The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-07-24
RAILROAD STRIKING.
A Few Facts in Regard to Them
Are the Companies all Blind to
Their Own Interests

Darkness sets upon the face Of the
usually busy east. New York, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Buffalo, are
aiire, hut not with commerce. The streets
Of these popular cities are throngei-not
with steadygoing business men or law-abid-
ing citizens, but with 4 half frantic and
wholly desperate class Of men, who have
surrendered their rights. one by one, Who
have submitted to the despotic sway Of
capital, till forbearance has ceased to he =
virtue, and they now turn like famished
beasts, and try to crush the power that OPP
presses them. These labor strikes are be-
coming much too frequent for the interest
OF railroad companies, and the good Of
society. There is no need for them in the
first place, and however we'll they are CON-
Quoted, there is always more or less loss Of
life resulting from them, more or les pros
iration in business circles, and losses on the
companies side. which some Of them can
III afford to sustain. Hundreds IF cars Of
freight are detained in all the above men,
toned cities-save New York. The several
roads leading into the metropolis are block.
AIDED, the military Of Pennsylvania. Ohio,
and Maryland have been called upon, and
all this trouble and expense has been
caused because class Of railway men de-
mand their rights. Every persoo with an
atom Of sense will concede that this heart.
les and premeditaied reduction Of laboring
mems wages is all wrong; particularly the
cutting down Of firemen and brakesmen.
Two dollars per day Is little enough for
men who ride freight cars or coal jimmies
through heat and cold, through storm and
shine; or for those who stand beside =
prisoned demon that is liable to burst its
bands and hcrl them into eternity without
. moments warning. II the kid-gloved,
seft-handed railway official or the stock
holder dor't believe this, let them "brake, /"
or tire" . trip or 20, and after they nurse
their bruised and blisterej hands, thew
will undergo a radical change Of opinion.
I've got wealth to stake on the issue. II
railway officials consulted the interests Of
the companies that employ them, they
would use every argument in their power
to bring about . settlement between en-
ployer and employe, for nothing is calcu-
lated 10 bring road into bankruptcy 20
e6ectually ~ STRIKES" Four years ago
road running out Of Georgia lost $4,000
in twenty-four houn-lquiek work. that
In &c there vas strike on the d. L. and
W. r. R.-one of the largest Anthracite
coal roads in the State Of Pensylvania; in
lea thsn one month the company had loet
$2,OO0.OOO. Their stock before the strike
wss worth Sl07; il il in the market to-day
for 81 eta. The NJ. s. & N. I. shared the
same fate. in the same year, from the same
cause. Before the present strike i ended the
several companies will, No doubt, lose mil
lions, and all because they ere too poor 70
pay their workmen the princely ~ sum Of
Two dollars per day. Some .ealoas and A.
siduoua person or persons should be detail
ed 70 the duty Of taking up collections for
the different oompaniea enxssel in the
present conflict With labor. DUr.
Sedalis, July 81, 1877.