Evening journal., 1894-07-10
GOOD WAGES ARE PAID.
What Pullman's Painters and
Helpers Get in This City.
A SATISFIED wORKMANs IDEAS


Pay OF Helpers ProportionateIy Large.
The employees of the Pullman Palace
Car Company IN this city are taking
lively interest in the labor troubles Of
the country. They are, however, acting
with remarkable good Judgment, but
few expressions OF discomfort being
heard concerning the condition Of Pull /
mans workmen in the Wilmington
branch shops
In answer to q previous communica-
tion from one Of the disoontented men,
an intelligent and satisfied workman
said to sn EVENING JOURNAL reporter
this mornings
when wrote the article Of July
had no idea that 1 would stir up such
tempest in a teapot. What / stated
then / reiterRte here. | have no state.
ments to withdraw and no apologies to
make. spoke the truth, and thought
had ptosen it to the satisfAc
tion Of all. Pardon me IL l say
1 still think So for If my words needed
confirmation the writer Of the article In
the Sunday Star would all the bill, l am
sure. He denied no state ents of mine,
but simply tried to excuse them. 81
for the other gentleman, who, by the
way, is known, do not think he is in
position to make the assertions he
does. He never worked for the com
pany longer than rec or four weeks at
timeI although he has en- employed
by 1t several times. His short stay is
evidence enough OF his discomfort, not
with the Pullman Company a one, but
with his position life, so very different
from what It HIS been Memories Of the
past are not at all conducive to content
ment with the present, and before l give
him either fact or figure want this under.
stood: l know that man to be a skilled
mechanic What causes me the greatest
surprise Is that mechanic would deny
statements he knows positively to be
true, aud use the idle talk Of men who,
for purposes best known to themselves,
wish to conceal the real amount made
by them.
'In the frst place, would much
rather have spoken of other trades with
which am brought more in contact, but
as he confined himself to painters made
it my business to get strictly reliable in
formation in regard to all branches of
that trade represented at the shops.
"The ornRmentors, his especial branch
by the way, do make 20 cents per hour
every dsy they work piece work, and he
knows that to be true, for he made that
amount himself That is q statement
defy him to deny ana that portion Of the
ornamentors who work on general repair
cars make q cents per hour on every car
they do. They are rated at % cents per
hour DAY work. The varnishers, vino
also cut in the background color, make
81 cents per hour day in, day out. and
although the work may not be done to his
exalted idea Of finish, still it is done tc
the satisfaction Of the company. l think
that Is all that Is required. They
are rated at 90 cents per hour for day
work. As for the inside men who he
says do not know what they make, I will
Just state this: They do know-tbst is
the intelligent portion Of them, but
admit not all. for I,myself, overheard one
inside varnisher asking another man tC
| tell him what he WAS making per hour
at the same time stating the price paid
| for the Job and number of hours they
had been on 1t.
"The company contracts to furnish
work, but 1t does not contract to furnish
brains to its employees. Those men are
rated at from Is to 20 cents and they also
i
truck men and boys are rated from to Il
cents per hour aud they make from 10 tC
"a cents per hour piece work. The scrub
bers, or painters labolers, are rated at
i2t cents per hour and make from l6 L
IS cents per hour. There you have the
entire painters department.
"These statements cannot be denied, fol
the books of the company will prove each
and every statement made here an
sure that If the gentleman will 60 to Sir
Bulge and state that he wishes TO verify
this statement that kindly gentleman
will throw no obstacle in his way, bu
rather assist him in being convinced.
GAS for the writer Of the Star article
I will say that he could no. have rea'
my article closely or he would havl
found that only spoke of skilled men
not of laborers. Consequently he
right when he says l did not mention
the buffers and others. AS for me say
, ing that the discontented slow men wer
, a curse to society, that / stick to. The
are a curse and any man who tries {
breed discomfort at this critical period
even worse-he is a Anarchist. he is a
outlaw. Those are strong terms, but
think fair-minded men will agree wit
me when l say that any man who wi
try 10 cause men to become discontente
when the country Is on the verge {
, civil war, Is as bad as the Anarchist
who are disgracing Chicago to-day, an
they should be treated the same.
= "Now ] am done. They asked fC
facts and figures 1 have given then
> l entered into this thing simply to
:. Justice to an honest man whom
> thought was wrongfully accused
:. conspiring to deceive the public. sha
4 answer no more attacks, be they whit
!. they may. My statements are all trJ
n and can be verified.
\ "The Pullman men are to be envie
not pitied; for they have had steaC
work at living prices all the past hal
winter, while other men, their equals
! every particular, we're starving or ekiI
u out an existence by the aid of charity
the word that makes every honest wOrl
iugman shudder-a and that through
fault of his own, for he would ha
Jumped for Joy if he could have had t
'e chance to make the living that f.
"a workmen in the Pullman shops he
- seem to despise."
Tost Hfs Arm and Saved His Life.