Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-22

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March 8, 1854
| To A. L HOPKINS, SECRETARY MISSOURI
| graphed West for particulars. Papers saw
| strike caused by discharge of man nam 81
Hall. Can be be reinstated pending invessi
| cation.
ISignedl T.v. PowDERLY.
NEW YORK. March 8, 1885,
.age AND smggast,o, M LOT your mes.
properly is in the hands Of the United ssasss
over the receivers or over the employees. We
| have carried out the agreement made last
strike is unjust to us and nnwiss for you seh II
| Is reported here that this movement here ia
| be affected. -'~oAS w
| ISignedl AL HopKrSs
This dispatch you never answered. This
correspondence places the continuance of
the strike on your shoulders You sat
still and was silent after Mr.. Hopkins ur-
forclbly seized and the citizens of f four ur
aaS rsMsyy ta hi S.
forced, the board of directors, prior to my
return; placed the matter into Mr. Hoxie's
position of it has never been changed. You
know this well because you had cor
iect Hence it was that when Mr..
turner, secretary of your order, wrote to
me on the subject. I fully advised him him
been placed by the board in the hands of Mr..
Hoxie, and that must refer you to him
time 1 reminded you that a standing adver-
tisement of this company was at that mo-
to their posts, and that regardless of then
being, or not being, members of your
order. and regardless also OF
their individual participation in the
strike which your order had recently inau-
2urated. When, in spite of all this. you de-
sired to see me personally, cordially met
you, and. having put myself in communica-
ton with Mr., Hoxie. arranged with HIM for
Ko obsd the he foil fo1oWng ts was widely pub
NEW YORK, March 80.
MARTIN IRONS, ST. LOUIS: Have been in
conference all day, with the result that Vice
"wilIing to meet a committee of our em-
poyes without Discrimination, who are
actually at work in the service of the com
pointed, to adiudciate with them any griev
anees that they may have Have your eA-
york, and also SELECT special e1 on
wait on Mr.. Hoxie to adjust any difference.
Do this quickly as possible. Board will
lsignedI FRED'K TURNER.
Secretary.
Ever since then Mr. Hoxie has stood ready
to receive any and all persons In the actual
employ of this company committee or
otherwise, and confer upon or arbitrate any
matter of difference or complaint either
between the company and themselves or be-
tween the company ana It's late employees,
and for that matter: between the company
and any body else. No such committee or in
dividual employe has so far rs known to me
ever made such application.
In this come ction it will be remembered
that they left, not because of any complaint
whatever of this company's treatment of
themselves, but only because of the COM
pany's resusal to comply with their demand
that this 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.
INT nar,tr ING m hn ~ np
cessity gone on to extend employment to
such of those persons who recently, and
service. as saw TT to return. These return
ing employees have been very many, and in
quite, as full as it's shops and equipment,
crippled by acts of violence attendant
upon the reject action of o your order,
to T be received ef back has p been emp he
cent acts of violence. This company still
stands ready to make good in the fullest
s see oft ali this Yoa Soy
consent to something-preclsely what 1 do
not hard to understand will at the
me again remind you that it is an American
citizen whom you and your order thus pro-
pose to me Sn NOT orasn
and the laws of the land. Your order has
already defied those laws in preventing by
violence this company from operating its
road. You held then that this company
should not operate its road under condi
tionS prescribed by law. but only under condi
tions prescribed by you. You now declare in
effect that hold my individual pronerty an
rights, not as other men hold theirs. but
only at the peril of your letting loose IL
revocably. after five o'clock, your order up
me. If this ia true of this company and
of me, it is true of all other men and com
panies. If so, You and your secret order are
the law, and an American citizen Is such
only in name.
Already for weeks your order have, in
your attacks upon this company, not hest
tated to disable it by violence from render
ing it's duty to the public and from giving
work and paying wages to men at least
three times your own number, who, work
ing, as they were. 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.
Itmay be before you are through that
those laws will efficiently advise you that
even I, as an individual citizen, am not
beyond their care. Very respectfully.
JAY GOULD.
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