The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-09
CASE NEARLY READY
FOR THE BOARD
Arbitrators Between Car
men and the United Rail
roads Hear Arguments
MOORE GROWS BITTER

One more day of argument and the
actual arbitration of the difficulties be-
tween the carmen and the United Rail-
roads will begin. Tonight the case Will
be closed as far as testimony and argu-
ment are concerned and the matter sub
mftted to three arbitrators for their
decision.
The court listened yesterday to the
argument of counsel for the railroads,
Stanley Moore addressing them in the
morning and his father A. A Moore,
continuing in the afternoon. When the
hour for adjournment arrived Moore
Sr. had not finished, hut he assured the
arbitrators that Ii would take him but
an hour to conclude this morning, and
Albert Johnson said that he would
complete his closing argument for the
carmen during the remainder of the
day The arbitrators will then Assem-
bile in the chambers of Chief Justice
Beatty for their discussion of the evil
dence
Il presume / shall be called upon to
decide only the matters upon which the
two other arbitrators cannot agree"
said the Chief Justice yesterday.
In his argument Moore Sr. dwelt
upon the fact that the carmen were
under a contract with the company
which did not expire until May and
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violence attendant upon the strike the
company would have stood upon the
contract and insisted upon it's enforce
ment in the courts. He admitted that
there might be circumstances which
made the work of the men more oner-
Gus at present, but claimed that these
conditions were passing away. In as
far as they were caused by the acts
or negligence of the company, he said
-
the adjudication of arbitration, but he
insisted that the cost of living had no
effect upon the binding nature of the
contract which the men had made with
the company, and that any saving
which the company had made in the
matter of running less cars ought not
to be the basis of a demand for in
creased wages.
IF / cut out drink or two. and
thereby cut down my household ex-
penses, that is no reason why / should
be forced to pay my cook SIS a month"; -
he said Wages are wages"
Counsel recalled the fact that the
former board had determined that the
profits of the company were not to be
taken into consideration in fixing the
standard of wages and that it had re-
fused TO alter the graded scale or the
hours of labor of the men.
At times Moore grew bitter in his
illusions TO the power of the union,
which he said had the commonwealth
by the neck" He said that its atti-
tude was "carping, malicious and male
VIOLENT toward the hand that fed it,
and that there would be no end of it
until the time comes, as it will, when
the companies cannot pay more and
these men will go to the soup kitch-
ems" 1T would surprise YOU" he told
the board, ito learn to what a degree
their strong graphing hooks are fixed
upon every industry"
Toward the attorney for the unions
Moore exhibited more or less feeling.
alluding to his argument as whining
whangdoodle." and asserting that she
beamed balefnlly upon me as he mem
toned the names of Ricardo. John
Stuart Mill and the other familiar
spirits with which he has surrounded
himself"
The carmen, Moore said. were
unskilled laborers and the sup
ply was unlimited. mo kind of labor
has such an inexhaustible field from
which to draw" he said. IF these
men were offered Sc a day to work with
a pick and shovel, how many of them
do you think would go?"
When he came to the matter of the
overcrowding OF the cars, Moore fol-
lowed the testimony of Superintendent
Hibbs who held that il was an illusion.
1T produces an impression that is OPP
posed to the correct Impression" was
the way he put it.