Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-24
BREWING.
L. Il the Missouri Pacific Railway
r Openly Threaten a
Walk-0ut.
IA for the Reinstatement of the
discharged warehousemen
is Refused.
bad Declares That 1t Does Not
Need the Men and will Not
Take Them Back.

Il s,tnation at the general freight
n in this city of the Gould lines is
d growing more interesting. The
'srings Of the employees are be-
In louder as the LIST OF May APP
Ihsv and railroad officials do not
4 # 10 conceal the fact that q seri.
I,rtpre is feared at that time. 1t Is
's,,lnp more and apparent that on
/, Rss the arbitration which settled
rest strike is regarded as
IA MERELY ATRUCE
4, Ia liable to be broken at any
'sant Evidences of faithlessness
'1bat agreement are diligently
.,h, for and when q notice
Z :hosted In the warehouse ON the
~ xpril OF a reduction In wages to
nIsce the LIST of May, while the
Bment provided that thirty days
Y 4 of a reduction should be given,
|lDIsint was at once made that the
bad had violated It's faith. This
7 n the disaffected until last Tues
when a much more serious oifense
1leiv.n In the dismissal of six men
y The warehouse on the ground
1lthey were not needed. Agitation
lbg the employees Of the road was at
Intensified and the cry started
4 the leaders Of the strike were
IN sacrificed in order to vent the
6tment of the road. The knights
<sbor held meeting and consid-
Il the matter, with what result has
lei developed, save that the em-
intimate that they have the
Hing of all organized labor.
committee OF three from the
'1hinery department of the Missouri
81 ic road waited upon Mr.. Harris,
7 Freight agent, and requested the
&tatement of the discharged men.
& was refused. They then threw
\ b the gauntlet by declaring that
US the men were put back to work
certain time
NJ THEY WOULD ALL STRIKE.
hunted by this threat, Mr.. Harris
<|fefused to accede to their request,
)1in this shape the matter stands.
3bors are afoat that preparations
strike are under Roadway, and
h will take place on the hrst OF
The employees make no positive
BITS hat content themselves with
lnations OF trouble.
>reporter hunted up Mr.. Harris,
freight agent, yesterday even
to inquire as to the
esnces OF the men In
He stated that in cut
NJ down the force he was actuatec
1Hy by business principles; thatship
now was very light, and the dis
Eged men were not needed in the
SSht department. He tays tina
@lness is from So to 40 PEE
|1i. less than at this season las
~, when no larger force was EN-
NJ ed than he was lately running
!. wing to the charge thai the mel
~ dismissed because Of their activ
4 10 the late strike, he remarked tina
ne ofthe men discharged were no
Ne strike at all, while others VIII
'ssck are still working in the ware
2eee, ut was simply a question @
}" said he; 1--WE retained the mos
9<apetent and efficient men," MI
>3fris stated that 1t might be nee
51fy to still further reduce the fore
be summer time, that the Ioa
h only afford to employ a sufi
number of men to transact II
ness, and there were some en-
les who were bnoxious and woul
Pably be discharged. The numbe
en- remaining in the warehouse
teen. A visit to the warehou'
osed comfortable amount I
ht ready for shipment, and on II
\ y a workman stated to the report'
they would not near be able
u LOADING UP THE FREIGHT
evening. 1t was state
r. another that the rus
partially occasioned b
Il closing up Of the warehouse I'll
ping before on account of the rail-
y plain, however, that all the en-
fes thought they should have mo
Ptance.
ne warehOusemen who have bee
# on are: j. Turner, j. Myers, WI
M 4. Temple, 8. Z. Clark and
fliams. Some of them are very /
'ntlai among the workingmen
M road and it is said they are ae
y matters with vim. II is to
'feu, Tor the benefit of the busine
tests OF the city, for the interes
ile employees and of the road its'
trouble may be averted.