The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-10
The Knights Getting Them
selves into Bad 0dOr.
SOME WASHINGTON WHISPERS.
Railroad BUNDLES Flashes
-miScelIaneOus Teiegraphic Ticks
from Various quarters.
The Railroad Troubles.

| IL LUIS NhatCh "a NeIy long stare
ment containg all the material facts in
connection with the strike on the Texas
and Pacific Railroad is made by Gov
ernor Brown, receiver of that road, and
has been received here. The essential
parts of the statement are as follows:
Having referred to the appoint
ment of the receiver of the road.
Receiver Brown states that when
about December 9th he went to Mar
shall on business connected with his
office, be was waited upon by COM
mittee of employees of the shops and
asked if the receiver would ratify the
agreement made by the management
in force in March, 1885. Receiver
Brown replied that the property was
being managed under the orders OF
the court, and receivers being
agents of that court, the sanction OF
the court was necessary before such
action be taken. but the receiver would
deal frankly with the operatives and the
same rate of wages would be paid them
as were paid by the former management
and none of the receivers there
after received any complaint I'M
til Brown in January received
communication purporting to come
from VIM. Moore and others.
signed as committee, which again drew
his attention to the agreement, a copy
OF which was inclOsed, also a copy OF
the regulations they wished and would
| endorse. These regulations expressed
a desire for harmonious relations
between the Texas & Pacific Railway
Company and of the Knights of Labor
of said road, desiring that there be no
reduction in the rate of wages unless
mutually agreed upon, that no
discharges be made without Just
cause and investigation and that all
disputes be referred to an arbitration
committee Of six members, which shall
be drawn equally from the company
and the Knights of Labor.
Tothis Brown replied, substantially as
to the other committee, adding further,
information showing that the court
only had final jurisdiction in the mat
ter. The reply concludes with the
statement that the refusal of the re-
ceiver to sign the agreement referred to,
to do which the power vested in them
was inadequate, was the sole cause of
the strike, and any other al
legation is an after thought.
Following this statement comes a com
between 7. j. Burnett and Martin
irons, respectively members OF and
chairmen of the executive committee of
the Knights of Labor, and George Noble.
general agent for the receivers, wherein
Noble is asked to come to Marshall to
settle the trouble in the shops,
to which Noble, not recognize
ing the authority of the signer,
replied evasively to subsequent de-
patches of the same tenor and final
one asking if Noble had received dis
patches. The latter replied that he had
not answered, because he knew of no
trouble in the shops nor of any
authority vested in Martin Irons to
represent the employees or the court to
whom the company are responsible.
the shops undoubtedly upon the !
order of Mr.. Irons and have not yet |
returned. A belief that the majority of /
the men went out against their wishes |
induced the company to offer them the
privilege to return on March 4th which |
they declined. The statement avows |
the discharge of G. A. Hall is an after
thought with the strikers. Halls dis
charge was on account Of his incom-
potency.
New YORK, March "a special to
the Post from Washington says that a
prominent member of the Knights of
Labor is responsible for the statement
that that organization is preparing to
enroll in its membership the policemen
in the large cities of the country as
part of the wage workers of the nation.
GALVESTON, March 9.-The pending
labor troubles continue to absorb gem
eral attention. The situation has not
of some cotton hands this afternoon at
the Taylor Compress because they dis
covered that the cotton was to be
shipped by the Mallory line.
The local agent of the Missouri Pacific
Railway under orders from head
quarters, laid off numSer o. clerl .
and other employees until the offices
are again resumed. Special kilograms
report an almost general suspension of
clerks and warehouse men at points on
the Missouri Pacific, on account of the
of the road to any business.
The agent of the Missouri Pacific Is re-
ceiving no freight for that company {
but is taking freight for points OF the I
Texas & Pacific road.
The Knights of Labor are holding
another big meeting. They still claim
4 general strike will ensue unless the
matters of the company are reorganized )
DIV the gradually reinstating of strikers. t.
There is much talk among the knights
IF Labor regarding a new political :
party - LIMITED Labor Party = the
birth of which, at Decatur. Ill, is'pub-
ished in this mornings papers. The
Knights generally favor the creation OF
distlnctively labor party.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9.-The boycott
which has been running for some
.ighteen months on stoves and ranges I
by the Fuller & Warren t
Company of Troy. n. Y, was lifted 70,
lay. Articles of agreement were slgneo
n which the firm pledged itself not 70 5
discriminate against the knights Oh
Labor in the future. to relnstate as
charged employees as far as SITUATIONS
could be found for them, and to suspeno'
bending the investigation, some twenty,
i've employers who formerly beio1gsu I
to the knights of Labor, but hao ae-
serted the organization.
PrrrsBURH, Pa, March o. w. Z.