The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-07-28
THE STRIKE.
A Cavalry Charge, Grape
and Canister Disperse n
Chicago Mob.
The Texas and Pacific
Railway Added to the
| Long List.
The Situation Likely to Be
Rendered More Desperate
by Bread Riots.
So Far the Conduct of the Mar
shall Strikers Has Been
Admirable.
Moderation, Reason and Calm,
Deliberate Actlon Charae-
terizes the Strike.
The MOkes at 81. Louis Put In
an Oar and Enforce Extra.
ordinary Demands.
The General Condition of A.
fairs. East and West, Much
Improved.
The Texas Central Road Keeps
an Anxious Eye South on
Corsicsna.
The strike In the Middle and Western
States Is Hourly Calming In Strength
With The Speed of Jack In His
Seven League Boots.
Ever, thing stiil MoyiHg Along the Line
of the Centrai-The Kmployes Await
tho Result OF . Conference Be-
fore Acting.
The Mound City Men Say there is No Mid
die Ground tn Is Either Absolute Vic
tory or 0efeat-The Issue Squsreiy
7 Made and Clearly Defined.
The 7. 4 P. Strikers Hanging on the Rag
ged Edge II their Demands Are Not
Aeeeded TO No Passenger Cars
Ever, thing sun MoyiHg Along the Line
of the Centrai-The Kmployes Await
tho Result OF . Conference Be-
fore Acting.
The Mound City Men Say there is No Mid.
die Ground Is Either Absolute Vic
tory or 0efeat-The Issue Squareiy
Z Made and Clearly Defined.
The 7. & p. Strikers Hanging on the Rag
qed Edge If their Demands Are Not
Aeeeded TO No Passenger Cars
VIII Be Permitted 10 Move.
The situation as DaIIa.-Rsport. Nh
mars and Facts

aers and Facts.
From "Wednesday Daily Hcrsld.i
Never since the time of the late lit
tie Misunderstanding, has topic been
before the people which has so com.
pletely epgrossed their attention, as
the big strike now in operation among
the railroad men OF the country. As
our dispatches give full aud succinct
account of the proceedings in other
places, we have only to treat with the
effects of this gigantic combustion
against the railroads, ss IL effects our
city and our section of the state. Yes
terdsy's issue foreshadowed the events
which occurred to-day.
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Yesterday morning an order was
received at the Texas and Pacific
depot here, not To receive any freight,
and the rumor was prevalent that
the Texas and Pacific company
had forestailed any attempt Of Its
employees to strike by stopping the
trains. In the morning two freight
trains went west 10 Fort Worth, and
about noon two trains came In from
the east, but they had been put In mo-
ton the night before, previous to the
Inauguration Of the strike, which took
place at Msrshail yesterday morning,
by the men refusing to take out the
trains.
Our reporter was called On by q
freight conductor OF the Texas and
Pacific railroad and several Of his
companions at noon, who stated
TINT all they desired was fair repre-
sentation OF facts. hrom this party oi
intsrviewers our reporter received the
following account: In substance, thai
the men had not been paid for foul
months that In June an order hac
been issaed cutting down the pay o.
\ all the employees, except the section
hands, ten per cent; that two and 9
half years ago freight conductors re
eeived four dollars per day, now theJ
receive three dollars. Brakesmen for
merly got two dollars and twenty. fiv,
cents. aud now they get one dollar ans
eighty cents. The wages, they said
as rule, are better down here than il
the east, but the cost Of living Ia muci
greater; brakemen have to ray twen
ty.flve cents per meal aud and lodging
which is dollar day. thus ieavinl
them but eighty cents to keep thei
families and clothe them 7; that tn,
company has not paid up In so long
that the men are suffering; that q mar
.,,.,id .,uit and Sst his money hat n n,
did the com pany would not ploy HIN
again; that Tom Scott, it,, attempted I.