The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-23
TALKING TERMS.
Governors Martin and Marina
duke Figuring
AND LABORING WITH HOXIE,
With a View to Soon and Satisfac-
tori1y Settling the Missouri
Pacific Difficulty.
The Governors Talk.

ST. LOUIS, March 81. = Governors
Marma1Hke and Martin held their third
conference with Vice-President Hoxie,
this afternoon, at which the proposition
submitted yesterday by the governors
was again discussed and formal reply
on the part OF the railway officials was
made. The results of three conferences
is contained in mass of correspon-
dence from which the following synop-
Sis was taken:
In letter dated st. Louis, March 20,
addressed to Vice. President Hoxie and
signed by Governors Martin and Mar
maduke, the governors relate the cir
cumstances of their conference with
employees, at which they consented to
meet Hoxie and urge the continuance
of the terms of the agreement of 1885.
rnd if deemed advisable recommend
such notifications as might be thought
just to all. After repeating the sugges-
tions made by themselves in 1885, the
writer's recommend a settlement on this
basis, which is briefly, to restore the
striking employees at the same wages
paid them on Septem Der, 1884, includ-
ing one and a. half price for extra time,
without prejudice to them on account
of the strike. Captain Hayes, chief
executive of the roads, ordered the
agreement to go into effect, which
concluded the difficulties OF 1885,
to which he added the condition
that the rate of wages should not be
changed thereafter except on notice of
thirty days. After careful inYestiga-
ton the governors were unable to find
wherein the railway company had
violated the terms and conditions of
this agreement They are therefore
forced to- the conclusion that the strike
ofMarch 9th, 1886, was not based on q
violation of the agreement by the man
agement OF The Missouri Pacific railway
company in its dealings with its EN-
ployees in Missouri and Kansas, but
anxious that amicable relations be YES
tored, they earnestly suggest and
recommend that the agreement
of 1885 be reversed and that
the company re-empleY in its
service all its old employees without
prejudice to them on account of the
late strike, so far as the busine IS of the
ment. To this letter Hoxie replied,
posed with one or two reservations.
quoted below, Mr.. Hoxie refers to the
advertisement of March 10th, asking
for competent men to be employed
without reference to their relations,
present or past, TO the company or to
any organization, and concludes as
follows: "The men who have been
engaged under the advertisement of
March 10th 1886, will be continued in
our employment. We cannot re-
engage or continue IN our employ any
persons who have actually engaged
in the destruction or injury of
the company's property, or who
have advised such destruction or
injury. We shall give preference to
those of our late employees who have
families and own homes on the lines OF
the road. 1t is to be remembered that
the loss Of traffic caused by the present
strike will, to considerable extent, re-
duce the necessity of employing as many
in our shops as heretofore. Thanking
you for the consideration you have given
the subject. and trusting your action
will result in an early resumption of
traffic, l am, etc., (Signed,)
w. NJ. HoXIE,
First e-President, Missouri Pacific
Railway Company.