The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-29


its settlement. We can not take out
mail train, gentlemen Only three
suburban trains each way, in addition TO
the fast mail and Council Bluffs train,
| which got off about noon, were run to-
| day. The Brotherhood engineers having
refused to move the fast mail the COM
pany had to put new men on it, but it is
reported as running practically on time.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR TAKING PLACES.
PHILADELPHIA, February 2S.--E. %.
Ward, who has been in this city for the
past few days, has examined and en-
gagged forty-seven engineers and eighty
firemen to go to Chicago for service ON
the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
Road. The men are from various points
| along the Reading line, and are for the
most part those who went on strike in
December. They will leave here on the
| $50 train tonight for Chicago in two
chartered cars in charge of J. S Steele.
| who will go with them to their destina-
ton. William Forsyth, mechanical en-
| gineer of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy system, reached this city this
evening and during three days stay
viii make his headquarters at the Con-
tinental Hotel. He will personally take
| charge of the examination of applicants
| for positions, beginning his work with
an examination of twenty tonight. In
| the corridors of the Continental Hotel
t,, might fbsr.a ,x-.,rs, hat,.oa,, IN axd 1-S
men waiting for Instructions from the
company's agent. Thirty of these came
from Pottsville, and they report seventy
| five others waiting at that point for
orders. Applicants will be required to
come to Philadelphia for examination
before being accepted.
Forsythe said to reporter tonight,
ave shall pay engineers 81 and firemeIl
$2.25 per day during the strike, and after
| that regular schedule rates will be paid.
The company furnishes transportation
and the necessary living expenses dur
| ing the journey
PowDERLY's ADVICE TO THE KNIGHTS.
! Powderly telegraphed from Scranton
tonight a long letter prepared for pub
lication, advising the Knights of Labor
not to take the places of the striking
Brotherhood men of the Burlington and
| Quincy Road. In it Powderly says he
knows nothing of the merits of the con-
! troversy between the strikers and the
Burlington Company, and says, tBut if
| it is true that the men are making an
| effort to do away with the European
custom of grading men up and down,
regardless of merit, then they are in the
right III making the fight for equality.
My opinion of the man who takes the
place of another who is struggling for
his rights is that he deserves the con-
tempt and scorn of every man who loves
justice.
sit is true that members of the Broth
erhood nave on repeated occasions
taken the places of members of the
knights of Labor. 1t is true that away
back in the early days of the seventies
the Brotherhood men did the same thing
with the mechanics and blacksmiths al
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that the Brotherhood men stabbed the
Knights of Labor in the back on the
Southwestern System, not only by tax
ing their places, but by urging them te
strike with the proffer of assistance il
they would do so. 1t is true that the
knights of Labor were used as cat,
paws by the Brotherhood men in the
struggle, and it is true that many finger.
were burned in raking out chestnut
for others. 1t is true that the Brother
hood men did take the places of the
Reading men in the strike on that road
but the merits of the various cases herein
mentioned have nothing to do with thi
principle of honor which is involved il
all of them. 1t is to the eternal shame
of the Brotherhood men that they
stopped to such acts of meanness AM
treaehery, and unmanly conduct. Th
man who takes the place of anothe
when that other is engaged in struggl
with a corporation is a scab, whether h
be member of the knights of Labor o
or member of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers.
/ Powderly carries his arraignment o
5 the Brotherhood into further detail an
: proceeds to say that the members of til
i Brotherhood were not obliged to max
cravens of themselves as many of then
| did, both on the Southwest Syster
} and in the Reading strike. The takin,
of the mems places was mean an
? dastardly. If these actions were take
D with the sanction of the Chief of til
e Brotherhood he, too, is mean an
a dastardly, but two wrongs never make
n right, and what is mean and dastardly
: a member of the Brotherhood of Eng
u neers cannot become grand and noble
e member of the order of the knights
!, Labor. No Knight of Labor should b
e little his manhood by STOPPING to sue
Y dirty work. If it is the habit of I'll
L Brotherhood men to do such work ;
It taking strikers places, in heavens nan
let them have the monopoly of it.
l. knights of Labor. if you take my a
n vice, you will stand back and allow tn
Struggle 10 20 On Leu TIE DrOtnerDos
l. demonstrate its power TO Stand alol
% without any entangiing alliances wi
rs those other trades. Let the past be fc
L gotten in this strike. No matter he
d bitter you may feel towards these me
g remember that they have not stepp
rs out of the rut of selfishness yet, and
le is best to teach them what manho
$, means by keeping your hands off Il
r Chicago, Burlington and Quincy stril
r The spectacle presented by the m
20 of labor who belong to different orgal