The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-07-14

that rents are exorDitzDt ana tAas tn~
Pullman employees have no choice out 20
eubrnit. the answer is simple. The aver
age rent ct Pullman Is at the rate o. ~ Per
room per month. and the renting OF houses
a. Pal.uan has no relation 20 the work IN
the .h,us. Employees may. and very many
40 own or rent their houses outside OF
fown. and the buildings and bus
fuess places In the town are
rented 70 the employees or others
in competition 9th neignooring plopelss
ties. In short the renting business OF
the puElrnzn company IL governed by the
same conditions which govern any otneF
large owner OF real estate, except that the
company itself does some things which IN
Chicago are assumed By the city IL,
therefore is il not admitted that the rents
Of ang landlord are 20 DC liked ~ afoilsa -
ton and that those Of the al loin - as ns
Of Kensington and Roselsnd snousd atso
Be fixed. i can hardly be asked that me
Pullman company alone should abandon
the ordinary rules which govern persons
IN that relation
ssstrenuous Efforts have also been made
to create a prejudice against the Puilman
Company hy charges that its Stock = hs cav
sIy wateysd The Pullman Company was
organized twentv-seyen years ago Win
capita of 81. $4,000. OF when two-ahlras
represented the appraised value OF rs cars
then held by three owners. ana one-sosIn
represented the appraised value OF us
franchises and existing contracts Inc
company has grown unit ITS sieeping car
system covers III, GO miles OF railway, or
afont three-fourths OF the railway systems
in the country. and that increase OF service
has necessitated increase Of its eaplfai
from time 20 time until IL was nov w.
0f0, COO Every share Of this increase mas
been offered to the stockholders and sosa
10 them or 10 others in the ordinary course
OF business at not less than par, SO Lhas ios
every share OF increase outstanding the
company has received sioo IN cash. lhefe
are over go 90 stockholders OF tue com
ranv Of which more than one-haf are
women and trustees of estates, and the
average holding Of each stockholders now
eighty-six shares, one-nfth Oh them hoie-
Ing moro than six shares each.
the council reas sembled about o'clock
and the committee presented Tor adoption
an address to the public. President
Gompers read il impressiyeiy. Afser ar
guments for and against it. the address
was formally adopted Is follows:
"The great industrial upheaval now
agstating the country has been carefully
calmly and fully considered In confer
ence OF the executive council OF the Amer
lean Railway UHion and the executive
officers and representatives OF the national
and international unions and broth
erhoods of railway unions called
TO NEE. in the city OF Chicago
on the 18th day OF July, 1854 In
the light of all the evidence obtainable,
and in view OF the complications nov de-
veloping In the situation, We are forced 10
the conclusion that the best interests OF
the unions affiliated with the American
Federation Of Labor demand that they re-
fraln from participating in any general or
k~Sf oh trk ha
nectfon with the present railroad troubles.
In making this declaration We do
not wish it 10 be understood that
We are In any way antagonistic
10 the labor organizations now struggling,
but rather that the present contest has
become surrounded and oeset with COM
piications so grave In their nature that We
cannot consistently advise a course which
would but add TO the general confusion.
The public press. ever alive TO the interest
of corporate wealth, has, with few
exceptions, 80 maliciously misrepresented
the strikers that ia the public mind the
working classes are now srrayed IN open
hostility TO Federal authority. That is a
position that we do not wish TO be in, nor
will We occupy IL without a protest. By
INTERPRETATION and duplicity certain
corporations assume that they stand for
law and order, and that those opposing
them represent lawlessness aud anarchy.
We protest against the assumption as we
protest against the inference that because
a certain individual or a certain class en-
Joy q monopoly in particular lines of trade
or commerce IL necessarily follows that
they are entitled TO a monopoly in yalty
and good citizenship.
while we may not have the power 10
order strike OF the working people OF
our country. we are fully aware that a
Recommendation from this conference TO
them 10 lay down their tools of labor will
largely influence the members of our
clating the responsibility resting
upon us and the duty We
owe TO all, we declare II To be the sense OF
tins conference that general strike ut this
time is unwise and contrary TO the best in.
terests OF the workingmen. We further
recommend that all connected with the
American Federation of Labor now out
work. aud those who contemplate going
out on sympathetic strikes are advised &c
remain at their usual ayocations
s'In the strike of the American Railway
Union We recognize an impuisiye. vigor-
Gus protest against the gathering, grow.
ing forces OF plutoeratic power and eorpor.
alton rule. Ia the sympathetic effort OF
that order to help the Pullman employee,
they have demonstrated the shallow
shams OF puilman's paradise. Mr.. Pull
man, in his persistent repulses o.
arbitration aud in his heartlesS. autocratis
treatment of his employees, had proved
himself a public enemy. The heart O.
labor everywhere throbs responsibility {,
the manly purposes aud sturdy struggled
OF the American Railway Union in Their
sndeavor 70 redress the wrongs OF IN,
Pullman employees.
The address then states that the railroas
corporations have an utter disregard 20
law, and that they have given the creates
impetus TO anarchy and lAwlessness.
also refers to the display of armed force n
the request Of the ''moneysd autocraey,
and continues.
''Wonid IL not be worse than folly {,
cali men out on general or local strike il
these days 81 stagnaat trade and com
meFclal depression No; rather ie
us organize more generally. cOmhin
more closely with our forces. edu
cate and prepare ourselves 10 Trotec
ear interests. and then we may 40 TO IA
ballot box aud cas-. cur votes as America
freemen. united aud determined TO redeem
this country ffom Us present political an
industrial. rule and 10 take it from th
hands OF plusoerats.
A resolution was adopted condemnt n
the Republican aud Democratic parlis
and plsdging support to the Popallsts
The conference adjourned at 80 thi
evening. The position Of President Deb.
OF the American Railway Union. vas IN
dorsed and Leo voted fer hts defense Il
the coming trial. The executive coano
o; seven will hold a nnal session &
morrow.
The Building Trades Council, 81 ca
cage which deferred action until its regu
lar meeting tonight. after voting wit