Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-21
LABOR TROUBLES.
Strike Of the Street Car Drivers at
Memphis.

Strike Of the Street Car Drivers at
Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 18-The
drivers on the several lines Of the
Memphis Street Railway Company
struck this morning and travel has
been greatly interrupted. The cause
of dissatisfaction was due to the
issuing Of an order by the company
reducing the pay Of all drivers who
have not been in the employ Of the
company for a period Of six months
from twelve cents and a half per hour to
ten cents. The strike was general and
commenced at six o'clock this norm
ing. The company managed to send
out a few cars on each line, but by
seven O'Clock the strikers began to
interrupt travel by throwing the cars
from the track. The police were called
upon, but the meagre force was unable
to give the necessary protection and
stranded cars were to be seer in all
directions. Three or four arrests were
made and at this hour, 1890 o'clock,
each car running is being guarded by
a police officer. Three Of the car
drivers who began work have been
assaulted, but so far no serious injury
has been done to them,
100 p.m.-At this hour cars on the
several lines are running with some
regularity, being manned by new dri-
vers, who are protected by the police.
The striking drivers held a meeting at
the Knights of Labor hall, which has
just adjourned. A committee of five
was appointed to confer with the
street railroad company, with a view
of compromising the matter and re-
storing wages to old rates. The COM
mittee will report back to the meeting
at Z o'clock tonight.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR ON THE WA
BASH ROAD ON A STRIKE.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18.-A special from
Stanburg, Mo-, to the Post-D Dispatch
says at II o'clock noon to-day all the
men in the Wabash shops went out.
Everything is quiet and there is no
demonstrations.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Aug. 18.-There
are no signs Of a strike here among the
Wabash employees, except thtt four
men left the machine shops. Whether
these left on account of the order of the
Labor Union is not positively stated.
No action has been taken here by the
train men. Considerable uneasiness
was felt until the working time
came after dinner, as the men were
reticent, but that has passed.
CHICAGO, Aug 18.-The Journals
Decatur, ILL.,, special says: The Wabash
strike was inaugurated here at noon
to-day. Less than 10 men quit work
out of the 800 employed, which is x
planned by the fact that nearly 80
knights quit work two months ago, and
have remained idle ever since.
FORT WAYNE, IND, June 18.-The
employees of the Wabash railroad at
this point did not strike, nor make any
demonstration whatever at moo to
day, as contemplated and ordered by
the Knights of Labor, to which organ
ization about two-thirds of the men
employed in the shops at Ft. Wayne
belong. The pay car is expected to ar
rive tomorrow and pay the employees
for the month of June.
ST. LOUIS, Aug, Is Word has come
down from the Wabash repair shop in
North St. Louis, where only about a
dozen men are employed, that none of
the men have yet gone out. There
was only one Knight of Labor among
them.
A dispatch from Moberly says that
the men there are still at work. Re-
ports are conflicting, growing out of
the fact, perhaps, that the hour order
ed for the strike is the regular dinner
hour, and of course all the men left
the shops for dinner and it will not be
known who or how many actually
struck until after the hour for the men
to work has passed.
3p.m.-A general strike has just
been ordered on all the lines west of
the Mississippi river.