Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-14
10 40 wan the terma o. be smpIoy.

( TO do with the terms OF the employ
ment OF over two-thlrds OF them.
Further on the report says: 1t is In
/ evidence and uncontradicted that nc
violence or destruction Of property by
! strikers or sympathlzers took place ut
pullman and that until July no ex-
| traordinary protection was had from
/ the police or military against even on
I anticipated disorder. 1t was not until
\ Iuly that thu services Of the military
/ was called for even In Chicago itself.
| Ana The commission omlts to nisntion
/ the extraordinary protection OF the a2l
Gus rds of the Pullman company who
/ were in service before the end OF June
| 1, who (the danger OF anticipated dis
! rider being 80 greaD were increased to
/ $50 In the first week In July. Moreover,
there was violence at Pullman-physl-
/ cal assaults upon persons who attempts
ed to return to work. When the mill
1 tary were put in the field they were
used at Pullman longer than anywhere
else. Nowhere did the police have more
difficulty than In protecting from yio-
lence those who wished to resume work
ut Pullman. Some or all Of these ects
were clearly In evidence. So public and
notorious were they that II g a dis
grace TO the methods OF the enquiry if
all were not.
Later the report says, there IL no
evidence before the commission that
the officers OF the Railway union at
any time participated In or advised
intimidation, violence or destruction Of
property
"The evidence before the commission
not only included testimony as to spe-
cific speeches in which the vice-presi-
dent OF the union, amid grossly violent
and offensive language, recommended
Of g..atf,1tpU MI n a fnpthnd
Of argument. but the vice-presldent
himself stated TO your commission that
the language which he used on those
specific occasions he had also used at
hundreds of other places. Is II possl-
bic that your commission does not re-
gard the recommendation to hit man
with coupling pin os the advising OF
intimidation or violencep The errors
OF fact In the report range all the way
from the Inaccurate quotation OF COM
parltlvely trivial figures to false gem
civilizations as TO the whole essence OF
the trouble. There are many minor
points in your report In which criti-
cism and correction would be easy
as the remarkable economic calculation
by which the commission adjusts the
loss incurred during hard times be-
tween employees and employers as In
the casual estimate OF $4,000 and over
IallTOlu eInployts III tue bnlteu oNttes
who might belong to one organization,
and In other passages.
"It would be equally as easy TO pill
lory the cheap levity with which the
commission treats the educational In
stitutlons and the aesthetic and sani-
tary features OF Pullman. But these
thlngs-errors OF taste and fallacies in
theory--will be apparent enough to the
general readers. The curious accident
that the misstatements OF the report
are all on the same side--all tending
to throw dlscredit upon the corpora
tons and to increase bitterness Of
labor against capitals theory
which defars no differences. One con-
clusion only may be drawn, which Is
that no matter on which side errors
are. the mere existence OF such errors
sufllces 10 make the report entirely
worthless and discreditable as public
document: discredltable alike TO the
commissioners themselves and 10 the
country"