The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-05
THE KNIGHTS CULTIVATION
Presented to Manager Talmage, of the
Wabash, by Powderly and Turner.
Mr.. Talmage Says 1t Is Impossibleto Comply
with All Their Demands-NOtes
About Other Strikes.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. AT Ii o'clock this morn
ing Chairman I. Y. Powderly and Secretary
Frederick Turner, of the general executive board
OF the Knights of Labor, called at the Office of
General Manager Talmage, and submitted the
following as their ultimatum in the matter of
the Wabash trouble: THE general executive
board of the Knights of Labor ask: ~ That
a general order be issued along the Wabash
lines, instructing master mechanics and foFemen
that no discrimination must be made in the en-
ploying men on account of being MEMBERS of
the Knights of Labor; ~, that all employees who
have in any manner taken an active part since
the 10Th of June in the settlement of the trouble
be given their positions held prior to said 10th of
June, at once; 81, that all other employees who
were locked out on June 16 be reinstated on or
before Oct 1. 1885; a.. that all who have come
out since then in support of those locked out on
that date be also reipstated on or before Oct. l,
1885"
Mr. Powderly also showed a telegram from
Sedaiia, Mo-, signed r. W. Drew, chairman of
the committee, saying that if the
matter was not settled to day, he could not hold
the men of the Southwestern system any longer.
In answer to the above demands General Mana
ager Talmage, of the Wabash, stated to Powde
ly and Turner that the Wabash was in the
hands of a receiver, and that the court was al
ways asking the management to cut down ex-
penses; consequently, he could not put the men
to work now. as he had neither the work nor the
money to pay them. In regard to the demand
made in regard to Oct. l, he declared that he
could say nothing now, as he did not know what
tho demand for labor or the financial condition
0f the road IVnul6 ha of that Hafa MacopC Dow
Derby and Turner retired on receiving Mr.. Tai
IMAGES reply, and held a conference with the
Wabash district commissioner at the Planters
House, lasting several hours. At p. NJ. they
were not ready to say what action they would
take.
The conference continued most of the after
noon, and further consideration of the situation
was had this evening. In conversation with
Secretary Turner tonight. that gentleman
stated that no definite conclusion had been
reached by the committee; that no line
Of action had been decided upon,
and that he really had nothing new to
give to the public. He said that so far as he
could see, the situation is practically tie same
that 1t was before the executive committee went
to New York. AS to whether a direct issue
would be made with Mr.. Talmage he could not
say, but the probabilities were he would
be given a reasonable time to comply
with their emand. In fact, they had
already given him until the 1st of October to do
so. Messrs. Powderly, Turner, Couehlin and
Trevelyan, of Detroit, will go to Sedalia to-
morrow, to look over the ground there, to confer
with r. w. Drew, the chairman of the South
western committee, respecting the situation of
the Gould roads. From Sedalia, PowdeTly and
Turner will go to Cincinnati; from thence Mr..
Powderly will go to the Southwest.