The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-22

ger. The local overseer OF the poor has
been appealed to-, but there is a limit TO
what he can do. / cannot help them very
much at present. SO. unless relief comes
from some other source, i shall either have
to call an extra session OF the Legislature
TO make special appropriations or else issue
an appeal to the humane people of the
State to give bread TO your recent en-
prefer to relieve the situation yourself.
especially as IL has cost the State upwards
of $4,000 to protect your property and as
both state and the public have suffered
enormous loss and expense on account OF
disturbances that grew out of the trouble
between your company and its workmen-
After making a personal visit TO Pullman
Governor Altgeld to-day addressed a letter
TO Mr.. Pullman, saying:
II m the conditions. at Pullman
yesterday. visited even the kitchens and
back rooms OF many of the people. L learn
from your manager that last spring there
were 3.260 people on the pay roll. Yester-
day there were 2,Z20 at work, but over six
hundred OF these are new men, so that only
about leo of the old employees have been
taken back thus leaving over one thousand
OF the old employees who have not been
taken back. A few hundred have left. The
remainder have applied for work, but were
told that they were not needed. These are
utterly destitute. The relief committee has
exhausted its resources. 1T seems TO me
your company cannot afford to have me ap-
peal To the charity and humanity of the
state 10 save the lives of your old en-
ployes. FOur-fifths Of those people are
NOlntI anu nlAlTtH NO matter what
caused this distress. it must be met. If you
viii allow me. L will make this suggestions:
III you had shut down your works last fail
when you say business was poorer you
would not have expected TO get any rent
from your tenants; now, while a dollar is
a large sum TO each of these people, all the
rent now due is a comparatively small mat
ter TO you. If you will cancel all rent to
oct. i you would be as well off as if you
mad shut down. This would enable those
who are at work to meet their most press
ing wants. 1nen. N YOU cannot give work
TO all, work some half time. so that all can
at least get something to eat for their
families. This will give immediate relief to
the whole situation, and then by degrees
assist as many TO go elsewhere as desire to
do so, and all to whom you cannot give
work. In this way something like a nor
NAL condition could be re-establiShed at
Pullman before winter. ana you would not
be out any more than you would have been
hdd you smut down a year ago.
MR.. PULLMAN'S REPLY.
Mr.. Pullman replied at length. making
reference to Governor Altgeld's declination
OF the escort of Vice President wickes yes
terday. which fact Pullman regretted. Mr..
Pullman then continued:
As an indication of the Importance of
the aid of local knowledge in making es-
sential DETERMINATIONS | may say to you
that / have the best reason for believing
that the husband of a wire who is pub
lished as representing her family to you
than $1,000 of his savings from a bank on
July 2 last for the purpose, ne said, OF
buying lots; While 1t has not been repre-
any persons concerned that there was any
such extended distress at Pullman as was
represented for the first time by the ex-
traOrdinary method of a published telegram
10 YOU in your official capacity. / do not
doubt there are many cases of need caused
by the refusal of the employees for more
than two and one-half months to earn Of
fered wages of more than $500. 900; and that
such cases have been increased and made
Hnnpn aaxTaRn ~ The "Reminiscences ~ VnAaz
than 600 OF our employees, of whom about
$50 lived in Pullman, in refusing to apply
for their old places after the strike was
practically over, and after they were pub
licly invited on July Is to resume their
work. until by the gradual coming in of
new men during the whole month their
on hand. AS to those who are
rents is not a question to which attention
should first be given at the present juno
pose them to be. Your suggestion that the
work should be divided so that a sufficient
number of our present employees should be
put on half time in order to give at least
half-time work for all was tried last win
ter. The result has been that the gross
earnings of various Individual employees
erroneous impression with reference to the
snfficiency of the rate of wages. The policy
many men as Ii is possible to furnish work
for on full time"
To this the Governor replied, substan-
TALLY:
Il see that your company refuses to do
anything towards relieving the situation at
Pullman. If you will make the round |
made, go into the houses of these people,,
meet them face TO face and talk with them,
you will be convinced that none OF them
had $3.50 or any other sum of money a
few weeks ago. Ii is not my business to
fix the moral responsibility in this case.
There are nearly six thousand people suffer-
ing for the want of food. They were your
en- and children. Some of these people have
worked for you more than ten years. i as
sumed that even If they were wrong and
had been foolish. you would not be willing
as the State had Just been to q large eX-
pense to protect your property. you would
not want to have the public shoulder the
burden Of relieving distress in your town.
As you refuse to do anything to relieve the
suffering in this case, / am compelled TO
Illinois to do So"
States marshal, testified to the number and
quality of the men employed as deputies.
committed bv railroad men so far as you
know he was asked.
No. SIR. All the violence and burning
of co.'s that L saw at the stockyards was
done by q lot of tough kids about eight
&c" wears old or a little older
Were there ever any reports of drunken
nesS a'nor~ the denutv marshalsY'
1.-THE reports of drunkenness among the
deputies concerned those employed by the
railroad companies. They wore the same
stag our men did. The companies wanted
thcrr % ride on trains; protect mail and
c7rolCyes. The men selected by the rail-
read COMPANIES had no instructions from
our Office"
Man. Man n1S rp