Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-19

DODGE CITY, KANSAS
THE STRIKERS.
Missouri Pacific and Wabash Railroad EN-
ployes Still Holding Out-No Freight
Trains Running.
MARCH 10.
From the very first hour of the strike
matters have continually grown worse. On
the 10th inst. Governor Marmaduke semitic
st. Louis militia TO Sedalia to restore order
among the strikers. At st. Louis the Mis-
souri, Pacific ia refusing freight and dis
charging or suspending many OF its en-
ployes not connected with the strike.
Some of the Wabash men are out here, and
others say they will strike. The Missouri
Pacific company has hired q number OF
Pinkerton detectives and cent them up to
Sedalis armed with Winchester rifles topro-
tect their property till troops arrive.
A special from Moberly says the strikers
are firm, and are encouraged by news that
the men on the Central Iowa railrOs d have
struck. There have been no disturbances
so far. At Sedalia there are now over
seventy engines in the round houses ar d
yards, which have been killt d by the strik-
ers, and over ten miles of loaded freight
cars on the eide tracks. No passenger
trains have yet been stopped, but no pas
senger trains have arrived from west OF
Kansas City or south of Parsons, kas.,
since Sunday.
At Kansas City the strikers decided to
offer no interference with the movement OF
tr ains on the Wabash road it being under
protection of the Federal Court. That road
is consequently running freight AS well as
passenger trains. The Missouri Pacific pas
senKer trains are not interfered with, but
no frei GIFTS are permitted to leave.
The troops from st. Louis were brought to
Cente town, within fifty miles Of Sedalia,
and 81 lie tracked. Later they were sent back
to Jefferson City, where they were sUppered.
After supper they were returned to Center
town, where they now are in the cars. Late
last night an armistice was agreed upon I'M
til noon, the 14th instant, at which time the
strikers are to hsve an answer. Governor
Marmaduke and Gen. Jamison are to act Is
mediators. and see what, if any, compromise
can be made.
At MOberly everything was quite, but
the strikers say they will not resume work
1til former wagers are restored to every
workman on the entire Wabash system,
ouu ClhlUl W udNo duNiCco tudt So-Aleut
or tomorrow every workman on the road
will be on a strike.
At Atchison the striking shop men still
hold possession of the shops and locomo-
tives, and the railroad officials are waiting
developments at other localities on the line
of the road The strikers held their regular
meeting last evening, which was fully at
tended by the shop men, and also by &
number of freight brakemen who are paid
by the day or trip, and are only paid when
they work. As there are no freight trains
running, there is no work for them and
consequently no pay. This has put
them in a bad humor, and it is said that
they have concluded to join thu strikers
and tomorrow will quit id!ing and go to
striking. Governor Martin has been re-
peatedly asked to call out the militia, but
has done nothing more than notify the
militia to be ready at moments notice.
The strikers are orderly and quiet, but firm.
The employees of the Greenleaf repair shops,
ten in number, struck this afternoon at
three o'clock.
at Parsons the situation remains practi-
cally unchanged. The men are all out and
no freight trains are allowed to run. 1t is
rumored that the strikers have ordered all
engineers and men along the line, as far
south as Muscogee, to come to Parsons for
protection; and also that after tomorrow
no passenger trains will be permitted to
pass, except the engine and mail car. This
morning Superintendent Golden and
Sheriff Lampson attempted to fire up an
engine to take out a freight train, but were
no permitted to do SO.
At Dallas, Texas, the section hands en-
ployed on the Texas Pacific struck this
morning On the Invitation of couriers who
passed through on hand-cars. Bloodshed
is apprehended if the company attempts to
move trains with their small force. The
yard shops at Palestine are in charge of the
Sheriff and deputies, who took out seyel al
trains to-day. The strikers have been ex-
cluded from the yards.
The coal miners strike at Pittsburg is
generally unchanged. Aoout 4, 900 men are
out on the strike and 1900 are at work.
Three hundred men got an advance from
the Birmingham Coal Company in Birm-
ingham, and went to work to-day. The
river and railroad mines are nearly all idle.
All the men are out in the fourth pool, ex-
oe et at Neil's, which is the largest mine in
the pool. The operators declare they will
not pay the advance.
MARCH IL.
f Captain r. s. Hayes, of St. Louis. senior
Vice President of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way, in an interview on the strike, said the
main question in this strike is one of per-
sonal liberty, or whether the hatred of the
men who are not satisfied with their posi-
ton as employees shall be allowed to pre-
vent other men who have no expires sed
cause of diss faction from continuing
work. Out Of %, 600 employees of the S Duth-
western or Wabash systems, not 900 are
directly affected by the reduction of wages,
which is alleged to be the reason for this
strike, and am morally certain that of this
1000 at least 500 would 60 to work
tomorrow morning if they were
ployes. The reduction made is in regard to
men employed in machine shops and round
houses, and some of the coal chute men.
The train service hands have not been re-
duced. The reductions have been princi-
pally in Texas, where they may be said in
9 general way to range from to 10 per
cent, but still living wages at which other
men, following like means of livelihood,
have heretofore gotten along very comfort
ably. In Arkansas, Louisiana and Kansas
the reductions are not so great, but the
Texas lines were not more than paying ex-
penses, and some of them were not even do
ing this in these depressed times.
At St. Louis there is nothing new in the
strike to-day. The militia companies sent
from here to Sedalia are still resting be-
tween Jefferso City and Sedalia. Negoti-
atoms for compromise between the road
and the men are going Cd.
At Moberly there were no new develope-
meuts. The men are determined, and be-
lieve they will win. The shops have been
the beginning of the strike. The
executive committee Of the strikers are re-
ceiving kilograms giving information of the
situation at other points.
At Sedalia the situation remains materi.