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you care 10 make any reply. Yours re-
specially. JOHN = ALTGELD."
PULLMAN TO ALTGELD

y
1t was nearly ) o'clock when MIR. Pull
mans reply was sent to the Governor.
IL Is as follows:
"rullman ralacc Car Company, Office of
the President. Chicago. Aug. u.
sir: | have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt Of your letter OF this date,
giving your Impressions, derived from
your visit 10 the town of Pullman yestcr-
day.
In pursuance of the invitation con-
tanned In yo'ir telegram OF the 10Th inst.
| caused Mir Wtckes. Nice-Prcsiicnt of
this company. who IL thoroughly ac-
uunintnd with its nlirs At puuman, To
call upon you and Offer every assistance
in his power. ~ which could I've offered
by any officer Of the company, In making
your proposed personal Investigation. Mr.
Wickcs offered to accompany you To
Pullman tor t1is purpose, ana ! regret
that YOU dii not appear To consider That
he could he OF service to Won.
AS an indication Of the Importance of
I the did 81 local knuwIcdpe IN making
! essential DETERMINATIONS, | may say to
, you that / have the best reason for be-
lieviug that the husband OF wife who
Is published as representing her family
t. you rS yss'G ,n,n as 30, IN Of HG.t of HELP
! as he said. of buying lots.
1 as ne CdiI, UI uuAiuS lots.
| while 1t has not been represented To
! the officers OF this company by any per-
sons concerned that there was any such
extended distress at Pullman as was
| represented for the first time by the en-
!
gram to you H. your official capacity, 1
do not doubt that there are many cases
of need caused Ivy the refusal of the en-
ployCcs for more than two and unc-halt
| months to earn offered wages OF more
| than S3O0,Wo and that such cases have
been increased and made more severe
| by the persistence of more than ak hun
drcd and fifty OF our employees, of
wnOm about three hundred and nifty live
in Pullman, In refusing to apply for their
aid places after the strike was prac-
IlN "A "a hay h
licl, invited, July Is, to resume their
work. until by the gradual coming In of
new men during the whole month their
places have been nlled and the full force
engaged for all work on hand.
I'm addition to this there IL no doubt
need among the old employees living
In Pullman, considerable number of
whom have persistently refused to APP
ply for work ut all many OF them, IL
rs understood. considering themselves
to be still engaged In a strike.
II mention Incse things. so that the
responsibility. for the existing situation.
| whatever 1t IL, may not he Improperly
which must be dealt with without re-
gard to what has caused II. and shall
give II the consideration which is due
from the company.
~ do not. however, anticipate. as you
.pp"ar to do. that those employees who
have resumed their work Will be limited
ing wants: and, AS To those who are not
III work. the cancelling of their rents Is
not, | venture to suggest, question to
which attention should first lie given at
thu present juncture, IL their pressing
needs are as you suppose them to be.
THE company VIII continue In Its
efforts to secure work, In order to EN-.
ploy as many men as possible, and In
that way relieve the situation ms fai
az practicable.
| "YOur suggestion that the work should
be divided 50 that "A sufficient number OF
our present employees should be out on
half time In order to give at least hall
time work for all was tried last winter
The result has been that the gross earn.
: ings of various individual employees
We're last winter so small as to give al
erroneous impression with reference tC
the sufiiciency OF the rate Of wages.
The policy of the company Is now to
employ only as many men as II Ia posi-
} BILE t. furnish work for on full time
VERY respectfully yours,
, GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN.
president.
ITO John +. Altgeld, Governor"
: The reply OF the Governor, here fol
lowing, gives his own Impressions Of
Mr.. Pullmdn's attitude:
Chicago, Aug. q.
George NJ. Pullman. eCq.. President Puilma
Palace Car Company.
= Sir | have your answer to my com
munication of this morning. l see by
that your company refuses to do any
thing towards relieving the situation n
: Pullman. 1t is true that Mr.. Wickes OF
f fered to take me to Pullman and shoN