Show THE STRIKE practically BROKEN IT Is ia now beyond the region of reasonable doubt that the strike of the street car men has collapsed while the strikers were being encouraged cou raged by those who pretended to be their friends to hold out and success would be achieved we have stated the other view to us ua the step was an ill III advised one because the conditions rendered defeat in evitable we are satisfied that BOWS BMW of those who were the loudest tu in their exhortations to the men to come out and hold out had no more idea that the effort would be rue BUG than we had i at what the agitators W wanted was for the autt amsi to remain out until their places were wem filled this advice has bas been taken takebe and now a large number of men are thrown out of employment in view of this self evident state of affairs the following petition which is being circulated by the strikers and their friends quoting the lii oral eral organ is not what might at this late date be regarded as premature we the citizens of salt lake city cily who are in favor of equal justice to all men hereby appeal to the city railway company for justice only to their employed emp loyes and and we think this would be accomplished by the said company arbitrating this question with a committee of their employed emp loyes and if they still persis persist I 1 t in I 1 t their heir refusal then we would appoint the following named committee of disinterested citizens to take up tip the matter of difference between the company and their em aloyes and hereby request them to serve hon george M scott george arbogast esq q fred auerbach samuel ewing M R evans ifon hon hiram johnson 11 II L A Cult culmer ner it looks dilo 0 its face ace as if the friends and not the strikers had prepared the document as it contains two propositions first that the company confer with a committee co cox col L posed of their employed emp loyes second in cue case the company declines to treat with the men that the following committee etc take up the matter now would it not have been much better to have tried one proposition at a time before even stating another perhaps however if an amicable settlement had been reached between the company and their employed emp loyes on the first proposition without stating the second an opportunity port unity would not have been afforded to people not in the contest to figure before the public asri as friends ends of V 9 the workingmen it does not appear 11 az to be necess iry for a committee composed of members of a liberal contra central committee and others not directly interested in this matter to appear in it we believe the men have brains and business tact enough if let alone by political manipulators to manage this difficulty themselves the company has stated that they have been ready to treat with their late employee emp loyes but only in that capacity and boother no other an outside interference was not wanted speaking of the strike and its inevitable result we would ask why such men as aa E M by bynon non a chronic liberal stumper should have any weight with them while spreading himself in one of his fiery speeches peeches fi calling upon the strikers to stand by their manhood and maintain their position he should have spread out the palms of his horny horay hands handle ridged by the pressure of honest t tol as pr bof of of his deop deep sin bin rity different men have different ideas about manhood numbers of the men have been carried along on this strike while believing it to be a mistake because leading to inevitable defeat simply on the ground that the majority seemed to favor it having gone into it they imagined they coul chuh I not get out of it as they disliked the odium that would be cast on them by their companions if a mistake in im mate male the sooner it is rectified the better and it is no part of banho d to decline to adjust because of the prospect of being called names Ts Is the step right or wrong is the question if right then take it and ask no odds of anybody if wrong dont we learn of a proposition that was hinted at in connection with this strike that ought to be of some interest the question was raised in the deliberations of the company as to the advisability of obtaining trained men from kansas city to fill the places of the strikers no sooner was the subject mooted than mr mccune mr chambers and others connected with the directory instantly opposed such a step insisting that it would be wrong and that the true policy of the company was salt lake work for salt lake workmen 11 f so the question was killed at its birth the bulk of the board being unqualifiedly unqualified jy opposed to the proposal september the chief liberal IP organ which has been deceiving the strikers into a belief that success awaited them admits that the backbone of the strike is bending all the time that the men have been practically encouraged to ahr throw ow and keep themselves out of employment by that source heightened by processions professions process ions headed by the liberal baud band the result of the contest has hardly been sufficiently uncertain to be debate able the strike may now be said to be broken two of the striking men having reported this morning for work were given positions and have been running ou the cars others have promised to follow suit in a few days this being the case those of the old hands who desire reinstatement will have to act promptly |