The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-02


adopted the latter COURSE, which, ~ Il
turns out, has had u bad effect. we
could have made the men perfectly satis'
fel nad We allowed them fuii time, even
with the ten per cent. oil.
1t certainly was very uHdesira
bic thing that one-thlrd 81 the men
should be abrupt dismissed the service
Men who mad been in It's employ Iof
many years, and VINO mad worked salts
factorlly and faithfully.
Now, so Tar rs the ten per cent. re
duction is concerned 1t WAS made gen.
eral order applying to sl classes.
Less than one.tenth are dissatisfied,
who now say: "Repesl that order or your
road shall not run" Certainly the Bal
timore and OHIO company Is under no
moral or legal obligation TO employ any
! body. No cass Of men rightly claim
that they must be employed by the Bal
/ tlmOre and Ono company, Ii any man
I in the tonnage service, or IN any position
can DO better esewhere-if he can
make the same wages elsewhere Win
less sbor-he is only doing himself
an injustice TO remain IN the service, ana
! certainly the Baltimore and Ono com
! pauy, under such circumstances, lays no
/ claim to MS services. But the Baltimore
and ONO company does this, VIZ: OWING
| TO lis competition with other roads, II
likes schedule based upon the schedule
| Of other roads II says il wants It's men
TO take this rate OF pay and work for 1t.
! The men can accept 1t or not; M. II
( they will not accepG, nave they the
| right TO say that nobody else shall accept
| il, when there are thousands OF men
willing TO accept il who have no EN-
plOyment at all, many OF whom come to
my office and their wives and mothers
come also, and beg me to employ their
| husbands and sons? Why7 Because
employment is scarce; men cannot get
positions. The wheels of commerce and
manufacture have partially stopped.
Numbers of employees who were for
years n the service have for many
months past been out of employment,
and are walking the streets No pay
day for them Why is this? Because
The Baltimore End Ohio company desires
II? No Simply because business has
been reduced IN volume. We are not
required TO build more locomotives or
cars, because we have now a. many as
are needed.
In 1873 we built and bought Gity-nine
locomotives. In 1877 we did not build
,r buy one. Why? Because the bus.
ines, had fallen of, and we had no need
tor them.
There d. the mil at Cumberland, which
IN 1878 turned out $1,000 tons oil rails,
and employed $50 men and which used
large supplies OF iron, and that iron wa
largely manufactured in this vicinity
giving employment to larg" numbers OF
men Now, that mill has stopped and
| the company regrets it, and Is sorry 1t
cannot employ the men. received II
letter last winter from Cumberland, from
a. editor of on" OF tar papers. He
wrote me that the rail mil men were IN
great distress and that many OF them
had even pawned there wearing apparel
and that they were living in hopes OF
unemployment by the company, | sub
mitted tnl, letter 10 the officers OF the
company, and 1t resulted IN our starting
up the mill again and discussing large
sums in wages, although the product
was not required The company has in
T. service Off GERS who dislike to see men
discharged; but when there is 40 work
,"r Ih''" discharges iH"s' o' ''''u'' III,
loss 'ulS was uoi.G '"' COMPANY me-
either mus, suspend, or else we must
~ w. "'' ','4 a'.s ,.;, u"to' 80
night? 1t is such that the authorize, of
the State of MARYLAND have sent for ne
30 tell me that thew understood trains
could not mass Keysnr They SAID that
the CITY Ol Baltimore could not afford To-
have tho road closed another day, and
this is what has hrough. mo here to-
night, | knew !, was not Necessary to
bring troops To Kcysor L. protect thrso
buildings. or t. guard this property from
ne hands Of railroad men. Why? Be-
cause We ara all engaged in the same en-
t"rprlsc; W" aIl hay" the same interests
ut stake; we were Nh affected br ne same
order. Therefore why should | have
fanny apprehensions that railroad mon
would destroy railroad property why
Sh"ul4 De unWI,ling 10 cone up ne
lore you men " hsl want !" say
however, Is: Are you "IIiItg To let 'H'-
state OF things continue The whole
country mas heeh t1Ilhed ABOUT this town
"t h'yscr and II Is heraIded lar ana
near mat the road snail not De opened
through tn" town, Notwithstanding that
the first two DIVISIONS OF tn" road Sr"
Uppn.