Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-16

over employees. We have car
rled out the agreement made last sprini
in every respect, and the present strike II
unjust to us and unwise for you. 1t II
reported here that this movement is thu
result OF Wall street influence on thu
part OF those Short of the securitie,
, likely to be Affected A. L. HOPKINS"
This dispatch you never answered
This correspondence places the con
tinuance Of the strike on your shoulders
] You sat still and was silent after Mr.
Hopkins appeal, and allowed the strikt
to go on allowed the cOmpany's proper
~ to be forclbly seized and the citizens
of four states and one territory 20 be de
priyed OF their needfrl railway iacilitieF
Thus forced, the board of directors, prior
TO my return, placed the matter IN Mr.
Hoxie's hands by formal resolution, and
the disposition of II has never been
changed, You know this well, because
you had correspondence with him on
this subject; hence it was that
when Mr.. Turner, secretary Of your
order, wrote me on the subject fully adj
ylsed HIM in my letter of March ~ that
| the matter had been placed by the board
In the hands of Mr.. Hoxie, and that
must refer you TO him as its representa-
I tive. At the same time | reminded you
that a standing advertisement of this
company was at that moment inserted,
inviting its former employees to return to
their posts, and that regardless Of their
being or not being members of your order,
and regardless, also, Of their individual
participation In the strike which your
order had recently inaugurated When,
in spite OF oil this, you desired to see me
personally, l cordially met you, and hav-
ing put myself in communication with
Mr.. HoXie, arranged with him for you the
following, which was widely published by
you at the time:
NEW YORK, March 30.-Martn Irons,
st, Louis: Have been in conference all
day, with the result that Vice President
Hoxie agrees to the following: Willing
to meet 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
adiudicate with them any grievances
which they may have. Have your execu-
tive committee order the men TO return
TO work, and also select q special com
mittee from the employees of the Missouri
Pacific to wait on Mr.. Hoxie to adjust
any difference. Do this as quickly as
possible. Board will leave for St. Louis
tomorrow.
FREDERICK TURNER, Secretary.
Ever since then NIr. Hoxie has stood
ready to receive any and all persons in
the actual employ Of this company as a
committee or otherwise and confer upon
or arbitrate any matter of differences or
complaint, either between the company
and themselves or between the company
and its late employees, and FOR that mat
ter, between the company and anybody
else. No such committee or individual
employe has, so far as know to me, ever
made such application. In this connection
IL will be remembered that they left not
because OF any complaint whatever
OF this compAny's treatment Of them
selves, but only because of the company's
refusal to comply with their demand that
this company refuse to do what the law
requires in the way of interchange of
business with another company with
which some Of your order had quarrel
In the meantime, this company has of
necessity gone on to extend employment
to such of these persons who recently,
without even alleged provocation, left its
service, as saw fit to return. These re-
turning employees have been very many,
and in this way its rolls are already
nearly, II notquite, as full as It's shops and
equipments, crippled by acts Of violence
attendant upon recent action OF your
order, can employ.
MIR. 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 to make
good In the fullest sense its agreement as
expressly set forth, In the face of all this
you notify me that unless by 5 O'Clock |
personally consent to sometbing-ure-
cisely what do not see--then personal
consequences of q sort vaguely
expressed, but not hard TO under
stand, VIII, at the hand of your
order, be visited upon rue. Let me
again remind you that 1t is an American
citizen whom you ana your order thus
propose to destroy. The contest is not
between your order and me, but be. |
tween your order aud the laws of the
land. Your order has already deaed |
those laws in preventing, by violence, |
TINS company from operating it's road !
you held then that this company should |
not operate its road under conditions pre- |
scrloed by law, but only underconditions
PLNSNhAoSu Wy you. 1Ou now declare in |
effect that | hold my individual propertv |
ana rights, not as other men hold theirs, |
put only at the peril Of your letting loose |
lrrevocably after O'Clock your order
upon me. If this is true of this com.
pany and me, it Is true Of all ether men
ana companies. If so you and your Sc
cret order are tine law, and an American
CITIZEN Is such only in name. Already for
weeks Your order have, in your attach
upon this company, not hesi,ated to ais.
able 1t byviolence from rendering It's dntv
20 me pubic and from giving WORT and
paying wages to men NJ least
Lhree times your own number. who
working as they were nv vonr
side, were at least deserving Of yoHr
'ympathy' Having pushed this violence
beyond even the great forbearapce OF the
public and found in this direction canse
90 hesitate, you now turn upon me and
propose that the wrongs you have hitler.
% lnuicted on the public shall now chi.
inmate In an attack upon an inoiyidnai
N This, as have said, the real issue Is
letWeen y0n and the laws Of the land
y may be before you are througb that
nose laws Will efficiently advise po7, 49,