sylvania Railroad, had paid $300 to certain men connected with the train organizations on the Pennsylvania Railroad, we desire to submit the following so that there shall be no misunderstanding in this matter: When the strike was declared at Pittsburgh in May, 1911, the company was fearful lest some of the members of the transportation brotherhoods might join the strikers. Accordingly the general chairman of each of the four brotherhoods, Messrs. A. I. Kaufman, general chairman, B. L. F. and E.; William Park, general chairman, B. of L. E.; J. B. Hendricks, general chairman, O. R. C.; and E. V. Kapp, general chairman, B. of R. T., were requested by the general manager to go to Pittsburgh and see that the members of their brotherhoods lived up to the agreements with the company and remain at work, with the distinct understanding that the men should not be asked to do any work other than that which they always had performed in the positions which they held. These men did this, and their efforts were successful in preventing any of the members of their organizations from leaving the service of the railroad company. After the strike was over as each of these general chairmen had occasion to come to the office of Mr. Johnson, who was chairman of the labor board, in the performance of their duties as general chairmen, he thanked them for the very efficient service they had rendered the company and the organizations and told them the company desired to show some appreciation of their work, and accordingly they were each given $300, which they were told could be used toward defraying their expenses or any other purposes they might choose. Nothing was asked of these men in return. What was done was entirely in keeping with the action of the company toward a large number of other employees, as set forth on page 14 of the "History of Labor Troubles on the Pennsylvania Railroad," a copy of which has been filed with your commission. Yours, very truly, S. C. LONG, General Manager Pennsylvania Railroad Co. WASHINGTON, D. C., Wednesday, May 12, 1915-2 p. m. Chairman WALSH. We will be in order. I have been requested by the commission to read publicly into the record two additional letters from Mr. S. C. Long, general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. In the letter read the other day naming four men who were said to have received $300 each under circumstances detailed in that letter was mentioned Mr. William Park, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi neers, and we have these two further communications from Mr. Long: Hon. F. P. WALSH, PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 1915. Chairman United States Commission on Industrial Relations, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: We desire to make a correction in our letter of May 7 mailed to you after the hearing before the commission closed on that date. We find, after reaching home, that the amount given Mr. William Park, general chairman B. of L. E., Pennsylvania Railroad, was $200 instead of $300. This money was paid Mr. Park after the strike was over and everything cleared up and was to cover expenses and compensation in connection with his efforts during the shopmen's strike in Pittsburgh in 1911, to prevent employees, and particularly engineers, from leaving the company's service, urging them to remain at work and maintain our contractual relations. We also desire to say that this money was returned to us by Mr. Park, with the verbal statement that the men he represented had paid him his expenses. You understand that the total number of employees receiving payments after the strike was over was 511, while 295 other employees were given letters of commendation. Yours, very truly, S. C. LONG, General Manager And also the following letter: Hon. FRANK P. WALSH, PHILADELPHIA, May 11, 1915. Chairman United States Commission on Industrial Relations, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: In connection with our letter to you of this date, requesting to be permitted to correct statement in our letter to you of May 7, regarding payment of $200 to Mr. William Park, general chairman B. of L. E., Pennsylvania Railroad, to cover expenses and compensation in connection with service rendered during shopmen's strike at Pittsburgh in 1911, as an act of fairness and justice to Mr. Park. may we suggest that you send a copy of our letter, or have its contents conveyed in your own language, to Mr. Warren S. Stone, grand chief engineer Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio. Yours, very truly, S. C. LONG, General Manager. WASHINGTON, D. C., Thursday, May 27, 1915. AFTERNOON SESSION. STATEMENT OF MR. C. T. CHENERY. Chairman WALSH. I will submit into the record now all of the data with reference to the further investigation made by Mr. Chenery in the alleged giving of bribes and taking of bribes in the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. strike. That includes the letters from the officials of the Pennsylvania Co., the statements of the men involved, and the statement of the local organization of the workers as to the action taken in regard to this alleged bribery, together with the letter from the general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, stating the amount of arms and ammunition kept on hand in Philadelphia. (The letters and statements here referred to are printed among the exhibits at the end of this subject as Chenery Exhibit.") STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM PARK. Chairman WALSH. The statements just referred to, which will not be read, will be merely filed. That does not apply to letters from Mr. Park, who desires that the same publicity be given to his letters as was given to the charge that he had accepted and retained this money, or the charge that he had accepted without explanation but returned it. Here is the further record of the case of Mr. William Park: Mr. WILLIAM PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 11, 1915. General Chairman B. of L. E., No. 941 Railroad Avenue, Sunbury, Pa. DEAR SIR: Referring to the statement made before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations at Washington on May 7 to the effect that you were given $300 to cover expenses and compensation in your efforts during the shopmen's strike at Pittsburgh in 1911 to prevent employees, and particularly engineers, from leaving the company's service, and urging them to remain at work and maintain our contractual relations, which expenses and compensation were paid you after the strike was over and everything cleared up. In order that the facts may be known to whomsoever they concern, and particularly the locomotive engineers, this is to certify that the amount paid was $200 instead of $300, as stated, and this amount was returned to me by you with the verbal statement that the men you represented had paid you. We regret this was not made clear in the original statement. In order that you may be fully informed, I am attaching a statement made to the commission. Yours, very truly, [Inclosures.] J. C. JOHNSON, Superintendent Telegraph. Next is a letter from Mr. Park to Mr. Chenery, our investigator, reading as follows: [Personal.] MY DEAR MR. CHENERY: I am inclosing a copy of Mr. Johnson's letter to me answering my letter to Mr. Long of the 9th. This letter is a fair and plain statement, and if Mr. Johnson wants to be fair and not try to discredit the train organizations he should have made this same statement to you rather than muddle it as he did by trying to tell what I have said the many times he has tried to have me take this money all in one short paragraph. Note he says "in order that the facts may be known to whomsoever they concern." I feel that the men I represent and myself are very much concerned, and that the people who saw the letter appearing in last Sunday's papers may see this letter from Mr. Johnson. May I ask you to have the press print the same, as a correction of his former letter? I expect to go to Cleveland in a day or two. If you desire to reach me address B. of L. E., Convention Hall, Cleveland. W. PARK. Next is a letter from Mr. Park to Mr. Long, reading as follows: Mr. S. C. LONG, General Manager P. R. R., Broad Street Station, DEAR SIR: I note by to-day's papers in the proceedings or testimony before the Industrial Labor Commission, that a letter had been submitted by you, in reply to the charges by W. H. Pierce, that the chairmen of the four brotherhoods had been bribed, in which you are quoted as stating that when the trouble started in 1911, in Pittsburgh, the four chairmen were asked to go there and urge their members to live up to their agreements and that their efforts were successful, and on their return to Philadelphia they were presented with $300 to reimburse them for their expenses, quoting the names of the four men who were then chairmen. That letter in the form it is quoted surely places me in a very bad position with all organized men, and particularly so with the men who have recently reelected me for their chairman for the following reasons: First. I was not asked to go to Pittsburgh by the company, they having only asked me to get into communication with the local chairmen, which I did. and hold copies of the wire I sent them. Second. I was called to Pitcairn by the local representatives from that point, and later ordered there by Grand Chief Stone. Third. I have once had charges placed against me for a similar charge wherein I admit that at this time (1911) I was handed a letter by Mr. Johnson, not knowing what it contained at the time, and inadvertently placed it in my pocket to discover after I left the city that I had accepted an envelope containing $200. Fourth. Your statement, if correctly reported, states that I was given $500. The men I represent will naturally conclude and will have just reasons for doing so, that I did not make a truthful statement when I was tried on this charge, or that I had been given money more than once, and did not make it known. Fifth. In the published report of your letter to the commission you did not state that I returned this money to Mr. Johnson, telling him that I had been paid by the men I represent in this case, and could not accept it from the company. In view of these facts, together with the wide publication in this evidence, I can not allow the matter to stand as it does for the public to-day, if for no other reasons, on account of the taunts that may be thrown at my children by their companions. I would therefore ask, can you and will you correct this statement that I was given $200 instead of $300, as quoted, and also that I returned the money to Mr. Johnson, the man who had handed it to me, giving this correction to the commission that it may be as widely published as your former letter? I had hoped to leave home for the convention in the city of Cleveland not later than Tuesday evening, May 11, but I can not do so with this matter standing as it does, and if you can not make this correction I shall surely be compelled to seek an audience with that commission for the purpose of getting this question correctly before the people for my own protection. 38819°-S. Doc. 415, 64-1-vol 11-14 Anxiously awaiting an early reply and hoping that you will see your way clear to promptly correct your former letters, and in such a way that it will reach the public as widely as before, Yours, truly, WILLIAM PARK, Chairman Engineers Committee. Accompanying the letter just read is an affidavit or supplementary statement signed by William Park, reading as follows: SUPPLEMENTARY STATEMENT TO QUESTIONS ASKED AND ANSWERS GIVEN BY ME TO MR. CHENERY, MAY 13, 1915. In Mr. Johnson's statement of May 11 he quotes several remarks, and in such a way that they would appear to have all been made by me at the time I returned the money, which is not the case. Mr. Johnson has asked me on several occasions since I returned the $200 to come in and get it, stating that it was intended to reimburse me for time lost and expenses while at Pittsburgh during the shop strike during 1911, and each time advanced some reason for me doing so, which I have always answered with some argument as to why I should not. I will not attempt to deny this statement in general, but I must try and disconnect it to some extent, that the commission and the public may know and understand. When I returned the money he (Johnson) took exceptions to it and explained what it was for, as formerly stated, and, among many other remarks made, I did say that it would not be understood in the way he put it, and if the question was ever raised a different construction would be placed on it from the way he understood it. I had very good reasons to believe that the question would be raised, for I made no attempt to keep it an absolute secret. I had told many of my members all about it long before I ever heard of it through other sources, and before W. H. Pierce used it in his speeches to discredit the train organizations, and I told the members of my own organization all that he produced when he brought charges against me and had me tried before our general committee. I do not recall ever saying anything about reelection but on one occasion, when I was asked to come in and try to get the money; among other things, I did say that I had charges against me now over that money and would have to stand trial at our next meeting; at this time I had no reason to say anything about reelection, for we were not to hold an election at that meeting. After this trial, at which I had but one vote against me, or one vote for conviction, and one member refused to vote, I was again asked to come in and get the money or permit it to be sent to my wife, with the remark that it was all over now (meaning, I presume, the trial I had just gone through). At this time I replied that it was not all over and that the question was likely to go to the convention before it was over. This was the only time the convention was mentioned to the best of my knowledge. WM. PARK. Sworn and subscribed to before me this 14th day of May, A. D. 1915. ADJOURNMENT. C. G. SHERMAN, Chairman WALSH. The hearings of this commission will now stand adjourned without day. (Thereupon, at 6.05 p. m., on Thursday, May 27, 1915, the hearings of the Commission on Industrial Relations were adjourned sine die.) ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF JOHN P. GUYER. COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, HARRISBURG, PA., May 12, 1915. Washington, D. C. GENTLEMEN: Herewith I submit a written statement of those conditions affecting the employees of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., of which your representative, Mr. C. T. Chenery, made inquiry, and which you directed should be sent you. Copy is also sent to the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., as directed by Chairman Frank P. Walsh. The following letter was received by me after Mr. Chenery had made inquiry concerning the dismissal of employees for joining the Brotherhood of Federated Railway Employees: "Your name was given to me to hand my evidence or testimony to in the case of being discharged from the work train at Huntingdon, which is under J. M. Kinkade. On March 14, 1914, received a note from Mr. Kinkade to come to his office that evening. "I accordingly went to his office as supervisor at Huntingdon on March 14, 1914, at 7.15 p. m., and after a short conversation he said to me: 'Have you heard about this Brotherhood of Federated Employes Union that is being organized? I said I had. He then said to me, 'Do you belong?' and I said 'No.' He then said, 'I am certainly glad you do not.' He then said that John Galbraith, the present foreman, belongs to the brotherhood and that he would be relieved from duty after to-day, and I want you to take charge of the train.' "I then told him, or rather asked him, if he was sure that Galbraith belonged to the brotherhood. He said he was sure and he said further that there is several more who belong to the brotherhood and I am going to get rid of them, to.' I asked him if he had the names of any others that belonged. He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'who are they?' and he read the following names: David Prough, W. F. Rhodes, Preston Coffman, W. H. Sutton, Chester Peightel, all of Huntingdon. "He asked me if I knew of any that belongs, and I told him that was my business, and told him to put my name to his list of men who would be gotten rid of because they belonged to the brotherhood. We were all discharged and have not since been employed by the P. R. R. Co. "I would like if you would place this before the commission as strong as you can, and if they need any or all of us let us know. A man dare not belong to any organization or political party that tends to better conditions for the mass of people. Socialists are hounded like dogs and have to be careful or they will lose their means of making a bare existence. I think it is high time for the Government, who assures to the people life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to get to work and to look this matter of serfdom and wage slavery up. Men have no civil and political rights at all, it seems. The railroads of this country, and the Pennsylvania in particular, do as they please and all the so-called courts of justice are back of them. "Hoping that this will be of benefit to men who are and want to be better men, I am, yours for a more sane civilization. "WM. L. MCELWAIN, "Huntingdon, Pa." Regarding the matter of the "Lucknow Encampment" of which you inquired, I find that the newspapers examined by myself and Mr. Chenery give the following accounts of it: [From The Patriot, Saturday, July 12, 1913, front page.] "Preparations are being made by the Pennsylvania Railroad in this city for the strike which is expected to occur in the near future among the trainmen, according to reports. A special train carrying a number of officials of the road and policemen from the Philadelphia division is said to be coming here to be stationed on a siding near the Linglestown road above Lucknow, where it will remain until all rumors of a strike have died out. “A train arrived early this morning which consisted of five sleepers and two dining cars and a number of commissary cars. In them the officials and policemen will make their homes for an indefinite length of time. Upon its arrival in this city the train, it is said, will be equpped with Winchester rifles and other paraphernalia, which will be used to protect the railroad property in case trouble should arise among the men. "Arrangements are also being made for providing water for this train during its stay on the Linglestown siding, it is said, and yesterday several thousand feet of two-inch water pipe was laid temporarily from the Lucknow shops to the place where the train will be stationed. Lavatories have been built and other arrangements made. Forty gallons of milk have been ordered to be loaded on the train upon its arrival in this city, and every effort is now |