St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-10
BUSINESS AND A. R. U. men
CONFER ON THE MERITS or THE
GREAT STRIKE.
THREE HOURS OF SPEECHES.
Complete and Friendly Exchange
of Views-Two A. II. u. Lead
ers Give Their Side OF the Case
EXplicitly-The Business Mems
Side Well Presented - Confer
ence Adjourned to Today.

EXplicitly-The Business Mems
Side Well Presented - Confer
ence Adjourned to Today.
The proposed conference between the
business mems committees of the st.
Paul and Minneapolis Commercial clubs
and a delegation of the A. r. U. was
held yesterday afternoon at the Com
merclal CLUB in st. Paul. Nothing was
accomplished beyond drawing out each
others views upon the merits of the
strike. The conference adjourned to
he resumed at 2 O'clock this afternoon,
at the Commercial club of Minneapolis.
those present of the Minneapolis
business mems committee were John
De Laittre. Anthony Kelly, H.F. Smith,
+. Il. Winston, w. =. Gregg and two or
three others. The st. Paul business
mems committee was out In nearly full
force. those there being L. D. O'Bren,
j. A. Gregg, II. c. McNair, E. Vanish,
Rev. 7. Il. Hetfron. Claiming Seabury,
George r. Finch, Capt. II. A. Castle. f.
j. Hodgson. George j. Grant, Samuel B.
Kennedy, Charles II. Power, DR.. Charles
A. Wheaton and Hon. w. B. Dean.
The two committees of business men
held a session at noou. At 2:30 the A.
K. U. delegation came in. and than
began a three hours discussion, in
dulged Ill by the business men and two
members of the A. r. U. delegation.
L. ID. OBrien acted as chairman of
the meeting, and Mr.. McNair was Sec
ri ha
ference with the A. L. u. with a con-
else statement of the object of the meet
ing. He said that they were met there
as law-abiding citizens to exchange
views OH the matter without reserva-
ton.
Mr.. O'Hara, chairman of the A. r. Z.
committee, responded. He said that
his committee appreciated the spirit
that had actuated this business mems
committees, and he hoped that nothing
would he said that would tend TO dis
turb the peaceable inclinationS of the
two sides. He believed that the dis
cusSlons could be conducted in fair
minded way. II the strikers found that
they were in the wrong they
would concede the error. He had
in his fifteen years of rairoading
worked eight months for Mr.. Pullman.
aud thought he understood the stu
alton thoroughly. He said that the ar
rangements between the Pullman com-
pany and railroads were such that,
while the Pullman works closed, the
railroads repair the Pullman cars, and
charge the expense to The Pullman COM
pany. He said the general railway
| managers association was for mutual
protection, and SO was the 4. R. q.
organization.
Lee Combs. chairman of the Mime
apolis A. K. U. contingent, followed
with a clear statement of the A. Il. U.
| side. After dwelling at some length
! upon the hardships caused by the course
OF The Pullman company With its EN-
| ployes, he made plea for arbitration,
| citing the instance of the United States
and England arbitrating the Behring
! SEA matter. He said that Debs is not a
| dictator, but that he is The mouthpiece
of 100000 railway employees. IF the
matter is arbitrated," said he. 1.-THE men
will return to work OIL every road. If it
is not arDitrated we will stand OH the
! cardinal principles of our order-the
| right 10 be heard"
NATTER Mr.. Mayo. of Minneapolis, had
! spoken briefly, Capt Castle, OF st. Paul,
| took the floor. He said that his feeling
! is that If the strikers succeed ill this
| case a series of strikes will follow all
over the country. He deprecated the
| practice of buycottIng. and felt that
! something should be done to relieve the
! situation all over the country.
| h. j. HodgSOn said that the strike is
not business way of doing things. He
| replied at length 10 the speeches of
! O'Hara and CoMba.
Hon. w. Is. Dean followed with a
| ringing speech that came straight from
| the shoulder. Among other things, he
! said:
Liberty does not carry with it the
right 10 inLimidate workingmen 1t
! does not carry with 1t The right TO
| threaten the lives Of men; it does not
! carry with it the right to 90 10 their
families and tell them that unless Tile
men quit work they will be brought
| homt dead. Every man of you when
! you employ help gets it at as low wages
as you Can, and tLat is just what every
! employer does. As long as | am an
| American citizen, as long as the blood
| OF my fOreiatlIerS. who helped establish
! this land of freedom, runs in my veins,
| 10 man nor set OF men shalt tell me OF
! whom shall buy my goods or what
railroad shall haul them. 1 will go on
| the streets and beg before will submit
| 10 ir.
The word boycott is one that makes
my blood boil whenever | hear it. Ii is
| GeteStable and una American, and | am
| ashamed to own that any American
could be Induced 10 engage in one.
| imagine the Indignation that would be
| aroused If any railroad Complain should
refuse to transport the goods of any
firm or company. Every j merlcan GU
zen would be UP in arms against such
action. Yet the railroads would be as
Justified in taking such d step as are
you III taking this step"
Mir. Deans eloquent presentation Of
the side of law and order stirred the A.
II. L. men little, anu Mr.. Combs cau-
tureu the floor to say that the boycott
was brought 10 this country by the mine
owners OF the East, ami that there was
! an example of its use by the railroads
Of the Northwest i'll circular in the
possession of the labor bureau that au-
vIsed railroads not to employ certain
set of bolerinakerS.
Chairman O'Brien asked Mr.. VHara
! if he had any evidence that the general
managers association had Instructed
! BIZ. Pullman not to arbitrate, and Mr..
! O'Hara replied in the negative.
! Stackpole, an y. r. u. nan, who was
recently an empioye of the Great West
ern, made an ill-tempered speech, but
it cut little figure III the meeting.
| Rev. Father Ieffron said:
! Il consider the boycott officially
wrong. Innocent parties have been
brought into this conflict and the
whole country is paralyzed. This is
wrong; outrageous. How can it be
right to punish the innocent to obtain
| justice from the guilty? The sentiment
OF this country is with labor, but it Is
not with injustice. The strikers are on
the wrong side. and their reasoning is
also wrong?"
There was great deal more said,
some of which was warn; but the feel