Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-17
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Parents Join T.-R. in Settlement Which
Gives the Boys the Money They

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Asked.
II is believed that the trouble with
the T.-R. carrier boys has been settled
! satisfactorily to the boys. to their par
ents and to the T.-R., and it is hoped
that others will cease to interfere. III
managers have taken the time to see
cach parent of the twenty boys and
find that with hardly an exception the
parent had not been consulted n had
not joined in the demand for more pay
for the boys but the T.-R. has granted
the pay which the boys asked because
that was the only way in which to set
tie the matter now. without having
another riot on the streets, and be
cause If the increase was denied q
great many OF the best people of the
city would feel that the T.-R. had been
short with the boys. The men who
own the T.-R. are working to make
their business prosper but they could
not enjoy the fruits of their toll IL
people generally would suspect them
of not being willing to pay fair wages
to those who work for them, especially
to little boys.
All the parents have signed or
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andun of consent to settlement:
We, parents OF T.-R. carrier boys,
desiring to have all disturbance stopped
would be pleased to have our boys con-
tinue their work at the new wages of
$500 per month and prizes offered us
and for which we wish to thank the
T.-R. management.
We consented to our boys accepting
employment before at the former wage
because we wanted them to be doing
something useful and we hav never
at any time asked the T.-R. to pay
them more money.
We did not approve of the boys stop
ping work without giving the T.-R. an
! opportunity to discuss the matter with
us and We will send the boys back to
work whenever we are satisfied In our
own minds that the matter has been
so settled that the boys will be entire
ly safe from harm on the streets.
The T.-R. has been advised to hire
men, arm them and break the strike
by force and assistance to this end has
been offered. The papers could be de-
livered in this way. of course, but the
belief would stay with nan good peo-
pie as well as with bad. that the T.-R.
had refused to pay children u fair
wage.
The facts are hat IL any parent had
ever come to the T.-R. to discuss the
matter of boys pay it is not unlikely
that an increase could a been OBJ
tanned peaceably. The old pay was
Just what boys Of the same age got for
carrying milk and for driving COWS and
boys gave up those jobs to take the
paper job at parents request, because
they got home earlier as one mother
expressed 1t. At least the T.-R. had
not been requested to pay more and
when the boys struck without fair no.
tice the T.-R. went to the parents as
far as it could, hurriedly. Most of it's
boys had been sent back to work and
it was supposed that this would settle
it. No one anticipated a crowd of peo-
pie, decent and respectable, to gather
and had any one minated that thugs
were going to assault the fathers of
the carriers and Mr.. Hughes on the
streets, the T.-R. never would have
sent a single boy out with it's papers.
1t all seemed a joke to the T.-R. INC to
OliGIS. itllS ny 1Nl " -
connected with the carriers was never
expected.
Mr.. Carter was followed thru the al
ley from Main to State streets by four
full grown toughs who struck him and
tried to get him down. Mr.. Hughes
and Mr.. flanagan were assaulted on
Main street by several men, some of
whom We're intoxicated, n Mr..
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nearly a block by men not in any way I
interested in the boys. yet not a decent
citizen in the crowd. of whom there
were many or an officer, attempted
to protect him. A woman saved him
from probable injury.
These things were not done by rela-
tives of the boys or by the boys or
by the reputable people who made up
most of the crowd. The tough who
is always looking for a chance to hit
somebody took charge n no one had
nerve enough to interfere.
For these reasons the T.-R. has be-
lieved that people in Marshalltown had
better be given time to come to their
senses before orderly business could
be resumed. Hence no other effort has
been made to resume delivery. The
boys. themselves. were not to blame.
They did not go at their demand right.
but they were boys. Their parents had
not been consulted. The T.-R. will bear
them no, malice, but there will always
remain the feeling hat it was coward-
ly to permit the rioting that was done
and that people nave been unfair ins
the frightful stories which have been
circulated against a business institu-
ton which has been clean. legitimate.
fair to every class, charitable, public
spirited, and a credit to the city.