The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-04-27
STRIKE VOTE.IS
To Be TAKEN BY
UNION MEN SOON
Conference With President
Calhoun Comes to
Naught
BOTH SIDES FIRM
Labor Organizations. Prom
ise Their Aid in Event
of a Tieup
HOPES FOR PEACE
HOPES FOR PEACE
Situation Is Not Beyond
Anicable Settlement
of Dispute

The demands of the carmen for
an eight hour day and $3 wage
were ratified yesterday by the in
ternational executive committee
of the carmen's union. This rati-
flcation carries with it the con-
sent to a strike and financial sup
port in the event further negotia-
tions fail. The. conference be-
tween Calhoun and the commit
tee from the carmen ended with
out either side showing any signs
of withdrawing from its original
position. The affiliated unions,
the members of which are en-
ployed in different capacities by
the United Railroads, voted yes
terday through their joint council to
support the carmen in the event of a
strike. and this support may go to the
length of sympathetic strikes
Late in the evening the executive
committee of the labor council met in
executive session and after two hours
debate, in which Walter Macarthur led
the opposition against certain of the
minor terms in the demands of the
carmen, the terms as presented to the
company were indorsed by a unanimous
vote. This is said to mean that in the
event of a strike all the unions repre-
sented in the labor council must give
their support to the carmen
OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT
This is the story of yesterdays de-
velopments in the situation. The out
look for peace is not bright, and were
it not for the empowering popular de-
mand that the reconstruction of the
city go on without interruption and the
calamity of Industrial war, 1t would
seem that a streetcar strike was in
evitable.i But there is yet room for
peaceable settlement. Both sides realize
the serious nature of the situation that
confronts the city. Calhoun and Cor
nelius expressed themselves yesterday
as sincerely desirous Of averting the
public misfortune that would be at
tendant on the tying up of the street
transportation facilities. and the hope
was voiced on all sides that some COM
promise would be reached.
Tonight the executive committee of
the carmen will meet, and unless some
unforeseen event interrupts the pro-
cedure midnight meeting Of the en-
tire union win be called in a day or
two. at which the strike vote will be
taken.
HOSTILE INFLUENCES
Calhoun again intimates that there
are influences hostile to him at work
with the men to force the strike for
reasons foreign to the terms OF the
controversy. 1t is charged that Schmi4z
would gladly see anything come upon
the community that would give him an
opportunity to cajole the unions into
the belief that his power is not broken,
and the president of the United Rail-
roads strongly hints that the influences
which are at work to hammer down
the price of the company's securities
would welcome a strike Up to this
time these influences have been more
active than the strong public desire
for peace.
The conference between Calhoun
and the committee from the garments
union, which was held yesterday at
noon at the Offices of the United Rail-
roads, was amicable, but without re-
suits. During two hours talk each
side pressed its views argumentative-
ly and with apparent mutual under
standing, but in the end Calhoun held
firmly to his first offer-to continue
the wage scale now in efrect, and the
carmen did not offer anything other
than their original demand for eight
hours and So.
calhoun's views are amply set forth
below, as they were typewriter at his
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