Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-29

any grievance we would like to talk il over
with you. We understood you to promise
that no strike should be ordered without con-
sultation.
A. L. HOPKINS.
PHILADELPHIA, March s.
l.. Hopkins, Secretary Missouri Pacific
Railway, 1876 Broadway, New York
Have telegraphed West for particulars.
Papers say the strike was caused by the dis
charge OF man named Hall. Can he be re-
lnstated pending Investigations?
New YORK, March s.
l. V. Powderly: Thanks for your mes
sage and suggestion. Hall was employed bv
the Texas & Pacific, and by US. That prop
erty is In the hands of the United States
court. and we have no control whatever over
the receiver or over the employees. We
nave carried out the agreement we made last
spring IN every respect, and the present strike
Is UNJUST to US and unwise for YOU. II is re-
ported here that the movement is the result
OF Wall street infence on the part of those
short of securities likely to be affected.
A. l.. HOPKINS.
No reply to this message was received. but
this companv's request for a conference was
ignored, and its premises at once invaded
and its property destroyed by men of your
order in great numbers, who also seized and
disabled its trains, as they have since contin.
ued TO do whenever attempted to run. The
board of directors of this company thereupon
had copy of the correspondence above given
made and transmitted to Mr. H. NJ. Hoxie,
the first vice president and general manager
at ST. Louis, with instructions to use every
endeaeor to continue the operations of the
road, and committed the whole matter to his
hands. Mr.. Hoxie's overtures, made through
the governors OF Missouri snd Kansas, who
stated that they found no cause for the strike,
were rejected by your order. These and the
subsequent correspondence between him and
Mr.. Powderly are well known TO you, and
Mr. Hoxie's has been confirmed bv the board
and the matter is still in his hands. ] am,
therefore, instructed by the board to refer
you to him as its continuing representative
in the premises. l am directed to add in be-
half of the board, that, in its judgment, so
long as this company is torcibly kept from
the control of its property and from perform
ing its charter duties, its business is done, if
at ALL not under the conditions of law, which
are common to all citizens, but only at the
will of law-breakiug force. Any negota-
tions with such force would be unwise and
useless. Terms made with it would not be a
settlement of difficulties but a triumph of
force over the law of the land Itwould mean
nothing in their judgment but new troubles,
and worse. This is the result of their ex-
perlence. In the mean time. the Governor s
proclamation enjOins upon your men to re-
turn to duty, and this company's continued
advertisement offers them employmen Mt on the
same terms heretofore The board further
suggests that, inasmuch as your order as
sumes in your communication responsibility
for these men. and power and control over
them, the following from the proclamation
of the Governor of Missouri is expressive of
their duty and of your own:
| warn all persons, whether they be en-
ployes or not, against interposiag any ohsta-
Gle whatever in the way of said resumption.
and, with firm reliance upon the courage,
good sense and law abiding spirit of the pub
lie. l hereby call upon all good citizens to
assist in carrying out the purposes of this
proclamation, and | also hereby pledge the
whole power of the State, so far as it NAV be
law fully welded by its chief executive officer
to sustain the company and its servants in
said resumption, and to restrain and punish
all who may oppose it,"
When this proclamation shall be obeyed,
and when the company's late employees shall
desist from violence and interference with its
trains, the board hereby assures them that
they will find themselves met by Mr. Hoxie
III llp spirit III WHICH He HAS HetttUlOTb sue
cessfully avoided rupture and cause for just
complaint and in that just and liberal spirit
which should always exist between employer
and employed. BY order of the board. Very
respectfully yours, JAY GOULD,
President Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany.
TExARKANA, Ark, March %.
The freight blockade here has broken this
with freight for st. Louis under strong
guard of militia Great excitement prevailed
and 1000 strikers assembled in the Missouri
Pacific wards. The militia over awed them,
however, and the train left without opposi-
ton. At Vaudeville, ten miles north of Tex
arkana a crowd of strikers tried to slde-track
and wreck the train. The militia scattered
them and captured II of the strikers, who
were brought back here and put in Jail.
ITHICA, N. Y, March 2S.
Prof. Thurston of Cornell University, d.
rector of Sibley College of mechanical engi-
neering and mechanical arts, has addressed a
letter to Grand Master Workman Powderly
of the Knights of Labor, in which he gives
expression of his views in relation to the
strike o: the Missouri Pacific railroad en-
ployes. Thurston announces himself as a
friend of all legitimate labor movements and
of organized labor for legitimate purposes.
He saws he regards the strike as one Of
the most unfortunate blunders as yet commit
ed by men, as a crime against men of their
organization, their own families and own
cause.
New YORK, March 2S.
This forenoon at II s'clock I. V Powder
ly and w. B. Mcdowell called on Jay Gould
at the latter's residence. There they met
Messrs. Gould, Hopkins and Geo. Gould
There was a general discussion of the situa
ton in the southwest by both sides, and a
better understanding was arrived at than had
been had by either party hitherto After
talking until O'Clock the conferences ad-
journed till evening. At o'clock they met
again. At s 80 2. NJ, Mr.. Powderly had to
leave to keep an engagement with Congress
man john O'Neil of st. Louis, chairman Of
the House committee on labor, who came
from Washington to render assistance in set
ding the strike. Mr.. Mcdowell, however, re-
mained with Mr.. Gould and party, and Mr.
Gould finally handed to Mcdowell the fol
lowing official commune alton:
T. V. Powderly. G. NJ. W.
Dear Sir-Replying to your letter of tht
9th inst, l write to say that | will tomorrow
morning send the following telegraphic in
structions to Mr.. Hoxie, the General Manage
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad at ST. Louis
sin resuming the movement of trains on thu
Missouri Pacific, and in the employing o
| laborers in the several departments of th