Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-03-14
THE RAILROAD STRIKES.
The strikers Capsurina New-Csmess-Pre'
sress Of the Movement Of Resistance.
Try Telegraph To the Dispatch.l

sre. Of the slsvemens or Resistance.
[By telegraph to the Dispatch.l
FoRT WAYNE, md, March b.
Twenty-six machinists arrived here
from Chicago at 8 O'Clock last evening,
having been imported by the Wabash
Company to take the places Of men
now ON strike at this point. They
arrived in car attached to freight
train on the Wabash road. having left
Chicago at o'clock Wednesday eve
ming. They were brought by cir
cuitous route ria Springfield in order
to avoid the suspicious of the strikers.
The fact OF their presence be-
came known to the strikers at about
Top. NJ, when a committee was sent to
interview the newcomers, who are most
ly Germans, at the Washington House.
The committee induced twcnty-four Of
the .twenty-six men to attend a meeting,
which they Immediately called at Dris-
coils Hall, where the imported men
were initiated into the Knights Of Labor
and Joined the strikers. The imported
men claim they knew nothing Of the
strike here, and that they accepted the
positions in Chicago in answer to adver-
tisements in German papers for machi-
nists to 20 to work outside the city.
The strikers are jubilant over their ac-
cession. II is understood that more i'm
portations are to come, but the strikers
say they will endeayor to capture them
as rapidly as they arrive.
ST. LOUIS, March l3.-The restora-
ton of wages made on Wednesday eve
ming to the men working in the Missou-
ri-Pacific shops here has been extended
to all the men employed in the large
machine and car-shops of the IRON
Mountain road at DE Soto, forty miles
south of here. The men are highly
commended for their loyalty to the
company.
Governor Marmadukc issued pro-
clamation at a late hour last night warn
ing the strikers and all persons asso-
ciated with them that the interfering
with the movement Of engines and trains
and the intimidation of other persons
who may be willing to work is unlaw-
full, and calling on all county and NUM-
cipal officers to promptly enforce the
laws. The proclamation commands all
individuals or combinations Of indi-
viduals in any way engaged or concern
ed in interfering with the free traffic of
railroads. or in the intimidation of their
employees, to desist at once and with
out further warning.
GALVESTON. Ten, March ia
special from Austin says: Vice-Presi-
dent Hoxie, of the Gould system, re-
quested Governor Ireland to order the
State Rangers to Texas points where
the strike exists, offering to pay their
expenses and furnish transportation.
The Governor refused to comply on the
grounds that no serious disturbance
exists and the local officers are pro-
tectiDg railroad property.
A special from Dallas says that a
large mass-mccting was held there last
night by the Friends Of Labor"
Colonel j. b. Stone, one Of the largest
real estate owners in Dallas. spoke at
length, denouncing the railroad manage
ment. A communication from the
local organization of telegrapherS was
read strongly sympathizing with the
strikers. The meeting adopted reSOlu-
tons extending sympathy to the
strikers and demanding that their
wages be restored to former figures.
At Fort Worth there is no change in
the situation. The Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad is bringing supplies
To that CITY.