The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-29
JUDGE CALDwELL's ORDER.
APPLYING to the Employees the Santa
Fe Railroad

APPLYING to the Employees on the Santa
Fe Railroad
General Manager j. j. Frey last night
received from Chicago the following or
der from Judge Henry c. Caldwell in
reference to the trouble on the Santa Fe:
WEQUEroNsING, Mich. June 2s. 1891
JW. Reinhart Boston. Mass; John j. SIcCook,
Boston, Mass; Joseph G. w IsOn, Chicago.
Re raiiTc adj. Chicago. III:
The men III the employ of the receivers of
the Atch son system must discharge AL heir
usual and accustomed dutles Or quit the service
OF The receivers altogether and permit otner
to take their places who viii discharge
duties. Any all of the employees eau q Tit
the service Of the company if Ihev desire to do
so. but when they quit they must not interfere
n any manner wi5h The pToI erty OF The road or
Any interference will he promptly dealt with
continue III the service of the court must dis
charge all their duties appropriately and prop
duties viii compel Their discharge and The EN-
the powers and authority OF the court wi be
b E rules 1 cannot believe The boycott order was
intended to be put in operation on the roads in
the United States courts and operated by reeelF-
appointed by those courts. but # such is the
case Tie au .hOrs OF the boycott order and the
men to whom il is addressed must understand
with the operation of the road by its rece -vefs
from any cause whateyer The men must I'M
deTStand Unat they cant remain III the service
of the receivers and refuse to perform any duty
pertaining to that service. They must make their
selection whether they viii take their order as
to the cars to be switched and handled from
obey the order of the former they may do so. but
in that event they must understand distinctly
court for any purpose and that other men viii
be employed to take their places permanently.
who will be guarded and protected in the dis
charge of their duties. When the situation of
your road ana the law appnca9lie 70 TINS case IS
attempt TO put the boycott order in force upon
tempt Of The authority of the court and must in
evILably result disastrously to the men. AS soon
those ordering the boycott to attempt TO en-
force it against the authority of the court. will
the lines as indicated in this dispatch.
United States Circuit Judge.
Judge Caldwell is now taking his sum-
mer vacation at the little town of We
quetonsing, Mich. away from the hurry
and hustle of business, but Mr.. George
R Peck yesterday afternoon sent a man
from Chicago up to Judge CaldweA's
summer resort and secured his signature
to the above order. 1t is understood that
the order was prepared in Chicago by
Mr.. Peck just as the order signed here
yesterday morning by Judge Foster was
written in the Santa Fe offices by Gen
eral Attorney A A. Hurd-
Judge Caldwell has Jurisdiction over
portions of the Northern Pacific and
Union Pacific as well as the Santa Fe.
THE GovERNOR ON THE STRIKE.
The Courts in a Hurry to Side with the
Railroads, He Says.
Governor Lewelling said to a STATE
JOURNAL reporter today in relation to
the strike:
$50 far the Pullman company is con-
cerned, have no sympathy for it, and
so far as l have observed nobody has
who has ever been victim of its vorac-
ity. 1t is a parasite which lives off the
corporations and the travelling public
and cOmpels its pOrters to pillage its pa
irons that they may live. 1t seems to be
I he n Of heaf hat = hafr
tiers should derive their subsistence. in
that way.
1t is ridiculous to the honest mind that
a corporation grown SO rich as it has.
and by such means as it has employed,
should undertake to deprive its honest
and industrious employees of their means
of living. 1t is to be regretted that
that this trouble has involved com panies
against which the railroad men have no
grievance.
81 do not know what the contract is
between the Pullman and the various
companies, but l do know that in max
ing freight contracts, a clause in invaria-
bly, Incorporated exempting railroad
companies from liability in case strikes
or other unavoidable delays, and it seems
to me that equal wisdom should have
made like provision in contracts with
Pullman travellers
at has been said that the railroad COM
panies have an interest in the earnings
of the Pullman cars. If this be true.
these railroad companies should be cen
snred to a degree at least
Judge CaldwelTs order or notice or
whatever it may be, issued last night,
that the men may quit work, but must
not commit violence or prevent other
men from working, strikes me, as it must
strike all other practical men, as the cor
rect idea, but it does not deny the right
of men TO strike or TO proselyre and ex-
ercise moral suasion.
sit seems little remarkable, however,
that the courts are always 80 easily ac