The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-14


10 the arbitration, and full wages
paid to the party or parties not found
guilty, for the total time lost
Regarding Rules.
'@That relating to the PRONUNCIATION
Of rules is as follows:
Section IL. All notices, rules
and orders not appearing in the book
of rules, or supplements thereto. shall
be posted in the official bulletin book
in the company's barps, or other re-
porting Offices, as they may be, and,
%hen possible, forty-aight ffS} hours
before becoming effective. These
notices shall also be posted for a
reasonable length of time on the bull
letin board at the car barn
THAT relating to the want of right
of the employees to strike without five
days notice is as follows:
"'Section ;. Five 90 clear days
notice shall be given 70 the company
by the association before quitting
work for any cause whatever, if the
association shall at any time decide
to quit work
No Notice Given.
"A reference to these. will show
that even though the men were
yet. that the rule could have been
set aside by arbitration, and that
they violated their agreement in two
essential particulars by striking. the
agreement that they should submit to
arbitration. and the agreement that
they should not strike without five
DAYS notice. The performance OF
these agreements is vital to the COM
pany. because without arbitration the
men themselves. or their association,
would become the sole judge of when
they should have q right to strike. ii
the company did anything objection
able to them and without the agree
ment requiring notice the company,
at any moment, was liable TO be
made unable 70 run its cars to per
form its duties to the public. and
become subject TO threats such as
have been of a forfeiture of its char
ter. for not. within the five days pro-
vided by the agreement, continuing
the maintenance of service. It is OBJ
yious that no public utility company
could continue TO do business under
such conditions. and that it meant
that not only the private interest OF
the company. but the public interest
Of the community, were entirely de-
pendent upon the arbitrariness OF the
association. or solely upon, as hap
mems in this case, the individual will
of the president of the association.
Offered to Arbitrate.
The offers of arbitration made by
the men given after they had ceased
to be employees of the company by
their own deliberate act, if submit
ted to by the company, would mean
in each case that the association
could stop the cars. deprive the pTb-
lie of their services, and then insist
upon an arbitration. which would
have been accorded if demanded prior
thereto.
The late employees of the company
and their sympathizers have not de-
MED the facts as above stated. but
have sought to lead public opinion
away from them and from the issues
really involved, by mis-statements OF
facts and by false appeals 10 senti-
ment.
1T is claimed that the strike was
caused by the company in pursuance
of a plan formed by it. This IS not
true Upon the contrary. the COM
pany was working in peace and har-
mony with its men, and the strike
was not only procured or caused by
it. but was entirely unanticipated, and
as much of a surprise to il. as to the
suffering public
1T has been asserted that the men
brought from other states to run the
cars have been deceived as tOsthe OBJ
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