The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26
Carmen Are Determined
to Go on Strike.

of the need of paying into the public
treasury even solitary cent for corre-
spending privilege affecting Hayes,
Haight, McAllister. Castro and Sutter
streets? Your roadbed losses are
virtually nothing. for general recon-
struction was determined on before
April 49, And your combined other
losses are less than you will save In
single year through the substitution of
overhead trolleys for the cable No.
you have not been crippled by the
blow that has fallen so erushingly on
many g member of this union. And
just now your revenues are about the
same as before April. and your operat-
ing expenses stand reduced by half
through the handling of your enormous
trafic in your very few cars.
why should we wait for you to
ponder longer on facts like these?
But, you say. the public Let US.
you plead, do nothing which may
prove detrimental to the interests of
those whose interests both of us should
be most willing to consider of import
ance paramount to our own, namely,
those of the entire people Of the city
of San Francisco
quite so. Let US talk this matter
over
CONSIDERATION FOR PUBLIC.
For our part we carefully consider
the rights OF the public; and that We
do so is shown by our four months
of patient overwork. the proceeds of
which you have been diligently pocket
ing We have had and continue to
have the deepest sympathy with this
stricken city and its bravely strug-
Cling inhabitants. We raised no
money questions with you during the
most troubled times. We put our own
rights. our own comfort, our own homes
and families off in the background,
and worked on and on without COM
plant This we did for San Francisco.
The blackest days are past-the days
when to have looked UP from our
work would have been disloyal to the
city OF our hearts. But now, four
months from the cooling OF the embers.
worn out and oppressed by rising
prices all around US, it does not seem
all selfshness for us TO pause and
think a moment of ourselves and those
dependent on US, and in this hour,
gentlemen, you shall not shield your
selves behind the sorrows of the city
for which he have toiled and sweat
while you have pursued dividends even
among the ashes, and, with that city
prone. have used it's very helplessness
to gain new privileges.
We are about to act with careful
regard for the convenience Of the peo-
pie. We have no faith that further
waiting for the coming of your Mr.. Cal
houn would be used otherwise than to
harm us in our present proposals. We
have both scars and memories. But,
while we are unwilling to wait, we are
solicitous that our decision shall bear
as lightly as may be on the public. To-
morrow, Sunday, a holiday, is day
when very few absolutely must leave
home. That day, therefore, we choose
for ceasing from our work and bring
ing squarely before you the need of
saying not Wait but Yes or No to
our proposals.
we notify you. accordingly, that we
shall not work tomorrow unless you
make the terms of our employment as
we have asked you to make them.
Ask FOR A MEETING.
1T is for you, now, to manifest your
earnestness in saying that you regard
the interests of the public as of i'm
portance paramount to our own. Your