Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-04-22
THEFIGHF OF THE wAGEwORkERs.
A ST. Louis Foundry Closed Because it
Did Work For the Gould Roads-Fears
Of Disorders at Chicago III Pinierton
Detectives are Employed.

ST. LOUIS, April 22.-Another step in the ag-
gressive warfare of the striking knights of
Labor upon the Missouri Pacific railroad was
taken this morning at 10 O'Clock, when the five
hundred employees of the Missouri Car and
Foundry company stopped work and Joined in
The strike IN obedience to an order OF district
assembly No. IL. This move had been contem-
plated ever since the Knights found that the
company were supplying repair material for
the Missouri Pacific and iron Mountain Shops
where, it is claimed by the strikers the new
men are not sufficiently skilled to make the
material.
President Mcmillan was seen by a reporter
ana said: 1--WE shall try 10 run our works with
new foree OF men, but If We TAIL we shall open
our works at Cambridge, Ind, which have
been closed Tor sometime. If We can't run our
business there as We see fit, we shall go out OF
business altogether. L would rather see the
works idle for live years than to accede to any
demands like these made by the knights oi
Labor"
DISORDERS EXPECTED AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO. April 22.-The sole topic OF CONVEX
sation at the yards OF the Lake Shore road early
this morning was the probability of an attempt
being made by the company with the assist
ance of Sheriff Hanchett and a large force OF
Pinkerton detectives, TO move the freight which
is blocking the yards. As long force i
brought to bear but that OF the sheriff every
thing may be conducted peaceably, but the in
PRODUCTION of Pinkerton men, it is claimed, may
be the signal for bloodshed. The men claim To
have an antipathy tor these detectives, owing
TO the experience at McCormick's and in other
localities.
Shortly after nine o'clock a force of o5 regu-
lar deputy sherins assembled at the sheriff
Office. The special deputies assembled at
yaNouS detectives Offices. y member OF the
Switchmens brotherhood called at the sheriff7s
office this morning and asked To be sworn ia as
a deputy. THE men who are pulling pins and
throwing switches at AID street, he said, ''are
doing US great deal of harm, and the organi-
Zatlon has no sympathy with them. They are
men who have hung around the place for years
and who are always ready for ngnt with any
BODY and everybody. know them all. lie
VIII probably be sworn in. one OF the Pinker-
ton officials this morning declared that none
OF their men were 10 join the sherill7s posse.
AGENERAL BOYCOTT PROCLAIMED.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 22.-Ihe executive
board OF the Ohio Trade and Labor assembly
has promulgated a manifest boycotting the
Champion Machine company OF Springfield Tor
alleged discrimination against the Knights OF
tempt made by the labor organization 10 arbi-
trate the matter OF difference between w. y.
Whitley and his employees, and appeals toall far
minded men to withhold their patronage from
the hampton company until such time as the
organization manifest Il Willingness 70 treat its
men as free American citizens, and adjusts the
present difficulty by arbitration.
FURNITURE MAKERS wASFMoRE PAY.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, April 22.-The secre-
tary OF the Furniture association has received
a communication from a committee appointed
by a mass meeting of nearly All the furniture
workers in the city demanding an eight hour
day and 10 per cent Increase III wages after
May L. No action Will be taken until after "A
conference with the Western Furniture Manu-
facturers' association, which Is To he held in a
DAY or tHo. Inc NUMBER OF furniture workers
concerned as several thousand.
ORGANIZING To RESIST ORGANIZED LABOR.
CHICAGO, April 22.-About seyenty-fiye furni-
ture manufacturers of Chicago, employing Tour
thousand men, have organized 10 resist de-
mands by workmen. a resolution was passed
that no skilled mechanics be employed by any
member without "a letter of recommendation
from the firm for which he last worked. The
association will probably arrange schedule OF
wages which viii be adopted by all its MEM
bers. The employees OF members viii be treated
with ali fairness, but the manufacturers say
they will not recognize any union, or be die
tated to about whom they will employ 10 do
their work. 1t is also contemplated that all the
manufacturers OF this section Will join the asso-
citation.
A MEETING OF MINERS AND OPERATORS
CALLED.
PITTsBURG, April PA Dubois, Pa, special
says: The executive board OF the Miners and
Laborers Amalgamated association have issued
"A circular To the operators of the fourth district
calling joint meeting of operators and miners
AT Dubois, on Tuesday, 9th Instant, to arrange
q scale OF wages for the balance OF the year. n
large number OF the miners who struck for the
advance TOUR weeks ago are still idle and IL is
the intention to make the strike general ii the
operators refuse to meet their worlsmen on
Tuesday. When all OF the collieries are in
operation over six thousand men are employed.
An Improbable story.