Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-14
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TIE LABOR QUESTION

INV AafAANiflA W 10 7 ~
Many of tic employees of The pcnnsyl-
vuuia lines understand that While tie
company b. not making an aggressive war
upon their labor organizations and will
not, ~ iHr a. The present outlook would
seem io Indicate, there Is affecting among
the highcs officials that their suhordf.
mites who cling tu organizations hnvhg
power tu urlcr strikes, stand iu their own
light sys the Columbus lOJ Dispatch
10 d. moi the purpose of tlc company To
trcni with iu employees through The rep
reschtniiVcs VI any organization which rs
not q pnu ui the machinery Of the cor
loratiuu. The Dispatch has not been
authorized TO mike Mi, sintrment. but
men who have taken notice uf what has
been going on IN the management of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines know TINT the untc-
mcnt h not only founded upon eX-
pcficncO, hut currOnt Incidents show
that the men who depend upon merit .
length ul service loyalty To the company
aud general or special qualifications
rather than upon udd which has been III
tered through outside organizations. stand
highest among those who. nl other thing,
being equal, are certain 10 be- promoted
or favored in various ways.
This h substantially what the higher
officials are spying to their suhOrdinatcs
az all oppurlune times. There IN no
special news In this statement ID IA sim
ply repetition of conversation going on
hetween the higher officials and the
lower employees when opportunity opens
the way Tor conversation upon the sub
joct
The incident at indianapolis. as frat
recorded here, Ia the railroad columns of
The Dispatch of last Saturday, In which
MIR. Orn Perry discharged some Freight
! handlers who preferred their union Ia
loyalty 20 the company shows, NO doubt,
what the policy of the company N TO he
toward weakening the unions but the
summary manner IN which those men
were dealt with, is not, IL would seem. 60
be- the rule of action. Tint case IL no
licyed 10 have had special features, which
may appear upon farther investigation.
Mr.. Perry N aiid To have heOn a soldier
mud to have favored old soldiers, aud was
evidently not expecting Tint they would
- into a union ca fight him after he hal
given them employment Ms old men
when lac might possibly have served his
company better by employing younger
aud stronger persons.
The purpose no doubt Of the company
IL Ia educate their mon. teach them boy
actual benefits given TO deserving. LOYAL
employees, and not by summary action,
as "A rule las In the special ease az report.
ed frnm indianapolis that tho sure Wny
| ~ ultimate steady aud fair compensation
| IN not through the unions
Tho withdrawal quite recently. of n
| respectable body of its passenger cOnduc
| tors from the Order of Railway Conduc
/ tors while not asked hy the company
/ is regarded as a result OF the educational
| forces now at work among the men
/ There has not been mite If force, not
/ a particle of effort "a humilinte, aud II
il not understood that there viii be
force, hut simply practical education
/ IA IA a
| pluyos 10 offset the education inculcated
| by the unions that they are essential Ia
the achievement OF sifuilhr success hy
railroad employees. In other words tho
| company, az the signs of the times and
scraps Of reliable Information would seem
20 Indicate, h To pay due regard 10 Che
| goueml welfare If its employees, hut
those 81 them who rely upon their indi'
yidual effort To do what N right aud take
their chances Of being benefited thereby
will lind IN the end thnt they are fully
| As prosperous of not more so than those
who propose 10 depend upon unions u
holp them along.
SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES.
On account Of the Cherulsee strip con
yenti0n GO he held IN Guthrie, Jan. rs
the Santa Fc announces special rat,
OF one fare for the r0und trim. tickets
90 BE- sold on Jan ~, limitod for return
passage 70 Jan, %,
T'k convention Isl held Tor the pur,
pose OF discussing ways and means for
the securing Of The opening of the strip 1,
settlement and us this a matter of con
siderable importance 70 Fort Worth. Il
delegation of Fort Worth people should
make Il a point 20 attend.
WHEAT ON THE DENVER
Tho exact hgnret az the acreage OF
wheat sowed ON the Fort Worth and
Denver this seas0n has not Vet been fnl
~ compiled but enough Is already known
| 90 safely say the acrcNgc win b. mllN
" not more than 6O0tf)0 ucr,N. M,
stand n all that could be desired and
the prosnNys HOW are Tint the crop oi
| 1903 win Car exceed that vi amy PIE
ceding yenr since ihN inr was onen,s
| for tlNlilc. Tho true mNiitS 81 fiit sec
/ tlon az The country tributary "a the Den.
Yer road as u wheat-raling country !,
only now hefome fully m,dnrstOud. and
] from present Indications wheat win herr.
after he the GRIP la NOrl,u,sfern Texas
Yhbe N4e heecy cotton viii be left /,
less faspfad localities further south
Abe Denver people ~ course take