The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-26
THE STRIKES.


vfee-President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pa
cific Company, Refuses to Meet Grand
Master Powderly, of the Knights of La
Dor, in Conference ON the situation
A Telegram from jay GouId-Cost of
the Great Struggle.
ST.. LOUIS, March 20-In answer to the
request of Grand Master Workman Pow
derby for conference to arbitrate the diff
ference existing between the Missouri Pa
cifie road and its striking employees,
Vice President Hoxie yesterday telegraphed
at length his reasons for refusing Mr..
Powderly's request. After asserting that
the object of such conference would
be either to discuss differences which
may have arisen, in order that an
understanding of the relations be-
tween employer and employee might be
reached, or, on the other hand, to settle or
compromise such differences after the griev-
ances OF employees had been presented and
redress refused. Mr.. Hoxie maintains that
in the present case the anomaly is present.
ed of strike which is without grievance
capable of being redressed-a strike that
was entered upon without notice to the
company, and which has resulted in the al
most total stoppage of the company's
business by threats, violence and intimi-
dalton.
Mr.. Hoxie cites several instances where
the Knights OF Labor have endeavored to
use his road to boycott individuals or cor
porations who have incurred their dis
pleasure, and concludes by saying that he
can not consent to renew an agreement
arbitrarily abrogated by the knights OF
Oh -, :. AoI
striking first and attempting to negotiate
afterward, and should in justice permit
employees to return to the company's shops
without fear OF intimidation. He would
be willing at any time to treat with Mr..
Powderly and a committee as private citi-
zens but not as men representing the or
ganization OF the. Knights of Labor.
In reply to Mr.. Hoxies communication,
Mr.. Powderly telegraphs from Kansas
City:
Since you win not meet with me as general
master workman of the Knights of Labor
must decline to meet with you in. any other
capacity. and the responsibility for the
future i,a. continuance ln of the strike must
Labor, since the executive officer of
that order W IL not be perm tied to meet and
co operate with you in settling the strike. 1t
was my intention, had you consented to meet
with me- to endeayor to effect such settle.
ment as would prevent imposit;ons be ng
practiced upon the employees of your COM
pany by subordinate officials and put an end
to strikes on your lines for the future.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March 2O.-Governor
Martin and Labor Commissioner Bacon OF
Kansas held a conference here yesterday
with Governor Marmaduke and Labor
COMMISSIONS Kochitizky of this State
regarding strike troubles. After sons
discussion proposition for a
settlement OF the difficulties was
prepared. It was then submitted
to the strikers here and accepted by them.
The men agree to return to work on the
basis OF the settlement adopted at the close
OF the strike OF a year ago. No mention is
made OF the reinstatement of G. A. Hall.
The Governors left for ST. Louis last night
to consult with Mr.. Hoxie.
1t is now fifteen days since the strike
was inaugurated, and the following fig
ures, computed by shippers and railroad
men, will show the loss to st. Louis and
the Southwestern SYSTEM In fifteen days,
had there been no trouble, there would
have been moved between initial and des-
tination points It's, 100000 pounds OF
freight, possessing a gross value of over
$24, 100000, but which has not
moved at al The cost OF
damage done to railway property
and the expense of trying to operate the
departments which have not been operated
in the same period aggregate $250,00O.
The loss of revenue to the system for the
same period is $1,000, 900. The disburse-
ments thatwould have been due on the lines
for wages and material foot up over ST.
1000. The blockade caused a shrinkage
of$2, 700, O00in last weeks bank clearings
in this city. This represents one-fiith OF
the weekly clearings, or q loss Of twenty
per cent. of business. As the days go by
the loss increases, and the daily clearings
show an average of shrinkage of $780,
600. The loss to manufacturers whose
establishments have been shut down is
estimated at 81 100000. There seems to
be food for reflection in these figures to
both parties to the contest.
CHARLESTON, S. c., March 2O.-Reports
of the action of the Dallas Merchants Ex-
change and citizens of Greenville, Tex, in
passing resolutions denunciatory of the
strikes and the strikers methods were for
warded to Mr.. Jay Gould here, and he has
Just forwarded the following telegram in
reply:
CHARLESTON, S. c.. March 10, 1886 To the
Citizens of Dollds and Greenuilic. Hunt County
Tea: No word of mine can sufficiently ex-
press my apprecat on of the kind words OF
ENCOURAGEMENT and the good wishes con-
tanned in your resolutions. The present
strike on our system was ordered by the
officers of secret order because
ne ghborlng railway. in the control of
the highest court in the land had seen At to
! discharge one of their employees; and with no
other complaint against the management of
the Missouri Pacific and without any warning
or shadow of Justification, the business of
TOUR States and one Terri tory is paralyZed, and
the millions of resident citizens are deprived
OF the railway facilities on which the entire
prosperity depends. and to the enjoyment of
which they have legal rights paramount to
any secret organizat on, because their rights
are secured to them by the laws of the
land The Missouri Pacific employs H.
354 men. OF these 3,7l7 only are con.
cerned in the present strike, SO that
in addition, these $40 conspirators, who are
by force and intimidation stopping our trains,
are thereby depriying the remaining 1890 Of
not the public soon learn that it is they that
pay the railway payroll; that the railway Is
its clearinghouse 10 receive and distribute
entire gross earnings of railway? And when
they do, they will probably find some method
to regulate and control the labor engaged In
railway transportation and thus prevent such
strikes as the present one.
lSignedl JAY GOULD
STATE OF TRADE.
New York, March 20. - Much impa-
thence is manifested at business centers
throughout Missouri. Kansas, Arkansas
and Texas, owing to the continuation OF
the strike and the consequent embargo on
trade. The strikes of the Southwestern
railway employees, bituminous coal-miners,
and of textile mill operatives continue. and
strikes at Pittsburgh of 200 employees of
the National tube-works, and OF / 800
cloak and suit makers at New York bring
the grand total OF these on strike up to
$4,000.
Mackin Denied Rehearfng.
CHICAGO, March 20.-A dispatch has been
received from Ottawa, H., where the Su-
preme Court of the State is now sitting, to
the effect that the motion for arehearing of