Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-14
NOT BROKEN.

Switcbmcn and IIralSemen of the Della
ware and Hudson Go Out.
ALBANY, Aug. 1.-THE news of the
breaking of the strike sent ont from
New York received knock in the head
at noon Wednesday when the switch
men and brallemen of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company went out on a
strike.
All of the branches of the road are
tied up The Delaware and Hudson is
the only route north of the West Shore
and Pennsylvania roads, and this prac-
tically cuts off communication with
Canada and northern New York, such
places us Saratoga, Lake George and
the Adirondacks.
The men were ordered to strike be
cause the road took freight and cars be
longing to the Central mp to Troy, and
transferred them to Troy and Schenec-
tady over to the New York Central
The strikers are iubilant at the addition
to their ranks
Mr.. WEBB HELD RESPONSIBLE.
An Editorial in The journal of the
knights of Labor.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.-The follow
ing editorial will appear i'll this weeks
journal Of the Knights of Labor;
The strike on the Vanderbilt system
came upon the public like lightning from
clear sky. 1t was generally believed
| that if there was any railway upon which
| good understanding existed between the
company and its employees, it was the
New York Central and the other roads
under the management of the company
of which Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew is pres
ident. Nor was this belief at one time
without foundation, but unfortun-
atcly the active arrangement of
the lines passed into the hands of
Mr. Webb, the vice president, n man the
very opposite of Mr.. Depew in his
ideas of the relationship which should eX-
list between employers and employed.
From the moment the management passed
into his hands he began systematic at
tempt to break up and destroy organizG-
tion among the cOmpany's employees. The
first organization against which he
Labor, though doubtless he has his plans
laid for an attack upon the engineers and
frempn, when, in his opinion, the oppor-
tune moment shall have arrived, Mr.
Webb plainely aspires to the same bad
cminence' from which the infamous Aus
tin Corbin proclaimed that no member of
any labor organization was in the employ
of the railway he controlled.
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the systematic and evidently carefully
planned discharges. Although to the
general public the strike was a surprise.
the causes which lead to it have existed
for some time, and among those con-
yersant with the situation it has for some
time been feared that a strike could not
he avoided, however much the necessity
for it might be deplored. 1t would serve
no good purpose for us to conceal the
truth, that the men have very serious
struggle before them. 1t is true that
skilled men to MI their places viii be
difficult, perhaps impossible TO find. If
skilled men cannot he got we do not hest
late to say that we believe that no care for
the lives and limbs of the travelling
public and no thought of danger to
the property of the company whose
interests he is supposed to conserve,
will prevent Mr.. Webb from cmpIoy-
ing the most incompetent hands, if only
the doing so will help him win, What
hope can be placed upon the engineers and
fremen we cannot tell, but the history of
the past does not afford promise that they
will have the wisdom To see that the de
feat of the knights will only he the signal
for the commencement of an attack upon