Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-03-20
THE STRIKERS STRUCK.

Vice President Hoxie, of the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad, telegrarhed to PoWderly
Yesterday declining TO arbitrate The pres
ent strike, he says is without TeGressable
grievance 1t was entered upon without
notice to the company and has resulted in
the wanton destruction Of the company's
property By violence and incendiarism, and
in the almost total stoppage Of its business
by threats, intimidation and force, and in
conclusion says:
II desire emphatically to state that the
responsibility for future continuance of the
present uniustifable strike will not rest
with the management of this company, but
inasmuch as your organization has commit
ted the error of striking Grst and endeavor-
ing to negotiate afterward, it has power to
and should end the present trouble by per-
hitting such of our employees and others
who desire to work to do 50 without fear OF
the threats and Intimidation, leaving this
company free to resume its operations and
adjust with its employees as it is at all
times ready and willing to do, any griev.
ances they may have"
Powderly's reply to Mr.. Hoxie says that
the continuance of the strike must not be
charged to the knights OF Labor.
Reports Of the action of the Dallas Mer-
chants Exchange and citizens of Greenville,
Texas, in passing resolutions denunciatory
of the strikes and the strikers methods,
having been forwarded to Mr.. Jay Gould
he sent the following telegram in response:
CHARLESTON. S. c., March 10.
To The citizens Of the city Of Dctlas oad
GrcrHriNe. Hunt COuafV IcTus:
No words of mine can sufficiently express
nv appreciation Of the kiad words Of ell
enlargement and the good advice contained
in your dispatch. The present strike Oh our
system was ordered by the officers Of Il Sc.
cret organization because q neighborng rail
way, in the control of the highest court in
the land, had seen fit to discharge ono Of
their employees, and with no other COM
plant against the management Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific and without any warning or
shadow Of justification, the entire business
of four States and one Territory is complete
" paralyzcd, and the millions OF resident
citizens are deprived oftho railway facilities
on which their entire prosperity depends,
and TO the employment Of which they bavo
legal rights paramount to any secret organ
ization, because their rights are secured 10
them by the laws of land. The Missouri
Pacific employs 1870 men. OF these 3,Il7
only are concerned in the present strike, so
that in addition, these 800 consprators,
who are by force and intimidation stopping
our trains, are thereby depriving tho re-
manning 1900 Of their co-laborcrs Of their
daily earnings. VIII not tho public soon
learn that il is they that pay the railway
payroll that the railway is its clearing
house. to receive and distribute tho fund,
which is fully sixty per cent. of tho entire
gross earnings of railway? And when
they do they will probably find some method
to regulate and control the labor engaged
in railway transportation, and thus prevent
such strikes az tho present one.
JAY GOULD.
Conferences recently held between the
Cumberland and ClearGed operators have
resulted in an adherance by them TO their
resolve not to yield to the demands of the
strikers. In the meantime the supplies of
soft coal on hand are running low, and many
of the large consumers have been compelled
to use anthracite coal. The Pocahontas,
and Chesapeake and Ohio regions, which
are not in the strike, are sending coal TO