The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-27

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OF THE
TEXAS a ST. LOUIS HALLWAY co.
ALONG IT'S LINE.
Whereas, Tue Tyler Assembly Of
the Knights of Labor, No. 1888. did
in special meeting, on Tuesday, Au.
gust IL, submit certain resolutions 10
the Texas Il st. Louis Hallway com.
pany, demanding pay due them fol
work during the months of May, june
and July, giving them until IL O'Clock
M, on the 18th day of August, to max,
said payment, aud
Whereas, Said railroad company
has failed to comply with said re.
quest, we, the employees of aforesaid
railway company, absolutely refuse to
work any longer until we are paid.
We ask the assistance and co-ope.
ration of all employees of the road iu
the enforcement of our rights, for il
is Il question of mutual interest aud
protection.
We propose to guard the company's
property as long as the strike may
continue, for all we ask is our Just
dues.
We ask you to refuse to work until
you are paid. Unite with us now, for
in union there is strength.
BY order of Tyler Assembly, No,
1853, Knights of Labor.
The EXAMINER reporter made him.
self numerous among the railroad
men at the 4. Il st. l.. depot after he
had heard of the strike, aud found
several OF the "boys" who was willing
to tell what they knew about the
strike. So far as could he learned the
employees in the shops at Tyler have
gone out, the number being about
one hundred. A freight train came
into this city from Tyler at 1910 p. IN.
The engineer who brought the train
in was the third man the officials at
Tyler tried before they could get the
train moved, and he is new man on
the road, making his first run yester-
day, All the other engineers refused
to 90 out with the train. Ii Is thought
this will be the last freight train over
the road from the east until the trou-
BILE is settled. The passenger trains
will not be molested.
The cause of the strike is about
this: The men demanded their pay
for the months of May, June and
July on Tuesday, the 25th of August,
aud In their demand to Receiver
FordyCe they stated that unless the
same was forthcoming on the day
named, they would quit work.
Mr.. Fordyce replied to the demand
in gentlemanly manner, and told
the men what he was doing and
what he had been doing to secure
money to pay them oil. lie stated
in his reply that the demand was one
that he could not comply with, but
said that if they would wait until
the first of September he would pay
them their wages for the months OF
May and June, and pay the other as
soon us possible. They refused his
offer and went out Tuesday,
The train men who came over from
Tyler say everything is dead about
the 4. Il st. l.. depot and the shops
aud nothing but passenger trains will
be moved until they come to some
understanding. So far rs known the
strike only effects the men at Tyler
but by the engineers going of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
must also have finger in the pie"
The train men and employees a
Waco boot at the idea of strike, and
laugh at the gang at Tyler for going
into such thing. They say nearly al
of the men who went out at Tyler
commenced to work on the first o
August, and they have not got nucl
over half months pay coming I,
them. They believe what Receiver
Fordycc says he will do, and they ar,
%illing to wait until the first of Sep
TENDER aud see.
Unless there is great change come
over the men there win be no troubl,
at Waco or west Of here. rs the mel
who work ON this end say they vii
not sirik.