Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-13
STRIKE IS ON AGAIN
St. Louis Carmen Say Com.
,pany Has Broken Faith.
THE BOYCOTT WILL BE RESUMED.
Employees Say There Will BE No Law.
lessness Nor Demonstrations Of
Violence This Time.

St. LOUIS, July ll.-Ihe strike
against the St. Louis Transit Company
by its former employees, which was de-
clared off July 2, Was ordered recalled
today at a meeting of the Street Rail.
waymen's Union. at the West End coli.
scum. Tomorrow morning at O'Clock
was the time fixed for the recall of the
boycyott ON all the company's lines.
When the strike was settled July Q.
there were some mutterings of discon-
settlement, and so it is the dissatisfac-
tion has grown daily. The men MAIN
tain that the company has failed to
keep the agreement and a dozen or
more instances were cited tending to
prove that there had been breach OF
faith. Meetings were held at several
places in the course of the week, and
| committees were appointed to procure
proof of infidelity on the part of the
company.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Street Railwaymen's Un-
ion held Monday, batch of affidavits
was presented to the effect that men
had been employed by the company
since July in violation of the terms
of the agreement of that date. At
session lasting several hours, the COM
| mittee called mass meeting of the
men for this morning to recommend at
that meeting that the strike be declared
on again. The Central Trades and La
Dor Union met later and indorsed the
action of the executive committee.
The company, through President
Whitaker, addressed letter to the
men, DENYING that the company had
Intentionally violated the agreement Of
July 2, and declaring its intention to
live up to every condition of the agree
ment. both in letter and spirit. Fred
W. Lehman, attorney for the company.
appeared at the meeting and offered to
submit the question as to whether the
company has broken faith to Joseph
W. Folk, counsel for the men, and
bound the company to abide by Mr..
Folks Judgment in the premises. The
proposition was ignored. and by a
unanimous vote the strike was re-
newed.
A member of the executive commit
tee today said that this was the second
eihiO thC SoiApohy Aou pAOAOh AaAeA
with its employees, and no agreement
would be accepted in the future that
did not provide for the reinstatement
of all old employees in "a hours after
the execution of the agreement, Iii
"There will be no lawlessness or
demonstrations of violence this time,"
he continued. "By means of vigor-
Gus enforcement of the boycott we hope
absolutely to destroy the earning cspac-
ity of the company !" ..-t- .e.
The whole trouble seems to hang
upon few of the men violating its
agreement, while the company, on the
other hand. emphatically denies that
such is the q case. The men claimed
yesterday that verbal agreement was
entered into concurrently with the
written agreement and under the YER
bal agreement the company had agreed
to re-employ all the old men in go
days, seniority in the services deter
mining the priority of re-employment.
1t was claimed that the Rev. DIR. w. j.
Boise instructed the men that such
an agreement existed, in a speech at
the West End coliseum. The officers
of the company declare that there was
no such verbal understanding and that
the only agreement made by them was
the written agreement, which was
published at the time. -.-