The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-23

PHuADRLPnlA, Pa, March 3, leoa
To A. L HOPKINS. sEcRETARY MIssounl
graphed West for particulars. Papers say
strike caused by discharge of man nam Cd
Hall Can he be reinstated pending investi
Cation
(Signedl I. v. PowDERLY.
NEW YORK. March g. 1888.
+. v. PowDERLI Thanks for your mes
SAGE and suggestion Hall was employed BY
property Is In the hands OF the United States
Court, and we have no control whatever
over the receivers or over the employees. We
have carried out the agreement made last
spring In every respect, and the present
strike Is unjust to us and unwise for Won. Il
is reported here that this movement here u
the result of Wall street influence on the
part Of those short OF the securities likely to
be affected.
lsignedl A. L. HOPKINS.
This dispatch you never answered. This
correspondence places the continuance of
the strike on your shoulders iR sat
still and was silent after Mr.. Hopkidy ur-
gent appeal. and allowed the strike to 20
on. allowed the eOmpany's property TO be
forcibly seized and the citizens of four
States and one Territory TO be deprived OF
their rightful railway facilities: Thus
return, placed the matter into Mr. Boxie's
hands by formal resolution. and that dis
position of 1t has never been chsnaed. You
know this well because you had cor
respondence with him on this sub
ject. Hence Il was that when Mr..
Turner; secretary OF your order; wrote r, to
in my letter OF March p that the matter had
heen placed by the board In the hands of Mr..
Hoxie, and that must refer you to him As
its continuing representative. At the same
time reminded you that a standing adver-
tise,nsnt of this company was a. that mo-
ment inviting its torn employees to return
being, or not being, members Of your
order. and regardless also of
their individual participation in the
strike which your order had recently inau-
eurated. When, in spite of all this, you de-
sired 20 see me personally. cordially met
you, and. having put myself In communIca-
you the following, which was widely pub
lshed by you at the time:
NEW YORK, March 80.
MARTIN IRONS. ST. LOUIS: Have been in
conference all day. with the result that Vice.
prssident Hoxis agrees TO the following:
p'oyes without discrimination, who ars
actually at work in the service OF the com
pany at the time such COMMITTEE Is ap-
ances that they may have. Have your ex-
ecutve committee order men TO return to
work. and also select a special COMMITTEES
from the employees of the Missouri Pacific to
wait on Mr.. HOxie to adjust any difference
Do this "A quickly as possible. Board will
leave for st. Louis tomorrow:
lSiSnedI FRED'K TURNER.
Ever since then Mr.. noxie has stood ready
TO receive any and all persons In the actual
employ of this company as committee or
otherwise. and confer upon or arbltrate any
matter Of difference or complaint either
between the company AMI themselves or be-
tween the company and Its late employees,
and for that matter. between the company
and anybody else No such committee or in
dividual employe has so far ss known to me
ever made such application.
In this come cton IL will be- remembered
InNA Ia<.u utvaH
whatever of this company's treatment OF
themselves, but only because of the COM
pany's resussl to comply with their demand
that tfts company refuse to do what the law
requires in the way of interchange OF bust
ness with another company with which some
OF your order had quarrel.
In the meantime this company has OF ne
cessity gone on to extend employment to
such of those persons who recently, and
without even alleged provoca,on. left its
service. as saw nit to return: These return n.
this way les rolls are already nearly, II not
quite. as full a. its shops and equipment,
crippled by acts Of violence attendant
can employ. Mr.. Hoxie advises me
that every such person applying
to be received back has heen employed.
cent acts OF violence. This company still
stands ready e. make good in the fullest
81, this So.v
consent to something-preciselv what do
not see - then personal consequences
OF a sort vaguely expressed, hut
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 pro-
pose to destroy. The contest Is not between
your order and me, but between your order
and the laws of the land. Your order has
already defed those laws In preventing by
violence this company from operating it's
road. You held then that this company
should not operate its road under condi-
tions prescribed by aw, but only under condi-
tons prescribed by YOU. You now declare in
effect that hold my individual prorerty and
rights not other men hold theirs. hut
revocabiy. after five O'Clock, your order up.
on me. II this is true of this company and
OF me. 1t Is true of all other men and COM
panies. II so, yOn and your secret order are
the law, and An American citizen is such
only i'm name.
your attacks upon this company. not hest
tated to disable it by violence from render
ing its duty to the public and from giving
work and paying wages to men at least
three times your own number. who. work
ing. rs they w-re. by your side, were, at
least. deserving of your sympathy.
Having pushed this violence beyond even
the great fOrbearance of the public, and
found In this direction cause to hesitate, you
now turn upon me and propose that the
wrongs you have hitherto inflicted on
the public shall now eliminate in an attack
upon an individual. In this. as have said.
the real issue Is between you and the laws of
the land.
1t may be before you are through that
those laws will efficiently advise you that
even !. ne an individual citizen am not
beyond their care. Very respectfully.