The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-27

/ that night. They came back At night and
we resumed our talk. Mr.. POwderly said
| TO me: Those men out there IL want TO
talk to you frankly are in rebellion to our
order. They strike without cause and
have it in contemplation tO-mOr-
row to vindicate myself sy
issuing an order taking away
their charter" | said: Mr.. Powderly,
you have been so frank with me tina | will
be equally frank with you. Now, | will
read YOU dispatch which | have pre-
pared to send to Mr.. Hoxie. | get down
town to- morrow morning at half-past 3,
and will SIND it then. | took
out of my pocket and read
to him, my dispatch to Mr..
IIoxie, directing preference in employ
ment to the late employees whether Knights
of Labor or not. Now ! do not know
that ii
CAN BIZ TWISTED
so as to make it mean something different
from what it says.
Mr. Powderly-I approve of that and it
will help me il you will give me copy
of it." said certainly, will do that
That brought our interview to a close. |
went up stairs and copied the dispatch in a
note addressed TO Mr.. POwderly and
gave il to Mr.. Mcdowell to deliver to him.
That was no right on the part of Mr..
Mcdowell or OF Mr.. Powderly
to give the dispatch to the public until |
had put it into Mr. Hoxie's hands They
went out of town and
CHANGED THE WHOLE PROGRAMME.
The next morning the newspapers came
publishing this and saying on
the part OF Mr.. Powderly, "Mr.
Gould has consented to our plan
of arbitration" This was published
broadcast. 1t was utterly untrue. As To
the question of arbitration | have always
been in favor of arbitration. Ii has been
rather kind of hobby of mine and there
fore said in NY dispatch to Mr.. Hoxie:
1--WE see no objection To arbitration" He
continued 81 believe that IN the inveSti-
| CATION Yesterday there was reference TO a
letter of instruction. There was no letter
sent except the Powderly letter. What
Mr.. Hoxie meant by a letter of in
structions was nv letter addressed to Mr..
Powderly which he saw in the newspapers
that morning. OF course he
referred 10 that. | want TO
say very distinctly that there have been
no instructions issued, other than those en-
bodied in that letter. They have been
lived up to by the company from that
time to this"
Mr.. Cain-You say distinctly that there
were
| No SECRET INSTRUCTIONS.
! Mr.. Gould-There were no secret in
structtons. On the contrary, We have
lived right up TO my letter to Mr.. Powder
ly, notwithstandi all the provOcation We
have received.
Mr.. Gould here read the various tele-
grams and correspondence which have been
already made public.
| Mr.. Gould exhibited visible emotion
while reading the Irons address denounc-
ing witness and remarked that was the re-
Spouse made to the company's friendliness.
| Replying to questions witness said his dis
patch to Hoxie was not intended as an
order but as a precaution. He put the
matter I'm Hoxie's hands and held him re-
sponsible for the result He did not send
| hoxie either on the Monday, Sunday or
Saturday preceding any other telegram or
advice. The ccmpanys policy remained
unchanged from the first
Continuing, witness said Arbitration
Is getting to be a very easy and popular
way of settling difficulties between in
dividuals and corporations and between
corporations and their individual en-
ployes. l have always been
IN FAVOR OF ARBITRATION.
l regard the employees of railway company
upon a different footing from the employees
of manufacturing or other private cor
poration. 4 railway corporation acts in
two senses. First, As a private organiZa-
ton and second as a public corporation
having a contract with the state by which
il has certain duties to perform
Mr. Burns-Have you considered the
question as To whether there i any mode
by which the whole working force OF a
u ailway can be put under the control OF
the people?
Mr.. Gould-Yes, sir, the laws do that
now. The difficulty Is only in enforcing
them on roads operated by receivers.
Strikes are rapidly overcome because there
is respect for the United States courts. |
think the government should have such
right to govern and control railroads as TO
have trouble arbitrated even without con-
sulting the company or Its employees.
Mr.. BarneS-IOu mean compulsory ar
bitration.
Mr.. Gould-Public opinion on these
questions IS all powerful. fer-
haps voluntary arbitration would
have greater effect than compulsory ar
bitration.
Mr.. Burns Why were not your views
that are friendly to arbitration carried oui
, at st. Louis?
Mr.. Gould-Mr Hoxie has always been
ready to carry them out. Tha
has always been our pol
icy. We are ready to arbitrate an!
grievances between the company and 1T
employees, but the Interpretation which Mr.
Pswderly put upon it was that the Knight
g of Labor were to step in and oversee thu
arbitration.
There are 10000 men employed by the
, Missouri Pacific company who are no
1 members of that order, but are members o.
:: other organizations which deal with u;
Il directly After the strike in 1885, We