The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-08-20
SOME sEBIOUS SrRIKES.
LEAST oFwHloHIsTHE WABASH
That Lise Not Seriously Disturbed by
The Knights of Labor, but Others
Badly invoiy ed 90 street Car
strike In memphis -hin-
ers strike Ia Alabama
Tho report from ~. Loui,

era strike In Alabama,
The Roport from 81, Louis
ST. LOUIS, Aug, IS A meeting Of
the executive board oi iho Knights of
Labor and cf she committees regard
Ing tho locked out men on tho Wabash
and tho Knights of Labor employed
on tbs Could southwestern system
was held this morning. Re-
solutions wor0 nioptGh. deu0unc-
ing tho Ncti0n ot Nbh sh Oiii.
Knights az LthO~ and Tor causing the
arros. OF moinb-ra by the United
States officials like common iolons.
Congressman William WOnor, Cf
Kansas City, and General John NJ.
Palmer, uI Sprlns field, Illinois, weIe
requested by resolution 10 defend tho
Imprisoned aud peraecutod knights,
20 prosecute the Wabash railway iOf
conspiracy, snd TO ,mpeach Judges
Treat, Brewer and Ksvtl n. j. Rus
sell, Oi tho Gould system COM
mittee, SAWS tho Wabash OrdoT
Issued yesterday wgs preliminary
10 q general order, but no declined 20
say when the general order would BE-
lNEitAI, OF XIV y AZ khNh va ahN AsNN'.AAHa
The committee. gro awaiting iniurma'
tiOn rom branch organizations OF tho
Knights of Labor thruughous tao Wost
before rssorting 70 extreme measures.
IL Is possible that Gn order calling cut
the men on tao Gould roads VIII be
issued shortly.
A Moberly, Missouri, special Gays
there has been no demonstration there
to-day, a. all the KDignCs
Of Labor employed hero on
tho Wabash road went cat on June 10
except 25, who went out today. There
has been no trouble Whatever, and tho
men aro In hopeful spirits.
a spaciai from Slgnberry, Missouri,
says al u o'clock (Guon) to-day al! the
men in the Wabash shops went out.
demonstration.
Word has come down from the Wa
bash repair slop, in North St. Louis,
where only about = dozen mon are 6m-
ployea. that noue of tho mon
have gone out. There was only one
Knight of Lsbor'aunong them. a dis
patch from MOberly says that the men
tn, IA are still at work. Reports arc
conflicting, growing out of the fact,
perhaps, thai the hour ordered for the
strike is the regulac dinner hour, aud
of course all the men LETT the shops for
dinner, ard 1t will not be known who
or how many struck until after l
o'clock, whom the men return 20 work,
has passed.
a GENERAL ORDER.
The Wabash road has only two very
small repair shops and small round
house here, EMPLOYING, ali told, 90 men.
1t therefore cuts but slight figure. AL
these men remained at work to-day,
and there ia not likely to be any trou-
lie at this point. Tho general eXecu-
tive committee of the Knights OF La
Dor were in session again this after
noon and tonight, and formulated
ard issued the following:
. n OF the Secret arg and ESea5I o:. st.
Lonis.-ro all Whvn IL MAY Codcein,
Greetings:
owing To the persistent fight of the
Wabash company against the knights
OF Labor, the general executive board
deem 1t advisable TO issue the follow
ing order to all assemblies on tho
Union Pacific railway and to the
Gould Southwestern system:
Aoai As,em ones N. tho Aogv5 Llne-:
All Knights of Labor IN the employ
Of the Union Pacific and its branches,
md this Gould Southwestern system,
or any other aIlwsy, must
refuse 10 rspsir or handle i'll
any manner Wabash rolling stoct AIN
til further or1ers from the general ex-
ecutiva board; and il this order IL an
tagonized by the company through
any OF its officials, your executive
committee is hereoy ordered TO call
out all Knights oi LinOr on the above
systems without further action.
BY order OF TIL, general executive
board.
(Signed) FREDERICK TURNER,
Grand Secretary ami Treasurer.
WHAT WAS INTENDED.
II deyolnpS tDBt it wS3 tho intestlon
of tho board 70 issue this order before
Tao one ssnc over the Wabash rail way,
as tue actual weakness OF tho knights
on that road WAS known to the eXecu-
tive committee, and there was good
rogsun 10 believe the effort of to-day
would ne unf&vcraDle; nut Tor somo
unexplained cause it was ueid DAck'
The order was, however, telsRraphed
MI oyor tho specified reads tbis even:
ing and assembly meetings Sere
cal cd az every puinC 10
receive it and IL ID expect
ID that tomorrow the ShlKe
will bs fairly on. In this connection
the Globe Democrat will say to-mor
row: Undsr this order all knights Of
IIf DlT iHuHJ w IA Nh'y W ~
hlndle WaJesh railway stock ana
should ward master, naster meehanic,
dissriot or division superintendent or
auy other official Of the road endeayor
To force men to haudla such cara then
a district strike II ordered. The sltu6-
tiou ID about this: On the Wabash
railway tho KING ht8 o. Lao1r are all or
nearly all out, and nave boon l9r
sometime; but on tho Mi ,oari Pacihc,
tins Iron Mountain, Uno Union Pacn:
aud other roads the knights ars said
to fill the shops &nd ths yards: Ghus
is this LAST orIer :. grarar 100 OF foNo-
lution OF labor. H. will az any rats
force o public test of the Knights OF
Labor aud their feS- ty 10 the pTlnci'
yles which each has sworn TO uphold
Ia fact, the Organization seems
to be in tho issue, and II
remains to be seen whother
the $4,000 knights, "a are claimed
10 be employed on Tho raj WAYS west
OF the Mississippi river, viii obey the
rall of the executive board, whom they
have vested with this absolute power,
Dispatches from Council Bluils. Iowa;
Andrews, Indiana; Decatur, lilinois,
and, III feet, from ali shop points on
tho road excepting Stanoery, ,missourl'
received by oiiicisls anu by the press
ere, are I'D blo ShScC I.iN' OAo IL -
matned at work to day, and that no
recommendations were made. SO far,
the strike, in it's relation to me, Wa
bash as least, ia regarded ss u hzzl9'
Street Car Strike at Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. lS.-The driVsrs
on several of the lines of the Memphis
street railway company struck this
morning, aud travel has been greatly
Interrupted, The cause OF dls5atlsIa acr
tion ia duo to the reducing of pay OF
ali drivers who have n05 been in the
empIoy of the company for a period OF
six months, from ~ cents pr hour to
10 cents, The strike was general and
commenced at o'cloak this mornlAg.
The company managed to send OUT
8 ttw Oa'i ca 'A' iNt' 't'
hy 7o'clock Che s'lt,eIa began e ir-