The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-25
THE STRIKE.

The news that the great railroad
strike is breaking up and that the
transportation business Of the
United States can be resumed, will
be hailed gladly by all friends Of
law and order. The disOrderly
movement which has cost millions
of money and destroyed a num-
Der OF lives, was not properly a
strike at all. but q boycott. The
Pullman workers had a perfect
right to strike if they were dissatis-
fed with their wages. When, how
ever, they induced railroad en-
plovees all over the United States
TO assist them in an effort to coerce
the Pullman Company by destroy
ing the property of innocent per-
sons and visited thousands with
ruin, they did a thing which was
without any color of right. The
boycott has not injured Mr.. Pull
man in the least, but it has caused
unreasonable loss, and in many
cases ruin. TO the farmers Of Cali
fornia and 10 producers and ship
pers all over the Union. The action
of the boycotters has been in prin-
ciple exactly the same as that OF
the bomb-thrower. The bomb
thrower does not pick out the
guilty and blow them up. He des-
troys the innocent. with the inten-
ton of terrorizing society and thus
frightening his enemies into grant
ing him what he considers his
rights. So the boycotter says, 'If
you will not give me what want,
will injure the business and des-
troy the property of everybody"
Such methods as have prevailed
in the United States during the
past weeks cannot possibly ad-
vance the cause of the laboring
man. They will simply hasten
conservative reaction
The following editorial in the
Outlook contains an admirable
statement OF what We conceive TO
be the truth abou: the strike. Il
should te thoroughly diges;ed.
The Outlook. be It remembered. Is
q journal very friendly 70 working
men.
The issue i lot whether the Pull
man Car Company ought 20 have sub
united 10 arbitration the question
what wages il should pay % its en-
ployeeS- II i whether the American
Railway Union shall determine when.
under what conditions. on what rail-
roads, and in what sort 81 ears the
people OF the United States may
travel. The Pullman Car Company
decided that they could not afford 10
nav the former rate OF wages u their
EMPLOYEES. Their employees decided
that they would nor work for less.
Thereupon the Pullman Car Com
many decided that II would cease
work for the present For this aVowed
reason. ana Tor no OluSE. the ALACE-
lean Railway Union, au organization
OF switchmen, brahemen, hremen.
and few engineers and conductors,
has decided that no railroad shall
carry any Pullman car on Its trains
until the Pullman Car Company r.
opens its works and re-empIoys lis
workmen. We repeat that the issue
now l. not between the Pullman Gar
Company and its employees; L i
not even between the great railroads
and their employees; IL ! between
the American Railway Union and the
American people
The issue has only 70 Dc stated in
another form 10 De perfectly clear.
suppose the railroad employees had
asked Congress 70 pass > law pFonlclr-
ing sill use OF Pullman cars on Inter s
STATE Commerce lines until the Pull (
man Car Company r@opeued Us
works and re-emplOyed its worAmen;
with what derisiou would the prOpo-
sition have been received But what
they would have then attempted 10
DO 6y lawful means they are no" al