The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
THE ARKANSAS STRIKE.
NO MATERIAL CHANGE IN THE STU
ALTON.
Receiver Yoakum Says Some Plain Things
in Regard to the Cause of the Strike.
The stockmen in South Texas
Suffering.
Special to The Statesman.

Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 5.-There
has been no change in the running of
passenger trains. The men are still
holding out and claim that they will
win. The officials declare that the
back bone of the strike is broken and
its settlement is question of only
few days. They state that freight
trains Will be run to Kerrville tomor-
row, the first since the walk
out. 1ere has been no disorder
here, and the strong guard at
Yoakum has prevented further
trouble at that point. The men are
meeting reg uIarly every day and list
ening speeches but if they are do
ing anything else it cannot be learned.
In an interview today Receiver
Yoakum said: "Outside of every tele-
graph operator, these men have no
grievance and many of them have so
admitted it to me. The grievance of
the operators is that they had heard
their wages would be reduced. 1t is
the most causeless strike in the his
tory of American railways and in
view of the character of the men in
our employ, it has been thorough
surprise TO US. No warrant for it can
be found in the utterances of the chiefs
of any of their orders. If there
is a man in the United States
opposed to strikes it is Chief Arthur
of the Brotherhood of LOGON otive
Engineers. In addressing their last
annual meeting at Baltimore he said:
But l hear some one say you indulge
in strikes. Yes, we have had strikes.
L am not ashamed to admit. When
strikes are necessary then strikes are
the policy OF the brotherhood, bur
they are a last resort. The great
problem that agitates the country is
how to adjust the differences between
capital and labor. l say that these
are only the differences between man
and man. TO settle questions of dis.
pute we have standing committees of
adjustment, whose duty it is to hear
complaints, inquire into the causes of
discomfort and act as their Judgment
directs. We want discipline exer-
cised with common sense. There is
unusually too wide a chasm
between the employer and
the employe. When we approach
those above us for settlement of dis
putes, we do not expect to bend the
knee or dotf the cap. If our members
have grievance they report it to
their committee. This committee will
endeavor to adjust the matter with
the officers of thearoad.se When neces-
sary they go from the lowest official
to the highest in authority to effect a
settlement. If they fail to get salts
faction an appeal is sent to the chief
executive of the order, who then tries
by all honorable means to adjust the
differences. The committee knows
when the men are unreasonable and
unfair, and when they are we do not
hesitate to tell them so. The interests
of capital and labor are identical. 1
have always advocated reasoning to-
getber, and we have never resorted to
a strike except as last resort"
81 cannot understand" continued
Mr.. Yoakum, "how, in view of these
utterances, the locomotive engineers
of our line have broken their con-
tracts with us and left us with no
adequate warning"
The strikers here contend that the
damage at Yoakum was done by out
side parties, who desired to prejudice
the public against them.
sTOCKMEN SUFFERING.
Special to The Statesman.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Jan. SIT
is ten days since the Aransas Pass
strike began, and the people of the
coast country begin to feel it severely.
Stockmen, who had rounded up sew
eral thousand head of cattle for ship
ment, have driven them back to the
pastures. The people are growing in
and their interests are suf-
fering.