New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-27
POPULAR OBSERVATIONS.

THE STRIKE COMMISSIONS REPORT.
IRIS CONCLUSIONS DEPENDED-A NATIONAL
BOARD OF ARBITRATION. WHOSE DEcIs-
IONS SHOULD BE BINDING. PROPOSED
10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: l have read the report OF the commission
Amounted TO inquire into the Pullman strike or
last summer with a great deal of Satisfaction ana
am sorry that in editorial article you take TIE
ground you do. l anticipate that my communica-
ton will be returned with thanks, nevertheless
feel that 1t Is every good citizens duty to interest
himself in this matter which is Of vital importance.
IL Is fact which cannot be truthtneN sahsaiu
that the division between employer and erapioye IN
this country Is too great. We are supposed to be
government. Of the people, for the people. ana yet
the laws protect small class the employees at the
expense of the empoye. 1t is not to be wondered
at that the Socialist says that the wage syssem Is
1eecing the laborer: that whatever harmon! '"e'o
NAV be between capital and labor tnere is none pe
tween the capitalist and the laborer ana that 'he
wage system and competition are becoming sociai
curses The commissions report says that there Is
very little competition between employers but every
body knows how great it is between the eihpioSes'
Consider if YOU please. the wages earned by the
men in Pullman for the year ending July d. 1870
yearly average of S6lS 50 per man. weekly aver
age of sl1 sos Think of it. A man supporting a
family and bringing up children on this amount
TRUE some of the skilled laborers get much more
but II reduces the average for the rest Ana 'nen
we talk about the pauper labor OF Europe we uo
not need to go to Europe; nor do we need 10 go "
Pullman. We can find any amount OF II rieh' ne'e
in our own city 1t is quite true that one-haii Oh
the world doesn't know nov the other hai lives
II IL equally true that 1t does not care.
II seems TO be presumptuous arrogance entirety
contrary 10 our accepted belief that all me" "ie
born free and equal, for the Generai Mahasei'
Association to refuse to treat with the A'e ,O',
Railway Union. The plant they have been enao4e"
iS NOT
alone: but the combined labor of government money
and their brains uniteD with the brains ana ''oi
of others 1t does belong to them exclusively II
e well known that corporations. monopo"es' e'o''
seek only their own gain and would crush laoor
whenever possible. At present labor organizations
a ,,r,Las are the only redress the aborer has And
do not think there is any question but that the cor
poration that pushes men to this last resort WIZ"
SO often leads 20 riot and misery Is e'e" '"0'V
culpable than the rioter himself. LABOR ms am
other weapon of defence which the laoo lbs ,o'
learned the value Of; and that is the ballot Inc
elections Of 1924 will surely open Ms eyes 10 us
valua and the capitalist would DO well to consluer
This hafore II IS too late Men who are satisned 40
not agi:ate reforms; but let the relorihers oiOe
get TO work and the extent to wnich 'he! Will 81
Is uncertain. Ia, al,
We live in a beautiful part of beautiful world
There is here enough and TO spare. Why uie.i'
should some men live in luxury and idieness "nhe
their brothers work and delve and actuahy SUM-,
want-must strive. strive, strive, from p'i'h va
death and in the end leave the woriu WIN Wv
knowledge that their children must continue t0
r., iaborer is idle or deficient but because
of the avarice of the minority VINO i,5ingIv
20, s, me oYwaavs be so? 1t always has been and
when ideness and luxury with its ~ certain
noint then have the nations died and leit PENN ~
only a memory Is TINS 10 De on NO, impel men
to be lust we will resort to the ballot ana hein
them to be What shall We DO hrsi; n La YAK IL
with eievating american citizenship ana ma The
Something TO be justly proud Of We h ,bat the
best country and the best Governi ,Sn, so. and
vor,d has ever known: let us keep thei, So, a
isi IL be- known the world around that the AMER,
can citizen rs second to none; sbnres YEAR after
YEAR and the naturalization OF lmmemsS neonle
Oh baxa made men look with indifference on what
we would have considered the grea,es' W. Sa' have
w9r,d pnsoeis we want or need Let labor be ee-
~atedNnot brought down to the lever OF lne 49,
lie, ,,, du not bnild wall which would Absolutely
prevent immigration but let us n stDess in a sub
natei lev way before he can become citizen
labor should be protected not only oy
ms NV 10 EMPLOYEES Just and reasonable "atgs.
do not advocate Socialism. Hociam sW from man
reSsva not progressive. II taxes away rom mo- ,
sii incentive TO move onward and We nave noe
vet reached that millennium when every ~ t gnyern
be eG%a naefro should be exercised powerful
corporations for the benefit no. %afionaI board of
Arbitration should be estaoiisnel, 10 ,rh decisions
tere me ,osrJ should be binding Unwinsness TO
9rbitrate dTefences should not De 'o i9 tact
Strikes should be prohibited; they "o"'0' "
oe II is today that who can comma ,ha
money ,o n, Of the man Of brains and the labor OF
the horny handed son Of ol, s Ur Is made the
srowing restiessness and eb n
will continue r qns shS YAK : F FR1% H.
New-York Nov. II, 1894.