Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-04-30
THE GREAT LABOR WAR,
CONTRIBUTIONS SUPPORTING THE
STRIKERS IN lDLENESS.
Takes $4,000 ~ Day on the Gould Roads
Freight Rapidly started out of Chicago
-JeG Davis's Views on the CUES
tion-Paying strikers.

ST. LOUIS, April 25--While waiting for
the Curtin committee to come, the Pow
derby committee busies itself with system
atizing its disbursals of money. 1t is esti.
mated that not far from $1,000 a day will
be required, The certainty that the com
mittee will have all the money necessary
for the support of the strikers is leading a
good many men not knights to quit work.
Last night, for instance, the foundrymen
OF the Missouri car shops decided to quit.
They would not have done so had they not
been assured by the knights that they
would be supported with money. The
daily receipts continue to be very large.
More than $4,000 was received yesterday,
including $4,000 from Secretary Turner.
1t is probable that after the Curtin com
mittee finishes its work, if the strike is
not then ended, there will be Il meeting of
the executive board to discuss the adj
visibility of declaring a general boycott
ga INST the Gould roads.
Rapidly Disposing of Freight.
CHICAGO, April 25.-Several hundred
men and boys attested their joy over the
victory of the strikers by paIading the
streets of the town of Lake last evening.
They were headed by a band comprising
flies, bag pipes and drums, and carried
transparences. The bystanders along the
line of march cheered the parade. They
started at S O'Clock and marched until
after midnight Meantime there was
the create est possible activity in the freight
yard at Twelfth and Forty third streets
and at Englewood. Train after train was
pulled out and started eastward, while
their places upon the tracks We're rapidly
taken by trains brought over from conect-
ing lines. Two of the objectionable"
men were working at Forty-thrd street,
and were not interfered with by the other
switchmen. 1t is said that forty-two train
loads of freight are near the city on the
line of the Lake Shore road, waiting to
yet into the yards for transfer and unload
ing
- Jefferson Davis's Views on Strikes.
GALVESTON, Texas, April 25.-The fol-
lowing letter from Jefferson Davis to H.
W. Pope of Marshall, Texas, in which
Mr.. Davis gives his views as to what legis-
lation might be adopted to bring about
harmony and unity of action between cap
ital and labor has been made public: The old
war between capital and labor has called
forth the best intelects of Europe. 1t has
disturbed commerce, overthrow govern
ments, produced anarchy and crept from
the wreck without solving the problem
With us the contest is III its incipient
state and happily it may be that some
thing can be done to check its growth.
Self-interest and free competition for labor
Will, wherever laborers are abundant, give
to the rich the power to Cypress the poor.
We cannot legislate to destroy the mo-
tive of self-lnterest, for that lies at
the foundation of material progress.
1t is not "a sufficient answer to say that
the price of labor has advanced, unless it
can he shown that the profits of labor
have moved pari passu with the profits of
capital for i'll this. as in other things of
comparative welfare, we must consider
the relative improvement. The standard
of comfort rises proportionately to the i'll
crease of wealth in II country.
Your idea of a court of arbitration, |
think, has much to recommend it. The
organization Of such Il court so rs to Sc
cure equally the confidence of both con.
tending parties would require both liber
ality ana discretion, and 1t would be need
full that their decisions should be based on
something like a cooperative principle OF
industrial partnership in which the wages
OF the employees should be measured by the
profits OF the corporation. If in this man
ner a community Of interest could be es
tablished the welfare and contentment OF
both would seem to be a possible result.
JEFFERSON DAVIS