The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-08-31
THE KN1e y LABOR,
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\ LABOR.


BILE remedy Ia exhausted. - Y
and county is unable to protect the
road, then the chief executive OF the
State will be requested to intercede In
its behalf In securing to II the proper
protection Of Its property, which is all
that is asked. A dispatch to this morn
ing's News from Austin touches this
point. sympathy with the movement is
proportional according to the interests
affected. The fact of the grievances
not being Complementary understood.
never having been given to the public in
| detail, leaves wavering OF public
opinion as to the justice of the demands.
| The taking possession of the company's
property, however, by the strikers is
| generally condemned, and loses them
much sympathy they would probably
| gain were their demands more generally
| understood. Requests have been made
/ by the press for copy OF the griev-
ances In detail, and II not upon the
proper authority 1t has been owing to
the disposition on the part of those
who are available to divulge who are
| the managers of the present move
ment. 1t is argued that no just cause
can be hurt by an open avowal Of grle-
vances and fair and open fight. The
| matter may be well enough understood
| by those at Issue, but the present move
ment has gone beyond such confines,
| and when n posse comitatus has to be
summoned from n body OF citizens to
| preserve law and order 1t Is but just to
all parties that clear exposition be
| made of every fact connected with the
origin of the difficulty sought to be REM
edied. The public demand is to obviate
false Impressions and the unjust sway
| ing of sympathy. A disposition on the
| part OF the strikers furthermore to con-
| ceal the names OF Those inaugurating and
managing the strike is another fact plao-
ing the public at a disadvantage. 1t was
at first stated that three members COM
| posed the executive board of this dis
| trlct knights of Labor organization,
who were those to order the strike. Ii
now develops that these were the three
| committeeman merely OF the executive
board who presented the grievance to
| the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe man
| agement, and that the board Itself,
whence eminated the order to strike, Is
composed of IA members. Mr.. John
| Friery, so far, has been the only member
of this board inclined to be communica-
tive In stating the position OF the strik.
ers. Mr.. Harry Golden. the head Ct
the order In this district, also
resident Of Galyestonshas been absent
from the city during the most OF the
time, he being the delegate who was
sent to look after the strike at Tyler.
MIR. Patrick Emmett, another prominent
member of the board, is mainly in charge
of the immediate scene of the strike at
the Santa Fe yards, though the authority
here is assumed by relays on duty night
and day. The strike being ordered by
the knights of Labor organization, those
most prominent in managing it were not
employees Of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe road, and, in fact, three-fourths
of those at the yard in possession of the
Santa Fe engines were not employees of
the company.
On Friday morning In the News was
published card without signatures,
emanating presumably from the Knights
of Labor. This card notified the menu
bers of the order throughout the State
of the strike, and stated among other
matters that the Santa Fe road had failed
to comply with Its agreement made on
April " with the executive board OF
District Assembly No. rs, to raise the
wages of all employees. President Sealy,
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, en-
phatically denies that any agreement
was made with any assembly, and states
that no specific agreement was made
with any one by the company In refer
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promise its employees that when times
were better and the company could af-
ford 1t, their salaries would be increased.
This was all and the only promise ever
made.
SOME OF THE GRIEVANCES.
Among the grievances complained OF
and stipulated, IL Is said that prominent
is the disparity of wages paid by the
Gould system and the Santa Fe, the
scale Of wages In the different depart
ments of labor ranging from So to SO,
and even In some instances up to Sl5 and
$50 per month in favor of the Gould sys-
tem--the prices being quoted as higher
on that road all through the category OF
departments, for the same class of labor
AS performed for the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe. The minimum price paid fol
labor by the Santa Fe Is, to section
hands, $l.l5 per day. The strikers de.
mand that this amount be raised to
Sl.30 per day.
The following dispatch was received
last night In reference to the strike al
Tyler, on the st. Louis NarrOw-gauge
TYLER, August 29.-P Emmit, Gal
weston: Strike over. Grand victory fol
the men. | signed the contract at 5:3(
p. m. Was presented with a gold badge
p. II. GOLDEN.
No attempt was made last night tC
move any freight trains.
Passenger trains are still running al
usual.
Commerce and business Is becoming
exceedingly exercised over the condition
of affairs.
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