The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-20
PRESIDENT HADLEYs REPLY
To Letter from Trades Council Com-
 mittee.

To Letter from Trades Council Com
 mittee.
 The Trades council of this city has sent to President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale, letter presenting the facts of the act allowing Yale to get coal to keep the university dining plant engines go- ing during the teamsters' strike which is in progress. Following is the text of the letter:
 President A. T. Hadley:
 My Dear Sir-Regarding the state ment about coal being supplied to Yale university during the strike of the teamsters, I am now in a position to submit the following facts to you Last Wednesday the superintendent of the Yale dining hall requested a supply of coal to run the dynamo in connection with that hall, and was not in posi- tion to obtain the coal from the yard of W. F. Gilbert on account of that firm having been placed on the unfair list by the Team Drivers local No. $40, which thereby prevented Messrs. Gill bert from carting the coal. Applica- tion to the Team Drivers union was made by Henry A. Barnes, the chief en- gineer of Yale university. for assistance and he was informed that if he could find his own wagon and driver the Team Drivers union would place no obstacle. in his way of getting it, as it was for Yale university.
 An O.. K. order was sent down to the pickets of the union at the yard, and the coal was duly loaded and delivered to the dining hall on Saturday night. I have the written statement of the pres ident of the Team Drivers union certi- flying to the above facts, which state ment I will submit to you at our next interview. Yours, .-..
 H. G. NICHOLS, Chairman of the Trades Council Com
 mittee.
 President HadIey's reply is as fol- lows:
 ". May 19, 1903.
 My Dear Sir-Let me thank you heartily for your note of last evening. With these facts was already familiar and appreciated what had been done supposed from what you said last Saturday that you referred. not to the teamsters' strike now going on, but to the coal strike of last summer and au- tunln.
 I have made some inquiries as to the labors of students during the present strike. I cannot help thinking that the importance of this matter has been ex- aggerated. The things which have aroused most public notice appear to have been cases where students were driving carts containing goods for themselves or their friends, and receiv- ing no pay for it. I find nothing that which indicates that the university has departed from it's normal attitude of neutrality in matters like this. The bureau of self-help has placed no stu dents in strikers positions, and the same principle which has prevented us from officially encouraging them to seek this means of livelihood rather than some other is also a reason why we should not officially discourage them from so doing.
 To a few students who have driven trucks, generally for an hour or two only, as piece of thoughtless fun, I have indicated that what looks like fun to them may be very serious to others; and do not think that they are likely to continue the practice. But as far as I am informed, the number of these cases has been so small, and the time of work has been so short, that any at tempt to call public. attention to the matter would be unwise. It has been our custom, as principle of university policy, not to make public announce ments in matters affecting only few of the students, and departure from that cust om in this instance would be a violation rather than an illustration of that neutrality which you have so for cibly urged to be the duty of the uni versity authorities at time like the present. Faithfully yours,
 ARTHUR T. HADLEY. H. C.. Nichols.
 New Haven, Conn.,, May 19.