, 1886-03-30

hope being entertained that at that hou
Powderly might be well enough to at
tend.
At 8 o'clock, however, Messrs. Turne
and Mcdowell entered Gould's ofic
without Powderly. At about 4~o'clocl
the conference ended. Subsequently, al
inquiry at Gould's Office was answered b.
the following statement. OF which Goull
was the author:
Mr.. Powderly has evidently misun
derstood the meaning of the telegram sen
Sunday night tn Mr.. Hoxie. Our posi-
ton is hat this strike has been in a con
dition for arbitration all the time. We
have had an agreement with the work.
men for some time that all differences
were to have been submitted for arbitra.
ton before any strike should be r~esorted
to. Manager Hoxie has the matter II
hand. He has full control and matter,
must be settled with him. We are just
where we were before Sundays con
ference"
A gentleman who represented Jay
Gould at his Office said The conference
Of Sunday were between Gould and
Powderly as citizens only. 1t being dis
tinctly and often stated that neither
gentleman was acting officially"
Mr.. Gould this afternoon sent the fol
lowing letter to Powderly, wl.o makes il
public, as the matter referred to an inter
view with Gould. The letter is marked
personal"
To T. " PooderL. Esq The papers
this morning published the following;
Jay Gould has consented to our PROPOSE
ton for arbitration, and so telegraphed
Vice President Hoxie. Order the men
to resume work at once.
LSigned] t. V. PowDERLY.G G. NJ. W"
They published it as an interview with
you, which leads one to think that the
officers of your order in St. Louis may
misconstrue your message into a consent
on the part of this company to conform to
the requirements contained in the letter
from the secretary of your order dated
Philadelphia, March 81, which in my
letter to you OF the same date | de-
clined to consider. You remember that
at our conference Sunday, | said to you,
the position Of this company was IN
changed in this respect and the whole
matter was left in the hands of the first
vice-president and general manager, with
instructions contained in my telegram to
him which was written before my inter
view with you and read to you at the time.
This telegram stated ave see no obiec-
ton to arbitrate any differences between
the employees and the company past or
future" While | feel confident hat
your understanding of this matter is the
same as my own, l write you this in order
that there may be no ground for misun-
~derstanding hereafter. Very respectfully
yours. j. GOULD. President.
When this was received by Powderly,
he wrote down these notes, which were
taken to the conference
DO l understand you. from your per-
sonal letter of this date. hat your com
pany refuse arbitration2 and must | so tel
egraph Martin Irons?"
When the committee arrived at Gould's
Office he had gone out, but they were re-
ceived by Second Vice President Hopkins,
who made this answer:
you may say distinctly to him, no,
we do not. He is not so to understand
that letter, but he is simply referred to
Gould's written communication to him,
which he is prepared to carry out in every
particular.
The committee then returned to the
Aston house and Powderly formulated
a reply to Gould, setting forth
that the proposition to the men to re-
turn to work on the agreement to
submit the complaints to arbitration was
made in good faith. The letter continues,
when you made the telegraphic order to
General Manager Hoxie, contained in
your letter, in which was used the follow
ing language, we see no objection to ar
bitrating any differences between the EN-.
ployes and the company, past or future,
we accepted your approval to the general
principle Of arbitration in equal good
faith and at once issue our order for the
men to to work. We are not
particular in the adjustment of the present
difficulties whether the arbitrstors ap.
pointed by your company shall be named
by General Manager Hoxie or yourself,
or whether the number shall consist Of
three, five or seven. We can imagine nc
greater misfortune for your com.
pany than that the impression should
go forth not only to the member
of our organization, but to the community
at large, whose interests are suffering al
the result OF the present condition o
affairs, that a break has occurred between
the interests you represent and which
represent by reason Of a technically
A further conference has been arranged
tor tomorrow morning, at which MT
Powderly will be present, il at all posi-
bic. He is quite i'll.
The following telegram has been sent Il
the district master workmen at St Louis
Sedalia and Fort Worth tonight;
Compilations have arisen since morn
ing as to the method Of arbitration. An
Il -.-F-.u. Ill l.. I.ll s..u.~~...
IT. V. PowDERLY, G.. NJ. w"
A season Of emotional drama next wee
nj the nnera hnnse with Craze HnM