River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-11-22

REPLY OF MANAGERS.
STRIKE Commissioners Report Severed
Critieised-wright's Defense.

strike Commissioners Report Severely
Critieised-wright's Defense.
CHICAGO. Nov. 15.-The Railway Age
IN its next issue Will contain a reply
to the report of the United States
strike commissioners. purporting to
voice the sentiments of the manag RS,
against whom a portion of the report
is directed Many statements con-
tanned in the report are, in
the Judgment of the managers,
disproved, some by direct quota
tion from other portions of the same
report. The main points objected to
and against which seemingly strong
arguments are adduced are as follows:
"a That until the railroads set the
example general union of railroad
employees was never attempted"
(2l That 1.-THE cut in wages at Pull
man averaged about 25 per cent a"
go That throughout the strike the
strife was simply over handling Pull
man cars, the men being ready to do
their duty otherwise (4) That 'there
is no evidence before the commission
that the officers of the American Rail-
way union at any time participated in
or advised intimidation, violence or de-
struction of property"
After the general charge that the in
aecuracies and errors of the report
range all the way from 1.-The mac
curate quotation of comparatively
trivial figures to false generaliza-
tions as to the whole scope
and essence of the trouble" and
stating that lit would be equally easy
to pillory the cheap levity with which
the commission treats the educational
institutions and the 'esthetic and sani-
tary' features of Pullman" the reply
concludes in the following words:
but these thIngs-errors OF taste or falla-
cies in theory-will be apparent enough TO the
general reader. The curious accident that
the Measurements of facts are all on the same
side-all tending to throw discredit upon the
corporations and to increase the bitterness OF
the laboring classes against capitals an ac-
cident from which one would prefer to draw
no differences.
zone conclusion only may be drawn, which
is that, no matter on what side the errors are,
the mere existence OF such errors, so many
and some OF such enormity, alone suf1ces to
make the report entirely worthless and dis
creditabie as public document discreditable
alike to the commissioners themselves and to
the country.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16.-Speaking of the
criticisms passed on the report of the
federal strike commission on the re
cent strike, reports the Chicago
Record, Carroll ID. Wright, United
States commissioner of labor. said:
II do not care to reply 10 these criticisms in
detail have not read them carefully, and to
answer them would be as unfair to the critics
as they have been TO me They have evidently
not read the report. It is careful. straight
forward. partisan statement of the circum-
stances as we found them. If any unpre-
JUDGED person had gone in with US and fol-
lowed the testimony as we followed it he could
not have avoided coming out where we did.
The report is its own best answer to all
charges Those who object to 1t do so because
their own part in the matters under discussion
have been laid bare and because they have
been hard hit by the disclosure of the truth.
The report has been better received than had
expected BY and by, when all the criticisms
are in. l shall publicly answer them in writ
tor MI