The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-10-24
1899.

During this conversation and while the men were
qietly listening 70 TIER grievances, as above mar
rated, and occasionally sanuwiChing individual
experience between me speakers statement tele
gram was received by President Harvey that so soon
a. read pleased them excessively. /. RAM
jay Could desires 70 committee OF the Port rerv,
men al the Dearars House on arrival of train No. Z.
The meeting was at once called to order and the
following gentlemen appointed to confer with the
president OF the rOad:-Walter Harvey Colonel T.
Holt and stout Mills. Is was the 1rst recognition OF
their rights, coming from the highest source the
the '.lock OUT ant strike was not so purely
local. after all Mr.. FISK confidently asserted
An adjournment was then effected until ten O'clock
when at tnat nOur the Aail was hlled 10 listen
To the committees report IL was brieny:-Ihat Mr.
Could IN company with superintendent Rucker
had duly arrived directors car; that he received
them very klndiy-listened with patience Ia their
wrongs, heard all sides OF the story and that he
replied. substantially. s1at It was really impossible
10 pay the men always on or before the 18th but
that he would guarantee that they should always
receive their money on Or before the 18th. THIS
statement was met Oy considerable disapproval. but
the impatient members We're Modified when they
were told that Mr.. Gould was not aware of their
being discharged that he had not sent any orders TO
that effect and 1t WAS his desire that they should 90
to work again Immediately.
Action was then AIKEN apon this proposition and
after considerable argument and many suggestions
II was decided that u convention Of all the shops by
delegates should De held here to-day and to effect
this kilograms be a. once despatched to the central
president al su5qnehGnna, advising him to call sue
meeting. IL Was done and an answer received &C
one O'Clock A. ", mat their action met his approval
particularly NHht portion OF tNsW proceedings that
they should meet tho company nalf way, and de.
mand, IN spirit " concession that instead OF the
2th Port Jerys sl0ud be paid on or before the 20th
Of every MONTH
WHAT rHE COMrASY's OFFICIALS SAY
TO narrate iMl,Irtlaily the character. cause and
extent OF this dliicuity between employer and en-
poye, diiculIg that threatens 10 sadly interfere
with the regular running OF its many trains TO say
nuthing worse, called upon superintendent Reding-
ton here, who has charge OF the division from this
point 10 susquehannA From him there was but
ntie obtained that was new. although he kindly and
unhesitatingly gave his theory Of the trouble, to-
gclher WIN MI. Gould's views He said
Wen, tuese men have got together all along the
road and banded themselves into u sort OF mechan-
les ASSOCIATION, with a Head Centre at Susque-
hanna. They made up their minds that at each
place they should be paid by the company on n GER
tam day or the month, and the Port Jerys men
decided on the 18th. They notified the company of
their decision and the officers desiring 10 Keen their
promises with them, despatched the money 10 this
place by express at four O'Clock the afternoon OF
the lsth, but, by some very unfortunate careless
ness, II did not reach here until too late on that
day, and the men lin accordance with their notice,
LEFT the shop, numbering seventy-six. ON the 10th
] received telegram from Mr.. G0uld instructing
me 10 make out the payrolls TO that date pay the
men of and let them CO. did 30. The trouble then
begaa. The Head Centren came here, and soon
kilograms were flying over the wires, and all the
shops caught the cODtAgj0n, and they fell out at oil
the important points, ana are ont yet TO my mind,
~ VOL M Nj, sOuld's the men were bnexcusnbIy