The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-21
Strikers Statement.

Strikers Statement.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2o.-The executive
committee Of the strikers, after a lengthy
meeting in Mugg's Hail. gave out the fol-
lowing statement tonight
"Citizens-Seven days since the employees
of the Brooklyn trolley lines were driven
from their posts by soulless corporations,
because they were human beings, and un-
bic strain put upon them by being com
PEELED to run trolley cars through crowded
streets at a high-rate speed for fourteen
hours as days work, SO they contracted
only for ten hours. We offered to continue
our contracts with our masters for another
year at the same wages If we were guaran-
teed against more than ten hours work
The companies refused. All our offers to
arbitrate were rejected.
THE corporations are determined to MAIN
tain their arbitrary sway. Since we We're
compelled to go out local newspapers have
a foreign corporation, in order to swindle
the State out of taxes, have persistently
nlisrepresented our position and exagger-
ated every offense committed in our name
They have terrorized the community with
fabricated accidents, with accounts of vio-
fence, and have failed to state that where
such acts were committed it was at the in
stigation of the company's agents, to thus
seek to discredit our cause
Miserable creatures have been recruited
from the outcasts of other communities
on promise to pay them so cents more
wages than we received. The cars are not
yet running in spite of military and police
Not because of our violence, but because
work for them upon their terms as to what
shall constitute a days work The com
panleS' officers do not want to operate their
roacs as long as they can hoodwink the
Mayor and the public If they did every
wheel without the help of police and mill
tary Would De running in hour.
ne strike, heartless as it is, is caused
oy those who wish TO depreciate the stocks
spI the companies held by outsiders. When
the traction stock gets low enough it will
be bought by those on the inside. Then
the roads Will begin to run again You
and we are made TO suffer want that a few
may grow rich. Thus it has been when
unconsciousable thieves, stock dihiters
widow and orphan robbers, seek to control
a valuable property cheapy. To-day we are
In the interest of peace we applied to YOU
citizens and taxpayers of BROOKLYN We
nave bowed before the written law and shall
salute 1t until the great majority Of the
suffering public beings find out what we in
bitterness have learned-that the law the
judges and the government are for the rich
the powerful and the graspins Our serv,
ants they should be, your masters thay are
CHOSEN by our suffrage they betray us be-
fore the cook crows thrice. The rights and
Iscariots When, oh. when will come the
day when their vows shall be spilled upon
the ground?"
The above was signed by Martin L. Con-
nelly, John Giblin, Andrew D. Best. VIII
lam Fl. Davidson. Patrick J. Collins. exc
cutive- board of District Assembly No 75.
4,5OO Soldiers Called Out.
NEW YORK. Jan. 20.-The First brigade
National Guards. State of New York, in
cluding all troops. infantry. artillery, .cay-
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