The Irish standard., 1894-11-17
BOTH SIDES BLAMED.
The Strike Commission Makes Tts
Report to the President.
Censare for the General Managers, the
Pu1lmans and the Strikers-Cleve-
lands Policy Justided-Its
Recommendations.

WASHINGTON, Nov. l3.-The United
States government report on the great
railway strike in connection with the
Pullman trouble was made public
Monday. The report, which is
signed by the federal labor COM
missioner, Carroll D. Wright, and his
fellow Investigators, John D. Herman,
of New York, and Nicholas E. Worth
ington, of Illinois, is addressed to
President Cleveland. The report
strongly censures both the General
Managers association and the Ameri-
can Railway union for the methods en-
ployed by each, and says:
1.-THE refusal OF the General Manager assoc
citation to recognize and deal with such a COM
binatlon OF labor as the American Railway
union seems arrogant and absurd, when We
consider its standing before the law. its as
| sumptions and its past and obviously contem-
plated future action"
The Pullman Strike
The Pullman strike is discussed at
great length, and says that while the
wages Of the workingmen were re-
duced to the lowest point possible,
with it's attendant suffering, none OF
the salaries of the officers, managers
or superintendent were reduced. Re-
auctions in these would not have been
SO severely felt, would have shown
good faith, would have relieved the
harshness of the situa ton and would
have evinced genuine sympathy with
labor in the disasters of the times.
The report continues:
THE demand Of the employees for the wages
OF June 1898. was clearly unjustihable. The
business in May, 1894, could not pay the wages
cess, but the company was hardly more at
fault therein than were the employees in in
sisting upon the wages Of June, 1893.
las between man and man the demand for
some rent reduction was fair and reasonable
under all the circumstances. Some slight con-
cession In this regard would probably have
averted the strike, provided the promise not to
discharge the men who served upon the COM
mittee had been more strictly regarded"
Troops Were Needed.
President Cleveland's course in send
ing troops to the scenes of the dis
turbances is upheld. The commission
says that it has NO evidence that the
officers of the American Railway union
at any time participated in or advised
inti1nida ton, violence or destruction of
property. They knew and fully appre-
ciated that as soon as mobs ruled the
organized forces Of society would crush
the nsobs and all responsible for them
in the remotest degree, and that this
meant defeat The attacks upon cor
porations and monopolies by the lead
ers in their speeches are similar to
those to be found in the magazines
and industrial works of the day.
Favors Arbitration.
In conclusion the report favors ar.
bitration and the creation of a body
similar to the interstate commerce
commission, whose duty it shall be to
investigate disputes between rail-
ways and employees, and thinks these
plans will have tendency to do away
with much of the strife between them.
Criticise the Report.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14.-Railway officials
criticise the report of the strike COM
mission ss unjust and biased, full of
conclusions drawn from misstate-
! ment of facts" and vigorous refuta-
tions of It's statements have been made
on all sides. They declare the docu-
ment will not help labor, but will be q
! hindrance to arbitration.