The San Francisco call., 1906-09-04
SITUATION WIT HOUT
SIGN OF PEACE.

Citizens of San Francisco who have
been waiting impatiently for lie first
sign of industrial peace in their much
disturbed metropolis saw another day
pass yesterday without the slightest
gleam of encoura cement They awaited
some cheering word from their Mayor,
but none came; they listened for good
news from the offices of the United
Railroads, but in vain; they looked
toward the headquarters of the carmen
for reassuring evidence of a settle-
ment of the pending strike, but found
nothing suggestive of a possible re-
sumption of traffic.
1t was a bad beginning for a new
week and particularly in view of the
fact that In the early morning hours
the vanguard of the men imported
from the East to take the places of
tered San Francisco and been installed
in the carbarns of the railroad COM
pany to await the crisis.
Among the reports OF the day was
one that Archbishop Riordan, hopeful
that his personal influence might
create some favorable and welcome
change, had conferred with President
Cornelius and Secretary Bowling of the
Garments Union. II his high aim was
accomplished the fact was not ad-
mitted to the pubic. Mayor Schmitz
and President Calhoun conferred also
late in the day, but they refused to
make public what was done or decided
upon.
President Calhoun announced during
the day that he was never more con-
fldent over the outlook, but those who
attempted to analyze this statement
found, much to their disappointment,
that the head of the railroad company
was buoyirg his confidence on the sue
cessful results of his plans to get a
large body of strike-breakers into or
near the scene of the strike without
interference.
Il do not want TO fight with my en-
ployes." said he. Il want peace as
much as any other good citizen, and at
this very moment / am striving toward
that end. But" and there was no mis-
taking the frmness of this man, If the
men who have been in my employ in
sist on carrying things with a high
hand l Will certainly resent 1t. l am
fighting a battle for industrial peace
for the whole country. The question
Is whether the carmen are to be per-
mitted to repudiete their acts when
ever they see fit: il they do, then they
will enevr earn the respect and conf
dence of the American people
In response to th- question as to
when he expected to resume traffic,
President Calhoun sala emphaticalIy:
When / start the cars you may rest
assured that they Will continue to run. .
At that very moment a thousand strik-
ing carmen and their friends were sur
rounding the railroad company's car
barn on Valencia street, vigorously
pleading with the imprisoned strike
breakers who had arrived in the morn
ing to leave the compenys employ and
come over to the carmen's union.
In the evening the heads of the car
mems union said the outlook was en-
couraging, but they. too, were, possi-
bly, so, selfshly Judging the situation,
basing their view on the fact that their
pickets had persuaded forty or more Of
the Farley strike-breakers in the Va
lencia carbarn to desert the enemy.
Summed up, the incidents of the day
were most discouraging to the peace
loving citizen With the arrival of the
strike breakers yesterday morning and
the reports later in the day OF the ap-
proach of additional forces destined for
the carbarns, which have been stocked
with provisions as If for long siege.
and the most ominous of all things, the
silence of those in whose hands the
solution Of the threatened bitter and