The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-07
SOMETHING UNIQUE
M THE WAY or A STRIKE OF La
BCRERS.
Railway Corporation Compelled to Ash
Permission to Move n Circu. Train
Almost Complies PaI aIysi. of Hsusi-
ness at Galveston, TsXas.

GALVESTON. Tex, Nov. = The third day
OF this Mallory boycott. has passed withont
sign Of weakening on either side. The
striking Knights surged back and forth on
the principal streets discussing the situation,
but perfect order reignei. The secret con-
ference of the executive committee OF the
knights OF Labor and Trades Assembly
remained in session. The committee granted
n cnncss ion psr hitting printers, newspaper
men, and clerks having no direct connec
ton with commerce to work, upon condition
that they shall cease at q moments notice.
This order enables about sixty printers to
work. 1t is assorted by the knights that a
rather remarkable proposition has teen in
directly thrown out by the Missouri Pacific
company and rejected by the executive com.
mittee. The proposition camo through II
subordinate official, suggesting that if the
knight, raise the embargo on the Missouri
Pacific that company will agree not to haul
pound of freight for the Mallory COM
pany until the boycott i. over. Tho Mis-
souri, people deny that they made any
.vertures, but tho knights verify their
story by naming the sub-ofcial.
The president of the Gulf, Colorado (
Saate Fe railroad applied Thursday to tie
ex cutive COMMITTEES for permis'io to
bring in and send out the train bearing
travelling circus billed for Friday. Per
mission was granted. The Misscur, Pacific
company was also granted permission to
send out water tanks. These humble re-
quests from the corporations iadic tte how
supremacy the knights are masters of tho it
uation. BY their mandate tEey have diverted
commerce away from Galveston as effsctu-
ally As though she were bssiegell by all i'm
lienso army. Rnmor5 ara current that the
ralro9dS and cotton presses will make a
concerted effort to introduce colored Ia
boters from Brazoria AMI other black dis
rricts. THIS story can not be authenticated,
but it is agreet on all sides that such IL
move would precipitate bloody riots
Tbs Mallory steamship San Marcos ar
rived from New York and is being dis
charged by the colored 'longshoren,en
just as though nothing unusual had oc-
currod. A couple of hundred strikers
stood quietly outside the wharf gates watch
ing this negroes work. In Thur day evenings
is ,ue of The Daily Bulletin, published by
tbs executive board. appears the following:
We have not as yet used the last resort.
ami hope our present action will be sufh-
1ient. Victory means freedom, and defeat
slavery. The die is cast, and every man
if nece sary, to die Capital and monopoly
are now engaged against you, !on
have nothing to fight your battles but
your own stout hearts and hands
and the justice of your cause. You can
not afford to stand idly by and see your.
selves wives and Children reduced to beg.
gary and want. The irrepressible conflict
now upon us. Ifyou lose this fight, for.
eign pauper laborers will be imported to
Ia % your places. Laws will he enacted to
maks it peniteatiary otfense to engage in
n ,trike The vagrant laws will be enforced
to place you in danger if you refuse to work
at starvation wage. You can not.afford to
10, Dsath wonll h, blessing, in COM
parison to your onlitiun in Gu % Of defeat.