The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-11-07
THE STICKS.
THE KNIGHTS STRIKE.
The tuatt0 at Galveston Remains
About the Same.

The Situation a Galveston Remains
About the Same.
GALVESTON, November 6.-The boycott
of the Knights of Labor against the NAL
Tory Steamship Company and on the Gull,
Colorado & Santa Fe Railway continues
practically unchanged. No signs OF settle
ment are visable. The Knights Of Labor
nave given permission to printers, news
paper men and clerks in the city to resume
work subject to a moments notice to again
be suspended. This order, however, effects
less than one hundred men and is no con
cession. Public opinion is strongly against
the boycotters. The OF Gal
weston is entirely suspended, and there is
no freight entering the city. The accumu
lation of foreign shipping in the port
Vessels continue arriving daily, thus swell
ing the idle fleet. The strikers are the SUI
preme masters of the situation, granting
permission to railroads to run water trains
and keep their road in good repair, but
strictly prohibiting freight from entering
the city.
OLDING A CONFERENCE.
The situation tonight in the strike OF
the Knights OF Labor against the Mallory
Steamship Company remains unchanged,
In their evening paper the Executive Board
of the Knights exhort their brethren to
frmness and silence, and after a defense OF
the causes alleged for the strike, concludes
with the following threatening
ment: you cannot be starved into sub
mission. The whole city is stored with
groceries. and the first law OF nature is SELF
preservation. Be warned in time!!" In
the same issue the Knights invite all col
orel workingmen to join their order and
be protected from the pauper labor OF
other countries. A perfect stagnation ex-
lists in the trade OF the city. Eight hun
bred bales OF cotton were loaded this
afternoon by colored men. The
Knights of labor have taken steps
to stop further work OF this character by
withdrawing the engineers and fremen
from the barges. Many thousand bales OF
cotton await shipment at Houston. The
Indications point to an early crisis in the
situation. The strikers are getting very
restless, as are the large importing houses,
President Seely, of the Santa Fe Railroad
Company, has asked the State Executive
Committee of the Knights ofLabor to meet
himself and Others in a conference to-mor-
row. kilograms have been sent throughout
the State summening all every member OF
the committee to be present at all hazards.
1 TAN OUT.
New YORK, November Gin an inter-
view to-day in regard to the boycott which
the Knights of Labor have instituted
against the Mallory line OF steamers at
Galveston. Mr.. Mallory said that he had
not the slightest intention OF yielding, as
the demands Of the strikers were wholly
unreasonable, and as one concession would
I only open the way to more demands and
4 moro concessions. The line was having it's
| work done at Galveston all right by colored
! workmen. The extent to which the Knights
of Labor were exercising their power at
/ present was indicated by the fact that they
practically controlled the telegraph, all
dispatches between his firm and the agent
at Galveston being known to the strikers,
and some of the dispatches were delayed
in transmission.
|. TRAINS ACCUMULATING.
HoCsroN, Texas, November 6.-Not a
single car of freight arrived over the Hous-
ton g. Texas Central road to-day. All the
freight trains on this line are side tracked
in consequence of the strike at Galveston.
Over 400 cars Of freight are now in the
yards awaiting delivery to the Missouri
Pacific road for Galveston.
oLoRED HELP.
The stea mer "San Marcos" arrived at
the Mallory wharf yesterday from New
York. Her cargo is being discharged by
colored 'longshoremen, who are unmOlested
by the strikers. There is talk of q COM
bined effort to introduce colored labor into
the cotton presses and railroads in place
of the strikers, but no action has yet been