphic language. too. Then
he recalled that God had commanded
man to work six days week that he
might live independent Of other men, but
Mr.. Hill came between and said 1T de-
pended whether they would work. for
dollar a day. He referred to rumors that
il the men appealed to the chamber they
would never be re-emploved, and alluded
to statements OF workmen that the mission
would be futile but said Mr.. Bogardus had
requested MIN 10 Hlahc the appeal. uen
he concluded by saying that notwith-
standing these unfavorable opinions. he
had unshaken faith in their sense of just
ice He had failed to ind any merchant
or shipper paying less than 81 day. and
though their business might be suffering.
like Jim Hills. their faces showed they
were not slave makers. He left the case in
their hands.
In the discussion which followed, Mr..
Adams was asked what wages were paid
the same class OF workmen on the North
ern Pacific and he said they were as fol-
lows: Car ioremen. s.. So per day; car in
spectors. $2.25; car repairmen, 81; car
cleaners. Pullman. 81, car cleaners, North
ern Pacific and Lake Shore. SLIGO; labor
ers. SLIGO.
DR.. f. c. Kiibourne presented a resolu-
ton in favor of the proposed compromise
between the Columbia IL Puget Sound and
Northern Pacific railroads and the prop
erty owners on the water front in regard
to the rams horn right-of-way, urging
the railroad companies to accep. It.