The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-11
THE STRIKE ON THE WABASH
rhe Freight Business on All the Gould
Lines Suspended by the Strikers.
Gov. Marmaduke Orders Militia to Proceed
to Sedalia, Where Conflict Is Immi-
nent-The Trouble at Other Points.
AT sEDALIA, MO.
The Adjutant-General Warns tho Strikers
that Interference Must Be Stopped.

The Acknowledgement Warns tho Strikers
that Interference Must Be Stopped.
SEpALIA Mo-, March 10.-The is no change in
matters pertaining to the strike to-day. Men in
iCreat numbers are about the railroad Offices and
are defiant. and positive in their position. Ad-
jutant- general Jameson is here in consultation
with citizens and strikers. No freight was
moved to-day. and there is no likelihood of any
being moved. Business is almost at a stand
still and the outlook gloomy. No riotous dem
onstrations, however, have been made up to the
present time. The strikers, though determined,
have manifested no disposition to destroy prop
ertY. The strikers are now in session, drafting
q proclamation that they will keep the peace at
all hazards They are embittered because thirty
Pinkerton detectives have arrived, who are
hired by the railroad company. Adjutantg gen
eral Jameson had conference with the strikers.
and informed them that they must not prevent
trains moving. The pay car arrived this morn
ing but the strikers refused TO receive their
wages, because they said that would sever their
connection with the road and besides, the car
was not due for five days. The rumor that
militia are coming aggravates the situation
There are now over seventy engines In the
round houses and yards here, the fires of which
Aavo been drawn by the strikers, and over ten
miles of loaded freight cars side tracks No
passenger trains have yet been stopped. but
passengers have arrived here from west of Kan
sas City south of Parsons: Kan, since Sunday.
THE LAW MUST BE oBEYED.
LATER-The situation is unchanged tonight.
One freight train arrived from St Louis but
none have departed. The Adjutant-gener of
Che State has been in consultation with both the
strikers and citizens to-day. Governor Marina
Al Tol IL Al A
tantgeneral here to-day.
Admitting, as do, the perfect right of every
man to refuse his personal service for pay I'M
satisfactory to himself, yet an interference with
the business or property of his former employer,
whether farmer, merchant or railroad company,
or any one else, cannot be justified on
any principle of law or good morals.
If understand the situation at Sedalia, the en-
poyes in the railroad machine shops decline to
work longer for the pay offered by the company.
This they have a right to do, but they are vi
olating the law by interfering with the property
and the transportation business of the company,
and with the great commercial interests of the
country by hinder;ng preventing the move
ments offreight This is palpable violation of law
and must not be continued Please notify those
parties TO desist at once, which | honestly hope
they will; but inform them that if they do not
oil lawful methods will be resorted to, backed up
by the power of the State, to compel submission
tolaw and to relieve from embarrassment the
C0annelS Oh commerce.
''Do you desire me to go to Sedalia in persons
Ii So answer at once.
"JoHN S. MARMApUKE"
The troops from st. Louis were brought to
Eentertown, within fifty miles of Sedalia, where
they now are quartered in the cars.
Late tonight an armstice was agreed upon
until noon on the 18th of March, at which time
the strikers are to have an answer. Governor
Marmaduke and General Jameson are to act as
mediators, and see what, if any, compromise
can be made.