The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09

Railroads contemplated in the Joint
statement of Mr.. Calhoun and the con-
The issue of closed shop" or open
shop" has not been raised by the unions
during these negotiations, notwith-
standing statements to the effect at
in other quarters.
The unions in good faith accepted
arbitration on the conditions stipulated
| by Mr.. Calhoun in his letter of Septem-
Der 5. The unions have not asked and
do not contemplate asking alteration
or amendment of those conditions; nei-
ther will they tolerate alteration or
amendment of those conditions by the
United Railroads, especially when such
alteration or amendment involves sac
rif1ce of the confidence and respect of
ests they have been delegated to guard
WILLIAM P McCABE.
Secretary Joint Conference
CALHOUN RESENTS INSINUATION.
When this document was shown to
Calhoun he dictated the following re-
sponse:
Replying to the statement issued by
w. p McCabe, secretary of the Joint
conference l will only say that any in
sinuation affecting the perfect good
faith of the United Railroads Is abso-
lutely without foundation in fact.
have no controversy with the joint
conference, and am surprised that Mr..
McCabe should have found it necessary
to make the statement to which my at
tention has been called.
'The so-called signed statement Is a
letter written by me at the request of
the joint committee, embodying the
views expressed by me to them and
written for the express purpose of
being laid by them before their joint
conference. 1t was read to the joint COM
-
son and it clearly states the position
of the United Railroads. The facts are
that yesterday afternoon I was re-
quested to receive call from the joint
committee, as they stated to me that
some misapprehension existed with re-
gard to the position of the United Rail
roads. / was informed that some OBJ
lection had been raised in regard to
the unemployment of the firemen and
some of the electrical workers in the
shops. / had instructed my officials
to take back all of my former en-
ployes who reported promptly for
work. There had been some friction
over the question Of the old men work
ing with the new men In my employ
ment. This was fully discussed by me
with the joint committee, and as 1 have
said before, the letter which was writ
ten to the joint committee was read
to them in person.
POSITION CLEARLY STATED.
mo question was raised but that 1t
properly embodied the question under
discussion between us and clearly
stated the position of my; company. 1t
was written at the express request of
the committee and I am Informed that
the identical letter was laid before the
joint conference last night. 1t speaks
for itself and i would like you to re-
I,ic
Everything is now moving smoothly
and all individual members of the diff
ferent unions are now reporting for
work
The letter to which Calhoun refers
is as follows:
September Z, 1906.
Messrs. r. Cornelius. H L. Worthing-
ton, Charles Stryker, w. c. Fuller.
Dear Sirs-Complying with your re-
quest made at our conference today, l
write to say that instructed my OFF,
cials to take back all of the former
employees of the United Railroads who
promptly reported for work. did this
not, because l was obligated to do so
by Any statement made by me at any
time in cases where positions had been
filled during the strike, but vOluntar-
lily and simply because desired to lind
work for every one of the old employees
Its service, and l did this, too, In spite
of the fact that it would require me to
pay, temporarily at least, for more men
In certain departments than were
needed.
WILL NOT DISCHARGE MEN.
In reply to the information you have
now given me that certain members of
your unions decline to work with men
now in my employ, ! cannot make too
clear my unalterable position that /
will not discharge any man who faith
fully and efficiently performs his SER
vices to make place for some one else;
and / certainly will not do this at the
structions, however, the fact that no
one employed during the strike will be
discharged will not in any way affect
the hours. wages or class of labor that
the former men returning to work
would have, nor will they in any way
be Disseminated against after their re-
turn.
/ understand that there are only
about twenty men affected by the Ques-
tion you have now brought up, and /
trust you will find some way to avoid
further differences between US. Very
PRESIDENT UNITED RAILROADS
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Calhoun's last pronunciamento was
answered by McCabe In a very polite
little note, in which he said he hoped
the newspaper controversy would now
end" Over the telephone Calhoun ex-
pressed like sentiment.
CALHOUN AS AN ORATOR.
And now Patrick Calhoun arises to
quote himself and thereby to offer
proof that the same sentiments which
he has expressed in the heat of the
carmen's strike are the sentiments
which he has held for at least four
years.
In October of 1902 Calhoun addressed
a political gathering in Atlanta, Ga. II
was a meeting of the Young Mems
Democratic League and the theme of
his discourse was the Democratic prin-
ciple of equal rights applied to COM
binations of labor. Remembering his
speech and wishing to show that Pat
rick Calhoun, the political orator, and
Patrick Calhoun, the president of the
United Railroads, were one and the
same, he telegraphed to New York for
a copy of his speech of four years ago,
from which he furnishes the following
selection:
| If capital has made great progress in
combination, labor has made greater.
Unionism has sought the control of the
EMPLOYEES of every important transpor-
tation and manufacturing industry in
the country. The problem presented by
combined capital and combined labor is
the most important of the day. The
Democratic principle of individual right
and Individual liberty affords it's proper