The labor world., 1899-05-06

citizens such specimens of the human
race as Herbert Warren?
Does it benefit Duluth to spend
$4,000 to clean up the streets and
carry away the snow that is piled up
by their snow plows and which the
ordinance plainly says shall be carted
away by the company?
Does it benefit Duluth to spend an
other $4,000 to repair the pavement
torn up by the Duluth street railway
and left by them in a condition dan
gerous to life and limb?
Does it benefit Duluth for the cars
to be operated by ignorant and in
competent men and the lives of it's
citizens placed in jeopardy; or that
they be killed as were the fremen on
Lake avenue last summer?
Does it benefit Duluth that the east
crn capitalist has been ''bilked'' into
buying the bonds of a broken down
street railway plant that already was
bonded for three times what it would
cost to, build and equip a new and
thoroughly up-to-date system cover
ing the same territory?
Does it benefit Duluth to permit
these tax-dodgers to evade the pay
ment of their just proportion of taxes
Estate and county?
If all these things are beneficial to
Duluth then Hartley, Mendenhall and
Warren should be sustained on the
grounds that they are good citizens
for we have them to thank for all the
above conditions.
Every passenger who patronizes the
Duluth street railway should be ac-
companied by a gatling gun and have
it trained on the front end of the car,
for. there is no certainty as to just
when the drunken motorman is liable
to grab the iron crank handle and
beat the brains out of some innocent
passenger who happens to smile and
does not explain to the drunken rowdy
just what he is smiling about.
Luther Mendenhall illustrated just
how good q citizen he was and how
much respect he has for the patrons
of the street railway when he went
to the city hall and furnished bonds
for one of his imported scab cut
throats who had assaulted a passen-
ger with an iron bar. Some people
fully realize the true condition of af-
fairs and if you don't hear something
drop before a great while it will be
mighty strange.
A good way to settle the street rail-
way trouble for now and probably
for all time to come, would be for the
court to remove Luther Mendenhall
as receiver and Herbert Warren as
manager. The AFFAIRS. of the, COM
pany are in the hands of the court
and why should they not be removed
with the same alacrity with which
Herbert Warren drops the head of
union man into the basket. A move
of this kind would certainly be for
public good. Peace would be restored.
The receipts of the road, which should
rightfully go to pay the debts, would
not be spent to fight the unions nor
to pay an army OF detectives, and the
creditors of the company would stand
better show to realize sopething
from the proceeds. But a move like
this might destroy the plans of this
octupus outfit and would never, never
do for the court to interfere---besides
Mendenhall and Hartley are influen-
tial and leading citizens and the men
who are demanding justice are only
common laborers who pay their hon
est debts and earn an honest living
when given chance to do so.
The agreement given below is one
that the employees of the West Supe'
rior Street Car Company are compelled
to sign before entering into the employ
Of that company.
Superior Rapid Transit COmpany's
Agreement
7 hereby make application to enter
the employment of the Superior Rapid
Transit company as conductor, and
agree to work and to report for work
without pay until am given car to
operate alone, after which my wages
shall be at the rate Of $4,000 per
month. I to receive pay only for the
days that actually work, and no eN-
t:a pay for any work.
I hereby deposit with the company
$1,000 which / authorize it to use to
make good any shortage in my fares,
and to pay any loss Or damage it may
suffer by or through me, and I author
ize it to use any wages, which may
BE- due me. for the same purpose.
1t is further hereby agreed and I'M
derstood that I am to work by the
day and that the company shall have
the right to dismiss me at any time
with or without notice and without
cause.
Further agreed that I will not join
any secret society without notifying
the Company.
Witness:
It is just such conditions that eN'
isi in West Superior that the manage
nlent of the Duluth Street Car Com
pany are trying to force the men into.
What exists in West Superior will in
time be in force in Duluth. The Two
street railway systems are now one