The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-26

page was headed with the caption
in large type: MIR. Wage Garner.
How Do These Wages Compare
With Your Daily Wager"
Mr.. Bean DID NOT give the
number of hours of toll put in to
obtain these wages, nor did hel
state that there was 33 per cent
more money represented than the
average pay check.
Attacks Union.
At the inception of the walk
out Mr.. Bean stated flatly that he
would not recognize ANY union,
but at the beginning of the sec
ond week, in full page ads, he ad-
vises the public that he does MOTT
object to a union, nor to "collec-
tive bargaining" but does object
to the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railways EN-
ployes, because OF its "RECORDI
OF UNRELIABILITY AND BRO
KEN PROMISES"
We defy Mr.. Bean to show one,
n
E. has broken promise not al
ready rendered void by the Stone
Webster interests. He says that
the union has a record of "inef-
ficiency and unreliability. and
tends to make it's members unfit
for the safe operation Of public
conveyances.
Again we defy Mr.. Bean to
prove his statement, since by all
records available it is known that
the home city, Boston,, of the
Stone-Webster interests has had
working agreement with the A. A.
S. Il. r. E. for several years, and
there is no more inefficiency in
Boston than there is in Tacoma.
A Question.
We respectfully submit to Mr..
Bean the question:
VIII not one to 81 years in the
service create better efficiency,
than Is minutes on a dead
track, as the strikebreakers now
in his employ have received?
Mr.. Bean has become so badly
frightened that he has been re-
duced to attempting to persuade
the strikers to meet him and
talk 1t over" individually, and
then has issued reports that the
men are sorry they struck,
which is bare-faced prevarication.
This has been done, evidently,
with a view to discredit the
striking men in the eyes of the
travelling public. also in an effort
to gain some of the nickels he is
losing to the company exchequer.
Public With Strikers.
Success of these plans would
mean the retention of Mr.. Bean
in the lucrative and easy living
position of general manager of
the T. r. & p. lines, whereas
failure might mean that l.. H.
Bean would be thrown out of en-
ployment and forced to do some
thing more mental, (such as
daily labor.)
The public has been so often
hoodwinked and bamboozled by
the powers that be that they have
studied the requests of the men
as we'll as their own inconveni-
ence, and have decided that the
demands of the strikers are only
just and reasonable, and there
fore have elected to suffer for
awhile.
Everybody Jitneys.
Many a well-to-do business
man has converted his auto into
a volunteer "jitney," and others
have seized upon the opportunity
to earn a few of the dollars so
eagerly needed by Messrs. Stone
G. Webster and their co-stock-
holders.
The carmen have stepped in
with a will, and are directing the
people to the proper cars, which
will take them close to their
homes.
Mr.. Bean has stated that he
will treat with the carmen
"either singly or in committees
as they elect" but he has NOT
said that he would not discharge
them at the slightest notice in
retaliation for their attitude to-
ward organization.
Hope for Settlement.
The men have no surety that
Mr.. Bean will not repeat his
blunder of discharging seven men
for union activities" just as
soon as he can get them to break
in enough new men to take their
places. His attitude toward them
in the past has not left the conf
dence in their minds that will be
necessary for future amiable and
friendly relations such as will be
necessary for efficient and safe
operation of his transportation
| lines.
1t is to be hoped that the
VERY NEAR future will see an
amicable settlement of traction
differences to insure the welfare
of our city and country during
these terrible war times.
(Signed)
PRESS COMMITTEE,
Amalgamated Assn of Street
& Electric Ry. Employees.
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