The morning times., 1895-07-21
IN SPITE OF MR.. DUNLOP
Street Railway Union Has En-.
listed Eight of His Men.
BEGINNING OF A BIG FIGHT
Both the Washington and George
Town and the Metropolitan COM
panies Making War Upon the Or
ganizatiOn-Things May soon Come
To a Focus and Cause Trouble.

The organized street railway barons arc
I present IN an interesting state OF
ebulliuon over the movements, public and
private, OF street railway employees The
Protective Street Railway Union has made
q successful foray into the preserves OF
the Washington and Georgetowu Rail-
road Company. and employees OF tae Net
ropolitan line DO more than intimate that
President Philips VIII be in trouble again
If he persists II keeping up his guerilla
warfare against the employees union
The employees nave learned, not recently,
that they have union OF presidents to fight
With a union Of conductors drivers and
gripmen
SAILER MADE \ SPEECH
why" said one OF the green-ure men
yesterday. the first thing PreSideHt SaiIer
did when he got IN trouble the other day
was 10 60 over the Georgetown end OF the
rope and make a stump speech against
the Street Railway Protective Union That
is. it amounted TO that. He gave mis- men
MS vIewsfiTSt and then told them ley could
do as they pleased
He might as well have siad. I want YOU
fellows to endorse me, or something's GO
ing 10 happen Then, you know. when q
fellow loses his Job on one road he is
practically bIacklisted. The other roads
won't have him."
As 10 the two points in which the presi-
dents are interested. the first sthat 7evenof
the cable men have Joined the railway union.
Tie employees Of the Washington and
GeOrgeto wu Road, for reasons best known
20 themselves. and 70 the public. have here
tofore declined 10 become members of the
union.
COERCION BEHIND THEM
1t has all along been the general opinion
among other street railway employees that
there has been more or less Coerci on
behind the cable car meu This opinion
gained much IN strength during the pres.
cut agitation about the hardShipS 70 which
the men are subjected ou account OF the
UureaSyuauly limited time for them to take
their meals
1t was stated yesterday that seven OF
the cable car men had Joined the union,
Which meant that there would soon be q
general break along the line until a ma
JOrity OF thCm had been enrolled
Mr. Thomas /. Lawrence, president OF
the Protective Street r aiIway Union, was
called upon yesterday and asked if any
OF the employees OF the Washington and
Georgetown Railroad Company lad at
tended the last meeting and been enrolled.
He said that no members OF that road had
Joined at the last meeting.
Mr.. Lawrence was asked IL there weFs
any other way by which the men could
have been received He said there was;
that the executive committee had tulI au-
thOTity to receive members. He was asked
IL 1t was a fact that the cable men had
been enrolled in that way, which question
he politely declined to answer either mega
lively or afrITmatlyely. Another mem Der
OF the executive committee also declined
to talk on the subject.
UNION MEN BARRED
The trouble brewing for President Phil
lips is that the union is informed that,
when ne has an applicant for a job he
asks him whether he intends 20 join the
Street Protective Railway Union. II the
man is so disposed, he frankly tells MT.
Phillips that he does intend to Ge enrolled.
That settles tie case. The applicant gets
no job.
On the other hand. if he states tha/Je
does not intend 20 JOIN. then he viii tind
favor and consideration This, the EN-
pIoyes StoutIy affirm. must stop or the road
must stand take the consequences.
The matter Is just now in the shape in
which all troubles begin. The men are dis
satisfied with the constant rebIke 90 thelr
association. which they say has been
benefit not only tO the men but 10 the road
itself.
1t may happen that before long PFesi-
dent Phillips may be asked pointed ques-
ton on this subject, which is yet only
SlmmeTIng.