The morning call., 1894-07-08
SETTLE THE DIFFERENCES.
Let Cool and DiSinterested Heads
Discuss 1t.
.RCHBIsHoP RIoRDAN SO SAYS.
Some Think 1t Will All Result iu a
National Standing Board of
Arbitration.

Arbitration is what the pulpits of this
city. and doubtless Of the whole country,
will call for to-day, where the pastors
touch upon the topic Of the hour
In interviews yesterday with THE CALL
Arch bishop Riordan, Vear-General Prem
dergast, Rev. T. II. Woodward of the
First Methodist Church. Rev. w. d.
Williams of the Plymoath Congregational
Church of this city aud several ministers
from out of town all struck the same key
note-the difficulty should be submitted to
TO board of arbitration equally agreeable
to each party, and the judgment sub
mitted to.
1T is not for me to sit 10 judgment in
this matter, the complex questions of law
which fix the right and wrong of it being
for those who have made it a study" said
Archbishop Riordan last evening.
ut is a matter that should be submitted
to arbitration, however, and not permitted
to run along in this wild fashion day after
day. The better judgment of both parties
should appeal to cool. disinterested heads
and bring the unhappy and costly strife to
an end"
Very Rev. Father Prendergast voiced
much the same sentiments in an interview
yesterday afternoon.
Rev. Il. II. Woodward of the First Meth
odiSt Church said: ut is hard to follow
the windings of this affair. The strikers,
l think, have materially weakened their
hold upon public sympathy By the fire.
quent shifting of their position. Originally
they took a stand against the Pullman
Company and refused to touch Pullman
cars, and in that everybody joined them.
Then the company said they would run
trains-perhaps certain trains-wthout
Pullman cars. The company had origin
ally made its blunder which brought the
whole force of public opinion against it,
and therefore turned it to the encourage
ment of the strikers by saying that they
would haul Pullmans or nothing. But
when they conceded this point the strik-
ers also receded and said they would haul
all trains or none. This was their mistake.
l think.
The strikers have certain rights, the
corporations have certain rights and the
great American people have certain rights,
and the great American people, while they
d
sert their rights in the end when en-
croached upon by either of the other two.
When the strikers commence to destroy
property they are going too far, they lose
sympathy and their greatest ally deserts
them-the great weight of public opinion.
After all there can be no settlement of
this controversy but by arbitration. And
l think we must come to the establishment
of a standing board of arbitration for the
settlement of such disputes, and also of
system of profit sharing, in which the
working man shall come nearer to getting
the value of his product. l believe these
great industrial upheaYals all lead in that
direction"
Rev. W. d. Williams of the Plymouth
Congregational Church had just returned
from his vacation, which, happily for him,
he had chosen to spend at the other end of
the DOnahue line.
"Ihey say we are on the verge Of revo-
lution," he said. eff so, we have been ~
preaching the verge for long time, but
am slow to believe that the outrages re-
ported to have been committed at Chicago
were the work of the strikers. If so, they
were the outer edge of the body-men who
were likely to gravitaJe toward lawless-
ness in any case. rather think, however,
it is the work of outsiders altogether.
Here the men have conducted themselves
with cOmmendable composure This mat
ter should be arbitrated and brought to a
peaceable conclusion. There never was
trouble yet l guess, where the wrong was
all on one side. 1t should be submitted to
the judgment of cool heads, and their
judgment abided by"
Rev Griffith Griffiths. pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Eureka, who
was in the city yesterday, said:
"Mr Pullmsn's men state as their griey-
ance that they are, collectively, some
$4,000 behind with their rents; that Pull
man is constantly reducing their wages,
and that when the men ask him to submit
the question between them to arbitration
he says there is nothing to arbitrate.
Now, if there was nothing to arbitrate
Mr.. Pullman would have lost nothing by
to their demand. He could
have very quickly made it clear to disin
terested judges that there was nothing to
other words, that he was do
ing the best he could by them. Now, as
&c the difficulty between the railroad COM
panies and their employees, to whom this
Pullman question has extended: Traffic,
the entire suspension Of which has para
lyZed business, may be carried on without
Pullmans. Therefore. it ought to be.
The companies say they have a contract
with the Pullman Company requiring
them to haul their cars; but if they can
show that they cannot carry them because
4 ba
not be morally responsible, however they
might be in law. This loss could hardly
De more than results from total suspen-
sion of their business. The thing is un-
fortunate. and it is doubtful if it can be
settled save by arbitration"
Rev. s. W. Simmons, pastor of Metbo-
dist church in YolO County, was in the
city yesterday because he cannot get out