The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-29
HUNTINGTON TELEGRAPHs.
He Feels Quite Sure His Men win No
LAMA Hill


He Feels Quite sure His Men win Not
Leave Him.
General Manager A. N. Towne has re-
ceived at San Francisco telegram from
President Huntington which bears on
the situation and copies OF which we're
telegraphed to this city last night. The
telegram is as follows:
NEW YORK, June 28.
A. II. Towne:
Dispatch received. We feel quite
sure our men. after sober second
thought, will not leave us, az the Pull
man company has very little interest in
the cars on the Southern Pacific, and
the tying up of the road would injure US
and dscommode the general public. l
feel sure that they do not wish to take
control of the property OF the Southern
Pacific company, as they would be do
ing if we gave them what they ask for.
| wish you would call the men together
as far as you can and give them our
views, and after discussing a sufficient
time, If they do rot then accede to our
request, but leave our work. you will
get other mon to take their places, if
possible. and if not let the trains stand
as they are. The question OF what cars
the company should run 10 one that
rests with the owners of the property,
for ownerehip must carry control. You
know how much desire to protect all
the wageworkers, but this matter be-
tween Pullman and his employees 10
something that do not know anything
about, and it should not be used by the
men to the injury of ourselves and our
patrons, and l will say as l did yester-
day that if the men. after full discus
SIGN, refuse to work, | wish you would
discharge them and let them under
stand that they will never be employed
again by the Southern Pacific company.
@. p. HUNUINGToN.
Mr.. Towne has also sent out the fol-
lowing bulletin. which was received in
this city last night:
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28, l 30 p. m.
In submitting to our men through you
our understandingof the situation as it
presents itself to us today, it occurs to
us that we have been drawn into q con-
troversv, the causes for which we could
not control and with which we have no
feeling in common, by new labor or
ganizstion called the American Railway
union, the leaders of which are appa-
rsntly determined to destroy and crowd
out of existence the wiser and more con-
servative labor unions with which we
have been accustomed to counsel, and it
seems wrong indeed that these we'll es-
tablished organizations, whose lasting
and we'll defined principles have given
them stability we'll calculated TO in
spire the confidence OF the public and OF
railway managers. should be carelessly
brushed aside to make room for an Or
ganization that has no record OF the past
and whose future is probematical,
especially when it arbitrarily forces
upon us a contention with which our
men or our company has no concern.
This new organization not only attempts
to usurp the prerogatives OF your several
societies, but also to inaics upon
our patrons, upon our company,
aud, indirectly, upon our employees,
much hardship merely in order to pun
ish, in roundabout way, q corporation
whose workshops are more than $500
miles distant, for an alleged violation OF
understanding between the employer
and employee. when We are in no way
able to judge of the merits of the case;
yet VIC feel that we ought not to be
dragged into this quarrel. since, as
matter Of fact, our company absolutely
owns three .fourths of our sleeping cars
of all classes. In the interest OF the
travelling public, and for the mutual
benefit of our employees and ourselves,
we appeal to our men not TO permit
themselves to be drawn into this bitter
controversy go Numerically opposed to
our united interests. which will surely
disrupt our more stable and conservative
organizations and dispel the full meas
ure of confidence and the general good
feeling that has always prevailed when
their committees nave felt called upon
to visit and counsel with us. In the in
terest OF good faith and harmony we ask
themselves have something to complain
of. A. N. TowNE.