The San Francisco call., 1906-08-26

they used to do TO earn 1t. and what
they have been doing since the 18th Of
April. AS q master OF detail he is
eminent among American hnanciers.
and he gains from day to day, whether
he be here or in New York. q most
intimate knowledge OF the conditions
Snfecting your business. This. too the
arbitration proceedings abundantly es-
tablished. We feel that he could have
spoken from Cleveland. days ago. that
your directors could have taken action
days ago. and that you have assigned
no sufficient reason why we should con-
tinue waiting.
INCREASED MEMS WORK.
You speak Of the formal nullifiea-
tion of the solemn contract between
you and this union. You imply that
we are proposing TO break faith. Let
there be no such misunderstanding.
We are not refusing to do what we
agreed to do. You are obliging US to
do more than we agreed to do. is it
this union. then, or you. by whom the
contract is disregarded?
since the April disaster you have
pEt upon each car crew the handling of
twice the number of passengers a car
was carrying when we signed our last
agreement with you. You have CORE
spondingly increased the work Of other
members Of this union who are in your
employ. And this excessive labor we
never undertook 10 do has TO be per-
formed with the citys streets strewn
with debris, blockaded with building
materials and congested with an abb
normally concentrated traffie of pedes-
trians and vehicles. and with cars and
tracks in bad repair. Moreover. at the
same time you doubled our work with
out in the least raising our pay. there
came sweeping upon US a distressing
increase in the cost of living.
We never promised to work for you
as we have been working since the
18th Of April We are breaking no
contract, solemn or otherwise, when
we decline to go on doing work we
never promised to do, at wage rates
applying TO conditions that do not now
exist. Do you think you can justly
read into our 1905 agreement double la
lbor, multiplied nerve strain, eXtraVa-
Eant rents, climbing prices for nearly
everything we have TO buy, and hold
Ts bound by all these conditions, un-
dreamed OF in 1905, without any alter
alton of your obligations to us?
FOUR MONTHS CONSIDERATION.
You say our proposals mean money
outlay to you. and therefore you must
proceed cautiously. But have you not
MdQ LOuI LlOnluS lOI GQnSlO-
GRAFTON OF the new situation in which
you and we are placed? 1t is not as
though you had been crippled by the
April catastrophe. Your Sproperty is
worth more today than il was worth
before the earthquake and fire The
quotations of your stocks and bonds
prove this Indeed one needs but to
reflect a bit TO know that the quota
tions do not mislead. We cannot fer
get, our employees though you are.
that you offered, shortly before the
18th OF April, to present TO the city
100000 for the privilege of using the
overhead trolley in Market street. Then
came the shake and the flames: and
when the smoke cleared away you had
both the franchise and the money
Can you wonder, who would have US
think your poverty but not your will
compels. that we fancy, since you held
it money king 10 offer 100000 to
get the overhead trolley in Market
street, there must have been enormous
gain for you when you were relieved