The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-02
STILL THE STRIKE.
Ordering Men to Work by the
Wholesale.
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 40 1Ol
Declares that in this Country Position
Makes No Man n King
or n Slave.
The Strike.

ST. LOUIS. April lit i not by any
means certain that either the Knights
of Labor on the Gould system or those
in East St. Losis viii return 20 work
to-day, in obedience to any orders is
sued by officers of their assemblies.
Chairman Irons has obeyed the instruc-
tons OF the general executive board by
the ordering of 5000 Knights OF his dis :
trict assembly to resume work, but
neutralized it with an appended notice
that the time AT which they should ap-
ply for their positions would be tele-
graphed to them later. At a late hour
last night he said he had not sent any
telegram announcing any hour for
the resumption, and refused to ex-
plain why. The difficulty in send
ing back TO work the East ST. Louis
Knights comes from local assemblies,
and not from the executive committees,
which intended TO have ordered them
to resume yesterday, but met with
protest from the Knights themselves
based on individual grievances, which
they demand shall be adjusted before
they seek unemployment Their ex-
ecutiye committees. have issued orders
so worded as 70 throw the responsible
ity of their action to-day upon their
own lodges. so unless their com mittee
take decided action to-day and issue
precise orders for the resumption of
work, the general executive committee.
when II reaches here tomorrow, will
find that its order has not caused the
effect intended.
Notwithstanding the failure OF Knights
on the Missouri Pacific Railway to re-
turn TO work, freight traffic on that
road has assumed very near its normal
condition. In the railroad yards the
usual activity prevailed in marked con-
trast to the dizziness which has existed
during the strike. Freight trains are
being made up preparatory TO starting
and are placed in a position TO receive
their loads without any attempts at
interference from the striking Knights.
The general offices of the company have
also assumed their normal activity
incident upon the resumption of freight
traffice OF the system and to-day, the
first of the month, the clerks. who were
temporarily suspended during the
strike, resumed work. Governor
Oglesby aud his acknowledgement l
arrived in st. Louis last even
ing. Soon after the Governors
arrival he received a delegation of
Knights, who presented their side of
the trouble to him. They told the Gov
ernor that they were willing to resume
work when their grievances had been
adjusted, and deprecated all acts OF VIC
lence.
Owing to the absence of any definite
orders from the executive COMMITTEES.
as to the exact time when they shall
return 10 work, the strike of the yard
men and switchmen at East st. Louis
still continues, and the strikers have
assembled in great numbers this morn
ing in the railroad yards and around
the railway depot but no serious disturb
ances are anticipated. The presence of
deputy United States marshals has 4
restraining influence upon the more
demonstrative members of the crowd,
and the efforts of the Wabash road,
which Is under the control of the United
States court, to start out freight
trains are not interfered with. The
knowledge that the governor of the
State and Adjutant-Ge are watch
ing their every move in order to deter
mine whether or not il shall be neces-
sary to call out the militia also restraIns
the strikers from violence and the
crowds are in consequence unusually
orderly.
Contrary to the general expectation
that the executive committee OF District
Assembly No. 101. would designate the
hour OF 10 O'Clock this morning as the
hour when striking knights should
return to work, no order to that effect
was issued and at 10 clock the strike
still continued. None of the strikers
have applied this morning to the Mis-
souri, Pacific officials for work, and they
co fhat- xxrfIl M do N I'D =
their executive committee
A st. Louis coal dealer, relying upon
the promise of the strikers that efforts
by teamsters 10 raise the coal blockade
al East st. Louis would not be inter
fered with, sent q number of men with
their teams to transfer fuel from that
side of the river; several strikers, how
ever, made an attack upon the men to
prevent them from loading the wagons.
The teamsters resisted, and a general
fight ensued. Knives were drawn, but
the appearance of several United States
deputy marshals caused the strikers 10
fee without having received or inflicted
any very severe injury. The teamsters
returned to ST. Louis without coal, fear
ing further violence.
+, The executive committee OF the Dis
trict Assembly. No. 1850, members OF
which include the Missouri Pacific shop
men and mechanics, appointed a COM
mlttee to call upon Master Mechanic
Bartlett to ascertain what men he
would re employ. A member of the
committee said this morning they would
demand that all men without exception,
who struck be re-employed. Bartlett,
in reply TO an inquiry as TO what men
he would take back, said he would ex-
ercise his own judgment il the matter;
that none OF those who had destroyed
the company's property would be re-
employed, and that the number OF
whom he should take back would be
determined by the number of men
actually needed. The final settlement.
therefore. of the strike on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad seems as far ever.
The executive committee of the Dis
trict Assembly, No. 10l have determined
to appoint no arbitration committee 10
confer with Hoxie until old employees
of the road shall be taken back.