The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-22

| tolerated and recognized under the state
and federal government, and to deprive
worNngmen Of this right Is disrepu-
table commentary on our freedom as
American citizens.
The street car company's officials
must be very hard pressed for material
to make up their reply TO the citizens
committee when they had 10 90 back
and resurrect the contemplate action
OF the company with Its employees dur
Ing and after the strike of 1898. They
forgot TO enlighten the citizens COM
mlttee or the public about the heritage
left that company BY one A. ". jolly. In
the shape OF an iron-clad slavery rule
Now. for the information OF the public,
statement In regard to how the en-
ployes were and are prosecuted up TO
the present strike under these rules.
Will be interesting. Prior to the strike
OF 1893 the employees of this company
were paid at the rate OF twenty cents an
hour. Alter this tyrannical corporation
forced the strikers back on Its own
terms, the first move made by A. NJ.
Jolly was to reduce the rate from
twenty cents per hour to seventeen and
one-half cents, giving them as his rea-
son for doing so the dull times md the
stoppages of the Riverside and Ben
wood mills, although his promise to the
employees was that the reduction would
only be temporarily. and that when the
times would improve the twenty cent
rate would be restored. Instead. how
ever. OF this being done rs promised In
good faith, Mr.. Jolly commenced In
earnest to apply his lron-clad. and i'm
mediately posted 4 notice In the barns
that In the future nll motormen and
conductors would have 10 work for six
teen cents per hour, and from that time
up to the present sixteen cents Is the
rate paid. Now, as to how the ir0n-c clad
Is applied to the employees In the barns.
Is worth. no doubt. the careful atten-
tion OF the reader: "Motormen and
conductors on the extra list are required
TO report at the car barns at 4:20 every
morning II they are not assigned to
runs. Should no regular man lay off
they can go home at GAO a. m. Then
they are expected to be on hand again
at 1918 the same morning, and II all OF
the men of the second shift are on hand
those poor, prosecuted men can go home
Mt l2:4o p. m, and are again expected
to return at AIS p. M, and IL all the
regular men are on hand. they can go
home for the third time In twelve hours,
losing their time going to the barns
and home again without having earned
one cent for the day. These abused
and ill-treated extra men must have
uniform clothing at their own expense,
and be ready for any call, day time or
night time. this company may make.
How Is this for living In this great
ana prosperous country, surrounded by
trusts and combinations of capital
worth millions" Did our citizens ever
stop to consider before how this foreign
corporation Is treating It's employees. the
most of them born and bred In Wheel
Ing? Patient reader. here Is some more
OF Jolly's iron-clld; read 1t With care
ana try and place yourself for twenty
four hours In one of those employees
positions. and you will say to yourself:
l would walk from one end OF this city
for year before I would give five
cents car fare TO this company to beat
those poor strikers. The regular mo-
torman and conductor leaving the car
barns at 4:30 in the morning are ex-
pected to be on hand no later than i:2O,
ten minutes before starting time. Now,
should the motOrman or conductor ar
rive at +:2l. making them one minute
late. according to the company's clock
and rules. yet they We're nine minutes
DefOre The time for the car to start. one
OF the extra men would be assigned to
the car and the regula: man could not
return to work for three days. and II
this occurred the second time In ore
month. the regular mans run would be
given to one OF the extra men for
period OF thirty days. and the regular
man would then BE- assigned to the posi-
Ion on the extra lis. 70" thirty days,
and report like all tac extra mem going
home and coming TO the barns for
twelve hours withor.. compensation.
After the thirty DAYS persecution of the
regular man expires, this benevolent
ana charitable company would c0nde-
scenG to restore him to his regular car.
All notormer are required to have a
pnir Of plyers at their own expense, for
the purpose of fixing car tenders and
adjusting other parts OF the machinery.
EMPLOYE.