Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-24
Fears Of a General Strike on
the Union Pacific Road
Against Their En-
ployment.
General Manager Expresses His
0pinion-The Policy of the
Company.

AA@SSO AASAA III will ch y IL TX dL
the west END of the road, no notifica~
ton of official action on the part of
Knights of Labor officials has been re-
ceived here. The men in the Union
Pacific shops are at work as usual, but
it is known there is considerable
easiness among them. and a prominent
official says that it looks very much as
if something were in the wind.
The Knights of Labor are very
strong on the Union Pacific lines, and
a genera strike of that organization
or this road would be a very serious
matter. The statement that
THE CHINESE MUST GO
is daily growing stronger. White
miners who refuse TO go to work are
acting under instruction of the Knights
of Labor. Before any general strike
occurs, however, il is expected that
the knights will send a committee of
conference to hold a meeting with the
Union Pacific officials. Manager Cal
loway says the Union Pacific will not
dismiss the Cinnamon in its employ.
This position, if maintained, will, it
is admitted, bring on the threatened
strike. Two weeks ago a committee
composed equally of white miners and
business men of Rock Springs was app
pointed to visit Omaha and have a
consultation with the Union Pacific
OIL cials, but the Knights of Labor
prevented the committee from coming,
as is now known. The situation has
since been thoroughly discussed by
tho knInhtc ond ~ 1c nIuan ont mn
good authority that they have decided
to Aak a fight on the Chinese ques-
ton. Howard is in possession of
pointers to the effect that they have
ordered a general strike among track
men and shopmen. Gen. Howard
says he stands ready to
PROTECT THE ROAD
with three thousand men, and see
that the trains are kept moving, the
shops guarded, and the Chinese miners
protected at the various coal mines.
Ito keep the mails moving" said
Gen. Howard, I'VE must have loco~
motives, and to keep them running
we must have coal, and therefore it is
necessary to have mines operated,
and the miners, ven if Chinese, must
be protected" The Knights Of Labor
cannot control the Chinese, and hence
they are anxious to get rid of them,
as no strike car be carried on very
successfully SO long as they are en-
ployea.
MANAGER CALLAWAY INTERVIEWED.
Regarding the report received here
of a strike of all the white miners at
Rock Springs. Wyoming, where the
recent massacre of the Chinese occur-
red, and the possibilities of a general
strike on the Union Pacific road,
General Manager Galloway said he
did not know what action the company
would take, but he had too much faith
in the employees of the Union Pacific,
believe they intend aiding the men
responsible for the butchery at the
Springs. Galloway says al the griev-
ances presented to him had received
the most respectful attention, and he
was at ali times ready to take up com
plants and endeavor to satisfactorily
adjust them. The suggestion, how
ever, to arbitrate with a lot OF men
who murdered their fellow-employes,
and destroyed thousands of dollars
worth of property as to whether the
company should keep them in its en-
ploy, and discharge the feremen and
others driven away in defiance of law,
sounded to him like asking the com
pany to arbitrate on the question
whether it or its employees owned the
property. Galloway confessed That
the coal department needed lnvestiga-
ton and possible change, but this can
be done only when the company is
restored to the possession AND man
agement of the property. The com
pany can not negotiate under compul-
sion, nor the e~xpediency of the en-
ployment of Chinese labor be conslds
cred under threats OF murder and
arson. The approach of winter, he
saws. reuders it of the utmost impor-
lance, not only to the company, but
the entire country depending on 1t for
coal supplies, that the miners at Rock
Springs not engaged in the recent mas
sacre should resume work.
THE CHINESE ENGRAVING.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 10
The Chinese are fast leaving Rock
Springs. being afraid to resume work,
and il is confidently expected that the
whites will be soon enabled to com
mence operations. The road west
from Rock S5rings is lined with
Cinnamon wit their faces toward the
setting sun. The white MINERS are
greatly encouraged over the present
prospects. and in sill probability, in
stead of being a Chinese camp, 1t w!u
be oae employing exclusively white
labor. An amicable adjustment be-
tween the company and the knights
Of Labor IS expected imm ediately;
Gov. Warrea an6 the government
directors are now in the camp, ana
present indications are that the rail-
road company is convinced that It's
attempt to employ Chinese labor mas
been a failure. Atty. Gen. Campbell
left Cheyenne for Rock Springs ms
evening to prosecute the participators
in the recent massacre. Rumors are
u.fa that f,rthar traublp at ROCK