The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-04
The knights OF Labor.

ST.. LOUIS, September 3.-Messrs. t.
V. Powderly, Grand Master Workman
of the Knights of Labor and chairman
of the National Executive Committee of
the order, and Frederick Turner. secre-
tlry of the latter body, held TWO con-
| ferences with General Manager Tai
madge, of the Wabash, this afternoon
with view 10 the final settlement of the
differences and troubles between
the organization and the road.
Talmadge FURNISHED the Associated
Press with the following statement as
embodying all the main points of the
conference. and as representing his side
of the conference: II had very full
and friendly discussion of matters with
Messrs. Powderly and Turner. I
showed them there had been no dis
elimination against the Knights of
Labor. Both Messrs. Barnes and Mar
tin stated when they were ready to
open shops, on the 9th of June, which
was ten days after closing them,
they sent word to so per
cent. of the men who had formerly
been in the employ of the company,
that they were going TO open on the
said day, and would like to have them
come back and go to work. OF course,
they could not find employment for all
OF them, as there was more force
than their pay roll allowance would ad-
init of. These men did not see fit to accept
of this, because they were not all in
vited to come back. and therefore
Messrs. Martin & Barnes had TO employ
other men, but find on looking over
the pay rolls for August, 1885, we had,
on the 9th of that month, out of
total of 2,493 men in the service of the
company. eighty-four were in our SER
vice before the shops clos on June
10th. This applies to shos men only,
and does not include engineers
and fremen, and shows that over
two thirds of the men now in service in
these departments were old employees,
and that there was no discrimination
on my part or other officers of the COM
pany. / proposed to the chairman to-
day that would employ these men if
they desired me TO employ, as rapidly
as the business AID earnings would |
justify, taking them in the following |
order: First, men who have families. !
homes of their own at points where they |
have been working, Second, men with |
families residing at points where they |
are employed. bur do not own homes.
Third-Young men who have no |
families, and married men whose |
families do not live where they have
been az work, and who are known as |
floating mechanics. Our present fore G |
is SIS less than it was in June This |
shows we could not have given employ
nent to all who asked for work.
The conference continued more than
IN hour and all the points OF difference |
we're discussed. After receiving Colonel |
ralmadge's proposition, Messrs.
Powderly and Turner returned to the |
House and held conference
with the, Wabash committee. which
i'll the rejection of the PROPOSE |
lion OF Colonel Talmadge
Another conference will be held
at the Wabash Office tomorrow,
at which Mr.. Thomas E. Tut. |
one of the receivers of the /
road, will be present and st |
which Messrs. Powderiy IL Turner will |
demand the withdrawal of !
what is called the lockout order of |
June 10Th, and the reinstatement of the |
men and a return to the agreement OF |
April 25th, under which the reduction |
Of the expenses of the road can be ac-
in three ways. The chair
nan of the district committee is to have
;hoice of these ways: First, reduction
If men employed; second, hours of
york; third, an entire suspension of
except running repairs and
What result this will be no one can
orctell, but certainly the difficulty is
lot yet settled. Powderly will leave
lere tomorrow night for the southwest
'ut he denies that he goes there to take
,art in the Texas strike, and says the
trikers there have asked no aid from
lin.
GALVESTON. September 3.-The strike
# the Knights of Labor against the
ruff, Colorado & Santa Fe rail road
company. ended to-day with the mu-
ual signing of articles of agreement
egulating the rates of wages and
immunity to ali striking
mployes. The schedule of wages agreed
pom has not yet been made public.