Los Angeles herald., 1890-08-26
MUST GO IT ALONE.
No General Strike on The
Vanderbilt Lines.
The Terre Haute Council Pub
fishes its Edict.
The Knights of Labor Must Fight
Their Own Battles.
No Grounds Found for Ordering a
General Strike, Though Plenty
of Sympathy is offered.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, August 25.-The
executive council of the United Order of
Railway Employees went into session
about O'Clock this morning. At 5
O'Clock this evening the following
message, signed by President Sargent
and Secretary Sheehan, was sent to
Powderly at Albany: "The supreme
council adjourned this afternoon after
carefully considering the strike in all it's
details. You will note the result of our
deliberations in tonight's dispatches,
which it is hoped will meet with your
approval. The council was unanimous
in considering your position, and the
grand executive board most earnestly
hopes that the right which you are
championing in the great conflict on the
New York Central, may finally and
powerfully prevail"
A statement of the findings of the
council was furnished the Associated
Press last night. After giving an ex-
haustive review of all the circumstances
attending the strike on the New York
Central, and Powderly's fruitless en-
deavors to get Vice-President Webb to
consent to an arbitration of the difficult
ties, the council sums up it's conclusions
as follows:
First. The position of the Knights
OF Labor as set forth by Powderly, gem
eral master workman, and the general
executive board OF the Knights of Labor,
meets with our unqualified approval.
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Webb towards Powderly and the
Knights of Labor. Notwithstanding
his declarations to the contrary, evinces
his purpose to disrupt and destroy labor
organizations on the New York Central
and Hudson River railroads, as done by
Austin Corbin on the Philadelphia and
Reading.
Third, The policy of Webb is despotic
to an extent that outrages every princi-
pie of American citizenship, and gen
orally adopted would if successful, re-
duce American workingmen to de-
graded condition of affairs.
Fourth. Webb, by the employment
of Pinkerton thieves, thugs, and muir
derers, vile wretches from the slums
and brothels OF New York and other
cities, to kill workmen because they
dared protest against his rule, and
strike for their rights committed a
crime of such enormity as will associate
the name OF Webb forever with those
who, dressed in q little brief authority,
have used their money to secure power
and degrade their fellow men.
Fifth. That the efforts now being put
forth by Webb to destroy the Knights of
Labor would, were the circumstances
changed, in a like manner be made to
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neers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and
switchmen, and if successful it would
only be a question of time when a SINH
lar effort would be made to seal the fate
OF other labor organizations.
Sixth. Webb by the course he pur-
sued toward the Knights of Labor and
representatives OF labor organizations
has shown total disregard of those
principles of citizen sovereignty desired
by every American worthy of the name,
considering only the money power and
the corporate power of the company
he represents. His acts, which speak
louder than words, say in the language
of w. II. Vanderbilt, once the autocrat
OF the New York Central:
''The public be damned"
Seventh. Webb seeks to support
his arrogant attitude towards working
men and labor organizations, by assum-
ing that the New York Central and
Hudson Biver railroad is private prop
erty, and that his acts in the treat
ment of his employees are in no sence
of public concern; that he can with
impunity discharge men and remand
them to idleness and poverty and
render them homeless wanderers, with
out giving any reason or explanation
whatever for his conduct.
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In view of the foregoing facts, the
supreme council puts upon record its
unanimous and unqualified approval ot
the strike on the New York Central and
Hudson River railways, for the cause sci
forth by Powderly, as also the efforts
made by Powderly to bring the strike tc
an honorable termination.
of the action of the Knights OF Labor
the course of Webb is as unequivocally
condemned.
Then after reviewing briefly the work
done by the Supreme Council of the
United Order of Railway Employees in
bringing about a settlement OF the
strike, the report says
"Owing to the fact that the order O.
Knights of Labor is not a member Of
the Federated Orders of Railway
employees, the laws of the supreme
council do not permit its doing
more than it has done in aid of the
Knights of Labor, and it's inability to
participate otherwise in the strike is
now known and appreciated by Mr.
Powderly. X < ~ In conclusion
the supreme council places upon record
it's high appreciation of the manliness
of the Knights OF Labor employees on
the New York Central in struggling tc
maintain a principle sacred to every
workingman on the continent, and to al
who love justice and hope for the
triumph of right over a wrong as
fagrantas ever stained the pages o
history"