The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-22

= over the employees. We have carried out the agree
ment made last spring in every respect, and TN
present strike is unjust to us and unwise for you
1t il reported heTe that this moyem ent is the result
of Wall street influence on the part of these shor
of securities, likely to be effected.
(signedl A.. L. fioPKiSs.
GOULD's REMARKS.
This dispatch you never answered This CORES
pondence placed the continuance of this strik,
/ was silent Mr.. Hopkins urged his
appeal and not to allow the strike to 90 on You
allowed the company's property to he forcibly
seized and the citizens of four states and one terri
tory to he deprived of their rightfu railway facil
ties. Thas forced, the board Of directors prior IL
my retarn, pla' ed the matter in Mr. HoXe's hands
by formal resolution. and that disposition of il
has never been changed IOu knew this we'll be.
cause you had correspondence with him on this
subject. Hence it was that when Mr.. Turner, Sec
| rrtlrv of your order, wrote to me on the subject
fully advised him in my letter of March u that
the matter had been placed by the board in the
4 hands of Mr. IloXie, and that must refer you to
! him a. a continuing representative
! At the same time | reminded YOU that standing
advertisement of this company was at that MON ent
offering former employees chance to return to
their accustomed posts, and regardless of their
! being or not being members of your order and re-
| gardless also of their individual participation in
! the strike which your order had recently inaugu-
rated, when in spite of all this, you desired to see
me personally Cordially met you, and having
put myself in communication with Mr.. Hoxia, ar
ranged with him for you the following which was
widely published by You at the time:
NEW YORK, March p, lSS6.--TO Martin Irons
st. Louis have been in conference ALI day
with the result that Vice President HOXe agrees 10
the following He is willing to meet committee
OF our employees, without discrimination. who are
actually at work in the services of the company
at the time such committee is appointed to aditl-
dictate what, if any grievances, they NAV have
Have your executive committee order the men TO
return 10 work; also, select special committee
from the employees Of the Missouri Pacific to wait
on Mr.. lIOXie to adjust any difference Do this as
quickly "a possible. The board will leave for ST.
J. JHis tomorrow.
Signed FRANK TURNER Secretary.
Ever since then Mr.. HoXe has stood ready to re-
Caiye any and all persons in the actual employ Of
tue company as committee, or otherNi-e, and
confer upon, or arbitrate, any matter of
differences or complaint. either between the com
pany and themselves. or between the company and
It's late employees, and for that matter, between
the company and anybody else. No such commit
tee or individual employe has so far as known to
me, made any such application.
IN THIS CONNECTION,
it will be remembered that they left not because
of any complaint whatever of this company s
treatment of Themselves but only ,ecanse nf the
company refusal to comply with their demand. |
This company refused not to do what tn law re-
qulres in the way of interchange of business
with another company with which some men
in your order had quarrel |
In the meantime, this company
has of ne essity gone on to extend employment to
such OF these persons. who recently, without even
return. These returning employ yes have been very
many and in this way its rolls ALREADY nearly
II not quite a. full as its shops and EQUIPMENTS |
crippled by acts OF vot nee, atte dent upon the re-
cent ACTON or your order, can employ Mr.. IlUXie |
a vlses me that every such person applying to be |
received back, has been employed. unless believed
To nave tax part in recent acts of violence. This
company still st ind5 ready to make good, in its |
fullest sense its agreement AS expressly set forth
IN THE FACE
OF all this, you notify me that unless at o'clock
] personally consent to neutrality-suspicious. what |
] do not see-then personal consequences of |
sort vaguely expressed but not hard to understand
will, at the hand of your order, be visited upon me
Let me again remind you that it is an American
citizen whom you and your order thus propose to
destroy. The contest is not between your order
and me, but between ynur order and the laws of
the land Your order has already detied those laws
in preventing, by violence, this company from
this company should not operate its
roads under conditions prescribed by law,
but only under conditions prescribed by you. You
now declare in effect that | hold my individual
property and rights, not other men hold theirs.
but only at the peril of your letting loose ire,
'ocably, after O'Clock, your order upon me. If
ms Is true of this company, and of me, it is true
II all other companies. 1t so, You and
YOUR SECRET ORDER
ire the law, and an American citizen is such only
n name. Already for weeks your order have, in
iour attack upon this company. not hesitated to
disable II, by violence, from rendering its duty to
he public and from giving work and paying wages
o men, at least three times your own number, who
we're working there by your side, and who
Having pushed THE violence beyond even the
;rea forbearance of the public, and found in this
direction cause to hesitate, you now turn uDon me.
md propose that the wrongs which you have hith-
rto inflicted on the public, shall now terminate in
N attack upon an individual. In this, las have said
he real issue is between you and the laws of the
and. 1t may be, before you are through. that
hese laws will efficiently advise you that even l. as
n individual citizen, am not beyond their care.
Very respectfully,
JAY GOULD.