The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-24
America to the men, the poor laborers have to
pay to bosses several dollars each month 10 get
favor from man on whose statements you lean

America to the men, the poor laborers have TO
pay to bosses several dollars each month TO gel
favor from man on whose statements you leah.
THE RIGHT TO DISCHARGE.
When asserting that yOn have the right to dis
charge man for any one OF a dozen causes WIN.
out telling him which one applies to him, must
yet learn why our simple words based on near.
say should stand unQuestOned, or that II Should
have any more weight than that OF an honest
workngmaD. for from the five to twenty years
the discharged men were in the employ
OF the company you represent. 1t was
only when they joined the knights of Labor
that you discovered they were druukards, in
competent and iuattentIve to duty. You continue
TO assert that there Is nothing to arbitrate. Can
you be so blinded by your associations and sur
roundings as not to realize that the travelling
public ought to know which OF these men are
drunkards, which incompetent. ana 50 on, SO
that they may not trust their lives IN tie nanus
OF such characters, either In your service, should
you see tit to again employ them, or In any other
concern?
THE SWEATING SYSTEM.
Were You student in the economic questions
you would know what the sweating system
means; you would know that it IS classed
among the worst features Of the competitive sys-
tem Under your own nose, beneath your own
eye and carried on by the very men upon whose
bare words you dismiss old employees. exists
form OF the sweating system which finds a
ss,asi sIy G1y IL That praceed os on s
OF the plain, statesmanlike words OF
your superior In Office Chauncey NJ. Depew, yOI
deny The right OF arbitration. Let me remind
the position you have assumed. Depews WORDS,
spoken when The question OF the national arbi-
tratlon law was before the country. indicate
whera Depew stood at that day. You alone
claim 10 have any right In tDe matter ahu
nothing but the fact that you are In possession OF
immense wealth warrants you in taking the stand
you nave taken. The men who located on the llne
OF The Vanderbilt system would not have done SO
bad not the Hope OF Obtaining and retaining enl-
ployment been held out TO them by the company.
RIGHTS OF woRKMEN.
tuA, II, aIr hnp
along The line OF the road. the management OF
the concern are morally responsible for ihelr
presence at these points, and should recognize
that they have some rights In the premises, lhe
least OF which Is to be heard In their own de-
tense. Men whose words / never had reason 10
doubt make the statement 10 me that they were
called up before tbelT furcmen or superiptendent
and asked II they were Knights OF Labor, ana
wien they IranSly admitted that they were they
were discharged. Ii Is mol al bitration alone tnat
you iefused you have refused 10 afptfate,
second, TO investigate; third, TO face those men
In my presence and satisfy yourself whether
your foremen told yOn the uulh; fourth, you
have deled The laws OF the State IN iguoring the
Board OF Mediation and Arbiration; NTH, yop
have refused 10 listen 10 the voice OF the public;
which asks simple justice and cares nothing iof
the personalities OF either parties to the contfo-
yefSy; sixth and last, you have shown thai
humanity has no iclalmS upon you whatever.
You have refused 10 satisfy The men whom you
have discharged. and that act VIII always stand
10 protest youi claim 10 true manness. Had yol
satisfied The men there would be nothing for us
10 ASK you are as UlucU III uUty uOuUu u SAL
isfy Them in lns matter as you are TO satisfy tue
legally constituted authorities OF The company.
L. V. PowDEliLY.
YARDMEN QUIT WORK.
ALBANY On. ", Aug 2S.-Superintend-
ent Hammond of the Delaware ami Hudson
road visited the Green Island yards this
morning and informed the men there that
the company had decided to accept from
and deliver freight to file Central road, and
that the men would either have TO handle it
or quit work. The yard-men then struck.
About TIL ty yard-men at the Lumber street
yard went ont shortly after noon and then
sent a committee TO the lower yards asking
the men there to go out. A delegate, who
represented the Railroad Mems Protective
Union 1T a conference OF railroad leaders In
Troy yesterday, said to-day that the tying
up of the Boston and Albany and Fitchburg
roads may be looked for any day.
GOVERNED BY LAW.
An official Of the Central road, when in
formed of the probable tie-up on its con-
Meeting roads, said: ut may as well be
understood right here that roads connecting
with the Central are compelled by law TO
receive all freight from the Central road
which may be destined for points on any
of those roads. 1t is not Central freight
but is consignees' freight. IL the connect
ing roads refuse to receive freight from the
Central the consignees thereof have right
by law to sue the road so refusing tor
damages. This question was fully estab-
Iished at the time of the Chicago, Burling.
ton and Quincy strike. The roads connect.
ing with that line then refused to accer.
ijnl ifjEnlin ef fJli .ss Oh
freight transfers were made by the latter
road and every refusal to accept was made
the subject of a lawsuit which resulted IN
damages being awarded @ io to tne Econ consumes
then held that connecting roads staccept
transfer freight in every case.
THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON STRIKE.
Superintendent Hammond returned from
Green Island this afternoon. He said the
strike is confined 10 the yard brakemen
only in the yards at Green Island, and the
Lumber and Church street yards in this
city, in all about seventy-fve men being
out. He did not know whether the strike
would extend In any event. he would
abide by his decision in reference to han
ding transfer freight to and from the Cen
tral. No freight has been moved IN these
three yards since early this morning.
STATE BOARD OF ARBITRATION.
At a meeting OF the State Board of Medi-
alton and Arbitration to-day, Commissioner
Donovan made a report of the futile efforts
to bring about settlement of the strike or
the Central road. s,Hhe question Of the in
vestigation of TINES sYs of tue controversy
was considered, but jew of the circum-
stances of the existin Situation, and una
voidable absence of Commissioner Robert
son, it was deemed best to postpone its de-
termination until Thursday next, to which
time an adjournment was taken.
PowDERLY AND ARTHUR
NEW YORK, Aug. %. Powderly thii
morning was asked about Chief Arthur'i
statement that the latter would not answer
a letter which had not been addressed to
him personally, but which had been given
to the newspapers. He said: Arthur
never answers any communications | send