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that no violence or destruction of prop
erty by strikers or sympathiZers took
place at Pullman, and until July Sd no
extraordinary protection was had from
the police or military against even an
ticlDated disorder. Such dignified, manly
and conservative conduct in the midst OF
excitement and threatened starvation is
worthy OF the highest type of American
citizenship, and with like prudence in all
other directions will result in due time
IN lawful and orderly redress of labor
wrongs. To deny this is TO foreswear
patriotism and 10 declare this Govern
ment and its people failure.''
THE RAILROAD STRIKE PROPER.
AS to the great railroad strike proper,
the report says: 1T is apparent that the
readiness TO strike sympathetically was
promoted by the disturbed and appre-
henSIve condition of railroad employees
resulting from wage reductions on differ
ent lines and blacklisting, and of the
growth of the General Managers Asso-
clatIon, which seemed to them menace.n -
Further on the report says: at is
seriously questioned, and with much
force, whether courts have jurisdiction
to enJoln citizens from persuading each
other in industrial or other matters of
common interest. However, it is gener-
ally recognized among good citizens that
mandate OF a court is to be obeyed until
1t is modified and corrected by the court
that issued IL.
The policy" the report says, "of both
the Pullman Company and the Railway
Managers Association In reference to ap-
pIlcationS TO arbitrate closed the doors to
all attempts at cOnciliatIOn and the settle
menG OF the differences. The C0mmiS-
sion IS impressed with the belief, by the
evidence ana by the attendant circum-
stances as disclosed, that different poll
icy would have prevented the loss OF life
and great loss OF property and wages
occasioned by the strike"
The report declares that the arrival
OF the troops at Chicago was opportune
and says THAT the policemen sympath-
lied with the strikers rather than with
the corporations cannot be doubted, nor
would 1t be surprising TO find the same
sentiment rife among tho military These
forces are largely recruited from the
laboring classes. Indeed, the danger is
growing that III strike wars between cor
poratIonS and employees, military duty
will ultimately have to be done by others
than volunteers from labor ranks,
United States Deputy Marsnals to The
number OF $500 were selected by and an
pointed at the request OF the General
Managers Association and OF it's rail-
roads. They were armed and paid by the
railroads, and acted in the double capac-
lty OF railroad employees and United
States officers. While operating the rail-
roads, they assumed and exercised unre-
stricted United States authority when so
ordered by their employers, or whenever
they regarded it as necessary. They were
not under the direction or control Of any
Government official while exercisinr
authority. This is placing the officers OF
the Government under control of a conn
bination of railroads. 1t is bad prece-
dent, that might well lead to serious con-
sequences"
USE OF FEDERAL TROOPS.
The commission briefly disposes in this
way of the matter of the use of Federal
troops:
Section 4, Article ", of the Federal
Constitution reads as follows: The United
States shall guarantee to every State in
this Union republican form of govern
ment, and shall protect each OF them
against Invasion, and on application of
the Legislature or OF the Executive when
The Legislature cannot be convenedl
against domestic violence.
United States troops were not sent
into Illinois upon the application of the
Legislature, nor of the Executive against
domestic violence, .. e, violence affect
ing the State, and its government as such.
The President ordered the troops to Chi
cago o. to protect Federal property: (2) to
prevent obstruction in the CARRYING of
with interstate commerce; ~ to enforce
the DEGREES and mandates OF the Federal
courts. He did this under the authority
of Section 529S of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, which provides:
Whenever. by reason of unlawful OBJ
structlonS, combinations or assem- blages
of persons or rebellion against the au-
thOrity of the Government of the United
States it shall become impracticable.
in the judgment of the President, to
enforced by the ordinary course of Judi
cial proceedings the laws of the United
States within any State or Territory, it
shall be lawful for the President to call
forth the militia OF any State or all States,
or to employ such parts of the land or
naval forces of the United States as he
may deem necessary to enforce the faith
ful execution or the laws of the United
States, or to suppress such rebellion in
whatever State or Territory thereof the
laws of the United States may be forcib!y
opposed or the execution thereof forciblv
obstructed.'
Section 5299 is also quoted, and the re-
port adds: "Other statutes tend to con-
fer authority i'll the same direction.
"lhere Is no evidence before the COM
mission that the officers of the American
Railway Union at any time participated in
or advised intimidation, violence or de-
structiOn Of property. They knew and
ANAAJ ehPpiSO4abOl G1ltIG as SOOu aS MODS
rule the organized forces of society would
crush the MODS and all responsible for
them IN the remotest degree, and that this
meant defeat. The attacks upon CORPORA
tiOns and mOnopolleS by the leaders in
their speeches are similar to those to be
found IN the magazines and industrial
works OF the day. From the testimony
it is fair to conclude that strikers were
concerned In the outrages against law and
order, although the number was UNI
douDtedly small as compared with the
whole number out"
The report adds, however: 'Manv i'm
partial observers are reaching the view
that much OF the real responsibility for
these disorders rest with the peoDIe
themselves and with the Government for
not adequately controlling monopolies
and corporations, and for falling reason
ably to protect the rights OF labor and re-
dress Its wrongs. NO one asserts that
laws can completely remedy contentious
as TO wages, ETC., but many do insist that
something substantial can be accom-
pllshed in this direction, if made honestly
and reasonable in good faith.''
QUESTION OF ARBITRATION.
In conclusion, the reDort says
'oince nations have grown to the wis
dom OF avoiding disputes by Cancellation.
and even OF settling them by arbitration
why should capital and labor, in their
dependence upon each other, persist in
cutting each others throats as a settIe
ment of differences? Official reports
show that much progress has been made
IN the more sane direction of Cancellation
and arbitration even in America. a Abroad
they are In advance of us in this policy.
We're our population as dense and oppor-
tunIties as limited as abroad, the present
industrial conditions would keep US
much more disturbed than we now are
by contests between capital and labor
Some OF our courts, however, are still
poring over the law reports of ANTIQUITY