The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11
COL. H0XIE.
ONE OF THE BOSSES OF THE
GOULD SYSTEM GIVES
HIS VIEWS.
GRAND MASTER WORKMAN POW
DERBY ALSO HAS Ills SAY ON
THE SITUATION.

ST L,uIs March S.--Mr. II. NJ, IioXie, first vice
president of the Missouri-Pacifc Railway com
pany, furnishes the associated press with the fol
lowing statements regarding the strike now exist
iur on that company g road.
Mr. Hoxie says: ''lhe receivers who took pos
session of the Texas " Pacific railway appointed
their own agents and made Such arrangements
with their employees as they deemed proper and fit,
rs TO which the management of tho Missouri Paci-
&c railway exercised no voice OF control whatever.
It was learned, on March 2, that the employees of
the Texas ~ Pacific railway had inauguIated a
strike, giving as the reason, that one OF the en
ployes of that road, In Marshall, Texas, Sas
discharged without reason. On the fourth instant
the Knights Of Labor ordered the boycott of the
Texas 4 Pacific cars and traffic over these roads,
and such arrangements were thereupon made so "a
not to permit that order to disturb the apparently
pleasant relGSons with our employees Al 10 a. m,
on Saturday, the 9th inst, without previous notice,
all the shOpmen, most of the yaEdmen and many
OF the trackmen stopped work and Voluntarily re
fused to continue aS employees OF thls com
many, merely stating to their several fore
men that they had received orders requir-
ing this, from the executive officers of
the KNIGHTS of Labor and alleging as their only
reason the discharge Of an employe by the receiy-
ers of the Texas Il Pacific.
Since the commencement of this strike, at many
points the local committees OF the Knights OF La
Dor have notified our foremen and superintondents
thst they would appoint and place their own watch
men over our property to protect 1t from loss and
damage, and to take of the same, but as these
eelf-appointed watchmen assume authority as to
who shall, or who shall not enter upon the grounds
and property of the company except through their
own order 1t is virtually dispossessing the COM
pany of the same in violation of all rights of prop
erty and contrary TO the very basis of all govern
ments. This company has, for years. mad satisfac-
tory Understandings aud agreements with certain
labor organizations, which mas, IN every instance,
complied with its promises, and 1t has always been
the object and aim of the management to comply
fully with both the spirit and the letter OF all sucn
understandings and agreements.
would call your attention to the following CON
clusions: This company has made no objection to
the existence OF organizations and combinations
OF employees, which the latter consider for their
and met the committees of such organ
izatons, and made arrangements with the same
without distinction, and carried them out as eS-
actly as possible, and promptly adjusting all conf
plants and differences which have fro ~ time To
time arisen. When loyal employees permit them
solves 20 be governed and controlled by their dis
contented co-laborers, they necessarily suffer
equally with them the con sequence of lll-advised
acts Therefore, the necessity of their individual
efforts to restore the proper relations between the
company and its employees. II must be well-known
and recognized that the capacity of q corporation
to meet its pay rolls and vouchers depends upon
its capacity to money and that when its earn
ing powers cease, its ability to pay employees and
its other creditors ceases at the same time as ITS
daily and monthly payments are made from its
daily and monthly receipts The company Is le-
galy required to do all in its power to perform lts
obligations to the public and to the government
and its management will take every proper me g
ure to comply with these requirements, and !
earnestly hope that every independent, free
thinking co-labcrer who has heen or
is an empoye of these companies Will
consider these facts and inform himself upon all
sides of the subject remembering that there has
never before been an act so arbitrary, useless ami
uncelled Tor as that of asst SATURDAY, wherbi a
few men to whom you have yoluntrIly given the
power are depriving many thOnsands Of their CO.
iaborers of their accustomed wages. diyesttng this
company of The capacity to pay its employees, bar
their services, shutting up the avenues of traffic in
four states and preventing some 4,OO0OOl or opie
from obtaining their customary sup
plies and their necessities of life,
because it is claimed that one employe Of the car
department of the Texas Il Pacific railroad, at
MARSHALL, Texas, "A road over which this company
mas no control-has been discharged bg the agent
of the United States court
lsignedl A. NJ ApAjE,