The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-08
WESTINGHOUSE WORKERS.
T. J. Tarsney's Letter on the Tearing
Down of Mckinley Posters.

Denver, June S.-The following letter
from ex-Adjutant General Tarsney was
sent to a number of those aged in the
recent troubles at the Westinghouse Air
Brake works at Wilmerding, Pa, at the
time of their discharge from the service
of that company:
Dear Sir-The Associated Press dis
patches bring US information in regard
to your recent action on the occasion of
your discharge from the service of the
Westinghouse Air Brake company. We
of the west sympathize with you in the
loss of your situations and fully realize
what it means to you and to those depen-
dent on you for support, and as sufferers
in common with you and from the same
cause, feel that the bonds of sympathy
between you and our own unemployed are
strengthened by having drunk of the bit
ter draught from the same chalice. The
picture said to have been torn down by
you on the occasion above referred to,
showing Major Mckinley pulling aside
curtain that hid from view a mill in full
operation has it is stated, been discover
ed by you to be a fake The action of
the company in dismissing you from it's
service was the drawing aside of the cur
tain that hid from view the deception
fraud, coercion and other questionable
methods resorted to by the money changers
purpose
ing your aid in electing to the presidency
of the United States man whose attitude
on the great questions which were be-
fore the people in that campaign, ought
to have satisfied any reasoning person
that he stood for all these things that
tend to debase manhood and womanhood
and labor, and that has brought desti-
tuition, want and suffering to our people
from ocean to ocean.
THE appeal for your support of Major
Mckinley was appeal to your passion
and cupidity, and not to your reason. I
may be permitted to suggest that in fu-
ture you be more guarded in your meth
DDS of disapproval of existing conditions
than you were on the occasion above re-
ferred to, as such course if persisted in,
might leave you open to the charge of
being possessed of anarchistic tenden-
cies. This term of anarchist, you recall
you held in adherence at the time you
were marching in the parades that pre-
ceded the 4th of November, 1896.
Mr.. Westinghouse did not discharge
you because he wanted to, but for the
reason that your labor under existing con
ditions could not be made profitable to
him. Mr.. Westinghouse cannot get or
ders for the product of your labor so
long as the spectacle is presented of one
half the rolling stock of the railroads
west of the Mississippi rusting in idle
ness the side tracks. 1t is evident
that Mr.. Westinghouse will soon discover
that under existing conditions his works
cannot be made a source from which div
idends are created, and so of all manu-
featuring plants in the east. They win
discover that the mints of the country
must be open to the coinage of both gold
and silver before the mills can open and
run in filling orders for their product
Your passion and prejudice have been ap-
pealed to in the past. Let me now appeal
to your reason. I send you in this mail
a little wC-k on bimetallism bearing that |
title
I beg to express the hope that it will |
be long time before the air brake will !
again be applied to check the speedy re-
turn of prosperity.
ct. J. TARSNEY."