The old Abe eagle. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 189?-189?, 1894-11-22
STRIKE COMMISSION REPORTS.

lnC COuluiioSlObI Nch'ioN'b6 va hhSh'
Carroll d. Wright, U. S. Llbor Commits
sioner, aud Messrs. John d. Herman, Of
New York and Nicholas b. Worthington
of Illinois, which was appointed last
summer to investigate the great A. r.
U. strike has finished its )rk and made
its report to the President,
The report is an exhaustive docu
ment, and seems to be bas, d on broad
comprehension of the subject, and the
res ut Of very thorough investigation.
The commissioners go to the marrow of
the question without fear or favor and
give the Pullman and General Mana
gers association systems round of
plain talk that will not be construed as
fiattery by them. They favor the or
gauization of labor, but condemn strikes,
and apparently would give labor organi-
zatiens standing as to liabilities for
damages done through strikes similar to
the liza biities of the constituents of cor
Icraie bodies.
They commend the action Of the Pres
ident in sending Government troops to
to Chicago, and find that he acted en-
tirely within the law.
The following recommendation were
made:
That there be a permane United
States strike commission Of three men
bers, with duties and powers of invest
igation and recommendation as to dis
putcs between railroads and their EN-
ployes similar to those vested in the In
terstate commerce commission as to orates
etc.
NJ That, as in the Interstate commerce
act, power be given to the United States
courts to compel railroads to obey the
decisions of the commission, after sum
mary hearing unattended by technical
ties, and that no delays in obeyil 6 the
decisions If the commit sion bo allowed
pending appeals
! b. T at, whenever the parties to a
controversy in matter within the iuris.
diction Of the commission are one or
more railroads upon one side and one or
more National trade unions, incorpor-
| ated under section 567 OF the United
States statutes Of 1855 Sc, or under
State statutes, upon tho other, each side
shall have the ,ght to select repre-.
sentative who shall he appointed by the
Pr, sident TO serve as a temporary mem.
Der Of the commission IN hearing, adjust
ing and determining that particular con
troversy.
q That during the perdency Of a pro
ceeding before tho commission inaugur
ated by National trade unions. or by az
incorporation of employees, it shall not
be lawful for the railroads TO discharge
employees belonging thereto except fol
inefiicIency, violation of law, or Deglec
Of duty; nor for such corporations dur
lug such pendeHcy to order, unite in
ald or abet strikes or boycotts agains
the railroads complained of; nor for pc
riod OF six month. after a decision, +,
such railroads to discharge any suci
employees in whose places others shal
be employed, except for the causes afore
said; nor for any such employees, during
like period, TO quit the service withou
giving thirty days written notice Of in
tenion to do so; nor for any such unioI
or incorporation TO OF dor counsel OF AL
v Sc otherwne.
. That chapter 567 Of the Unite,
States statutes of 1885 sc he amcnde,
so as to require National trades union
to provide in their articles Of incorpora
tion, and in their constitutions, rule
and bylaws, that mtmLCr shall ccas
TO be such, aid forfeit all rights an,
privileges conferred on h IN 10y law d
such, by participating in or by inst'gat
ing force or violence against pe'son- o
property during strikca or hnycolts, o
by seeking to prevent others from work
ing through violence. threats or intimid
atoms; also that members shall be n
more personally liable Tor Corporate act
than are stockholders IN corporations.
The commission does not feel wal
ranted, with the study IL has been abl
to give the subject, TO recommend pos
tiyrly the estgbl shine Mt Of license syi
TEN by which all the h CHER employe
or others Of railroads engaged IN inieI
= state commerce should be liceneed, afIc
due and proper examination, but
would recommend, aud most urgentl
a that this subject be carefully and full
considered by the proper committee {
Congress. Many railroad employees an
some railrond officials examined, on
many others who have tilcd their euI
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