Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-23
NOT ANY ARBITRATION.
cORslN ANSWERS The BUSINESS
MEMS PLEA FOR SETTLEMENT.

MEMS PLEA FOR SET ELEMENT.
The Origin of the Strike Reviewed and "A
Determination to Fight It out to the
End Expressed-A Claim That the Read
ing Has Lost 1900, 600 ON Coal in
Twelve Years
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23-Presidout Cor
bin, of the Reading railroad, in answer to
the various communications from people
along the line of the road, who are deeply n-
terestel in the operation of the railroad and
coal and iron companies has made long
statement in regard to the recent troubles
between the companies and their employees,
| In the course of which he states the origin of
the strike as follows:
AN December certain carloads Of mer-
chaudiss arrived at Port Richmond, con-
signed TO the Philadelphia Grain Elevator
company, Of this city. The employees of this
| [the Readingl company at Port Richmond, in
charge of the switch engines, refused to trans
fer these cars to the elevator company, and
| gave as a reason that that company did not
employ Kughts of Labor They We're i'm
mediately notified that with such question
| this company had nothing TO do; that we
were common carriers, aud bound to receive
and deliver freight to any person or com
| pany that offered it 10 us aud paid for trans.
| portation. Notwithstanding this they still
| refused to make the transfer, and an order
was issued ~ the general manager Of this
company, Of which the following is a copy:
[liere follows an order to discharge the
| men who refuse to transfer the freight
Five crews of men in succession were d.
rected to move this freight, and upon their
refusal were discharged. Because of that
action the leaders Of the Knights Of Labor,
or portion Of them, ordered all the employees
of the Philadelphia Sc Reading Railroad com.
pany, as they were pleased to donominate it,
on strike They left the service Of the com
pany with notice to it that they would not
return unless the men discharged were rein
stated. To this the management answered
that the men DISCHARGED for disobsdience OF
orders would never DO reinstated, and this
company proceeded to fill the places left
vacant by the voluntary withdrawal of the
employees from its service as fast rs it could
secure proper and competent men.
Mr. Corbin closes this part OF tho state
ment with the assurance that the trouble on
the railway is ended and will never be
opened up again. mo man shall be ostra-
cized on this road because he belongs to "a
labor organization, and no man shall be
ostraciz-d because he does not.
Over ., 800 men voluntarily left our service.
,ro' "a o9o''Yo' Us, ~ ~
N,oo "'Vn '"9 M, l,'iJ. 1N a.,
perform their duties faithfully. We have
never made any objection to labor organi2a-
tons SO long men perform the duties
they owe to this company properly we snail
stand by them, whether they be union or
non union men,"
AS to the miners difficulty, he recounts
the contract made between them through Il
p , '''n' W. -, -
co''i "n'l "on .ip",'y' 4i 80 a.,
rs % - 49,, - -. ,it; 90
~ -, - 49,, ,,,i,.s ,Iar,sal,,as n,
.'o 'eSo .,,,,. - j., ,Ii;,i,,
t"is "s, '0i''o.'' ',,o .,' gg', no' ~
!" yne D''9;S ill.,, th
's'ii -, ,,lri, IN tha
iliinol9 Ia w ,tn, ,aJ ,.n,,,isa5 t
illi"es o' - g. -. ~
w. u,a ,,Ii ,t roi,,stt, tb,, man Who
Dooau'1 W. - Nv, 49,, ,.ai,,,'I. rI san
mo,o ,enS,,s" ~, NO, ia ror
cant advance we Ind nnder tbis ogreernent |
~ fnr CON-. mot, tls. and wa orr. i,for,neI
tha, ,,,,,,,IJ ~, ma L.ss Of ,yo,,os have haap |
,yilIipo, T., rot,,rn r., ,,rl, unInss wa had fret
roinstetad tIs railrood man or ,rhitrateJ |
,tat a,,,,tio,, That ,rastfnn 10 a,dad anJ |
~, e.. In ,,r,,a,i,r ,i,h mt t,.il,,, ,,.iiI |
a,ar be snb,nittoJ to arbitration -
Mr. Corbin cnncIudas. UEor rnasons which |
o,,a,.,, tIsras, mn, ,o,, ,,,d ,rstonJ IT. ,yn,lj
Nv, i,,,,oss'IIo fo, ne IN maintain avian a soIv-
art cn,,,oratio,, nncb lass raturn onvtbin,
tn ,,a sbarehoIders If wa ,vera co,,neIIe1 to
nav for omr nrodnct mora money than o,,r
nai,bhors INV fo. theirs Wa rayrat ax-
noa5inol,y tiof this action n, tho rort of tho
on,,IneaS oF onr road ne wall ne tina action of
thn r,i,ars rrou,isas to hrins, s,rt disastrous
,as,,rts an thor, lie no nItarnativ. far tbis
a,,,,,la,,, tbot + CON 500 avca,,t to insist
,,not. First tho right to managa its own
',re,,,,tr, and socond tba ,,i,rht p a,,,,,Int,
iah6r in tho mimi, Of its coal 90 tbat if viii
i,,,,a o. Last o,,,,ol cbanca viii, he ei,,b
hors in every comnatitive ,norl,et For fbe
.,,,aI,,,' 49, con,n,oncior, Tan ~ 1s7I and
o,,Ii,, Ton 1855 this ,.o,,nor,
I,a, ,i,aI II nnG noo tons op coai.
,iaid fnr il IN its ,nirers s57
fno oon ,r1 Ios raTai,,od os tho nat rrocaais
Co.., ooaaI ,,,iro5 o,I,, e1IsInoIO rat,
a.. w., ootal Ioss Ia tha ,nj,in,, ~ 80 nool ~
az, o1n o,," d,,.inr. ,hat ,,a,ind In nthor
80 49,, ,,. I? 4iI,,,.,1 .l,,(,,..I,,,,t a.
"o'u' W. u'r , , VS. % '"'Va1 ~ ~ '''s VIC
have received every dollar of net money we
obtained for it, and we lost in the operation
ST. go 900 besides; and during all these
twelve years the stockholders of the railroad