Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-09-28
THE FALL RIVER STRIKE.
Conditions Required by Manufacturers
oGfhe Operatives Before the Mills
Would Resume Work.

New YORK September 26. - The
Reralds special from Fal River says the
efrike promises to extend into the dreary
months o. winter. The mills were 20 have
baeu opened on the twentv-seYenth Instant at
the ten per cent reduction. ne oPera.L4lyes
Flsd determined 20 yield aud go 10 Work. NOW,
t.gyr.ver the manufactures demand that
every operative befOge going 10 work must
sign the following conditions:
First-That but one-eighth OF the employees
OF snv room shall give notice 10 leave hi any
one time, which notice snail be written ten
Seys in advance. and that ten Gays SHAH 70
elapse between the notice oteVely eighth from
each department. -,
or other room, shall be sent a any one date.
Thtrf-Ihat ail the employees bind them
selves 10 .pRraJe from all org nlL allons and
s,ociatlOLs thst may attempt 10 Interfere
with the h, urs OF work or amount OF wages
Fnurlh-Auy violations OF the conditions 10
result In the instant dismissal from the mills
he operatives are determined not TO sign
The document. Splnnels, Teavers ana card
ers are ali alke on TINS question. Ihey re-
gard this movement OF manufacturers as
5acit acknowledgment that they viii further
reduce The WAGES OF the help within two
weeks af!et the Ine1 go ih. These conditions
mean simply 10 place the men beyond the
iOSsibllItV OF further resistance. At Tie BOT-
der city Mills about one-ha The hands nave
signed: AZ least tue Oyerseers say so, and that
they will surely starr on Monday. In the
other mills, however, where they employ
eight hundTed 10 one thousand hands, not
snoIe han thirty or forty have signed Whlch
a. insufficient 10 keep even The smallest NIL!
at work. The general programme determined
on to-day Is as iOIlO VS.: Iney VIII all 90 10 The
mills o. A,ouuBy. they Will not 90 TO work
,lulesS the OwneIs Withdraw the agreement,
nor can the owners hpd enough hands 10
gzart Ii any mill should start II Is probable
there will be work for tue glaziers, ara per
hsps for the police. In the afternoon grand
mas. meeting Will be held IN Tue park, Whlcn
"A N prcIabIK be attended DJ ten Thousand u or
ff.eeu tuuusand operatives. TIE object VIII
be to appea. 10 Inc maLut cturers u az once
7@itDdraw Jnis paper, and permit operatives
30 so in EithouJ any terms other than those
~rf'rl We governed them before.
a.. rIOSAL FROM TIE SCENE.
~..i RIVER, MASS Seutember 27.-
I..r .i,ven O'Clock aOO1t one thousand
,.....- a E-theTed IN aud around Garktt
-. . - rGe city han, demanding relief.
7 nc nIayOr attempted 10 address them, but
raIHuglr Hbtail A hearing he or1ered the po-
Zee TO disSeIsr the oToWG, being IN some IN
u scoinlsel led % exhibit TevO vers. stones
,tt,I t,-.sd were thrown by the crowd. Ine po-
lee made six arrests. The mayor MSS called
mo-. olonel u wal, OF the Third regiment for
assistance, who has notified coinpapl-s "b
aud al" of this city TO assemble al headquaf-
Iars immeds tely, aud also called additional
companIes OF MS regiment from the neighbCg-
sug cities. Ia ge numbers or The operatives
would 90 at once TO Work could lhey De as
SIred OF protection. OF the seventeen spin
ners who z!gned The agreement only six are at
work, having been threatened with VluIenc1 =
The operatives have lost sympathy uy Today
The mon assaulted some Of the operatives OF
the linen mill at noon, and one girl was cut
the ntAu Win a - Dne- tG bbllNC NGAC
e.-ut TO The scene aud the crowd promptly dis
p+rsed. Two companies OF the Third regiment
have arrived IrOm Taunton.
LATEST.
There is but little change in the : atus OF
tbE hem al the mills Ten thousand were
Snres4 ut 81 the operatives mass meeting in the
parb tlJis afternoon. 70 was voted to petition
The man u'actureTs 10 withdraw the obnoX-
IONS sgreEJnents. Several committees met
mis- evening 10 carry out this plan. II IL falls,
a call Is 10 made for grand mass meeLlng al
F'aneuiI hall Tbs Boston operatives believe
they can gain tue synlpalhy Of all. No inter-
ference worthy G. note was made with the
t,peratives as they came from work this eve
DInF. Everything is very quiet on the streets.
The militia are stationed at the different
points OF the city where disturbances are an
ficlpated II is thought the trouble Is Gy no
means OVev. The mayor refuses TO interfere
in the differences between the manufacturers
and operative, but i determined 10 main
tain peace and order at all hagatds.