Show THY ROAST HILL Employees Have Been Slaves Altogether Alto-gether Too Long Great Falls Mont April 15In answer an-swer to the circular issued from the Great Northern headquarters at St Paul l announcing the abandonment of trains on the Montana Central railway through the strike of employees Chairman Chair-man Riker at noon today issued a counter circular stating the strike was practically the same that President His assertion that the strike was run by a man never In the employ of the company was false that complaints had been made by employees and never attended to that notice of the strike was not given the company because the employees did not expect themselves them-selves to strike till they heard < he railway was going to ship in men and it was not policy then to give notice I that no intimidation was intended to any branch of service as the men all j struck work He says employees have I been slaves till forbearance ceased to be a virtue and that the strike is sanctioned sanc-tioned by the whole community He verifies the statements made by Chief Hogan He says not a train has left St Paul since Friday evening and the statements made by railroad officials are false He concludes by stating that if the strike is not settled within twen tyfour hours i will be a protracted one Chairman Riker of the American Railroad Union now on a strike has received a dispatch from St Paul this evening that President Hill has ordered or-dered Superintendent Bryan to proceed to Great Falls at once to make arrangements arrange-ments to terminate the strike Good for the Gulf Denver Col April I5The statement state-ment of Receiver Trumbull of the Gulf road for March to the United States circuit court shows that this road operated as an independent line lis becoming one of the best paying railway properties in the country The receipts for the month were 305490 I disbursements 177265 leaving a cash balance on hand April 1 of 450370 |