The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1906, Page 2

MONDAY, AUGUST 27 ! 1906. ' FRANCISCO CALL, Streets Thronged President Calhoun Malntams That Carmen With Orderly Pedestrians. Orators Address Large Audiences Near the Headquarters. ession CROWD ON FILLMORE 1, was the horoughtare ry orderly. Street took things n attrac- barn at All after- to used straight tip on COFFLAND AS AN ORATOR. These spellbinders rode in they all mostly were In vacation and e crowd would er spe the 4 ;.m:cm and for a Umr der suspicion as med a to ad- near the did not seem too seriously s of the orator did. not seem to m at he kept right on and fked out of ammun -« ARMEN AS WAGON DRIVERS. m »r importance street near the car| d not start anything pecial detail v long in gang of in the reduce guesses to facts — esti- mates to certainties — random notes 1o statislics. The modern business man’s substitute for re- cord books. They record any information in any desiwed ar- rangement, and make one item in a million as accessible as one in a hundred. It's worth inves- tigating — personally or by mail. li. 5. CROCKER C0., SOLE AGENTS, 525 MARKET STREET. 1| | brought about an amicable adjustment. looked pros<| To the people of San Francisco: It was with profound regret that I learned this | morning that the employes of the United Railroads, belonged to the local Carmen’s Union, had struck. I did not believe that the union would de- 1 to wait twenty-four hours, until I could gt I had a right to rely upon its solemn agree- which does not expire until next May. On the of only twenty-four hours; on her the repudiation of a solemn agreement. who ide_ was a delay | the I had no intimation until last Monday that there was any dissatisfaction existing among our plat- form men I came here with the best feeling toward all of the employes of my company and was prepared to receive their representatives with the and good feeling I have always shown 1d have considered any cation the contract the union which i existing circumstances rendered.just and wise. I ‘ would have gone a long way to avoid a strike. Strife | courte and wi cheerfully with is to be avoided at all times. A tieup of a city's transportation is always serious, but such an event at s time, when San Francisco is emerging. from the of last spring, is terrible calamity plorable @/as Ready to Conciliate. It must be repugnant to every sense of fairness t a courteous request of a twenty-four-hour de- ; on a matter of such serious importance asked for in good faith could not be granted, but that the | whole transportation system of the city, its whole and economic life, should be tied up, and all the people of San Francisco be compelled to walk beca of a refusal to wait a mere t\\'cnt):-fnur hours for the arrival of the party perhaps most in- terested in the demands made by the men, which were not even a week old iness I came out here with the distinct intention of giving the most friendly and favorable consideration to our employes’ requests. I was even prepared-to make concessions. The men had been friendly to us and we had certainly been kindly disposed toward them | Conditions Now Changed. intention to act on these matters to- morrow at the directors’ meeting. The requesed de- twenty-four hours would probably have This un- , this unjust, this inconsiderate strike has put the railroad company and the public in a con- itior ich to be deplored. We will certainly take up the matter for Sconsideration tomorrow. What we will now do must be determined in the light of these changed conditions. It is one thing to grant‘a favor or make a concession to a kindly disposed employe who is still in your employ; it is quite an- other thing to listen to the request of a man who has “struck” himself out of your employment and has arbitrarily tied up your entire business. | When I came out here I did not believe for an instant that these men would, rather than wait the twenty-four hours requested, deliberately violate the contract which they entered into with us. t was my of lay good | | 1 Spirit of the Contract. | Three years ago, at the urgent request of the Car- indeed de- - Have Broken F a}gh With the Company. men's Umo;n, the United Railroads consented to mak: a contract with it. Again on the 25th day of January, 1905, the United Railroads and the Carmen’s Union of San Francisco entered into a contract, which does not expire until May 1, 1907. This contract declares: “1. The object and purposes of this contract and , the true intent and spirit thereof are to establish a permanent peace between the company and its em- ployes, to encourage a spirit of mutual confidence, to prescribe the conditions of employment and to se- cure to the public the best possible street railway service.” The contract further provides for the settlement of all disputes arising under it and makes special provision, in article 39, that “any difference as to the interpretation of the meaning of any of the terms of this contract mays be submitted at the re- quest of either party to a board of arbitration con- sisting of three members, one.of such members to be selected by the ‘company,’ one by the ‘union’ and the two thus selected to choose a t}:ird.” Agreement Violated. The union asked recognition; the United Railroads gave it. The union requested a contract; the United Railroads made it. This contract, so made at the union’s request, exists. The United Railroads has observed it with the utmost good faith and has a right to expect the Carmen’s Union to do likewise. The very life of unionism depends upon the good faith with which unions observe their obligations. It has been contended that unions should be incor- porated, in order that they become legally liable; but the very fact that their members cannot be held legally liable for a breach of contract makes it all the more important for them to so act that those dealing with them can rely upon their good faith. The contract, while made with the United Rail- roads was made, as I have stated above, in the in- terest of permanent peace and in the interest of the people of the city, in order that its necessary trans- portation should be undisturbed. ' In ordering the strike the Carmen’s Union has flagrantly violated its contract with the United Railroads and the faith it had pledged through the United Railroads to the peo- ple of San Francisco. Hope to Resume Service. " As many of you are union men, I desire to say that I have no fight with unionism. It is well known that T have been friendly to unions; I have favored their recognition and have felt that a contract with a union tended to give stability to the terms of employ- ment was in the public interests. But if unions can and will violate their solemn contracts thus reck- lessly and unfairly, the time will soon come when em- ployers will not care to enter into such contracts. Might does not always mean right, and might may not always remain on the same side. The action of the Carmen’s Union will undoubt- edly result in much indonvenience to the public and |’ in some delay in operation of our lines. We regret both. Unfortunately we placed too much reliance upon the solemn obligation of the Carmen’'s Union.” But we pledge you our utmost effort to resume ser- vice at the earliest practicable moment. PATRICK CALHOUN. San Francisco, August 26, 1906. May Import an Army of Strke Breakers Continued From Page 1, Column 7. road was willing to pay. Calhoun, too, has observed the short- age In the San Francisco labor market and he glves it out that he will be rather a public benefactor in bringing his men from the BEast to work where lal s are needed. “They will bring their familles with them and they will add to your popu- lation,” says the rallroad’s president. MEN HARANGUE CROWD. | All day long the doors of the car barns were closed and no car moved. “I was amazed,” Calhoun said yester- day, “when I received the telegram tell- ing me that our men had broken their ces | solemn agreement.” Making inflammatory speeches from | the driver's seat of a hired hack, four men drove around the city in the after- noon. They stopped in front of each of the car barns and harangued the men who congregated on the sidewalk. “If a trolley wire 18 cut, don't tell the policeman. If the rails are torn up, don’t let them mend them,” declaimed the man on the hack. But the: crowd smiled and took it good-naturedly. The | strenuous temper of strike days, with | e - |1arge buflding owned by the United Railroads and situated across the street from the car barn. The strike-breakers mounted the roof a couple of times and expressed their opinion of the carmen. The latter were alwgys ready to retort, | the blue-coated guardians of the peace warned the strike-breakers to get under cover and they did. Among the first of the enterprising ones to fit up butcher carts and bread wagons as stages were a number of the carmen. Bright and early yester- | day ntorning these strikers got busy | and secured several wagons and horses. They were operating all day along on | Potrero aistricts, and some of them | even ventured as far as Golden Gate Park in search of loose change. | & land-office business. They managed to get an earlygytart and thereby se- |cured the cream of the trafic. They | are not worrying about the strike, for they have been able to profit by the unpleasantness they are partly re- sponsible for. BREAK WATCHMAN'S NOSE. William Harrison, a watchman em- ployed by the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company, was treated at the | Central Emergency Hospital by Dr. C. | B. Pinkham yesterday afternoon. Har- | rison suffered from a broken nose and numerous contusions and abrasions. He claimed he was beaten by sympathizers of the Carmen's Union. According to the injured man, he was listening to a_discussion of the strike situation at Bddy and Fillmore streets about 5 o'clock, when some one addressed him as a “scab.” Before he could deny the allegation he was pounced upon by several men whom he claimed were strikers. When he emerged from the brawl he was much battered. An alarm was sounded, and a squad Lof policemen broke up the crowd. sy | but before the situation became serious | }Gold(«n Gate avenue, the Mission and | | These carmen admitted that they did | its bad blood and noise, was not there | yesterday. Do what they could, the | hack orators got little encouragement. | They found it necessary to stop at the corner saloon to keep up their belliger- ent spirit. MAYOR FEELS AGGRIEVED. “I am making no extraordinary preparations to preserve the peace,” said the Mayor. “In case the com- pany makes an attempt to run the cars, I presume the same measures to prevent riot will be taken which were used at the last street railroad strike. At that time the men organized what was known as a peace committee and placed members of their union on each of the cars to prevent acts of violence being committed by their sympathizers. city to put policemen on the cars.” The Mayor feels keenly the manner in which the carmen refused to con- sider the letter, which he sent them. | He feels that “an enemy hath done this,” and he is confident that the calling of a strike on Sunday morn ing was due to the political ambitions of a rival faction which would claim | for itself the merit of winning for the carmen the benefits they seek from the company. In this connection it is | rumored that the author of the docu- | ment adopted at the carmen’s meeting ‘\wu ex-Congressman Livernash. OTHER LINES CROWDED., Calhoun takes pains to emphasize the point that the men have been guilty years ago, in not first submitting thé | difficulty to arbitration, as was pro- vided in that compact. He says that it was his expectation to examine into the cost of living_here and the reason- ableness of the carmen’s demands, but now he has no soft word to turn away the wrath of the strikers. They have struck and violated their compact, he says, and consequentl» they can no titude. The Geary and California street cars were crowded inside and out all day yesterday. The salmon pink cable cars which have been put on the Califor- nia street line carried passengers on the roof in spite of the efforts of the company to prevent it. On Market street every imaginable sort of con- veyance was impressed into service, and owners of wagons reaped a rich short hauls and 25 cent: distant parts of the Mission and Rich- mond districts. ORDINANCE IN THE WAY. The board of directors of the United |1 Rallroads will meet this afternoon to take up the consideration of the strike situation and decide what steps are to be taken. There is a city ordinance which re- quires a motorman to spend seven days on the front platform before he can be glven a car to run. This will make it impossible for the company to put all the c: in operation at once, even if it had a sufficient number of men on the ground who had had experience in other cities. The company has a large number of inspectors who were motor- men and these could be used in- structors of the strike-breaking motor- men. But the process would be a slow 'SIWASHES CANNOT It has been against the policy of the| of breaking their agreement, made two |Crol longer look for concessions, is his at-|pg harvest at 10 cents a passenger for| g g to the more | F) one unless the company could pravlfll upon the city to abrogate the ordi- nance. PICNICS ARE IPOILED- Tie-Up of San Fmduo C;r Lines Pre- vents Sunday Outings. SAN MATEO, Aug. 26.—Much adverse comment upon the United Rallroads and strikers alike was expressed here today becauss of the tié-up. Beside in- conveniencing working people, the strike spoiled many picnics. One.of the main features of San Mateo Sunday 1ife was the large crowds of plenickers that came here from San Francisco. CONVERT HITS INTO RUNS. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.—Seattle played poorly today, both at the bat and in the fleld, and lost t6 Fresno by the score of § to 0. The team made five errors. The players landed on Fitzgerald for ten hits, but they were so widely scattered that they never resulted in runs. The score: AB. R.BH. 8B. PO. A. E. U9 0.9 ¢ 6 1.0 0 0 0 910 4108 0 1 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0 1 0 2 4 0 6 1 015 2 0 Uz B B Pl 0 100 91 0 .04 ) 0 10 0218 5 ‘g'. BH. SB. PO. A. E. Doyle, e. f. e T T B Casey, 2b T 500160 MeLaugh! T2 D0 D, 050 0 g Dashwood, 0 00 2 0 0 imas, 8b Rk SR Y I8 Cartwright, ‘b I E S e a Hogan, T. 1.. 90 030 0 Fitzgerad, 4 01 0 3 8 0 Totals LB 8 9 171z 0 RUNS HIT BY INNINGS. Seattle .. 0000000 0-0 2121011 1-10 by 1010200 x—3 2210210 x9 SUMMARY. sey. Two-base hits—Casey, Croll, Dosle. ~Sacrifice hits—Eagan, Cartwright. base on fl'::rl—}m . Left on bases— 11, Seattle 7. Bases on balls—Off Gar- vin 2, off Fitzgerald 2. t—By Garvin g by Fx*qam 1.t Double pl “!"l o g r‘t‘ Bid oy Eagan " Cart. wright fo Fagan. Wild es—Garvin (2). Hit bv tched Las 3 e of game— Umpm-?erun. Cnnndn was announced by the Minister of Mines in the Legislature oi Ontarfo. The report is that extensive beds of anthracite exist on the Hudson Bay slope I the nelghborhood of Albany River, which forms the dividing line between Ontario and the Northwest Terrltory. —————— ~ It is said that the Czar of Russia Tecelves from his subjects through the post no fewer than 100 petitions every day of his life. The majority oi these documents before reaching the mon- arch’s hands are examined by a confl- dentlal secretary. ‘Ihc discovery. of nthuom coal ln : ok # A% Schmltz Regrets Hostile Stand of Strikers. That there was politics in the strike meeting on Saturday night is the opin- fon of the Mayor and his advisers. They place the responsibility for the precipitate action of the Carmen's Union at the door of an outside politi- cal faction. “The demands of the men were rea- sonable,” the Mayor says, and it is plain from his conversation that he be- lieves the directors’ meeting of the United Rallroads, which was called for this afternoon, would have acceded to what the platform men asked if the “outslde political faction” had not seen fit to take g hand in the game and force the strike vote. Ex-Congressman Livernash is the re- puted author of the carmen’s letter which was sent to Thornwell Mullaily yesterday morming. When the Mayor says that the men have been made the innocent tools of plotters in the politi- cal game it may be inferred that he refers to Livernash and his assoclates. CARMEN IGNORE MAYOR. Schmitz feels keenly the evidenoe of his loss of prestige with the carmen. ‘When it was suggested at the midnight meeting of the carmen that the Mayor | desired to address them hisses were heard in the thronged hall. The men would have none of him. They made it plain that they were not seeking his co-operation by hissing his name when it was mentioned. The Mayor walted for a télephone call on Sunday morning which would tell him that he was wanted at New Club Hall, at the cor- ner of Twenty-first and Howard streets, where the carmen were in session, but no such message came to the residence at the corner of Pierce and Vallejo eets. ‘Formerly the union leaders have come to me when any such action was contemplated. This time they did not. I had to send for Cornelius. That was the way the Mayor ex- pressed himself yesterday, and it was easy to see that he did not blame the men 80 much as he deprecated the ad- vice of the opposing political menipu- lators, who, his advisers tell him, have played their game to win the credit of settling the difficulties of the carmen and getting for them the $3 and eight hours. SCHEME OF INTERLOFPERS. Ruef and Schmitz were in conference yesterday afternoon, and the strike was the matter under discussion. As they see it, the situation {8 this: The demands of the men are just. The company would have granted them. The glory would have been theirs. It looked easy enough, but the unfore- seen happened. The credit of getting the increased wage and shorter hours for the union was too great a thing to be neglected. The gubernatorial election is too near for any practical plotter to let such a good thing escape him. “The opposing political faction” was keenly sensible of this fact, and they are credited with having stepped in a day in advance of the Mayor and his friends and influenced the men to call the strike. It is taken for granted by both fac- tions that the company will have to yleld to what the men ask in one way or another. Schmitz wanted to help bring that result to pass by postpon- ing the strike and dealing directly wtih Calhoun. The others have tried to win the coveted credit by forcing the strike. | any unfair advantage of the company. | on thelr cars and resume work. Cannen Are Falr Minded” Says | Comelius. | Although non-committal regarding| possible overtures from the United Rail- | roads, President Cornelius of the Car- men’'s Union lives in the hope that the| officials of the company will make some | proposition regarding a compromuei within the next twenty-four hours. Cornelius says that the executive com- mittee of the union is at the disposal of the corporation and will do anything| reasonable and within bounds in order | to effect a settlement. Regarding the| situation, Cornelius says: | “The carmen are not unreasonable,| as many are led to believe. They are willing to keep on working as they| have for the last year till the United| Rallroads engages men enough to make{ up the eight-hour shifts. This, of| course, holds good only in the event| that our employers come to our terms. | “We realize that men are hard to ob- | tain at the present time. We know | that between 250 and 300 prospective | motormen and conductors have thelr| applications filed for positions with the United Rallroads. Now, in order to have these men properly broken in and to give the United Railroads time to make thelr arrangements with them, | we will keep on working on the same old basis and at the same old hours for a reasonable length of time. In othe: words, we are ready to resume work under the old scald {f we have the company's assurance that our de- mands will be granted and put into operation in a reasonable time.” “What would you consider a reason- able length of time?" Cornellus was asked. ‘Well,” he replied, “I should think that the United Railroads could fix up their running schedules under the new regime within two weeks. Our men are willing to work under the old con- ditlons till then. This is a reasonable proposition. We do not wish to take I belleve it should be satisfled with this arrangement, for it is very broad and needs no argument to support it. “Should the strike be settled within the next day or two our men will be ready to take the cars out within two hours after peace is established. A certain portion of them is constantly in uniform. These report to the car- barns and are in constant communica- tion with our pickets. Should the lat- ter pass the word that the strike is at an end the men will immediately jump “By this means we figure that every car in control of the United Railroads can be started at two hours’ notice. The men are not leaving the city. They are all practically at their posts and ready to respond to the call of duty when the proper moment arrives. “There have been no complaints made to the executive board today regarding riotous conduct on the part of the car- men. The members of this union have pledged themselves to conduct this strike on an orderly basls and I know they intend to live up to their word There is no oceasion for any display. The men realize their position and are willing to bide their time in th that the difficulty will be peacef: ad- | pf | justed. “Our 'executive ‘committes is ready and willing to listen to any and all overtures that the directors of the Unit- ed Railroads seem willing to make. Whenever Mr. Calhoun or Mr. Mullally wishes to communicate with uw they will find us ready to listen to any rea- sonable argument. In the meantime the strike will continue on the lines laid Calhoun Accuses Carmen of Breaking Faith With the Company Calhoun Is Ready to Investigate the Trouble. Patrick_ Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, arrived San Francisco from Chicago, accompanied by his wife, two daughters and two sons, at 5:30 yesterday afternoon. Cal- houn was met at the Oakland mole by Thornwell Mullally and Chief Electri- clan Davis of the company, and e ¢orted in an automobdile to the re: dence of Mullally, 2525 Webster atr where the party intends to stay for a month. When seen on the ferry beat en route to this city Calhoun was more in a mood to-interview than to be in- terviewed. Before he would answer any questions he put several of his own. “*What is the sentiment of the people? What do they think about the carmen breaking the existing agreement? Granted that the cost of living h increased, what would have been th action of the men If, throush some circumstance, the cost of living had suddenly diminished?” These rhetorical questions may epit- | omize the first impreasion which Cal- houn wished it to be understood he had received of the situation. After his questions had been answered he sal “If the men had waited forty-eight hours or until the directorate of the company had had time to meet and consider the demands, I certainly would feel differently disposed toward the men."” Agcording to Calhoun, his visit Rere was planned some time before he Wi aware that there was to be troul with kis employes. He was averse to discussing the situation om the boat, but stated that he would give out a written statement later in the evening. He said that there was to be no change in the time set for the directors’ meet- ing Monday at 2 p. m. In the company's offices; Oak and Broderick streets. When asked concerning the attitude in the East toward San Francisco, Cal- houn declared positively that financiers conversant with the general situation in this city were m optimistic for its future. Confidence in San Fran- cisco was the Wall street sentiment. he asserted, but added that the lay mind was not so universally sanguine Acgording to the president of the street car combine the labor disputes in this city are injuring it in the minds of BEastern capitalls In regard to the strike of the track workers and electrictans houn stat- ed that it would be considered along with the more important walkout of the platform men. “While I'm here I shall look into everything,” he said. Summer Colds. Laxative Bromo Quinine, world wide Cold Cure, removes cause. Call for full name; look for sig. of E.W.Grove. 25c.* Rice Crop of the Philippines. 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