The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-11
go out and ask their brother workmen
getting only $50 a day to help support

II don't think SOL was the Tenlv.
NOW, ike my own case. have a i've
room house; for which pay SIS. l
ueye you any modern conveniences 80
We'll, l have bathtub but, of course.
l put that In myself, and l have two
ICONS In the basement which | paid TO
ny NJ up, SO that now I can have my
30 the man really had only a small
nVe-room house, one OF long low
brick row, without any convenIences
until he added them.
Have you any additional expenses for
your house?' | inquired
well, | pay Il cents month water
rent. and for steam, which the company
also furnishes, l pay $40 season, and
gas according to the way we use it,"
He would not say how much gas cost,
but a woman talked with said she
thought gas was 81 a thousand, but they
old not Use 1t because 1t was so dear.
The Pullman Company owns the gas
What is your season for steam?"
About three months. l guess"
isn't that very eXpensive?'
g! don't think So" doubtfully Goal
is ton, SO guess steam Is cheaper"
year?" l spoke carefully, for most peo-
pie are very touchy on the subject OF in
comes, but this man did not hesitate.
II get sl,2Oo year with II smile,
and guess there are lots of men own
Ing stables in Chicago who would like to
make as much"
Does Mr. Pullman compel his work
men to live in his town."
NO. OF course as he owns all the
lands about here it isn't very convent
ent to live elsewhere. but still some OF
the head mechanics have bought plots
of ground over at kensington and have
built little homes. They haven't them n
third paid for yet. and don't know
people who save money and try TO buy
homes are the better class of workmen.
and | have heard IT asserted that they
always get the preferences in the shops
Of the trouble vas"
1T seems as II the woikmen were
dissatisfied because rents were not re-
duced when wages were cut, so they
to wait upon MIR. Pullman and lay thei,
complaints before him. There were "a
good many complaints. too, | under
stand, against heads of departments,
meeting a boss told one Of the. selected
that there would be no
work for him to do until the following
Monday. That was on Thursday. II J
among the other workmen and said he
was discharged because he was one OF
the committee. and called upon the
men to lay down their tools and quit
the shop. So they all walked out"
A VERY WISE LITTLE WOMAN.
Having pumped the livery stable keep.
er dry | walked over where he said
would find the poorest as well as the
bitterest people in Pullman. | walked
until came to the last street, with a
row of gray brick houses on
one side OF the street and row of red
ones ON the other. On the doorstep of a
house in the red row. a house i shall
N ut tp fa / M doe Ire
to cause conflict between a very wise
little woman and her neighbors, l saw a
woman sitting. She looked very tidy and
neat. Her face was clean and her black
She wore fiowerd challie dress and a
white, freshly Numbered apron.
can YOU tell me, please, where ] shall
find the poorest strikers?" ] asked, and
she replied with a smile.
Across the street in the letters
Ihey are mostly foreigners. and ! guess
you won't find any that speak English
Not many OF them belong to. the unions
and they are suffering most"
asked.
The row is known by letters instest
OF numbers They begin at and enc
at +, ] think. These houses are called
And YOU are all in the 400 now"
told her, and she smiled without knowing
why and asked me- what l meant;
Al present you ar. Il leisure class, 81
Is the 4OO," l explained.
1T Is not our fault" she aIiswere,
promptly, as II had reproached thenf.
IT was only few that wanted L
strike. They SHUT ny the shops and tn
their lives. My husband doesn't belon
to the union. and we have to be careful
what we say--only sometimes | have t.
break out and tell them what ! thinl
when they talk too much"
II hti-I . nd n,ly ,
the shops?'
He is by trade wood-carver. bu
work has been very slack and he die
anything he could. He hadn't any cary
before the strike. You know busines
vas dull everywhere and Mr.. Pullman
claimed he Gidn't get any orders, and
suppose that was true. He couldn't Civ
the men work if he didn't have il t.
give"
Was that the sole cause Of dissatis
THAT was not all. There were man
charges against the bosses. OF cours
is the head of the whole thing, it was hi
duty 10 inquire into things. lie can
expect his bosses always to be right an
Just. for they have their likes and dis
likes. Just like everybody else. an
when they have the sole power they wi
do things that are wrong. But strike
do no good. The poor man is the onl
one to suffer. l told them when the
first talked about it that they couldn'
starve out a millionaire. You can't max
him hungry or back In his rent. Why
Mr.. Pullman only had one order in III
shop. That was for hundred elevate
cars for New York. They were to b
finished by the first of August, but the
can't be now even If the men went bach
so what does Mr.. Pullman care how lon
they stay out? AS told them, it doesn,,
hurt Mr. Pullman's vacation; he doesn'
% hungry. II ia only the workman VIII
hurts himself"
Il suppose you are the cause, then. q
your husband not joining a trade
union" The little woman smiled at me
nave Joined anyway. He belonged. t
the knights of Labor and was in thei
strike. and it taught him lesson. ii
is an American, but | am from HOLLAND
l came to Pullman when | was tNeiv
years old, and | never LETT it. know Il
about workmen and strikes, and kno'
there are wrongs on both sides. bu
striking and destroying property an
killing rich men isn't going to help IN
What will help him?" I asked thi
little philosopher.
THE RENTS, THE RENTS.
New laws; a law to compel the mil
,onaire to listen to his working peopl
and TO have honest men sit in judgment
Arbitration is the only thing. Thi
trouble to-day results all from on
thing-a little thing to Mr; Pullman bu
q big thing to his people.
And that was? ,.,
ellis refusal to reduce rents she sale
firmly. The people never op1"ctcd I
| the rents when work was plenty an
they began to cut wages, and they hay
kept II up regularly and at FREQUENT ~
tervals. until to-day, what win 10,
wages and dull times men only get NJ n,