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The Citizens National Bank
of McCook Nebraska
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DIRECTORS
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G H Watkins Vernice Franklin
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deliveries prices low
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IKE STRIKE OF
the men
Two Weil Known Correspondents
Express Their Views
SEE FAILURE FOR THE MEN
Willis J Abbot and Roswell Field In
vestigate Conditions for Different
Papers and Practically Agree as to
the Final Results and the the
Reasons for These Results
Chicago Dec 12 1909 The strike
of the switchmen on the Northwest
ern railroads still falls far short of
apparent strength or success Two
well known newspaper correspond
ents writing for papers of widely di
vergent policies have reported that
probabilities are that the railroads
will be successful Writing in the
Chicago Daily News Mr Willis J
Abbot says
It is not for me to judge the rights
or wrongs of the questions at issue
The claims and demands of the strik
ers have been set forth in other pub
lications but essentially they ask for
certain advances in wages which may
or may not be just and about which
there is comparatively little
ma versy It is a serious fact that in this
Strike it is not so much the demand
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for an increase tnat nas put tue io
railroads in opposition to the strikers
as it is the indirect effort to obtain
much larger pay by exacting double
wages for Sundays holidays and other
times when the workingman should
not be expected to work
Roughly speaking the Switchmens
union through its president asked for
certain concessions which in the end
would mean an advance of about 40
per cent over the scale of 1906 Crude
ly speaking the railroads refuse to
No 4 E 320 acres inv have anything to do with the proposi
proved frm8 miles from McOok 140 tion The leaders of the union assert-
ntnn inMranoMrU ed for example that a man who
and hoUdays was en
worked Sundays
This is a nice farm and in plain view
titled to double time The managers
of city with good roads Frame house
of 4 rooms stable JGx40 well wind
mill and cistern some tree Posses
sion ar h 1st
Object for selling is to quit business
I will make reasonable terms
If interested come and see me and
of the railroads answered by saying
that they carried freight and passen
gers Sundays and holidays and were
not paid double for it The labor
leaders demanded that if a man
worked 15 minutes over the luncheon
hour he be allowed nay for an
Tirv TVir r nilrnarl nffiHnls snswfirpn
look over the properties If they suit that this would mean an increase of
you we can deal If you deal with mo at least 25 per cent in pay and that
you have no commissions to pay
it might mean that many men would
take pains to be delayed so that they
would be credited with the 15 minutes
extra work
i The issue is not clear but with long
experience and knowledge of labor
troubles it does seem to me that in
i this contest the labor organizations
are somewhat at a disadvantage They
have their defense of course The
railroads are laying stress on the fact
that the labor organizations refused
to accept arbitration The attorney
for the strikers who happens to be
mayor of St Paul defends this atti
tude by asserting hat if the striking
employes did submit to arbitration un
der the Erdman act they would be in
volved in litigation for two years dur
ing which time they could not hope
Q n Innnwun in wfijrps or anv
provement in their condition
Whatever may be the motive or
merits of the case the fact re-
mains that the strike is virtually over
j The railroad managers assert the fight
has been won They insist that they
can conduct the business of their
roads without interruption even
though the Switchmens union should
continue its warfare Mr Gruber of
the Northern Pacific and Mr Slade of
the Great Northern profess the ut
most confidence in the outcome
That they have won if they have is
the result of the folly of the men in
striking at the wrong moment and do
ing it in such a way as to estrange
and antagonize public sentiment
Whatever the attorney for the unions
may say and however accurate his in
terpretations of the law it is a fact
that this is virtually the first strike
of large proportions in which the
strikers have rejected both arbitra
tion and mediation That is to be the
action for them to live down They
have allowed the railroads an oppor
tunity to place themselves before the
public as the proponents of arbitra
tion
A Hearst Investigator
Mr Roswell Field of the Chicago
Examiner following Mr Abbot a
week later summed up his conclu
sions as follows
If you ask F T Hawley internation
al president of the Switchmens union
he will tell you that the strike is in
its infancy and that the strikers will
surely win If you confer with J H
Beek secretary of the Jobbers and
Manufacturers association of St
Paul you will be told that while con
ditions are not yet normal there is
comparatively little delay for ship
pers
If you talk to President Hill of the
Great Northern or Vice President
Slade of the Northern Pacific you will
learn that the backbone of the strike
is shattered beyond mending and that
the strikers are hopelessly defeated
Mr Hawley explained these mat
ters at great length He declared that
the men welcomed mediation and ev
en arbitration but they refused to
consider arbitration under the Erd
man law as requested because that
statute is a taking and catchy propo
sition which gives the employer full
power to delay a decision from one
to two years even when the first de
cision is favcrablo to the switchmen
or other contestants
The Switchmens Side
In this the strikers acted by advice
of their counsel Mayor D W Lawler
of St Paul whose sympathies have
been with them officially as well a
through attorneyship though Mr j
Hawley explains with great pride that
so peaceful have been the switchmen
in their contentions that not a
torn of violence or lawlessness hao
been exhibited
Why if the success of the strike is
so evident should he go to Cincinnati
to night to consult with Mr Gomp
ers I asked
He admitted with a smile that he
was going to see Mr Gompers but
he declined to give the reason of the
journey The supposition hereabouts
is that he expects the aid of the Fed
eration of Labor to bolster up the
cause which apparently does not in
its accomplishments hear out Mr
Hawleys sanguine statements
What Mr Field Concludes
I am sorry for the sake of polite
ness to say that my own investiga
tions do not bear out this statement
In fact it has seemed to me that the
strikers are lacking in public support
It is true that there is sympathy as
there always is sympathy for men as
a body who are supposed to have
been influenced against good judg
ment
If the railroads are worrying over
the strike situation there are no indi
cations of it in the general offices
Their strongest point lies in the
precipitate action of the switchmen in
calling the strike before the arrival of
the selected mediators and they have
made the most of it Undoubtedly
this was a grave error in its effect on
popular opinion though the strikers
refuse to regard it as such and believe
that sentiment which always has a
friendly shiver for the man out in the
cold will turn to their advantage
In his message to congress Presi
dent Taft spoke with some force in
-his criticism of the laws delay in the
courts of the United States Perhaps
the striking employes of the thirteen
roads in the northwestern states have
some reason for complaint on this
ground If they had submitted to ar
bitration they could not continue the
strike during the pendency of arbitra
tion except after giving a notice of
30 days to the employing corporations
But neither could the railroad com
pany discharge its employes while the
arbitration proceedings were under
way except by giving a notice for a
like period in advance The men are
very insistent upon the absolute just
ice of their cause and they assert that
in refusing to submit to arbitration
they have simply guarded themselves
against being forced to work at the
present rates for so long a time as
the railroad attorneys might be able
to delay the final adjudication of the
matters at issue Perhaps it might be
thought that on the principle that half
a loaf is better than no bread they
might have accepted the arbitration
even though they might be compelled
to serve so long a time under the pres
ent rate of wages There does seem
some injustice in the so called Erd
man lav If it permits the employing
corporation to enjoy all the dilatory
advantages that the courts can afford
the final decision ought to award the
employes the wages whether greater
or less for the whole period while the
question was in litigation Some day
the question may arise on the desire
of a railroad company to reduce j
wages When that moment does come
the employes may fight for delay
Just at present it is switchmen who
want wages raised and naturally they j
do not wish delay Perhaps out of
the present struggle may come an
amendment of the act that will make
it satisfactory alike to employer and
employe
UP TO COLORADO
Do Her Representatives Want Cheaper
Tourist Rates or Vider Adver
tising by the Railroads
A statement has been issued on be
half of the railways regarding the con
vention which Gov Shaforth of Colo
rado has called to secure a round
trip rate of 25 for tourists from Chi
cago to Colorado next season The
position of the railways is that 30
for a round trip from Chicago to
Colorado points is the lowest rate that
can reasonably be made with a guar
antee of good service A 25 rate
would not bring a single additional
tourist to Colorado for those who will
pay 25 will pay 30 The extra five
dollars enables the railways adequate
ly to advertise the resorts of Colorado
It is stated that about 110000
tourists took advantage of the 30 rate
to Colorado last summer paying to the
railways an aggregate of 3300000 in
fares Of this 325000 or about ten
per cent was spent in advertising
Colorado alone The five roads run
ning into the state spent 50 cents a
head for every man woman and child
in it to advertise its resources and at
tractions
It is estimated that each tourist
spends an average of 100 in the state
On this basis about three times as
much was spent within the state as
for round trip tickets
It is estimated that of those who
visited that state at least 60000 came
by reason of the advertising given to
it by the railways It is stated that
should a fight for a cheaper rate be
pushed to the extreme the railways
would naturally feel that the people of
Colorado do not appreciate what has
been done for them and the roads
might withdraw some of the favors
now enjoyed
Voice of Experience
I have lived long enough in this
world to know that there is good in
everything Lord Shaftesbury
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When a medicine effects a successful
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We receive more good reports about
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SOUTH SIDE
W G Dutton is eeriously ill at tis
home
Mr and Mrs F L Barnes are down
f Culbertson for afew days
Kenneth and Keith Jacobs went up to
Maywood for the holidays
There is a large skating party organ
ized for the New Year
BOX ELDER
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church will begin at ten oclock Friday
night
Revival Services at Spring Creek
Rev Tyler of Box Elder will begin a
revival meeting at the Spring Creeu
churchMonday January 3rd
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