The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1892-08-06

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An Address from the Strikers.
An address from the advisory
board of. the strikers association
cpAnselling peace and good order,
was made public.
y reinstatement is as follows:
lTle3post evident characteristic
of OUT time and country is the
Phenomenon of industrial central
Cation, which is putting the con-
trol of each of our great national
hdustries into the hands of one or
4 few men, and giving these men an
enormous despotic power over the
lives and the fortunes of their en-
ployes and subordinates the great
mass of the people; power which
eviserates our national constitution
and our common law and directly
antagonizes the spirit of universal
history in its worldwide struggle
after lawful liberty; a power which
though expressed in terms of cur
rent speech as ''The right of en-
ployers to manage their business to
suit themselves, is coming to mean
in effect a right to manage the
country to suit themselves.
"The employees in the mill of
Messrs. Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at
Homestead. have built there a
town with its homes, its schools and
its churches; have for many years
been faithful co-workers with the
company in the business of the
mill; have invested thousands of
dollars of their savings in said mill
In the expectation of spending
their lives in Homestead and of
working in the mill during the pc
riod of their efficiency. In addition
to the ordinary gifts and advan-
tages of our citizens the national
legislature has seen fit to specially
foster and protect by public taxa
ton the industry of their mills, and
the State of Pennsylvania is to-
day guarding it at great and extra
ordinary expense.
Therefore the committee desire
to express to the public as its firm
belief that both the public and the
employees aforesaid have equitable
rights and interests in the said
mill which cannot be modified or
diverted without due process of
law; that the employees have the
right to continuous employment in
the said mill during efficiency and
and good behavior without regard
to religious or political, or econmic
or other association; that it is
against public policy and subver-
sive of the fundamental principles
of American liberty that whole
community of workers should be
denied employment, or suffer any
other social detriment on account
of membership in church, po-
litical party or a trades union;
that it is our duty as American citi-
zens to resist by every legal and
ordinary means the unconstitution
anarchic and revolutionary policy
of the Carnegie company, which
seems to evince contempt of pub
lie and private interests, and dis
dain of the public conscience by its
refusal to submit to lawful arbitra-
ton, and by the lawless importa-
ton of a band of armed mercena-
ries to. forcibly deprive the en-
employees of their equitable rights
in advance of any legal adjudica-
ton thereupon aud without pre-.
vious appeal to the lawful forces
of Allegheny county and the State
Of Pennsylvania. The committee
wishes it known that We will prose-
cute the said public and private
interests in the courts of law and
equity and that we demand Of con-
gres and the state Legislature dis
tinct assertion of the principles
that the public has an interest i'll
such concerns as that at Home
stead, and that the state has duty
to Judge the affairs of such con-
Germs when occasion may require.
FINALLY, we desire to state en-
phatically that as defendants of
and petitioners for law and order
we pledge ourselves to refrain
from violence and lawlessness, and
we rest our cause, which is the peo-
pies cause, the cause of American
liberty against anarchy on the