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understood you TO promise that NO strike
Bhould be ordered without consultation.
"iA, L, HoPEENs.'

understood you 70 promise that no strike
should be ordered without consultation.
"a, L. HoPLINs.'
"'PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March sSTtsss.
"a, Z, HOpkiBs, Sserelary Ais'Ouri Pacific
Railroad, 10 BrOadgly, New York;
"FHaye telegraphsd West for particu-
lars, Papers say strike caused by dis
charged man named Hall, Gan he be re-
ilstated pending inyeatgaionP
at, V. PoWDHRLY,'
HOPKINS ANswHR,
"'NEW YoRE, March 8, 1885.
"T, Y. POwdsrly;
"'Thanks for your message aud sugges-
ton. Hall was employed by the Texas
Pacific, and not by us. That property is
in the hands OF the the u, s. Court, and
we have no control whatever over the Re-
ceivers or other employees. We have car
rled out the agreement made last spring
in every respect, and the present strike Ia
unjust to us and auwiae for you. II isre.
ported here that this movement Ia the re-
suit Of Wall street influence on the part OF
those short Of the securities likely to be
affected. "'A, L, HOPKINS
mo reply to this message was received,
but the Companys request for a confer
enCe was ignored. and its premises at once
invaded and ita property destroyed by the
men OF your order in great numbers, who
also sieZs9 and disabled Its trains, Rs they
have since Gontrived to do whenever at
tempting to run. The Board Of Directors
oi this company thereupon had copy OF
the correspondence above given made
and transmitted 10 Mr.. II. N. Hoxie, the
First Vice President and General ManR'
ger at st. Louis, with instructions to use
every endeaYor 10 continue the operations
ol the read, and committed the whole
matter to his hands. Mr., HOxie's over.
tures, made through the Governors OF
Missouri and Kansas, who stated they
found no cause for the strike, were reject
ed by your order. These and the subse-
quent correspondence between him and
Mr.. Powderly are well known To you, and
Mr.. Hoxie's course has been confirmed by
the Board, and the matter Ia etill in his
hands. am, therefore, instructed by the
Board to refer you TO him as Its continuing
representative in the premises,
CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH STRIKERS.
N am directed to add in behalf Of the
Board that, in its judgment, SO long as this
company is forcibly kept from the control
Of Its property, and from performing It's
charter duties, It's business Is done, II at
all, not under the conditions Of law which
are common to all citizens, hut only at the
will Of q law-breaking force. Any nego-
tiations with such force would be un-
wise and useless. Terms with It would
not be settlement Of difliCultleS, but q
triumph OF force over the law Of the land.
It would mean nothing in their Judgment
but new troubles and worse. This Is the
result Of their experience.
I'm the meantime tho Governor pro-
clsmations enjoined your men to return to
duty, and this Company's continued ad-
yertisement offers them employment on
the same terms az heretofore.
1.-THE Board further suggests that inas-
much as your order assumes In your COM
mnniCation responsibility for these men,
and power and control over them, tho fol.
lowing from the proclamation Of the Gov
erlor OF Missouri Is expressive Of their
uuV Auu VI lOui VWA' Mhu hll pbE~
sons, whether they be employees or not,
against interposing any obstacle whatever
IN the way Of said resumption, and with a
firm reliance upon the courage, good sense
and law-abiding spirit Of the public, l
hereby call upon all good citizens to assist
in carrying out the purposes Of this pro.
clamatlon; and also hereby pledge the
whole power OF the State, so far as It may
be lawfully welded by It's chief Executive
officer, to sustain the company and It's ser.
wants In said resumption, and to restrain
and punish all that may oppose IT,
"When this proclamation shall be obey
cd 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.. Hoxle in the spirit in which be
has heretofore successfully avoided rup-
lures and cause for just complaint, and In
that Just and liberal spirit which should
always exist between the employer and
employed.
"By order OF the Board.
every respectfully yours,
GAY GOULD,
President Missouri Pacific Railroad Com