The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-26
WHAT HOxlE WILL DO.

Result of His Conference. with Governors
Marmaduke and Martln-He win Pay as
| High Wages as Any Competing Railws y.
and will Take Slck All Strikers Except
Those who Have Engaged in the De-
struction of the Company's Property.
| ST.. LOUIS. March Ex-Governor Martin,
OF Kansas, and Governor Marmaduke, OF
Missouri, arrived in the city from Kansas
| City Saturday morning and were almost
immediately closeted with Vice President
Hoxie, OF the Missouri Pacific, with whom
they conferred for many hours upon mat
! tiers relating to the strike.
| In their communications with Mr..
Hoxie the Governors review the agree
ment which they with other State off,
GERS caused to be made in March, 1885,
by Captain R. s. Hayes, at that time first
vice president of the Missouri Pacific, with
his employees then on a strike because Of
certain grievances. They say that in their
| opinion the Missouri Pacific has lived up to
the requirements of the agreement then
made-namely, to restore to the employees
l ehS oe@1N "d6O0 pcnteA w III CckB-
TENDER, 1884, including one and one-half
price for extra time worked, and TO restore
all said striking employees to their several
employments without prejudice to them on
account of said strike.
They then say that they recognize the
| fact that the Missouri Pacific Company
| may Justly claim that the strike of March
| q 1919 iroiiauac st %lor 1Sl
suned in the circular Of March Is, 1885,
but, nevertheless, they are anxious chat
amicable relations be restored by
the Missouri Pacific Company and
| it's employees, and would recon-
mend that the agreement embodied
Fin Captain. Hayes circular of March 15,
1885, he restored and continued in letter
and SPIRIT and that the Missouri Pacific
Company re-employ in it's service all of its
old employees, without prejudice to. them
on account of the late strike, so far as the
business of the company viii justify their
| unemployment.
Mr.. Hoxies reply is in effect that he will
employ good and competent men, without
reference to their past or present relations
| to the company, or to any society whatso-
ever, and that he will pay the rate of wages
recommended by the Governors in March,
1885, and still paid by the company;
that this rate of wages will be in
creased, if necessary, to equal that
| paid by other railroad companies in
| the States through which the Missouri
| Pacific runs, and that all old employees OF
| the company will be re-engaged without
| prejudice so far as the business of the COM
pany will justify their employment,
preference being given to employees having
| families dependent upon them. The COM
| pany can not, however, re-engage or con-
tinue in employ any persons who have
actually engaged in the destruction or in
| jury OF it's property, or who have advised
such destruction or injury.
| After the close of the conference Cover.
nors Martin and Marmaduke repaired to
| Hurst's hotel, where Martin Irons, chair.
| man, and several members of the Execu.
| tive Committee OF District Assembly 101,
| Knights of Labor, were in session, and pre-.
| sented to them the result of the conference
! with Mr.. Hoxie. Both Governors made
| brief speeches to the committee strongly
| urging them to accept Mr.. Hoxie's terms
| and appealing to them to end the strike
| at once, SO that the commerce oil
four States can be restored to its
normal condition. The committee
| made no reply, other than that they
would give the correspondence prompt and
i careful consideration.
| Martin Irons, chairman of the Executive
| Committee of District Assembly 101, and
| the man who ordered the present strike,
said in an interview Yesterday that unless
the grievances OF the Knights are adjusted
| within three days all Knights on every
| railroad will be called out and every wheel
| will stop moving.
| KANSAS Cry, Mo-, March 22.-The Mis-.
souri, Pacific Railway Company has filed
in the United States Circuit Court bill in
equity against30O OF the strikers, charging
them and other late employees with having
formed conspiracy to abandon the com.
| pany's service and assume control of its
| property, and with resisting the perform.
ance of service for the company, thus pre-.
venting the railway company from carry.
| ing on it's business as a common car.
| rier. 1t is also charged that the defend
ants are acting under orders of a secret or.
| ganization known as the Knights of Labor
formed for the purpose, among Others, Of
debating the relations of members to their
| employers. The court has issued an in.
! junction to place the company in possession
OF it's property and restrain the strikers
| from interfering with the business.
| COMMISSIONER WRIGHT ON LABOR TROUBLES.
WASHINGTON, March S22.-The first an
nual report of the Commissioner of Labor
! estimates that seven and one-half per cent.
| of the industrial establishments of the
! United States were idle during 1885. en-
| forcing the idleness OF 998, 500 persons.
| The report says;
| A million men out of employment means a
| loss to the consumptive power of the country
| of at least 81, 05O per day. or crippln g of
| the trade of the country of over $500. 0J0, zoo
| per year. The earnings of the people in
| voived In the classes named above would not
resenting total earnings of Of s7sso, 7ls oop
| The wage earnings of the million
| that should he employed are crippled to the
extent of over $500 O01 900 Der annum
| 1t is curious to observe, however. that while
| the sever ty of the depression causes Grip.
| ping to the extent of several hundred mill
ions or dollars per year OF the consuming
| power OF the people the volume of business
| transacted is not crippled comparatively to
| any such extent.
| The commissioner also shows that the
| foreigners immigrating to our shores are
| at once absorbed, to the depression of
labor. immigration, therefore, should be
| discouraged. The Importation of foreign
contract labor to take the places OF dissat-
| isfied home laborers is declared miser.
able failure for all parties concerned, ex-
cept, perhaps, the parties imported. The
! report continues
| AS to the severity of the present industrial
| depression and its duration, it can safely be
1 asserted that the depression commenced early
| in 1887 and has continued until the present
| time. From the time the agents of the bureau
| entered the field in prosecuting their investi-
cations to the time they left it, period of five
| or six months, there had been O marked
| change IN the condition of business. AT the
| present time March, 1881 the effects of the
| depression are wearing away, and ali this I'm
| d1cat ons are that prosperity is slowly and
1 gradr ajtv buG Rafaly rnfpp -;r1
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