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Show awawamawawawawaeaweaaeaweawaaweomaamJaejeeaBai CHArXCET DETEIT. OnTtioWnr Homri lie Arrltes In Londeo. jj0SD.v, Aug. 31. ChaunceyM. Depew Is here again, homeward bound. He expects to arrive In Aew York In tlaio to tell Uie State Board of ArbllraUon Uiat ho knswa poslUvely nolhlngabout the Central ntrlka or Uiu cause which led to It, provided tb board Is disposed to call him as a witness. Depew does not think that any Inquiry from a purely pollUcal board, who depend on getUng Uie popular side of a dispute In order to hold their places, pom!ses well for careful consIderaUun and judicial decision in Uie interest of Uie Central Cent-ral Railroad Company or any other corporaUon. Depew believes Use failure of Uiis strike utterly destroys ths power of Uie Kulgbtaaf Labor as an organizaUon, while it strengthens the hands of tbe trades unions and Uie Federation ollabor. "So long as labor disputes are confined con-fined to trades unions," said Depew, it Is comparaUvely easy to reach some agreement, because) then you can deal with the workmen, wbo understand their trade and know what they are talkicg about. In dealing with a Knights or I-abor committee you could make no more Impression upon them than you could on a glass ball when rolling It around ln the hand. Tbey would not understand what you were talking about. The chairman or Uie Knights' committee which called upon me once to discuss A VERA IXnUCATK QUESTION of railway management was a cab driver. I know of another case in which a serious strike among glass blowers were ordered by a tailor, wbo liaiprned to be a Knights' Master Workman In the district where the trouble arose." Depew said that bo had sound asturanm rrom home that the only dissensions among Uie republicans on the McKIoley bill was on Btal -g reciprocity poIIcy,and Uiat Uie malorlty were rapldlr'comlnir around to Blaine's views. "I can hardly tell you or the terror that prevails In France and Germany about the passage of Uie McKInley bill. Tills terror has broken through Uieofilcial crust of Uie upper classes and soaked well into the people of the manufacturing districts. In France and Germany particularly whole villages aud districts, where the people subsist from year to year on nothing but Uie product or Uielr labor sold In America, believe that Uie McKInley bill means starvation to them, and I am a.tural by men competent to speak that it is Imtos-sitle Imtos-sitle to allay this feeling of alarm. In England it Is not so bad except among the manufacturers. The easy-going British workman believes that he can get a living somehow, but several manufacturers told me that If the bill became a law they would cttainly build factories In America." |