The morning call., 1894-07-04
KEARNY STREET AND GRANT
AVENUE.

Pierson Br os., booksellers and station
ers-To my mind the striking workmen
had at Pullman very real grievance,
and if ORGANIZED labor in its manifold
ramifications hits US hard in California,
individually am losing in business so
many dollars per day in order that just
principle be established. l make the
sacrifice willingly.
Raphael Bros, wholesale and retail
clothiers-I think the Chamber of Com
merce and Board of Trade could by
united action, bring pressure to bear so
that. so far as California is concerned. the
paralyZation of trade might be relieved.
In its inception the strike was Gndoubt-
edly just one, but the Southern Pacific,
in com mon with other lines of road, have
complicated and obscured the issue. 1t is
something terrible to think of the losses to
the farmer and the rancher by reason of
the stoppage of traffic, and all because
trains will not be sent out without Pull
man attached. As for the mails, their de-
tentlon has been inexcusable. They ought
to have been forwarded. even if the mail
car had to be pulled out alone. OF course
the mail contract may not call for such
course of action, but the fact remains that
If so. then Just so far was the contract
faulty.
j. w. Carmany, gents furnishing
The railroads are, to my mind. fighting for
principle. Shall employers of labor con-
duct their business in their own way, or
suffer dictation at the hands of their en-
ployes? That is the whole question in
nutshell. The strikers have not been JUS
titled in causing this trouble, and while
concede their right to retire from their
positions they have no right to terrorize
others so that men are afraid to step int
the vacant positions. At the same time l
think arrangements ought to have been
made to forward the United States mails
without the Objectionable Pullman cars.
Charles Keilus. the Hub Clothing Com
pany-Ths is a conflict that dumfOunder S
the ordinary commercial element. This
strike. so extensive in its ramifcations,
has at root right principle. but the men
engineering the affair have a heavy re-
sponsibility to shoulder. When arbitra-
ton was peremptorily refused they had
to face the fact that in order to attain
their end they would have to paraly ze
trade right and left and be the indirect
cause of great misery. At all events this
strike. l think. will settle the question of
might versus right, but the only perma-
nent solution Of these railroad difficulties
is to be found in Government ownership
The Southern Pacific to-day is practically
bankrupt, and ought to revert to the Gov
ernment.
Doane & Henshelwood. dry goods-It
seems absurd that these Pullman strikers
should dictate to US here how business
shall be conducted We have no direct in
terest in all these ques tions, and the
Southern Pacific is fully justified in carry
ing on the fight, in which no question of
justice is involved, to the bitter end.
S. l.. Jacobs. ladies' wear. etc.-l
have not closely studied the situation, but
l have no doubt the strikers are acting con-
scentiously. The question at issue is a
complex one. but this, to me. is plain ::
that the mails ought TO have been for
warded without Pullman cars. One road
at Memphis did this, leaving the main is
sue to be fought out The United States
mails are of International import, and it
is shameful that they be delayed while an
indirect issue is fought out.
Charles Colman, hat manufacturer-If If
the strikers had fought their battle out It
L WUulu HdFo DccU
with them, but as we are not directly con-
cerned and vet are made to suffer am not
favorable to them. These periodical
strikes ought to be made impossible by
some kind of an arbitration board appoint
| ed by the Government.
Descaso Bros. boot and shoe dealers
| The strikers had legitimate cause of action,
| albeit I consider strikes a curse to any
| community. | can't see why the Southern
| Pacific make Pullmap's fight theirs, and in
| so doing bring disaster on the State.
| There are enough men on strike to have
the complaints they voice attended to aud
their demands determined upon. 1t seems
TO me If some sort Of direct governmental
supervision Is not exercised the constant
recurring conflicts between capital and
labor will develop into fights as bitter as
the old-tme religious wars. Ii the Fed
eral troops will confne their atten ton.
however. to preserving order only this
| matter will right itself. The Southern