The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-03-12
The RAGGED EDGE!
No Silver Standings to the
Labor Cloud Vet
APPARENT
One of the sIandarias of the
First Grade UnbOsOnis Him.
SELF 10 Reporteri
White the business Interests of
the Southwest and West
Cry for Compassion!
The Monetary Circles of Eng
land DRrkeued by the sIiad-
OSy of the Bear!
And the Mexican Holds His
urcath i'm Anticipation OF
n Grand Shakei
CAPT. HAYES TALKS.
The Company's side OF the ca



Presented.
st. Louis, March ll.-Capt. Hayes, |
senior vicc-presidcnt of the Missouri |
Pacific railway, in interview to-day |
| on the stl Ike, said "The main qucs- |
ton IN this strike il one of personal
| liberty, or whether u handful who
! are not satisfied with their position
as employees shall be allowed to pre-
vent other men who have no eS-
pressed cause of dissatisfaction from
continuing work. Out of $50 D en-
ployes of the Southwestern and Wa
bash systems not 1000 are directly at
ected by the reduction of wages, winch
| is alleged TO be the reason for this
strike, aud am morally certain that
of this 100 at least 800 would 90 to
work tomorrow if they were not re-,
I regard to OH id,ldnling n'.-''ffe
sbops and round houses, and some OF
the coal shute men. The tram ser
vice hands have not been reduced.
The reductions have been
PRINCIPALLY IN TEXAS,
where they may be said in general
way TO range from to 10 per
cent but still leaving wages Mt
which men following like means OF
livelihood have heretofore gotten
, along very comfortably. In Arkansas,
Louisiana aud Kansas the reductions
are not so great, but the Texas lines
were not more than paying expenses
= and fixed charges, as n rule, and some
of them were not even doing this in
these depressed times. II was simply
: n question of whether given sum OF
money allotted for expenditure to re;
pair rolling stock and keep NJ rount
!, houses should be distributed so as 70
, give employment to larger or SMALL
y or number OF men, and II was dc
, ended TO keen as many men rs posi-
, bic. During the dark winter days
g THE HOURS WERE LIMITED
+ nv reason of the shortness Of day
: light, and shopmen worked nut hV'
Q DAYS in the week OF nine hours eacil
t or n week of forty-iive hours. Thi
e time rule prevailed IN all SHOPS u
e Kansas and Missouri, but on the 1911
,e of last month the schedule OF TIM
e was raised to six days of ten hour
y; giving fifteen hours more earnin
ID time each week, or from four to 81
days extra nay IN each month. Som
l. ten days since both Mr.. iioxie an
RS l'myself were in Texas visitln
N different places where these trouble
y. have since occurred, and the men
IN, they had complaints had full oppo
or tunity TO present them, but no con
er plants were heard. We heard OF l
US grievances.
hu GAS 10 TRAIN SERVICE MEN;
", Some three years ago Mr.. Talma
,' arranged a schedule of prices
he engineers and fireInen, and agre
nr with the men that no reducti
ot should be made except on sixty da
notice. This agreement has be
lived up to, and understand and
os lieye that our train service men
81 anxious aud willing TO work if I'll
nh can only be permitted to do so"
'nt Can't. Hayes further said that
nod paymaster stood ready to pay off
pow hands who by reason of falling TO
turn to work after proper notice
voluntarily dropped their position
the company's rolls. The fact
and some OF the strikers
refused to accept their
checks did not place them
.atie any better footing. Discharged 4
,om- in refusing their wages, did not
res that refusal constitute themse
,son, employees, but simply assumed tn
Miss lalion of creditors.
,ular Returning TO his original pro-
f our ton, that men who wanted v
and should
rrow BE ALLOWED TO DO 1T,
viii he said that so faras repairs to TO
stock was concerned, the railroad
nipple now in good shape three times
/. Tor amount that was necessary to d'
sides present volume of the business.
pairs could be done by contra
Ia Fe necessary. aud public nceC
three suffer ii the laws are proper
round forced, and the railroad can
enabled to run its trains as 1t Ii