The Press., 1890-08-21


 day presented the result of their consider ation of the strike on the New York Gen. tral railroad to Vice President Webb. MT. Webb immediately wrote a reply, direct ing his letter to T. V. Powderly.
 Mr. Powderly writes that he has been informed that old and faithful employees of the New York Central X Hudson River Railroad have been summarily discharged for no other reason, apparently, than that they are Knights of Labor He asks for an investigation. If it can be shown, he says, that the men were discharged for good cause there will be nothing to arbi- trate, but it is for the interest of the pub- lie, as we'll as that of the railroad company, that the matter should be cleared up. MT. Webb replies that no men were discharged by his company prior to August because they belonged to the Knights of Labor. Good and sufficient cause existed for dis missal in each case, and the action of the division superintendent or superintendent of motive power who ordered each dis charge, after investigation, was fully ap proved. In conclusion Mr. Webb says "The management of this company do not deem it consistent with its it's continuance and prosperity in business and with the discharge of the duties it owes to the pee pie to submit the propriety of it's action ill the discharge of any of its employees to arbitration.
 Vice President Webb has made state ment regarding the trouble at Albany to 8 New York Evening Post reporter. He says II went to Albany myself one day, and saw an attempt made to move some of the freight trains. As you know, the road runs through many of the streets, and the trains had to be moved through mob Of 5000 or 4,000 people. The result was that our men were assaulted and stoned. We did what we could to move the trains The Pinkerton men bore it as long as they could, and Sunday they retaliattd by t-y- ing to drive the men away who were assanlting them. Ore of our brakemen, by the way, was shot in the foot. Now, our road runs through Albany and Wes' Albany, and we propose to operate 1t. A a matter of fact we have not received the police protection from the local an- thorities there to which we were entitled. When we applied for spe cial deputy sher- ifs to protect our employees and our prop erty, the strikers and men who had been discharged by us were depntized and sent down to our yards. Of course they did not do us any good, and we had to get rid of them very quickly. Then we employed | Pinkerton men as special officers. We have now about 500 Pinkerten men at our l Albany yards, and we propose to run the road.
 If we had as efficient police protection there as we have ill this city the difficulty would be promptly settled. We are going to operate the road, however, whether we get protection from the authorities or not. | The Pinkerton men are employed by Us the same as any other employees would be, and they have perfect right to assist us in operating the road, to defend them selves or any of our employees if they are assaulted, and to arrest any one they see thus violating the laws of the state. They possess that right in common with any other citizens.
 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Connecticut Spiritnalists' Camp Meeting Association of Windham, was held at the pavilion at Mantle, at which time the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, D. R. Whitney, New Haven first vice-president, s. o. Harrington, Bridgeport second vice pres ident, Mrs. D. R. Davis, Putnam ; secre- retary, Robert F. Stanton, South Wind ham treasurer, Jonathan Hatch, South Windham board of management, E. R. Whitney, New Haven Charles Belknap, Bridgeport E. M. Lyman, Springfield, Mass. Orrin Morse, Putnam s. O. Har- rington, Bridgeport M. c. 1Puffer, Staf- ford i; N. II. Fogg, SouthiDgton Nehe- miah Smith, Norwich auditors, B. R. Whitney and Orrin Moore It was voted to engage speakers for eight Sundays for the season of 1891, and tax of $1 for each lot leased was levied to defray current and other expenses. Several clauses in the warning were left with the board to use their discretion in the matter.
 'I would give $500," said prominent Waterbury man the other day, 'sfor the privilege of checking up the heads of men