The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-28
WAGE WORkERS.
Eiotous Conduct OF Strikers at Denver-In-
pending Strike at Pittsburgh - Other

Eiotous Conduct OF Strikers ut Denver-In.-
pending Strike ar Pittsburgh - Other
Notes.
DENVER, COL, Nay 19.-The shipments
strike on the Denver & Rio Grande road as
sumed very serious aspect to-day. In &C
cordance with the announcement: made at
the strikers meeting yesterday afternoon,
at which several incendiary speeches were
made. about five hundred men and forty or
Fifty women assembled in the vicinity OF
The shops this morning and general demon
STATIONS Of defiance were INDUCED in. Ono
of the yardmen returning to work was set
i!pon by crowd and knocked down, kicked
and cut about the face in the most brutal
manner. Other wOTkmen were escorted
through the crowd by a posse of Deputy
United States Marshals. About eight
O'Clock two or three hundred of the strikers
formed in line and marched TO tile town A
halt was made in front of the office of the
Rocky Mountain NelcS, which had seen NJ IN
criticise the action of the men in striking
and had denounced some Of their leaders.
Copies of the NelCS were burned by the
mob amid pandemonium of jeers and yellS
of deris!On and defiance. The crowd then
proceeded up Sixteenth street. At Shedd's
cheap store another halt was made and the
same programme gone through with. 1t
appears that Shedd recently discharged
saeslady who belonged to the woman's
branch OF the knights of Labor organlza-
ton without asking the consent of that
body. Circulars commanding the reader To
boycott the Shedd cheap store and boycott
the Nclrs were distributed everywhere.
About score of warrants wero sworn out
before the United States Commissioner this
afternoon. 1t is believed that Judge
Brewer will deal more severely with these
cases than with the preceding ones.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 19.-The Contra,
Grievance Committee, being at the same
time the Central Executive Committee Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and consisting Of j. W. FitzSimmons, Chair
man, Sedalia; \. N. Lovins. Parsons; Rob
ert Hanson. Marshall, and ID. &. Johnson,
Kansas City. arrived in the city this NOM
ing and registered at the st. James. Shortly
after its arrival the committee repaired 10
the Office of the Third Vice President 81.
NJ. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific Road,
with whom they held a consultation lasting
two hours. AS soon as the conference was
over Chairman FitzSmmonS was seen by
reporter and asked the object of his visit to
St. Louis. We can not say anything about
our visit here. or the object just yet" he
said. "Any prospect for striker We'll,
I'd much prefer not to say anything at pres
ent. l didn't think that anyone knew OF
our presence here"
PITTSBURGH, PA, May 19.-The manu-
facturers and the iron workers are in sit
uation that promises very little i'll the way
OF an adjustment OF prices for the next
year. Whatever is done will have to be ac-
com,liShed before June l. Each side seems
to be holding out firmly for their respec-
tive positions, and both are emphatic in
their statement that if there is a settlement
OF the wage question it VII have to come
through advances from the other side. The
mills are running with the evident object n
view of increasing their stock to the utmost
and the workmen are considering the adj
visibility of establishing stores throughout
the district for the purpose of supplying the
members of the Amalgamated Association
with goods at cost prices.
CHICAGO. Ill, May 1S.-The rolling
mills of North Chicago Rolling Mill Com
pany, situated at South Chicago, resumed
operations yesterday with a force of 1,S00
men. The mills shut down April 1, owing
10 general strike of the workmen, whose
demand of twenty-five cents per day adj
vance is wages was not satisfied. The COM
pany claimed it was losing money at the
wages then paid. Yesterday the strikers
went back at the cd wages.
PoTTsTowN, PA, May 19.-The rolling
mill of the PottStown Iron Company Cim-
itGd) of this place, which has been lying
idle since last fall, started up in all depart
ments this morning on single turn, giving
employment to Il large number of men.
The iron industries are picking up consid-
erably ia this section of the State