Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-02-18
DEFEAT ADMITTED.
Brooklyn Trolley Line Strike
Ordered Off Officially.
ANADDREss TO THE PUBLIC ISSUED,

In Which 1t Is Claimed That the Compa-
mics Are TO Blame, Thanks Are Given to
Those who Helped the Strikers and an
Appeal 10 Made for the Destitute in the
Ranks-McBride's Triumph In the Mine
workers' Convention.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 1S-In calling of the
strike on the Brooklyn Heights and the
Brooklyn. Queens County and Suburban
railways, district assembly No IS has is.
sued the following address "To the pub
lic:"
acting in behalf of their employees. we
presented to the officials of the Brooklyn
Heights and the Brooklyn, Queens Coun-
ty and Suburban Railway companies Ger
tain requests for improved conditions Of
labor on their roads for the year 1885.
Subsequently these requests, which were
never other than of the most reasonable
nature, were modified SO as to leave the
companies no excuse for failure to come
to agreements with their employees. We
have exhausted every honorable means to
effect friendly settlement.
Complains Of the Company Cnic;a's.
But the trolley officials assumed \
most uncompromising attitude and re-
fused to make a single concession in re-
Spouse to our reasonable requests. They
went further, and SO far from improving
the condition Of their employees they in
sisted upon terms less favorable than they
had made without protest in lsgi and pre-
vious years. Their exactions forced their
employees to suspend labor on Jan. II last
hnr bar sl,t-
which the men have not been willing to
go more than half way in an endeavor to
adjust amicably a difficulty that entailed
hardship on the employees as well as in
calculable loss and Inconvenience to the
public.
Lack # Consideration for he Public.
THE companies have not had the same
consideration for the public; the same
spirit of compromise. They started out
To starve their employees into submission,
and they have finally succeeded. 1t has
been a fight Ct dollars against empty
stomachs, and as was to have been ex-
pectei the dollars have won the victory,
though dear one. Our people, after a
heroic resistance, have at last submitted
TO the inevitable. The civil, the military,
and in some instances the judicial powers
have all been used to coerce them. We
ucSiEc W EttuEH OuE luOSt tuduk S
to the organizations and individuals who
have in any way aided our people during
the strike, and hope our sympathizers will
! never feel the power of corporate oppres-
sion.
Many of the Strikers Destitute.
"Many Of our people still need assistance
to keep the wolf of hunger from their
doors. A little from the many will suf-
fee, and any citizen, society or news
paper that will help our people in this re-
spect will receive the best thanks Of all,
with the hope that the time will yet come
when equal rights will be accorded to all,
special privileges to none, and that all
will stand equal before the law.
I'VE remain most respectfully,
[Signedl MARTIN J. Connolly.
JNO GIBLIN.
PJ. COLLINS
w. L. HALCOMBE.
ANDREW ID. BEST.
Still On Against Norton.
This action on the part of district as
| sembly 90 will permit the strikers of
thirty three roads to return to work, or ut
least apply to be taken back. The strike
against President Norton, Of the Atlantic
avenue line, is still on.