The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-11-15

retaliate in turn, because such action up
on the part of corporations is alleged to
be unconstitutional. While assuming
and submitting that the Managers asso-
citation was merely voluntary, uDin-
corporated association" its object being
'the consideration of problems OF man
agement arising from the operation of the
railroads terminating or centering in Chi
cage, this little big national commission
on the A. X. U. strike declares that such
a combination rs formed by twenty.four
railway line managers solely for protec-
ton and for facilitating business as car
is "usurpation of power not granted"
And upon that idea the national COM
mission proceeds to anathematize capital
and pat organized labor upon the back in
manner which savors strongly Of q
Debs manifesto.
The assertion is made that, until this
General Managers association was
formed, the great union of railroad en-
ployes was not attempted. While that is
strictly true it is yet misleading. in that
the inference is created that the A. X. U.
was born in the spirit of desperation,
solely as defensive move in opposition
to the encroacbments of combined capi-
tai. This is decidedly erroneous, AZ ev.
cry reader of Debs' autocratic utterances
during the summer of 1894 well knows.
Debs himself formed the 4. r. U. Ms a
| great machine to be used in furthering
his own advancement, as u mighty lever
for the qualification of his own ambitions.
That it became what it did, welding the
unholy, dspicable, ruinous, redhanded
| power which characterized il, was due
solely to the Mephistopbelian ingenuity
OF the arch.conspirator and murderer
who created it. Yet the national COM
mission defends the A. r. u, and says
that 1.-THE refusal of the Managers asso-
citation to deal with such com bination
OF labor as the American Railway Union
seems arrogant and absurd" Labor may
combine; may burn bridges, ears, build
ings and live stock; may interfere for
thirty long days with traffic and block
the wheels OF commerce at cost OF mil
lionr upon millions OF dollars; may wade
in rivers Of innocent blood, flowing from
wounds Inflicted by labor's hand; may
hellishly gloat over the woe and ruin it's
unbridled passion brings in its train but
capital is arrogant and absurd" when it
assumes to defend that which is utterly,
indisputably and most deservedly its
own II that be craftsmanship. deliver
us from it.
For many long column this commits
sion" inveighs against the railroads,
scarcely clothing in digniied language
the bitterness of its reproaches and vi
tuperation. 1t says that the sympathetic
strike was caused because the strikers
(poor fellows) thought the Managers an
sociation menace; it believes that the
courts have not the power ito enioin citi-
Gems from persuading each ether in indus
trial or other matters of common inter
est" tyet it evidently thinks they can en-
Join the railroads); it confesses that the
militia was in sympathy with the strik-
ers, ard feels that "the danger is grow
ing that in strike wars military
duty will ultimately have to be done by
others than volunteers from labors ranks"
"a statement which breeds sedition and
ultimate treason in every syllsble); it
says that much OF the real responsibility
for these disorders rests with the
government for failing reasonably
to protect the rights OF labor and redress
its wrongs" Capital, of course, having