Show I IRA TRA VEU G PUBLIC We Ye are arc the tho only class clas of mechanics who can put tho the transportation machinery ma ma- chinery of ot a railroad In a n condition to make mako a road pa pay dividends to Its Is stockholders If H an any of ot tie stockholders stock stock- hoMers holders of ot tho Denver Rio Gran Granda io railroad doubt the above statement statement let them look into tho the present condition condi condl- tion Uon Into which their road has fallen through tho ti present strike roal which Calen has now lasted almost soven lo en months months The above o statement nt IK is made b by tho the unions Involved In in the present Denver Denvor Rio Grando strike of or the tho men of or tile the mechanical departments The Tho ar- ar continues Our contracts wore were abrogated b by the tho Denver Jib Rio Hlo Grande officials In the hope hoo hoo that we would abandon our unions which left leCt us no other course courso to pursue but strike as wo we could not give Ive up that for tor which wo we had tolled toiled and sacrificed for tor years to gain caln without a strub struggle le We 0 have now resisted tho the company's demands for seven months and will wil stay out until we wo win as we wo are confident weare wo we are aro rh right It We 0 are asking for nothing more moro than tha we had Wo We have havo no other article to sell sel but the labor of or our hands and anI brains We are ure asking that we bo be le allowed to collectively sot act st a n value on our labor power and an nn average WB wage e. e This much American Ubert liberty is denied us to th tile the extent that too tho railroad officials i tell teU us thoy will wi say ay how much wo shall get and how long wo ive shall work but promise to be good to us etc etc But nut we vo trust not a fox Cox In a n hencoop and therefore we ive prefer a contract signed by both parties to the tho agreement statIng stat stat- arcemont ing InG under what conditions and price price we wo shall sell soi our labor power For it is Js not just Juat that tho the dealer shall set seta a price upon his wares and not the buyer lost lest tile tho dealer Cler should ho I obliged to sell sel at a loss and the tho te buyer buor fatten from Crom his misery In this day of combinations both of ot capital and labor Is It I not equally as right for labor to combine to raise tho the waKes wages as for Cor cal cai ca ital Ial to combine combino to depress wages If I Io wo we abandon our unions and approach a combination of or capital as o Individuals what show would we stand of ot getting a a living I Wa wage go In all al times workingmen never got got gotan an any larger wages than they could force Corco their employers to pay This law still Ul holds hold goo good and wo we aro fighting fight fight- ing It I out on those terms torms If I the D. D R R. G. G think they havo have got Jot enough of oC too the incompetent strikebreakers strikebreakers strike strike- breakers and its effects let them re remake 10 ro- ro make an on agreement with wih their union on a n clean clenn American and scientific basis We 0 can cn contract any guarantee to furnish competent mechanics me mo- In any ony number they desire We c can deliver the goods put tho the mothe motive mo mo- mo- mo the tive po power er In the best bent lest possible shape hape In the inc least time We e have havo been In Inthe Inthe inthe the me mechanical business all al our lives and know ow our business If I an agreement which Is satisfactory satisfactory tory ton and tho the strike settled In our favor rB Is given us wo we are sure suro the would soon notice a great decrease de do- crease In wrecks boiler boleI explosions nn and loss of ot and time of the traveling public The Tho D. D R It R G. G can purchase the tho desired skilled skied labor from our ranks to do this If It t toy they O would only look at the matter mater in the thc right light and not try to bulldoze tho the public by endangering and delaying them by soi selling InS them thorn tickets over such a derelict dere dere- lct road as they at nt present are run- run Ing Some days ds ago the visitors to tho the conference were given Iven a test of oC the service being rendered the public being delayed almost ten hours an and arriving In the small hours of ot tho the morning and could find no hotel ac ac- ac Some were heard to murmur against such unkind fate ate No the strike Is IB still on and not off oCt as some sonic of oC tho papers havo navo so 10 man many times erroneously stated JOINT BODY OF 01 RIO 1110 GRANDE CRANDE |