The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-04
Statement of ". H. TruesdaIe, President
 of the D., l.. & ". R. R. to.

of the D., l.. S ". R. R. Co.
 MT. President: Representing the in- terests of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company, it's board of managers and it's stockhold-
 CTS, permit me to say that realizing fully the gravity of the situation as
 stated by you and appreciating the bur
 den of responsibility which the situa- tion imposes upon us. we feel that our ! duty at this time, having in mind all existing conditions, is so plain and straightforward that we cannot possi- bly, mistake it. As citizens of this country as trustees of vast and import ant interests committed to our care by
 the thousands of security holders whose savings or Iegactes are invested
 in these properties; as men who who
 have committed to them the interests of thousands of as loyal, true. faithful
 citizens as ever marched to victory in support of right and freedom under the flag of this or any other country,
 but who with their families are to-day
 outcasts, hunted, bounded and driven
 almost to despair and desperation, sim
 ply because they seek to exercise their plain, simple, duty of working at their chosen avOcation or in many cases of
 protecting and saving from destruction
 by fire, flood or dynamite, the proper ties of other citizens, their employers
 who are only endeavoring lawfully and
 peacefully to maintain possession of,
 protect and operate their properties.
 This duty is so unmistakably plain |, IT. first and foremost our duty and we take this occasion to state it, and press it upon your consideration and through
 you upon all of the authorities of the state of Pennsylvania to insist upon 1t that the existing condition of anarchy and lawlessness, of riot and rapine, a condition which has been raging with | more or less violence throughoutt the an- | thracite regions during the past five
 months be immediately and perma- nently suppressed. That to this end | we ask that the entire authority and power of the state of Pennsylvania, that of heSHRDUCMFWYP | civil and military, and if needs be, that
 of the United States government as well, be exercised forthwith.
 Second, we ask that the civil branch of the United States government, talk | ing cognizance of and following the de- cisions of the courts rendered in litiga- l tion growing out of previous similar conditions, at once institute proceed ings against the illegal organization known as the United Mine Workers As- sociation, its officers. agents and mem- bers to enjoin and restrain permanently l it and them from continuing this or | ganization and requiring them to de- l sist immediately from conspiring, con ' niving, aiding or abetting the outlawry and intolerabie conditions in the ay- | thracite regions for which they and l they alone are responsible. We are ad- vised by our counsel that such civil i action will lie on the part of the | United States government as it is well l known that the United States statutes are daily being openly and grossly violated; that previous decisions of the courts justify fully such action being | remedy can be given immediately and effectively for existing conditions. We l feel it ouS duty, MT. President to at | this time urge that the protection of J the laws of the United States be forth with given our property and our en- | ployes, as suggested above. Can it be expected that those who are now daily lCoutinued on Eighth Page.)