The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-29
THE RAILROAD MANAGERS AGAIN
TESTIFY.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. 24.-General Man
ager f. St John, of the Rock Island road.
was recalled by the strike commission to-
day. Mr.. st. Johns testimony of yester-
day regarding the blacklist had apparent
ly not satisti.d the commissioners and he
was closely questioned regarding it.
You have said,' said Commissioner
Herman, that your road has black
list. Now, is it a fact that the general
managers associations has a blacklist?''
mo such thing a real blacklist exists
among the railroads to my knowledge"
was the answer. There was, however, I
believe, a list of names prepared for the
general managers association. 1t con-
tanned the names of the most active of the
strikers and has been, l think, submitted
to the various roads by the association. 1t
cannot properly be called blacklist, how
ever"
Mr.. st. John was then asked to tell
what he knew of the story that all rail-
roads had adopted a uniform scale of
wages.
THE rumor is untrue he said
HAS no such scale been prepared"
well / believe something of the sort
was submitted to the general managers
association, but it was not universally
adopted. In fact it rejected by all
but one road and on that line was put iii
to only partial effect. There is absolutely
no truth in the statement that the roads
represented in the general managers
association have ADOPTED a uniform scale"
John Nj. Egan, strike manager of the
general managers association succeeded
Mr.. ST. John on the stand. Mr.. Egan was
questioned regarding his duties during the
strike and said it was his duty to receive
reports from the various roads of the
progress of the trouble and to Submit the
same to the association.
Mr.. Egan thought that licensing railroad
employees would tend to prevent strikes.
but got badly mixed upon his theories.
''Mr. Egan," said Commissioner Wright,
"a witness has stated before us that you
used railroad money and employed men to
burn and otherwise destroy railroad prop
erty during the strike. Is this true"
The witness grew evidently angry and
Strengthening up in his seat said emphatic
ally considering the source from which
that testimony came it seems to me that
it should be apparent that it is the most
foolish rot. / will, however, enter gen.
eral denial to any and all sucn stories. I
never employed men for such work and
can state automatically that no one else
connected with the general managers as
ISOLATION hired or commanded anyone to
burn or destroy railroad property. The
story is absurd"
In the afternoon Supt. Dunlap, of the
Rock Island, was called and testified briefly
regarding the alleged black list, which he
declared had no existence.
Superintendent of Police Brennan was the
next witness. He was asked to tell how
the disorder growing out of the strike was
handled. ION June rs the mayor directed
me to use the entire force to protect prop
erty and prevent violence. Until the arrival
of troops on July the force had handled
it without any great violence and practic-
a]ly no destruction of property"
O. Complaints were made that police
men did not do their full duty in repress-
ing lawlessnesc. How about that?"
A. 1.-The mayor directed me to discharge
any policemen found lukewarm or inef-
ficient. Indeed. we did suspeE1 several Of
fcers on complaints, but when came
to investigate we could find no responsible