The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-05-25
Conductors STORY:
WRONGS REVIEWED
One Street Railway Employe
Gives Several Reasons Why
Men Are Not Satisfied.

When Organizer s. S. Mcdonald
received the strike vote Of the Duluth
Street railway employees he mar
veled at the unanimous expression of
discomfort manifested by the men. Al
most every vote was accompanied
personal view Of labor conditions on
the street railway system.
Among the interesting letters was
the following from a conductor whose
name Is withheld, but who has been
in the. service of the company for
many years:
II am a conductor for the Duluth
Street Railway company and am
ready to strike any time, If necessary,
as I have been through the mill in
It's service sufficiently to know that
it is fairly slavery. :, There is no linn
it to the red tape and we have to pay
IS for our badges and must furnish
$1,000 of our own change, but do
not get any interest on this money
used for the sole benefit of the COM
pany.
I'VE have several shifts that are
killing on the men that do not al
low them sufficient rest, and If a man
is sick enough to have doctors care
and notifies Mr.. Campbell about it,
say an hour or two before the relief
is to, be made, the answer is either
make the pull out or relief, or turn
in the buttons"
Work During Sickness.
Many men have to go on duty not
physically able to perform it, the
| same as the street railway officials
| expect them to do, and If the officials
find a chance they will hand him
| over a wad of dement's.
II was told on the car yesterday
by prominent business man (whose
wife was sitting by his side) that
Herbert Warren should be driven out
of the city. and that, we boys should
fight t.;out to a finish. Ali the peo-
pie that I have spoken with ;sympa-
thize with, us, although I have been
very careful not TO- talk much Of any
thing in. this respect. .,s.~ - -
In regard to Mr.. Moore. T can
say he has, been, q perfect, gentleman
towards me and I think $he intends to
be faiE.sbut MI. Campbell, the: barn
foremaN Is the meanest man in the
service. They fired the best foreman
they had or: ever win: have because he
was too intimate, with the boys.
(. Lying On Deathbed. y
"Ioe. Sugrean, zone Of, their. con-
ductors. u.s. now lying ,ons his deathbed
at the hospital in this, city from over
work; and. compelled to labor, when
not physically ;.able to do his duty;
others, have gotten physically ILL and
have had to turn in. the buttons, as
| the company, would not give them a
| layoff sufficient to get cured Of their
Ills They have not been fair even
| II they claim 80. Nit #i~s, Es & XIV
| Herbert Warren is an expert, they
| say, In preventing organizations and
| that is what he was sent here for In
the first place years ago. The Twin
City Street Railway company is
practically the same trust as here,
and the cost of living there is less
| than Duluth.
s..Mr. Stevenson, the night foreman
whom they discharged, knew more
about street railways than all the
other officials OF the Duluth Street
railway put together. The city coull-
ell should do something, to help settle
our trouble. The officials are riding
on the cars more than usual II won
der why r s:.s#5
sSHIPRUILDERS STRIKE :.
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