Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-29
THE 80" PARALYZED.
Rocky and Rotten ManageInent-
Falsc Reports about the Strike.

False Reports about the strike.
The go" strike is the greatest of the
age. The following from the Chicago
World of recent date gives the Brother
hood side of the matter:
If, by rare good fortune, Congress
sional committee, armed with the
authority to inquire into the causes OF
the Burlington strike, ever finds its
way out to Chicago, it should not fail
to get posted about the stock gam bling
operations of the little gang of officials
to whom the direct responsibility OF
the trouble can be traced. The facts
are as published in the Sunday World:
they should be officially ascertained
and proclaimed.
The New York Central is a wisely
managed road. 1t is rare that it be-
comes involved in difficulties with its
employees, and why? The reply to
this question is given in the statment
of Chauncey NJ. Depew to news
paper reporter. "Our doors are al
ways open TO our employees" said the
Central's President. "We are always
ready to listen to our men when they
have a grievance to state, or when
they want to discuss matters in which
we may be mutually interested. II
the company is in the wrong the
men do not find us unmindful of
their rights; if the men are wrong We
try to show them wherein their posi-
ton is weak, and we do not find them
unreasonable. We endeavor to run
the Central on common-sense and
business principles"
If the Burlington had been run on
common-sense principles there would
never have been an engineers strike.
The trouble is the men who by com
bination of unfortunate circumstances
find themselves at the head of the
company are not built that way.
The strike is really nothing more or
less than wrestle between two sets
of employees of a railroad company.
The contest is resulting in the smash
ing of the furniture of the man in
whose establishment it is taking
place. The owner of the house IS not
having word to say. He is merely
spectator, and interference from him
or even suggestion would be regarded
as impertinence. One set of EN-.
ployes pretend to represent the own
ers of the property and they have
given it out that they are going
/ to crush out the other set at all haz-
ards and at whatever cost. That
they do not represent the true inter-
ests of the stockholders is patent to all
who have given the subject thought
full consideration. The Burlington
has been a terrible loser by the ILL
advised action of the men who assume
to speak for the owners. The exer-
else of little common sense on the
part Of the so.called managers and
their light-waisted advisers would
have averted the strike but no! The
little men, clothed with brief author
ity, could not brook the idea sf con-
sultiug with common, vulgar working
men. They must assert their au-
thority and show the soiled
horde that their will was absolute.
The small tyrants, trained to intoler-
ance, treated the engineers with con-
tempt. They would not concede the
right of the sturdy workers to discuss
with them that most important of all
issues, the wage question. They lacked
the element of common-sense about
which Mr.. Depew speaks, and which
he says is the central idea of the man.
agement of the great New York Cen
trail. The Burlington stockholders
must have long since come to the
conclusion that the game is not worth
the cost of the powder that has already
been consumed, and that a further
continuation of the fight would be
ruinous. They would give millions if
it had never been commenced. They
would give additional millions if they
could get out of the hole into which
they have been put.
THE SITUATION.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
trary, and the circulars sent out daily
by the 90" along the various lines of
railroads, containing the comments of
their subsidized organs ON the situa-
ton and probable outcome of the
strike, the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers is in the mastery. But
little %" freight is being moved.
The cars with sealed doors are mere
"stalls." The wreck and havoc of
20" engines is sad to contemplate,
aud the parcel of pot-house engin.
eers they have engaged continue to
do up their rolling stock and i'm
peril the lives Of passengers. While
not Chicago paper has published
the engineers circular stating their
claims and grievances, all of them
continue to publish matter opposed to
the strikers in unlimited quantity.
They gave the attack made upon the
engineers by w. P. Daniels, Secretary
of the Railway Conductors organiza-
ton, in his report, in full, and the doc
ument was full of false statements.
Secretary Daniels report reads as if it
had been made an object to him to 60
out of his way to attack the engineers.
The Brotherhood men assert emphati-
cally that the statement that
they took the conductors places
is an untruth. Daniels report all
through is in reality intended as a
timely TRADE against the engineers.
The Brotherhood men are particu-
larly incensed at the scurrilous and
unmanly attack upon the morals Of
their order. So far from having
drunkards and saloon-keepers in their
ranks, their constitution expressly
provides that a member who is guilty
of drunkenness or keeps saloon shall
be expelled, and in the case of mem
bers who may go into the saloon
business, that they shall be expelled
without a ballot. The penalty of
expulsion and forfeiture of all benefits
is provided for any member who
neglects his duty or endangers life or
property "while under the influence
of liquor or otherwise. The animus
of Daniels trade is made apparent by
his reference to the ''late strike on the
G. B. & O." and the "failure of the
late strike" The Brotherhood men
do not believe he represents the true
sentiments of the conductors as an