The morning call., 1894-07-04

IHelT wages very IOuG. IueSe eAlRtucloS
will force negotiations within reasonable
| time.
J. Koenig. boots and shoes-I approve
of the action of The Southern Pacific road.
The dietatorial policy followed by the
strikers is standing menace TO trade.
and the interference with the United
States mails called for immediate Federal
action. I believe, however. the strikers
had grievances. and the only way to recon-
cile differences is the appointment OF
Government board of arbitration.
j. Samuels, dry goods-It is a most pre-
posterous strike. The Government ought
to have interviewed at the first when the
mails were DELAYED ! will say, however,
| think Mr.. Pullman's action in provoking
| his workmen Ill advised He ought not
to have taken such chances after the hard
ships that had been so general. 1t ap-
| pears absurd, Notwithstanding, that the
union shall dictate to any employer as to
what he shall or shall not do. l believe in
organized labor, but not in one-man
power. Ii strike was debated fully in
the unions and decided upon by the mass
OF laboring men, strikes would be few,
but the power reposed in one man of dis
organizing the trade of the country is
wrong and bound to breed trouble.
Roos Bros, wholesale and retail
clothiers-The question involved in the
strike is complex in character, and have
| nothing to say, so far, on its merits. be-
| lieve, however, that capital and labor is
going to settle the constantly recurring
point of difference once for all. The hold
! ing back of the mails has been without
excuse, and In this, at least, the Southern
| Pacific cannot be justified.
7. Rosenthal. boot and shoe dealer
The question Is now before the Merchants
Retail Association, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Board of Trade and con-
SeQueEtly | do not care to pledge myself to
any opinion one way or the other. | think
| it is an unthankful return for the 100000
expended by the city last winter to aid
the working class that they now turn
round at such a particularly bad time and
injure the trade of the city and State.
H. c. Ahlers, jeweler-Arbitration In
labor disputes ought to be compulsory.
Contract or no contract the detention of
the mails has been inexcusable. On the
merits of the case. which have become so
obscure, l have nothing to say whatever.
Newman & Levinson. dry-goods mer-
the strike beyond venturing the opinion
that some way ought to have been devised
to forward the United States mails.
Sherman & Clay, music-dealers-1 hope
these strikers will be taught a lesson.
| Locally they went out without any griev-
ance. and as to the point of issue at Pull
man it doesn't concern Us here. The
mails have to be carried under the South
ern Pacific contract on regularly made-up
trains and the company could not profit
ably carry the mail any other way. 1t is a
barefaced business proposition and the
railroad company are right this time.
! S. II. Collins. jeweler-Tbe principle
contended for by the strikers may be right
but the fight has been carried too far.
| The innocent are suffering for the guilty
and that is always wrong. As for the de-
| livery of the mail, it is common for the
Australian steamer to walt, at heavy ex-
pense, for twenty-four hours in order to
carry the English mall So far as possible
no obstacle is permitted to stop the Royal
Mail, and why should anything that is
humanity removable be permitted to OBJ
struct the United States mail. 1t ought
TO have teen forwarded on train made
mp without Pullmans, and if the Southern
Pacific contract is such as to justify the
action that has been taken then it ought to
| be changed.
c. q. Hahn, gents furnishings-I have
no opinion to offer as to the merits of the
case. / will say this, however, that this
>trke of all others shows the necessity of
the Government owning the railroads and
telegraph lines. fancy the strikers are
right in quitting work and the Southern
Pacific is right in pushing business in its
own way.
| Micha litschke Brothers. wholesale tobac-
conists-I have nothing to say regarding
| the matter. The strike is causing a stag
nation in trade in the city and running the
ranchers, but who is right and wrong l
don't exactly know.
! Globe Clothing Company-The strikers
were most certainly justified in refusing
to handle Pullman cars, and the Southern
| Pacific simply complicated the issue in
order to try and enlist the support of the
public. Whatever the contention may be
| between the strikers and the railroad it is
certain the latter have not gone out of
their way to save single patron from dis
comfort or actual ruin.
Wolf & Frank. gents furnshings-I be-
lievs in the organization of labor as we'll
as of capital, but the difficulty is that
when a fight is inaugurated no one can
foretell what misery may ensue. Justice
as an abstract quantity is being outraged
| by both parties, anu the only way of
solving these difficulties is by Govern
ment arbitration commission. There is
| just as much need for such commission
| as there is for q board of railroad COM
missioners The Southern Pacific has
! held by the rigid letter of their mail con-
tract, In order to use as lever the
Government. which has come to its aid.
B. Friedlander, merchant tailor-The
balance-sheet of the Pullman works and
the personal act of the millionaire pro-
prietor have removed him outside the
| lines of public sympathy. While the
strikers are undoubtedly right in their
| fight the difficulty Is that the innoc are
suffering instead of the guilty. AS for the
| Southern Pacific road, its action has again
illustrated the proverb that Corporation
has no conscience"
J. Mcdonnell. chemist know that the
laboring class is too often ground down
to point where they obtain only bare
! subsistence. When mems minds become
inflamed. however, they are apt to forget
the principle they are fighting for. While
| favor the cause of the strikers do n OF
uphold them when they terroriZe other
men from selling their labor as they
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