Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-24

will only share his whisky with the man
who inspires your statements. You Will
furthermore learn that in order to retain
an employ in the best company in Amer
lea 10 the men the poor laborers have TO
nav the bosses several dollars each month
to get favor from the man on whose
statements yen lean.
when asserting that you have the right
to discharge man for any one OF dozen
causes without telling him which one ap'
plies to him, / must yet learn why your
simple words, based on hearsay. should
stand unouestioned, or that it should have
any more weight than that of an honest
workman. Men whose words never had
reason to doubt make the statement to me
that they were called up before their fore
men or superintendent and asked If they
were knights of Labor, and when they
frankly admitted that they were they were
discharged.
at is not arbitration alone that you re-
fused. You have refused to arbitrate; second,
to investigates; third, to face those men IN
nv presence and satisfy yourself whether
your foremen told you the truth: fourth,
yea have de6ed tbs laws of the State, IN
ignoring the Board of Meditation and
Arbitration; fifth, you have refused to
listen to the voice of the public, which
asks Dut slIuple JustiCc, ouu Soie GO Ao'H
for the personalities of either parties to the
controversy; sixth and last, you have
shown that humanity hes no claims upon
you whatever, you have refused to satisfy
men whom you have discharged, and that
act will always stand to protest your claim
| to true manliness.
Had YOU satisfied the men, there would
have been nothing to fisk. 1t was only
when they Joined the Knights of Labor
that you discovered that they were drunk
ards, incompetent and inattentive to duty.
| You continue to assert that there is moth
| ing arbitrary. Can you be so blinded by
your associations and surroundings as not
| to realize that the travelling public ought
to know which of these men are drunk
ards, which incompetent, and so on, so
| they may not trust their lives IN the hands
of such characters?
I'm face of the plain statesmanlike
| words of your superior in Office, Chauncey
M. Depew, you deny the right OF arbltra-
ton, and let me remind you, sir, that he
! does not nor did not sustain you in the po-
sition you have assumed Depew's words,
spoken when the question of the national
arbitration Law was before the country, in
dictate his position. You are as much in
duty bound to satisfy them in this mat
| ter, as you are to satisfy the legally con-
stituted authorities OF the company"
YARD RRAKEMEN STRIKE.
ALBANY, August 23d.-Superintendent
| Hammond of the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad this morning told the switchmen
at Green Island that they would accept
| from aud deliver to the New York Central
all freight. The yardmen and freight
handlers then struck. One of the strikers
said that strike on the Delaware and
Hudson had been ordered between Albany
and Green Island.
LATER--Nearly all of the yardmen en-
ployed by the Delaware and Hudson Com
pany at Green Island struck this morning.
The men refuse to handle the New York
Central roads freight at that point.
The Delaware and Hudson Company no.
tilted the Fitchburg Railroad that it will
not receive any more freight at present.
| Superintendent Hammond returned from
Green Island this afternoon. He said the
strike was confined to yard brakemen only
| in the yards at Green Island and the Lum-
Der and Church streets yards of this city,
in all about seventy-6ve men being out.
He did not know whether the strike would
extend. In any event he would abide by
his decision in reference to handling trans
| fer freight to and from the Central. No
| freight has been moved in these three
yards since early morning.
ALBANY, August 23d.-A number of the
night force of yardmen refused to go to
! work 10 night in the D. II. II. yards here.
This action brings the number OF strikers
mn to 49,