The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-16

you had g correspondence with him OF
this subject. Hence, It was that Whel
Mr.. Turner, Secretary Of your order, Wrot(
TO me on the subject / fully advised him
in my letter Of March q that the mattel
had been placed by the board In the
hands Of Mi. Hoxie, and that l nust reiel
you to him as its continuing represents
i've,
At the same time | reminded you thai
Q standing advertisement Of this company
was at that moment inviting its former
employees to return TO their accustomed
posts, and that regardless Of their being
or not being members Of your order, and
regardless, also, OF their individual parti'
GlpRtion in the strike which your order
had recently in~augurated. When in spite
OF all this you desired to see me per
%sonally, / cordially met you, and having
put myself in communication with MIR.
Hoxie, arranged with him for you the
following, which was widely published by
you at the time:
NEw YoRK, March 80.
Martin Irons, 81. Louis;
Have been in conference all day with
the result that Vice-P President Hoxie
agrees to the following: Willing to meet
q committee Of our employees, without
discrimination, who are actually at work
in the service Of the company at the time
such committee is appointed, to adjudi'
cate with them any grievances that they
may have. Have your Executive Com.
mittee order the men to return to work,
and also select a special committee from
the employees OF the Missouri Pacific to
wait on Mr., Hoxie to adjust any differ
ences. DO this as quicKly as possible,
Board will leave for 81. Louis Tomorrow,
FRRDRRICE TURNER, Secretary,
READY TO ARBITRATR,
Ever since then Mr., Hoxie has stood
ready to receive any and all persons in the
actual employ OF the company AZ a COM
mittee or otherwise, and confer upon or
Mbitrate any matter ol difference or com.
plant, either between tho company aud
themselves, OIL between the company aud
It's late employees, and for that matter be-
tween the company aud anybody else, No
such committee orindividual employe has,
so far as known to me, ever made any
such application,
In this connection It will be remember
ed that they left, not because oil any CON.
plant whatever OF this Company's treat
ment Of themselves, but only because OF
this c%ompAny's refusal to comply with
their demand that this company refused
to do what the laws requires in tue way OF
interchange Of business with another
company with which some Of your order
had u quarrel,
In the meantime this company has oil
necessity gone on to extend employment
To such Of those persons who recently and
without even alleged provoCation left its
service as saw ut to return. These re.
turning employees have been very many,
aud In this way It's rolls are already nearly,
II not quite, as full Us its shops and equip.
ment, crippled by acts OF violence az.
tendant upon the recent action OF your
order, can employ. Mr.. Hoxie advises
me that every such person applying TO be
received back has been employed, unless
believed TO have taken part in recent acts
Of violence.
This company still stands ready 10 make
good in the fullest aenss its agreement az
expressly set forth. In the face OF all this
you notify me that unless by 5 O'Clock
I personally consent TO something, pre-.
Cisely what I do not see, then personal
consequences Of a sort vaguely expressed
but not hard TO understand will at tho
hands OF your order be visited upon me.
A PERSONAL light.
Let me again remind you that 1t Is an
American citizen whom you and your or
der thus propose to destroy. The contest
is not between your order and me, but be.
tweenyour order and tho laws Of the land.
Your order has already deiea thoss laws
In preventing by violence this company
from operating Its road. You held then
that this company should not operate It's
road under conditions prescribed by law,
but only under conditions prescribed by
you. You now declare In effect, that /
hold my individual property and rights,
not a 8 other men hold theirs, but only at
the peril Of your letting loose %irrevocably
after 8 o'clock your order upon me.
II this Is true Of this company and OF
me, 1t Is true Of all other men and com.
pauies. II 80, you and your secret order
are the law, and an American citizen Is
such only in name. Already for weeks
your order in your attack upon this
company has not hesitated to disable 1t by
violence from ender It's duty tothe pub.
lie and from giving work and paying
wages TO men, at least three times your
own number, who, working 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 hest.
tate, you now turn upon me and propose
that the wrongs you have hitherto inlllct.
tack upon an individual. In this, as /
have said, the real issue Is between you
and the laws Of the land. 1t may be be.
fore you are through those laws will ell.
GENTLY advise you that even ! as al indi.
yidual citizen am not beyond their caro-.
Very respectfully, JAY COULD.