The morning call., 1894-07-07

scheme haQ proved suCceSSful. In Austria
liza private corporations were never per-
mitted to build either railroads, telephones
or telegraphs. They were all controlled
by Government.
The powers of the Government had
been more dictated to in the last six days
by the private railroad corporations than
the world had ever seen before. IF you
want an oligarchy, go on as you are doing,
and leave the con troll of our country to a
few multi-millionaires such as these!
The effect of continuation of these
things, the speaker thought, would lead to
an utter monopoly by private corpora
tions. Let the people stand for their
rights-demand protection. "The spirit
of strife will arise. not at the hands OF the
American Railway Union. not at the
| hands of the nation. but the time will
come. il things continue as now, when you
will need regular United States army to
watch every bridge. every tunnel in the
whole railroad system of America!'
These we're very serious charges to make
against the Government Had the Gov
ernment decided the one question of mail
service. the railroad strike would have
been at an end to-day, and on the other
hand the very railroad companies them
selves were on strike and in insurrection
against the Government in refusing to
carry the mails! The remainder Of the
orators speech was devoted to the sugges-
ton of the Presidential chair being filled
by Peoples party nominee.
You are not the equal Of other men!"
he said. "You are not the equal of Hunting
ton, Crocker, G 3uld or any suchi They can
control Congresses, Presidents and courts
But there is one day when You are the
equal of these men! That is election day.
That is the day when you can strike your
blow, your blow for liberty and freedom %
The speaker was heartily cheered.
Mr.. Gator was sent out to do the over
flow meeting outside. 1t was then adver-
tised that Professor Fred Bell would
address a meeting on Sunday next on
''The Railroad Question: The Way In and
the Way Out"
NJ. N. McGlynn then arose with the
difficult task of answering the question,
What right has one labor organization to
help another?" He said he supposed it
didn't matter what right they had so long
as they did it. But the legal status of the
case was this: The workingmau had no
right to aid any other workingman in any
strike or growl whatever. This speech
received in gloomy sience.] But with a
big b there was the right of property, OF
capital. ANY Infringement on that right
was a crime. Was there one law extant
preventing the abuse of human bodies in
America? There were modern slave
owners whose slaves were white. Such
oppression was crime.
How do you excuse strikes and boy
cotts?" was the question. The answer
was that the trades unions had refused to
adopt the code of modern ethics now
involved. They refused to welcome
national and commercial wealth at the
expense of the citizen. The fight of the
a. R. y. was a trades fight, for it was a
fight for liberty and freedom.
E. P. Fuhrman of the Federated Trades
was the next speaker. He said the present
struggle was one which, if lost. meant the
downfall of organized labor in Sau
Francisco Trades uniOnism." said the
speaker, sis all that stands to-day between
this nation and anarchy. Ii we fall and
are beaten now it will take years to get
over the blow. We shall meet you to-
morrow at our hall, 1853 Mission street,
and there we will state you our views ana
oar prospects!
But we want help to win this fight and
help we mean to have"
Secretary Chisholm then read the res0-
lutIons. They read as follows:
Be 1t resolved, By the citizens Of San Fran
cisco In mass-meeting assembled, this 6h day
Of July. 1894. that we extend our sympathy
and moral support to the American Railway
Union in its just struggle with oppressive aud
despOIic railway corporations; that the South
ern Pacific Railroad, by chamDoDng the cause
OF George NJ. Pullman and thereby refusing 10
operate Its lines, has shown that lt is opposed
to all the best interests OF the State Of Calfor-
mia; that 1t is The enemy of prosperity, the
champion of injustice and the usurper Of the
rights OF the people: and
RESOLVED, That the unlimited robbery of the
people by railway corporations by imposing
"all be traffic Will bear' upon producers aud
consumers in order TO pay dividends upon stock
watered many times, as we'll as the political
despotism practiced by such corporations in Or
der TO maintain their expressions. has brought
our country to a point where we are but
slaves of a corrupt oligarchy, and the
present strike is but another evidence
OF the absolute necessity for Government own
ersnlp and operation OF all railroads. We d.
nand the forecosure of the 6 Ovr rnment mort
gage upon the Central and Union Pacific rail-
ways and the operation Of said roads at cost
in the interest of the people, and that the Gov
ernment at the earliest day possible shall own
and operate all railway, telegraph aud tele-
phone lines.
ResoIUed. That labor has the undoubted right,
by unlimited combination. to resist an unjust
reduction OF wag S, and in such resistance IL
has the right 10 u.s. the entire combination of
labor in order to prevent the oppre ssion of a
single member Of its ranks in any place upon
the conceded moral and social rule that "an
injury 10 one Is the concern OF ALL" and to that
end the whole combination of labor may decline
to work until combinations Of capital have done
justice.
Resolved, That the exercise OF the power by a
court to Issue an injunction generally directe d
against all persons, forbiddlng men to use "per. {.
suasion'' to induce men not tO work for railway
corporations, as has been done by Justices OF
is a bold attempt 10 restrain freedom of speech
by injunction. 1t is an act of judicial despotism,
wholly in violation OF the constitution and laws,
unknown and uDheard of in any land pretending
TO constitutional liberty. 1t is an outrage no
Congress or Legislature dare attempt, aud calls
for the impeachment OF the Judges who are
attempting to uphold plutocratic rule by judi
cial despotlsm.
Resolved, That the Southern Pacific Railroad
in refusing to permit mail trains TO be moved,
although Its employees offer TO move the same
regularly where Pullman cars are not attached
is an utter repUdiation or their legal duties as
common carriers, in utter disregard Of their
duty 10 the people and an absolute defiance of
its duty to permit its roads o be used as postal
routes, which they are all decteed TO be by the