Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-07-01
A GREAT CONTEST.

ganized capital and organized labor
in this or any other country is now
being waged. The railroad compan-
les are arrayed on the one side and
the men who run the railroads on
the other. The boycott declared by
the American Railway Union against
the Pullmans have involved all the
railroads in the United St,tes, Can
ada and Mexico on which Pullman
cars are run for the accommodation
of the public. All roads running in
to the principal cities from the Allie
ghanies to the Pacific Ocean are
tied up.
In California everything is at a
s.andstill. This might have been
averted by slight concessions on the
part of the railroad managers aud
employees. The men had no griev-
ance against the railroad companies.
Their fight was with Pullman, and if
the roads had decided to run mail,
passenger and freight trains until
the Pullman trouble was settled,
there would, of course, be no inter
ruption and no inconvenience to the
public, except that caused to travel
ers who preferred Pullman's to ordi-
nary coaches and had money to pay
for their choice. The railroad COM
pany decided to run no trains unless
Pullmans were attached as usual,
and the men refused to make up or
handle Pullmans. Both tho company
and the employees had right t. do
what they did, but G. p, Hunting
ton, President of the Southern Pa
citic, ordered the men who refused
to handle Pullman cars discharged.
That he had right to do this will
not be disputed, but when the brake
men who refused to handle the cars
were discharged their associates in
the Union refused to work and all
travel on the lines of the Southern
Pacific Company ceased.
So far neither the railroad company
nor the members of the Union have
violated the law, though it must be
admitted that the company could
have run mail, passenger and freight
trains if it desired t. do SO. Now if
the company can get mel t. take me
places of the strikers its right to do
50 cannot be questioned, but the mo-
ment it succeeds in doing SO the
strike is q failure.
Very many who have been OPP
posed to government ownership OF
railroads are changing their opinions.
Curing the Industrial crusade United
States Marshals and United States
troops were called into requlsltlon to
prevent violence on several roads
Now a general strike which stops all
communication DER the great rail-
roads is now on. The Superinten-
dent of the Railway Mail Service
warned the President of the Ameri
can Railway Union that if mail trains
are intsrfered with the Government
will be compelled to proceed agains
the strikers, He was assured tina
the Union had no desire to interfere
in any way with the mails, Now tn
Superintendent of the Mail Service
to be just and impartial should In
form the railroad companies that un
less they forward the mails the Gov
eminent will proceed against tn
roads. If the Union men will Pandl
mail trains there is no excuse for nc
running them, and the Government
should see that they are dispatched
In this contest between organized Ia
Dor and organized capital the Unite
States Government should act impair
TALLY, and see that the malt trair
are dispatched so long as the roae
are in running order and men al
willing t. run the trains. j ourna