The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-02-19
AMONG TIE STRIKERS.
No Settlement of the Lime Burners
Trouble.


RocKLAND, Feb. 1S.-The Courier-G Gazette
says that the uncomfortable condition of af-
fairs in relation to the suspension of lime
burning in Knox county still exists. No de
| cisive action has been taken looking to re-
sumption of work, but the indications are
that portion of the kilns will be running
| at an early date, each upon its own account,
which means an end of the Lime Manufac-
| turers' Association, an organization that has
| done more for the good of lime burning in
Knox county than anything that ever existed.
No Nearer Settlement in Lewiston.
LEWISTON, Feb. 18.-The district execu-
tive board publish today lengthy statement
| of their view of the causes of the Bates mill
trouble. They make some new points, and
state that scale of prices, to which Mr..
Pratt and the board must affix their sigma
lures, shall be made before the operatives
will go back. Mr. Pratt makes general de-
NAL of the new charges, and declines to dis
cuss the topics raised.
A Great Strike on the Southern Pa
cific.
HOUSTON, Tex, Feb. 1S.-The brakemen
on the third division of the Southern Pacific
| quit work here yesterday. They are acting
in concert with the striking brakemen at
New, Orleans. They make the same de-
mands as the Gretna strikers, and have sent
| word to the latter to hold out until their re-
| guests are granted. No freight trains left
| Houston yesterday, and the freight engines
were sent to the round house. How far the
| western strike extends is not yet known at
| Houston, but the indications are thatit will
extend through to San Francisco. The en-
| gineers and firemen strongly sympathize
| with the brakemen, and the report is current
that they will also strike, as they have been
dissatisfied since last fall, because of certain
| dismissals Trouble is also anticipated on
the Texas Central railroad
A Victory for a Corporation at Proyi-
dence. EI-O
| PROVIDENCE, r. l., Feb. 18.-One hundred
and forty of the 17S striking weavers of the
Natick mill have returned to work at the
company's terms. Two were refused work
| for entering the mill yesterday and trying to
| intimidate the operatives at work, stopping
their looms and hindering their work. Sew
tlonss OF weavers, and proposed open air
| meeting this morning was fiasco on ac-
count of factional feeling.
The Strike at Manchester.
| MANCHESTER, N. H, Feb 18.-The sur
| face indications point strongly to an early
collapse of the strike and to the reopening
of the mills next Monday The weavers'
meeting III Ine rluK tnlS morning was poorly
attended in comparison with others which
have been held, and the tone was far less
! bitter. Rev. G. Fl. Kimball, pastor of the
First Baptist church, who is SO popular with
| the labor element, addressed the meeting
and urged the strikers to return to work Civ
ing many good reasons for SO doing He
was followed by Miss Mary L. McGraham
and Mr.. James Coy, both prominent strikers,
and by French and German speakers, who
favored holding out, but their remarks
lacked the force of the previous effort. The
meeting adjourned for the purpose of send
ing committee to Agent Straw for another
! conference Mr.. Straw sent communica-
tion to the mayor and aldermen tonight,
| promising to open the mills on Monday if
| police protection will be afforded to those of
the operatives who desire to return to work,
and to mill property.