Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-07
GOULD SPEAKS AGAIN..
HE STRONGLY lDENOUNCES THE
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
The Southwest Strike was Causeless and
Productive Off No Good-He Favors
Properly Organized Labor-True
Mission of Such Organizations.

New YORK, April i30-The Times pub
fishes an interview with Mr.. Jay Gould
on the labor question. He says there was
no cause for the strike on the Missouri
Pacific in March last as everybody knows.
Our men were well and promptly paid. The
strike was the work of agitators VINO had
constituted themselves the rulers of the
men and who lacked the sense to use their
power with discretion.
"What, in your opinion, Mr. Gould, will
be the outcome of the present spirit of dis
content and agitation among working
men ?'
81 look for little immediate good to any
body, least of all to working people. 1t
gives US strikes, boycotts, intimidation
and threats of disorder in a thousand
forms 1t seeks practically to plunge the
country into civil war. 1t places an en-
barge on everything akin to personal in
dependence. The workingmen, so far as
we see them in these bands of the stamp
of the Knights of Labor, are doing them
selves an inestimable deal OF harm. l am
not opposed to the organization of labor
l am an earnest believer in the union of
fellow-workers | see abundant advan-
tages sure to accrue to man who is
banded for mutual benefit with his
brother laborers. Properly organized
the laborer must be a stronger man, a
better workman, a more careful, more
thoughtful and better citizens. | think
the true mission Of labor organizations
should be to properly educate their mem
bers, weed out the black sheep and pro-
vide life insurance scheme, whose bene-
fits would be worth working for. | have
1t in mind to recommend to the Missouri
Pacific directors to give financial support
TO such an organization as soon as ii can
be put in working order, and our men
show disposition to enjoy the benefits of
such cooperative project" Mr. Gould
said strikes were senseless, defenceless
and pernicious to the last degree. The boy
colt was Stiffness run mad, and the men
who used 1t were MASKING their own skulls
to pieces. The Knights of Labor, the apos-
ties of both of these exalted schemes of
warfare, have used their ammunition of
this sort lndustriously and energetically,
with no result so marked as appears in
their own discontinue. Ii the Knights
OF Labor are to survive it must be in Il
new form with new methods and new
arms. That the organization is stirrer
up OF strife, breeder of discord, has little
in it to challenge the respect of intelligent
and honest men. Their platitudes about
arDltratlOn and the like are in the mouths
of the organization leaders continually,
but 1t is new matter of defamation. Ar
bitration stands second to the strike and
OF the methods chosen by the order the
boycott leads every scheme that has rela
ton to decency and justice.
The Fight Nearing an End.
The great railroad strike will be ordered
off to-day or tomorrow but probably to-
day. 1t has been impossible to get the
vote on the question of ordering off the
strike, as the knights are very close
mouthed.
Agitators Getting Their Deserts
Five members of the executive board
Central Labor union, responsible for the
recent street car strikes here, have been
indicted for conspiracy to injnre business
ana were to-day arrested and put under
thousand dollars bonds each to appear for
trial.
Cars Running Once More
The Third avenue cars stopped running
about Z O'Clock tonight and the police
We're then withdrawn. The company said
they ran l3l cars to-day. They will begin
night trips Monday and. expect them to be
in full working order.
Intimidation Employed in Chicago
Causing Cessation of Work.
CHICAGO, May 2.-Fully 500 striking
railroad freight hands met at the Harrison
street viaduct, near the west side union
passenger depot, at s O'Clock this morn
ing. Speeches were made by two or three
leaders, in which they declared that it was
the duty of the freight handlers on all the
Chicago roads to enforce their demands
now for shorter hours, while the working
men in all departments of trade were do
ing so. The sentiment was cheered, and
upon the suggestion of some one in the
crowd the men started for the Wabash
freight yards to urge the men employed
there to stop work. The crowd, increasing
in size as it moved, entered the Wabash
yards and the men there at once quit work
A complete cessation of work in tire,
yards seems probable. Fifty men unload
ing vessels at the Rock Island and LAX,
Shore docks on the river struck for eigh
hours and stopped work. The officials il
the Rock Island and Lake Shore yard
were clearing up all freight in the ex
pectation of a strike among the men there
The freight house men of the Fort Wayne
road this morning made "A demand TO
eight hours and will stop at noon unless i
is conceded