Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07
FoRT WORTH, TEX, Feb. 6,

FORT WORTH TEX, Feb. 6, 1892.
Editor Labor Department;
Robert Burns said he could not well con-
ceive Of a more Notifying picture of
human life than i man seeking work, and it
was on this strain that he penned these
verses:
See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight
So abject, mean. and vile,
Who begs a brother # the earth
To give him leave 6 , toll;
And see his lordly fe4Iow-worm
The poor petition Spurn,
Unmindful tho weeping wife
And helpless offspring mourn.
If I'm designid yon lordIing's slavo--
(By Natures law designO
Why was an Independent wish
Fer planted in my mind?
II moi, why am subject to
His cruelty or scorn:
Or why has man the Will and power
10 make his fellow mourn?
That was years ago, and was written out
Il sympathy for the Door, then oppressed
by the landed nobility, but with all their
land and boosted royalty, TO what insignif-
canoe does the power Of Southern lord or
highland chief dwindle compared to the
power welded by such men as Jay Gould
and Phil Armour of to-day over the lives of
men IN their employ! The Mail of Wednes-
day makes this statement:
TIE STRIKE is OVER.
''I'he eighty strikers are still out, and I'M
less they comply with the requirements of
the company are liable to stay out, and
their places are filed by new men. Col.
HoXie and Mr.. Barnum went about during
the day instruoting the hands, and by even
ing had the men fairly instructed. The
colonel, in reply to committee, said he
wanted men-IeXas men-as he intended to
make the packery Texas institution, even
to the hiring of his help"
Yet but a few months since, in answer to
umns of Z Fort Worth paper en- behalf of
home labor, this company said it was i'm
possible TO secure the competent skilled
labor here, and they must necessarily inn
port it.
And now, in one day, the packing house
managers can so instruct fore of raw re-
cruits as to enable them to take the places
OF eighty skilled workmeni Oh. consist
ency where art thOul Does might make
right2 Is there not something pathetic, no.
bic, grand, in the pride and principles that
Rctuate these men2 Think OF the PROPOSE
ton: You must either board at the place 1
tell you to, or quit work In other words,
If were married man employed in the in
stitution and my young brother was also
employed there, that young brother would
not be allowed TO board with me and my
family-though the company does magnani-
mously accord to me the privilege. Of living
with my own wife, IN my own house, and
eating at my own table.
The company may say that this is not
what caused the strike. l am willing to
concede that IL is not the immediate cause,
but the fact remains that this company did
make this demand a few weeks ago, and it
might possibly appear TO some to be a
strange coincidenr that the five men VINO
composed the committee sent by the en-
ployes to inform the company that its dicta-
ton as to where the employees should or
should not board, and that those of the en-
safath eag
lowed to take boarders-I say it is note
worthy fact that these five men who so
notified the company that this dictation
would not be accented, were the five, and
the only men, DISCHARGED, and it is to have
these men reinstaJed that the other seventy
five men have ceased to work.
Col. Hoxie says these five men are Gear
pet-baggersn mark the word) or agitators.
say they are five men who have dared to
have a mind OF their own, and to assert
their American-born freedom of boarding
ana sleeping where they pleased.
h, J. SNYDER.