The record-union., 1894-07-13
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
The Strike and the Boycott Condi-
tons.
The Press Criticises the Action of
the Boycotters and the
Strikers.
ITacoma Ledger.l

The war on Pullman is already SO small
a part of the controversy as TO De no
longer worth considering. Ihe war is
now waged against the public at large.
Everybody is affected by 1t. Even the
families OF those who are making 1t are
endangered by it. 1t is even doubtful If
Pullman is not the least affected OF all
who are compelled to suffer. The boy
colt is a horrible failure, because OF Its
ruinous consequences to all except those
at whom it is aimed.
BOTH NECESSARY.
WaIla Walla Union.l
Labor and capital are both necessary to
the welfare of the country; each thrlVes
on the other, and more so when they ex-
ist in harmony. This ill-advised strike
only tends TO widen the breach and make
their relations the more inimical.
WHAT WE NEED.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
What we need is more patriotic instruc-
tions in our schools that tends to suppress
all tendencies that have for their object
the supplanting OF American ideas In the
foreign-born and breed anarchism.
The railway hands have no part or share
in the controversy, and have suffered no
injury, and the railway companies and
the travelling public have no share IN the
profits of the Pullman Company, or
way Union therefore deserves neither
sympathy nor countenance. and it has no
right to use its organization against the
public or the railroads, inhicting loss
upon both.
WHY PUSH?
IVisalia Delta
Why should one element push and
the other resist? Why should 250,000
men strike to aid 1000? The 100000
might become 00,000. The 1000 might
dwindle to 200 or 20. The justice OF the
case would be the same. Would it look
reasonable for 900 men to strike and
do injury to 65,000,00 people in order
to benefit 20 of our fellow citizens?
SENsELEss BOYCOTT.
Seattle Intelligencer.l
There never was more senseless boy
cott in the country than that of the
American Railway Union against the
Pullman Car Company. The Pullman
Car Company is manufacturing COM
pany and really has no relation to the
American Railway Union. 70 stop the
trains of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company because the manufacturing
company does not pay satisfactory wages
to its employees is wholly unjustlflable.
This boycott is sure to fail. The railroad
companies have contracts with the Pull
man Car Company which they cannot
throw off and they must fight this stupid
and unjustihable boycott to the death.
Furthermore public opinion Will never
sustain such boycott. Ultimately all
men except the Immediate contestants
will join in putting down the boycotters
and bringing to punishment those who
stop trains OF cars upon the movement of
which depends the support and comfort
OF the whole community.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
fPuyaiIup Commerce.
There is the town of Edison, where the
n. z. shops furnished hundreds of men
with steady work and good support for
their families. The company was strain
ing points to keep The men at work; the
men, although having no grievance OF
their own, poked their fingers into the
Pullman pie and struck. What for? o,
nothing, only to cripple their best friend,
the n. z. Company. And now the COM
pany proposes to keep the shops Shut
down for months, and before the war is
over the men will keenly realize who are
their real friends.
A MINORITY RULES.
Oakland Enquirer.1
1t is idle to say that the authorities have
wantonly provoked trouble and have as
saulted strikers without cause. Such
statement is both foolish and untrue, and
everybody knows it. In general the au-
thorities have exhibited great forbear-
ance. and have manifested much reluct-
ance to taking extreme measures. They
have used persuasion when sterner meas
ures would have been justified. While
the great majority of the strikers have
behaved admirably, some of them have
not and it is this small minority who
have caused the calling out of the troops
and display OF the armed forces of
order.