The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-03

70 turn away people riding on the cars.
That store was quarantlned against all
tainted citizens even TO Its own great hurt.
Even while the union men throughout
the city we're forcing their propaganda
either directly or in sympathy Calhoun was
sending boarded up cars down TO the ferry
to meet every night train from the East.
Into these squads Of newly arrived strike
breakers were hurried and taken up to the
car barns. made citadels. hotels and hos
pitfalls In one. More and more cars were
run, despite the fact that tracks on steep
grades we're soaped at night -- ingenious at
tempts at murder and that assaults on
passengers eliminated about three weeks
ago In the beating to death OF a young clerk
whose crime had been that Of riding on the
prescribed cars.
Calhoun's determination put spirit into
the San Franciscans. made timid by the
last ten years OF union mob rule, and grad
ually he. crushed the car men by sheer
weight OF aroused public sentiment. There
are those who say that Calhoun welcomed
the strike for the very opportunity IL has
given him to put himself on a pedestal
above the ~opprobrium attaching to his
indictment; But he has broken the strike
upon which all OF The union labor cabal
OF San Francisco bore it's strength: that
is something for the good Of the city
when the street car strike was in it's
nrst blush OF murder and assault one of
the star chamber OF labor was quoted
as saying, I'VE will tie up the whole Id
town il necessary" What with the stimuli
taneous strike OF the iron workers. the
laundry workers, the brewers and several
other labor bodies it appeared that his
threat was in fair way TO making good.
But IL 10 only 10 beginning to dawn on
the labor leaders that the employers have
been seriously considering taking just
such action themselves and that a move
ment looking toward that end has gone
as far as to be financed.
Not long & the president OF the National
Manufacturers Association visited San
Francisco and was in consultation with
the local employers and manufacturers
Though the result Of the conference and
subsequent activity among the busines
men has been carefully kept guarded. the
news has been learned from a reliable
source that the national manufacturers
had promised q large sum to San Francisco
business men contingent upon the raising
OF q second sum among themselves, the
whole being designed to support the lead
ing business interests OF the city in a general
lockout Of the unions.
IL is q fact that already a large sum has
been subscribed by San Francisco business
men to this joint fund and that the total
will be in the millions. The word is passed
dictated to and badgered by the union forces
for the trying ten years gone that in
the event OF another great strike like that
OF the car men, when the city shall be thrown
into a paralysis OF inaction and terror.
stores and factories by common consent
shall be closed and the thousands carrying
the union tag thrown out TO face the pinch
OF idleness. II 10 a capital measure. but
the temper Of the San Francisco employers
is rapidly rising to the point OF accepting
II as the most certain emancipation from
union int0leranne