The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-12
SEATTLE. FRIDAY. APRIL IL.
erAnpIxG AGAIN.T srEIk b.

The resignation OF Superintendent Clark
OF the Consolidated street car lines will
be regretfuiiy received ~ tha employees.
He has. since his advent. applied rules
which have ameiiera ted the condition OF
the men and there is no doubt thar IL
was 10 his humane influence a strike was
ayertcd last summer. Acting AT that time
fn concert with the managers OF other
roads IN this city. efforts were undoubt-
edly made TO meet the more serious
grievances OF the employees.
inr II overdone In most cities and the
returns are inadequate.
resistance. One of these was that men
port AZ s O'Clock next morning.
There was formerly very much OF
that sort OF thing In this city.
are often called ignorant. Some OF them
cannot overcome these conditions az once.
The pay OF street car men is not and
probably never can be. very high because.
for some reason. there is always such a
plentiful supply Of applicants and be-
cause. with too few exceptions. railroad
ing ls overdoHe in most cities and the
returns are inadequate.
The chief grievance OF which street car
men complain t. found In the arbitrary
and even tyrannical rules too many super
intendents enforce. /, will be remembered
that In the great strike of Brooklyn
car men IL was not wages but oppressive
regulations which provoked the men into
resistance. Ono OF these was that men
were needlessiy required to hold them
selves In readiness for call from
O'Clock In the morning TN o'clock In tho
afternoon. day after day, without cent
of pay Men who were on the car till
! o'clock were arbitrarily ordered 10 re-
port at next morning. There was former
~ very much OF that sort Of thing in this
city. too. and not 50 much by fault OF the
management az Of the forenon or bosses.
That IL was needless Is shown by the
great change effected by Mr. Clark, and
there Is no question that the road is more
efficiently conducted now than ever be-
fore, The men are treated with Consid-
GRAFTON. their work Is assigned to them
With a reasonable regard for the locations
OF their homes. their need OF meal time
and other personal necessltses Is recog-
rfzed. and the man who Is last on II per-
mttea 10 report latest next day. A hard
life has been made less aFiuoux. and the
men respond the more willingly to the
claims necessarily made upon them.
Strikes are had thingss they impose suf-
ferlng and loss upon employer and EN-
ployed and involve entirely innocen, In
terests. hut so is war had thing. yet
nations have recognized that sometimes
the proTocatioh is 50 great that only by
war can rights BE maintained Murder
Is had thing yet who vii offer TO put
a rope around tho neck OF the father who.
few DAYS ago shot down the brutal.
drunken soB-in-iaw who was boating the
wife Of the sssaslant and the daughter OF
the avenser7
Mar. murder. strikes are all oYenses
against peace. humanity and good gov
eminent. And n eivliixcd society would
avoid either it must see 20 Il that the
prevecation Is not ggven. worklngnsn
are often called ignorant Some OF them
arc SO. hus 50 much greater - the reason
that they shall be treated always with
Justice ana never without patient allow.
anses. Against gheir vitality ana their
necessities ara plite1 thu calculations OF
saaiissa self Interest. Causta1 ana labor
srs united IN production. hat too often
when they 50 into the counting hosls,a 20
divide the results. capital ends means %
enhance SIS cwn share and detract from
that Of labor. This viii always 20 or.
Labor seeks g exact every dollar II can:
bur e + less able 20 hold iSs own We
cannot overcome these conditions az once.
bat puhic oFinion can raise SIS voice and
demand thA' - far as coalitions allow
men shah not be tyrsnntzesi over. stuuE
90 desperation ana soaded - unreaSon-
Ing violence Society demands mutual
concessions 70 the end that good er,ier
ard good government - northumberland
her dominion over tae employer ia as
potent a. ever the egmnlaye.