The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1906, Page 2

THE M ayor Schmitz P leads_ i £ X ¥ W Sk NEFEN &< g \" P S5 Letters Exchanged Between- the Mayor and the United Railroads. of yoursel modificat Let us avoid stri good fe "ROM THE MAYOR. the Ma £ this city the im maintenance 0 one re s unfortunate up your car sys action of the carmen in ¥e arrival for may have been i sidered and was own expressed suggestions til San Franc harbor no i the m and unwise must have been induced under the circum- you will ,of your- consider fair to you that the men in 3 y are of the highest class they have been dustrious your ir service that the men tional and nerve- no . douh food and sed since the wage of labor in increased every department of tndugtrial activity. “Notwithstanding their contr foreseen a 1 seeable ¢ so0. changed conditions ought certainly n ng requests which ci ebsolutely forced upon the “I note with ple that here . prepared to some sions to your men. “I beg of you 1ot to let their impet- action in not awaiting your ar- you ca make rivel change your friendly intention and dispositio! “I beg that you will, in the interest of public peace, in the interest of our people, who certainly entertain no un kindly feelings toward you, in the i terest of the worthy and deserving men who have served you so long and so well, and in your own interest, grant them immediate concessions along the line of their requests, and to end at once, and before it assumes larger pro- the rou put yourself in a former good relationship. deceived. Y d of contract as now existing between ck spirit of friendliness. (Signed) able disagreement. E E. SCHMITZ, Mayor.” MAY NOT R EDUCE HOURS. was requested by | reply to the Mayor's r he wrote he makes | ficant statement that the hours | . as they have been fixed in the are “well nigh as men as any which out.’ This may be| indicate that sition which he i the men a redv not be include: As to the advance in pay, 8 not so explicit. in any propo- prepared to make to on in the hours would Calhoun He states that the n the fact, but he admits s investigations have proved to im that there has been a material advance in rents. CALHOUN WRITES TO MAYOR. His letter to the Mayor is as fol- lows “Hon. Eugene E. Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco—Dear 8ir: I have the honor of acknowledging your favor of today, which I laid before the board of directors at their meeting at 2 o'clock. T board requests me to say that it deeply regrets the carmen's strike which has tied up transportation throughout the city. They were amazed at such ill-advised action. The com- pany had kept with the utmost good faith the contract made with the union. | The requests for higher wages and less | hours were concealed by the union's of- ficers from the company until about one week ago. “I desire personally to assure you | that I started here with the intention of fairly and fully considering these nexpected requests within less than one week of hearing them. My in- tention was to take into consideration in the just settlement of these re- quests any changed conditions existing here and to endeavor to meet them in | fair way by proper modification of| the contract, If necessary. | “Before the meeting of the union| yesterday morning 1 telegraphed en route of my arrival the same day. Twenty-four hours was all the time | y before striking for con- | tion of the requests of the union the board of directors. Awaiting hours for the purpose of | & the existing conditions and | ring the request under those within the purview of the con- . the first article of which is: SPIRIT OF THE CONTRACT. “The object and purpose of this contract and the true intent and spirit thereof are to establish a permanent peace between the company and its employes, to encourage a spirit of mu- 1 confidnce, to prescribe the condi- ns of employment and to secure the ublic the best possible street railway was the union obligated, duty to the public as ex- in the above clause, to defer pressed action for a few hours before entirely tying up the general transportation of the city. All obligation, however, to the public and to the company as well | were thrown aside and with ill advised and warranted haste action was taken that deals a blow to the city just recovering from a great disaster, which is far more to be deplored than a blow at this company by the leaders {of the union and their instigators, | whatever may be their object. ur action has placed y: t is our duty to operate our lines, and we will do so. the company you have returned to work the company will be pre- in a spirit both of kindness and liberality. ons which now surfound us and treat you as considerately, 3s Any adjustment at which we arrive will date from the time you us remember the public. Return to work and let us settle our differences position of hostility to this company ou, this company and this community When in the it and_ your union. If you return “PATRICK CALHOUN, President.” e United Railroads directors that what the road considers strike without waiting for the arrival of Calhoun reconsider that act and begin again from the position “In replying to you, it is but fair to say that our men are pald the highest wages of any streetcar men in any im- portant city in the world. The hours were adopted after full consideration by the =xepresentatives of the men themselves and are such as usually ob- tain in streetcar service throughout the entire country. The transportation business differs materially from that of all others, because of number of hours cars must run and the difference in the volume of travel at different hours, which render the hours men- tioned in the contract well-nigh as favorable to the men as any that can be worked out. “I beg further to say that, regarding the increased cost of llving of which you speak, I am very glad for the city's reputation at large to be able to sub- mit to you the results of the labors of 2 high authority of unquestioned abil- ity, whose services we engaged upon receipt of the union’'s demands for de- termining as accurately as possible what increases. if any, existed in the cost of living. The result of his ex- amination shows that the increase in the cost of living in this city has been exaggerated in some of the reports which have been circulated. SECURING NEW CARS. “Within the year the prices of some leading articles have advanced, and some have fallen. With the exception of rents there is not a difference of more than 5 per cent in the cost of living this August over August a ;enr ago. Rents, however, have materially advanced. The advance in rents must be temporary, as the building of new houses will inevitably meet the de- mand. “It is further to be sald that the com- pany has spared no labor or money in placing new cars in operation to take the place of those incapacitated. The least possible time in which the ‘largest car manufacturers will agree to construct ca bodies 1s five months; it requir about one month for shipment and an- other month in assembling car bodies, trucks, air brakes and motors, a total | of seven months from the date of ordey to the time of placing cars in service. “This company, however, through ex- traordinary efforts, the courtesy of the Chicago City Railway Company and my promptness in ordering cars within three days after the fire, has within four months placed twenty large new electric cars in operation, has thirty additional ones now in the city belng equipped from day to day, also twelve additional ones now en route from. St. Louis and an order placed for 250 more, 100 of which are to be in operation by January next. IMPROVING THE SERVICE. “The company has done and will con- tinue to do all in its power to improve the service as rapidly as possible, until it 1s as fine as that of any iIn the world. “While the United Rallroads regrets that the Carmen's Union, by break- ing its contract and ordering this un- fortunate strike in the manner which it did, has placed itself in such a situa- tion that this company cannot deal with it, the board of directors re- quests me to assure you that both it and the officials entertain only senti- ments of friendship for the former em- ployes of this company. ‘WOULD MODIFY CONTRACT. “The company recognizes that its former employes have been misled and misguided into their hasty and in- e Scene at the foot of Market street during the strike. With Calhoun SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1006 to Be (Generous 125 \\\E S The attitude assumed by the direct- ors is the attitude of President Patrick Calhoun. They will not brook dicta- tion from the men, who, they hold, have broken a solemn agreement, but they represent themselves to be most kindly disposed to the men who have been “ill advised.” The directors’ meeting, which: was to have been held at the offices of the company at Oak and Broderick streets, was transferred to the home of Thorn- well Mullally at 2525 Webster street, which has become the headquarters of the president of the road. At half-past 2 the directors went to the Webster- street house In automobiles, and their meeting lasted for an hour. WILL NOT DEAL WITH MEN. At its close President Calhoun said that a bulletin would be issued to the men and that a statement was being prepared for the press. He also gave Schmitz, which was read at the meet- ing of the directors. “I feel that our men have been the vietims of unfortunate advice,” Cal- houn said. “They have been made the cats-paw of politiclans, and for that reason I have none bur the kindest feel- ings toward them. If they will come back to the employ of the company their requests will be considered care- fully, liberally and justly, but the com- pany will not deal with them as long as they remain out. DRAFTED REPLY ON TRAIN. “But they must realize that there are principles involved. We are face to face with the gravest kind of labor difficulty, and there is an old saying that the fellow who fights last fights longest. “I was on my way to this city pre- pared to deal with the men in the kind- est sort of way. I even drafted an answer to them while I was on the train,” “Why ocould you not have put that answerjon the wire and prevented the strike?” was asked. “It was only a tentative draft, and I felt that it would be necessary for me to get here and make a careful esti- mate of the conditions, particularly as to the present cost of living. “But 1 want to say that the wages we were paying were the highest in the country, and it would be the sim- plest sort of thing to get 2000 men to come here and do the work without making an increase in the scale,” and the president snapped his fingers sharply to indicate the celerity with which he believed 2000 could be pro- duced. S “Have you any strike-breakers on the way here now?' Calhoun was asked. —— = considerate action. But for the city's good, for the good of the men them- selves and for the good of this com- pany it will take up the requests of the men in the same fair and friendly spirit that was felt before the strike and consider the changed conditions now existing here with a view of modifying the existing contract with the union. s *] am requested by the board of di- rectors to express its appreciation of the spirit of your letter and the deep public interest which it manifests and to assure you that this company will meet you heartily in any effort that insures industrial peace and promotes the clty’s welfare. Very respectfully yours, PATRICK CALHOUN, ‘President United Rallroads of San Francisco." Itohing B -‘Em?i" ?-.uun. telust. lind, Ble o Plles. ey if Pazo Ointment g cure in 6 to 14 days.50c* United Railroads Decline to Treat With Strikers. 1 “I would not like to answer | When he out his answer to the letter of Mayor | | | | CESS | | BRGNS N SaSSs | TS 1 g | that | as- | ru question now, but you may rest sured that when I sald I would these cars I meant what I said.” was asked how long would be before he would be ready to start the cars if the men refused his invitation to return, he replied tersely: | “Not so’ very long.” RECEIVER NOT DESIRED. | In regard to the city ordinanece which requires motormen to spend seven days| on the front platform before they may take out a car, Calhoun was of the| opinion that, if public policy required | |1t. the ordinance could be rescinded for | | the emergency. | | “We have no idea of calling for a receiver,” he said. “We can run these | roads without help. I de not belleve | that any one outside is going to try to| | torce the company into the hands of a | recelver by Federal process.” It was evident that the company was preparing for a fight, but at the same | time it was willing to give the men a| chance to return to the position held| | by the union before the vote to strike | was passed. | After the official statement had been | given out last night at the home of Mullally, Caihoun significantly re-| | marked: “When we hire a man we never dis- charge him without cause.” “You mean that if you hire men to take the places of those now out you will not discharge them without cause?” was asked. “I do not mean it as a threat, but| that is a policy we have. I would like | to keep the old men we have with us| if they will come back. I like them and would be glad to retain them in our service.” | | Carmen Ask More Than Promises. The striking carmen yesterday issued to President Patrick Calhoun a state- ment of their regret at the serious ill- ness of his youngest son, who was taken to the hospital yesterday morn- ing to be operated on for appendicitis. The letter further stated that the men d1d not look with satisfaction on his request that they return to work and arrange terms afterward. The letter follows: “Mr. Patrick Calhoun, President United Railroads of San Franclsco— “Dear Sir: Allow us at the outset to express our sympathy with vou for the serious illness of your son, of which we learned this afternoon, and deeply to regret that the pending disagree- ment between your corporation and this union should have arisen at a time when you are overcast with so grave| an anxlety as that illness occasions. SUSPICIOUS OF DELAY. “You will feel, we hope, that our dif- ferences with you are in your business capacity as president of the United Railroads, and that we do not cease to think of you on the Intimate personal slde of your character with sentiments of kindliness. “The letter which on your arrival in this city yesterday you addressed to the people of San Francisco has a tone of truculence not usual with you, and, believing that it was written under im- pulse of a passing anger, we shall not assume that you, habitually calm and Jjudicial, should be held to have meant all that your words convey. “You say we should have remained at work until the directorate of the United Rallroads had met you on Mon- day afternoon. No doubt we would have done so had not practically all of the members of the union believed your corppration was using every hour of delay in saying ‘yes' or ‘no’ to the pro- posals laid before you on the 18th inst. to hire strike-breakers in other cities and to transform its local carbarns into fortified strongholds for the re- ception of strike-breakers. “Information came to us that non- union men were being engaged, and | following to be vitally | truth is that we are worn out by ex- | ocal Administration Sees - Politics n the Strike. In the serious streetcar strike now in progress there is a political side of apparently very grave meaning. Mayor Schmitz and his political advisers de- clare that the entir. trouble has been precipitated by their political enemies. Mayor Schmitz has made such an as-| sertion public and his friends are in- sistent in the expression of their bellef that he is right. While the Mayor will not mention any names, his finger is pointed at E. J. Livernash, Andrew Furuseth, Michael Casey, Timothy Sul- livan and others who have become his political enemles. | According to the Schmitz factlon, the | strike was planned not to injure the owners of the United Rallroads nor | to improve the condition of the em- ployes of that corporation, but to de- stroy the political ambitions of Mayor Schmi and ave Ruef, and to stiffen.| the aspirations of Willlam Hearst for| | the possession of a State organization | in his political campaign, | | their assertions the administration peo- | In proof of ple point to a conference that was held | yesterday by E. J. Livernash, Andrew’| Furuseth, Harry Hutton, Timothy Sul- ivan, Michael Casey and John Kean. | Livernash is a political enemy of Mayor | Schmitz, a confidential friend of Hearst | and the legal adviser and letter writer | of the Carmen's Union. He has been| constantly in association with Richard | Cornelius, business agent of the car-| men, and is belleved by the Schmits | Interested in | the success of any political plan that Hearst may have in this community. | Further than this, say the Schmitz men, Livernash is the only person not a | member of the Carmen'’s Union who has béen admitted to the discussions of that body. Andrew Furuseth is a close personal | friend of Livernash and a strong an-| tagonist of the existing municipal ad- ministration. Timothy Sullivan is a politician and an electrical worker. In a recent campalgn he fought the Mayor and was beaten. More recently he was acitvely concerned in the strike of the | electrical workers against the United | Rallroads. Hutton, an ex-Police Com- missioner, 1s a bitter enemy of the Mayor and outspokenly anxious to undo | Schmitz in any political ambition he | may have. COUNCIL OF SCHMITZ'S FOES. | In this conference Schmitz and his| followers saw nothing but a war coun- | cil: of their enemies planning new strikes to rob the Mayor of strategie advantage and especially to deepen and | strengthen the new manifested dis-| trust of the carmen and their affiiated | unicns. e While this conference of the administration’s enemies was In progress another meeting of Im- portance was being held at the hat happened at this session probably will never be told in detail. At that session there were Mayor Schmitz, Abe Ruef, Thornwell certainly hostilé preparations were dally being made in and about the car- barns.. If you wished your employes to be at ease about delay, why did you not at least put a stop to hostile| preparations here:while you were ask- | ing for delay? And, if you were very| much. concerned that we should not| cease work, why did you not send us a frank, manly. word or two by wire| promising definite improvement of con- | | ditlons? MAIN ISSUES REMAIN. “Whether we were prudent or im- prudent in quitting work on Sunday however, it {s not now genuinely im- portant to talk about. The living ques- | tion 1s what your corporation and this union and the public are to do as thing stand at present. The merits of our proposals remain quiteu nchanged Your workmen earn $3 a day or they do not. Their workday should be eight hours or it should not. The pro- blems are the same now as they were on Saturday, without regard to whether the cars should have rum on| Sunday and Monday or should not. Let us pass on to the real merits of our proposals and not spend time consid- ering the wisdom or fairness of a de- cision reached by.our union on a point not vital to the case, and now beyond recall. “You say a great deal about viola- tion of our contract with your corpor- | ation. Now, of course, we are not | violating any contract. Cannot we be truthful with each other, you and this union. The contract, you mean, was made in the spring of 1905, and we then promised to serve vour company | at so much per hour or day, as the case | happened to be, performing the work | we were then doing. Consider that we dtd not pomise to do whatever your | company might at some future day make up its covetous mind to have us | do in order to increase its dividends, | but, rather, we agreed to do the work | we were then doing—then, mind you, that is/to say, in the spring of 1305. DOUBLE WORK REQUIRED. “But you know very well that for four months your corporation has been obliging ‘us to do double work, | and this, too, under altogether new conditions—conditions of great difficul- | ty to us; and you also know that| living in San Franeisco since the 18th of April has been mote expensive than it was before that date. The plain cessive toll and driven well nigh to desperation by the scantiness of our| fncome with prices as they are. Try to see our side of the case, and do not | be so unjust as to say again that we| have violated our contract. “You tell much of the generous in- | ports | Railroads. it | ernash. | Golden Medical Discovery. | is _bankrupt vitality —such as nervous Mullally and Patrick Calhoun. On3 report of this gathering says that @ Ing this conference Calhoun agreed that he had been treated very Kkindly by the existing municipal administra- tion and as a matter of reciprocity was obliged to do something to save the ad- ministration from its political enem if possible. The hitch came, however on the hours of labor for the platform men. On that question it is said that, as a result of the conference with the Mayor, it is Ilikely a compromise will ultimately be offeréd granting the employes of the United Raliroads i3 a day for ten hours’ work. It is the earnest desire of the local administra- jon that there shall be no violence in the conduct of the strike. If there were the local authorities would be forced to give police protection and thus further impair their standing with some members of the labor move- ment. For that reason an intima has been given to the officials of the United Rallroads, it Is said. not to at empt to move any ecars until eve: effort has been made to work out a compromise on the lines indicated For a variety of reasons the offi- clals of the United Railroads are will- ing to accede to' the request of the municipal authorities. SCHMITZ SENDS OUT SCOUTS. One of the inside “low down" re- vesterday was that on the eve of the strike the administration, fear- ful of its standing with the carmen and alarmed by the new and grave complications, sent out a detachment of scouts to learn the sentiment and the temper of the employes of the United The report was returned, is said, that the.men were frmly convinced of the truth of a repert which said that if they went on strike | Mayor Schmitz had promised Mullally |that he would take the first car out of the barn in order to thwart them Further inquiry developed the fact, the administrationists say, that the re- port of what the Mayor intended to do had been circulated by E. J. Liv- This, howeveg, is denied with heat and emphasis leaders of the striking carmen. Indeed, they ridi- cule the statements and implications of Mayor Schmitz's people to the ef- fect that there is “outside polities” in the strike or anvthing other than a stralght demand for more pay and less work. Some of the carmen's lead- ers express limitless confidence in Livernash and none at all in Schmitz or Ruef. DR. PIERCE’'S REMEDIES. Trust to Nature. A great many Americans, both men and women, are thin, pale and puny, with poor circulation, because they have ill- treated their stomachs by hasty eating or too much eating, by consuming alco- holic beverages, or by too close confine- ment to home, office or factory, and in consequence the stomach must be treated in a natural way before they can rectify their earlier mistakes. The muscles in many such ple, in fact in ev: weary, thin and_ thin-blooded person, e work with great difficulty. As a result fatigue comes early, is extreme and lasts long. The demand for nutritive ald is ahead of the supply. To insure perfect health every tissue, bone, nerve and muscle should take from the blood cer- tain materials and return to it certain others. It is necessary to prepare the stomach for the work of taking up from the food what i3 necessary to make good, rich, red blood. We must go to Nature for 'the remedy. There were certain roots known to the Indians of this country before the advent of the whites which later came to the knowledge of the settlers and which are now growing rapidly in professional favor for the cure of obstindte stomach and liver troubles. These are found to be safe and yet cer- tain in their cleansing and invigorating effect upon the stomach, liver and blood. These are: Golden Seal root, Queen’s root, Stone root, Bloodroot, Mandrake root. Then there is Black Cherrybark. The medicinal principles resldinq in these native roots vglen extracted with glye- erine as a solvent make the most reliable and efficient stomach tonic and liver in- vigorator, when combined in just the right proportions, as in Dr. Pierce's Where thera exhaustion, bad nutrition—and _thin blood, the body acquires vigor and the nerves, blood and all the tissues feel the favorable effect of this mv»rpl? remedy. A‘.;h(m{h some physicians have been aware of the high medicinal value of the above megtioned plants, yet few have used pure glycerine as a solvent and usually the doctors’ prescriptions called for the ingredients in varying amounts, with aleohol. The “Golden Medical Discovery ™ is a scientific preparation compounded of the glyceric extracts of the above mentioned vegetable ingredients and contains no slcokol or harmful habit-forming drugs. Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder eanses and beautifi t 1tceleth and pu.rifiesau M the Used by people of refinement | for over a quarter cf a century. clination with which you started west- | ward. You indicate that you intended to do good things for us. Do them now. Instead of proposing discus- | sions in the future, Instead of telling of plans in days that are gone, do them | now. | “In this regard there comes to us| as we are writing this page the in- formation that your corporation has| tonight sent to the Mayor of this city | and to the press a letter proposing that your employes return to work and have | their claims considered afterward.| This, if so, {s somewhat different from | giving us 33 a day and an eight-hour| time and does not Lear out your sus-i gestions of definite concessions. How- ever, we cannot, without the text of | your company's Statement before us, speak more about them. | “We hope to find, however, that the information referred to is misleading | and that you have defined what con-| cesslons you are disposed to make if the men return to your service. ch‘l know tonight what you intend to do for them. We hope you have said to us just what that is. Respectfully, “Amalgamated Association of Street| and Electric Railway Employes of America, Division No. 205. “By RICHARD CORNELIUS, Pres. JAMES H. BOWLING, Sec-Treas.” —— rocm.mcmnoun-;n Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. E:E: ists refund mon?! if it fails to curé. B. W. Grove’ on each box. 25¢.* Convenient for tourists, PREPARED The Wade Corset House Formerly of 387 Sutter street, Now located at 1620 Pine St. near Van Ness Ave OAKLAND OFFICE 468 Thirteenth St. MARY E. MURPHY Corsetiere. Genvine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature oo Rl REFUSE SUBSTITUTES,