The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-09-13
An Interview ip Which He IN
forms the Strikers They
Are Back Numbers.
Webb's Action Sustained by the Ex-
eoutive Board Of Management
or the Road.
Powderly Discusses the Central Strike
Why Chief Arthur Smiles
General News

NEW YORK, Sept. IA COMMITTEES of nSe
of the ex-employes OF the New York Gem
tral railroad. who won't out on strike. called
on Channcoy NJ. Dapew In bis Office at Ihe
Grand Central depot They we're headed
by Thomas BaIlsney, an old freight COM
dactor, and Mr.. Gaffnay, another striker,
| acting as spokesman The following con-
Carney followed:
Mr.. Carney hexe eome 10 talk over
the strike on the New York Central road.
Mr.. Depew--Tm afraid there II nothing TO
talk about. The strike h virtually over
now.
Mr.. aanney--The strike Is not over be-
cause all the men on the road who are mem
bers OF labor organizations hare quit work
and are now ont.
their positions. Mr.. Webb. who was man
aging the road In my absence took new
men Ia their places when they quit work.
His action has been sustained BY the execu-
tive board OF management of the rDad The
places OF those men have nov been fIIed
and that's the end of II.
Mr.. Ganney then asked Mr.. Esrpew 10
wait nntil the committee had discussed the
matter and said they would then return and
make their propositions 70 him Mr.. Depew
replledw
There Il no use In making false promises
10 you. There II nothing more 20 be done.
do not cars 90 talk over back numbers.
You have chosen 10 resign your places Mr..
Webb has Allied them and I have nothing
more 90 say, :
rho commitfee then left the oflce.
what the striker. Claim Abopt the New
E Men.
ALDAwY. N. ". sept. i2.-The strikers
have Issued a sbuEletia. which. among other
things, said that their claims that the now
hands employed by tlYe Central road would
leave when The pay car arrived had been
verIaeds The men were paid on aud the
Bulletin continues;
ssTo-nIght three north-bound and three
south bound freight trains are laid up an
East Albany yards. their crews having de-
serjSsl.A u enIaaa's yssas ts@s~~ ssrananletelv
- ......ss .,~Rn west Albany and khFnerA
,ss.,. s.,., .,r,I green hands are deserving y
IN need Of gs5hcy m thaf I've We wiii be sbfS % fs-
Iieye their immediate wants In few days.
supt. Blsseil denied that the new hands
were deserving OF course, he said, feH
stramps" and 'wandering Jews would
probably leave the service, but they did not
number more than twenty mon. He SAID
onlv ten men had told the foreman of the
different gangs after they were paid on that
they were going 20 leave the city
rowderly Discusses ths strike.
SYRACUSE, NY, sept. i2--General Master
Workman Powderly addressed an audience
| OF 900 last night. Speaking OF the strike
| ON the Central he said IL would not cease 10
make itself felt until law had been writ
| ten upon the statute books putting organ
! tied labor ON an equal footing with organ
| lied capital With regard 20 the recent at
tempts 10 wreck Central trains, he asked
/ for d suspension OF public judgment until
the truth should be brought out In the
courts, expressing the utmost confidence
that the responsibility for them would be
| traced, not 20 the X. of L., but TO the
thieves and thugs hired By the railroad
company under the name of Pinkerton de-
detectives" The following reference was
made 20 Chauncey NJ. Depew;
Mr.. Depew has arrived In this country.
hope that he win have the good sense TO
speak 10 the men 10 the old-time spirit. He
I Is on record a. saying That the ssrrfUmVHt
of labor questions lies In arbitration,
we win see now whether he r. pre-
pared 10 square his action with his words.
why ChIcf Arthur smiles.
NEW YoRK. sept. l2.--If certain things
| that are being whispered In the inner car
cha OF the brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gfneers are true II Ii not surprising that
Chief Arthur contemptpously ignored the
request made OF him by Mr. Powderly dur
ing che recent strike 70 define the position
of the engineers. According to prominent
member of the brotherhood the entire corr
respondence that passed between Powderiy
and president Stone, OF the Chicago
Burlington a Quincy road, during the mem
orable strike on that road Is in the hands OF
Chief Arthur aud his fellow officers. Ii u
, declared by people who arc supposed u
! know that the publication of this CORE
spondence would compel the Immediate res
lgnation OF Powderly as an officer Of tn
Knights. While it IL not claimed tha
= Chief Arthur Is holding the correspondence
In question AS q clab over the head OF hi
I fellow labor icadeii,,s fho'7fact remains tina
ilsnwdsrly, beyond his first letter, has no
= sgN8ssht % renaaf the demandS unDn the en-