The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-04
PARALYzED!
All Business Now at a Stand
Still in the Island City,
Trouble Ahead.
The knights of Labor GO Out
in a Body, 1900 strong,
On a Strike.
Great Fears OF Conflict OF Races
Resulting, and Threats of Exc
tension over tue state.
GALVESTON pARALYzED.
All knights of Labor strike aud Busi-
ness at n stand-sttiI.

ness ut n Stand.sttl1.
GALVESTON, November ga gen.
err strike of Knights OF Labor in this
city was inaugural, I'd this afternoon
sci iously affecting every branch Of
commerce aud completely paralyzing
the movement of cotton and other
freight. The longshoremcn, the
screw-men, the freight handlers and
sw ,tchmen, the cotton handlers In
the presses, the printers and other
members of the Knights Of Labor, all
quit work at 1850 o'c.ock. Ii Ia esti-
mated that 5C) men went out but
they are 80 widely scattered from one
end,of the city to the other II is i'm
possible to enumerate the exact num-
Der by trades.
The strike was plsuned and carried
out so quietly ana orderly that not
over a dozen people outside of the
Knights themselves knew what was
coming. So united are the labor or
CARNATIONS of Galveston that IL may
be truly ssid they have
The GAVIN 1dE's GRASP,
for there is no power here able TO
cope " til them If they get ugly.
The present general strike is the
outgrowth of the small strike inaugu-
rated October IL, by the $50 white
longshoremen employed by the Mai
Tory Steamship company on theii
wharves here. These longshoremer
were getting forty cents an hour fol
daylight labor, and sixty cents fol
night aud Sunday work. But very
little work is done at night, and the,
struck for so cents an hour all around
Sundays included. Capt. Sawyer
agent Tor the Mallory line resisted thu
demaud and employed colored labor
ers, Glowing them fifty ceIts an houi
night and day, being the same rat
demanded by the strikers. Very few
of the oril insl 100 striking longshorc
men were members of the Knights o
Labor orgr uization at the time the
struck, but all have since becom
members. Vs~ious attempts at arb
tration have been made
BETWEEN WHITE AND COLOR
Longshoremen associations, the col
ored men even agreeing to divid
the labor equally but the Ms''or
folks would not DO dictated to an
Sawyer stubbornly refused TO rein
state the strikers, even on half time
At this iuncture the knights of La
Dor quietly stepped in an atiemptc
to arbitrate matters but were also
bufied by the Mallory company.
On Monday last =. AGolden, chair
man of the State Executive Board @
Knights of Labor, addressed le.te
to j, NJ. Sawyer, stating that, where
as, IL had been made knowL 20 ih
executive board of knights of Labor
of Texas, that the Mallory Line O
steamships was disci .minating agains
members of their order by uischarl
ing ppd refusing TO allow them I
work upon the Mallory wharve
! therefore this committee mad adopte
, resolution re lues,ing the re-instat'
: ment of the strikers and that the Ma
r lory line allow Knights of I1bC
. equal representation upon the
g wnarves Golden requested al al
$ swer at ~ o'clock to-day.
IN HIS REPLY, AGENT SAWYER
A says he was informed by member
A the Knights of Labor, on the 18th
: October. that the striking longshor
|, men were not members of that orde
Y A ftor re citing The fact that the mt
l. we not disc iarged, but voluntari
O abandoned their positions, Saw J
concludes; Compliance with yo
request would compel MS to enact I
Injustice of which you unwarrai
ably complain-that of dischargil
laborers who are performing In,
O. duties faithfully. We therefore d
+ cline to disturb the present Status
O. labor on the Mallory wharf"
Is This reply precipitated the strike
p 1900 knights of Labor. Mari
n commerce suffers greatly by (
ic strike as there are dozen large +,
o. Gig Il steamers in port, loading wi
lc cotton, and
10 NOT A BALE CAN GO
IL aboard until the strike is ended.
70 freight hsidling ut the Misso
nc Pacific and Santa Fe depots
at a str idst'll. Even the
L printing offices are clos
o. Golden and other members Of
H. state executive committee decl
f that unless the Mallory company
Immediately, the strike VIII
made general all over Texas and l.
isiaua, in which case il would be
possible to move u single train.
that don't bring them to time
- strike " i'll be extended to New "
or This is what high oiiicia's IN the
he der declare.
he The most serious feature of
M strike is the race hatred which 1t
of genders. Both races are strong
nd nearly evenly represented in the
ers boring element of Galveston
ro- some thrilling incident may tuil
no issue into a race conflict with te
IN BILE and sanguinary results Meet
ne of labor organizations are being
all over the city tonight. Prom''
business men are r'so ~ confer
ith Mallory aud the railway ofiiC