The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-04-14
The Situation at st. Lexis.

OF. LOUIS, Aprll 1Z.-lnOSe miners OF Tue
st. Louis District who struck last week held
a meeting yesterday and resolved to remain
firm together and not resume work until the
strike by the Knights of Labor shall have
been ended. Very little coal IS on hand in
this district, and the expected total cutting
off of the supply will affect seriously the
manufacturing interests of this city and vi
cinity. -Four hundred and fifty coal miners
on the Illinois and st. Louis (Pittsburg) Rail-
road have struck. and it is sexpected more will
strike about Belleviife to-day. 10 assist the
Knights of Labor In their Struggle. A man
who is well informed declared yesterday that
all the miners in st. Clair and Madison Coun-
tieswill be out this week, excepted, perhaps,
the men employed in the machine
mines. The St. Louis coal district
extends over radius of fifty miles has
l03 mines and gives employment to 1000
miners. OF this number, 900 are employed
in machine mines, and they would not strike
on their own account. Few of them are
knights of Labor, but most Of the other 3, 900
are members of the Order and it is believed
by their brethren that they will demonstrate
ther loyalty when called upon to do so.
+. p. Sargeent, Chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, issued a call this
morning for meetings of the Grievance Com
mittees of all the lodges on the Gould sys-
tenn to Investigate the discharge of fremen
and all other grievances which may be pre-
sented 20 them. and to report to the general
Grievance Committee, which will meet at
Parsons, Kas., on the 10th inst.
The cases of John j. Mc6arTy, Judge Ad-
vocate of District Assembly 101 Knights of
Labor, and five or six other Knights who
were arrested two weeks ago for obstructing
trains and interfering with the business of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, came up before
Judge Horn, of the Court of Criminal Cor
rection to-day, and after the hearing of the
testimony were taken under advisement
In the Criminal Court to-day the writ of
habeas corpus, which was applied for Sarur-
day oy Judge Laughlin in behalf of the
Deputy Sheriffs who did the shooting in the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad yards ia
East st. Louis, on Friday, vas granted and
the men released. The were Immediately re-
arrested, however at the instance of East St.
Louis authorities as fugitiyes from justice
and placed in Jail, where they will be kept
until requisition papers are received from
the Governor OF Illinois, or until they can be
sent to East st. Louis without endangering
their personal safety.
The General Executive Board and the
Joint Executive Committee of Districts 10l,
90 and Il were in session to-day at Thurst's
Hotel, but took no. official action other than
to receive reports from different points on
tue OOuiu Ststc&I anu W lIduSdCl IOuLlu6
business.
In conversation with a reporter this af-
ternoon General Committeeman John w.
Hayes said that the statements attributed to
Jay Gould in an interview telegraphed from
New York last night, in which Mr.. Gould
says that Mr.. Powderly at one of the New
York conferences referred to the members of
District 10l as outlaws" and said that they
had disobeyed the laws of the Order. was
false in every particular and wholly without
foundation. He characterized il as lone of
Jay Gould's lies for the purpose of misrepre-
senting the Knights Of Labor and destroying
public faith in the Order"
what Mr.. Powderly did say" said Mr.
Hayes, was that the strike was unwise and
had been ill-advised, because the local COM
mittees had taken action upon important
matters, concerning a very large extent of
territory, without first consulting the gen.
eral officers of the Order. Other than that
he made no remarks of the character attrib-
uted to HIM by Mr.. Gould"
'Were you present at the interview referred
to between Mr. Powderly and Mr. Gouldp
"Yes, / was, and have very distinct re-
collection of what occurred"
"You are quite certain that Mr.. Powderly
did not make the statements which Mr..
Gould says he made?'
Il am positive that Mr.. Powderly said
nothing OF the kind, and Mr.. Gould is re-
peating his old tactics of misrepresenting
us. What Mr.. Gould says about our refusal
of his proposition to include in the matters
to be arbitrated the questions dealing with
the damages to the roads, caused by the
strike is trUe,n