The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-09
THE CRISIS AT HAND.
Full Account of the Cause
of the Entire Trouble
Now Existing.

The Situation at Fort Worth,
Dallas, Parsons, 1T. Louis
and other Points.
Prominent Officials interviewed
but They Positively Re.
fuse to Talk.
Everything Progressing Smooth.
ly and 10 Disturbance
Anticipated.
Fl Worth, Texas, March Especial i
The situation is worse her in the strike
matter The executive board of District
ssembly No 7S was in session from
o'clock till a. m. Among the first things
done was. ordering a strike of all the
Knights of Labor on the Missouri Pacific,
Texas & Pacific and International & Great
Northern. At o'clock the strike
was to go into effect and
the executive committee, in meetingwith
600 enthusiastic Knights, began to receive
ing. Place after place was heard from,
and from each place came the same reply,
"We are out" cheer after cheer greeting
the reading of kilograms. The
Texas & Pacific yards here are
nearly blockaded. Twenty -one locomotives
and four hundred cars of freight are side
tracked, but the railrogd company say they
will move some of this tonight, although
the Knights claim the trains will not get
beyond Weatherford west or Dallas,
east. The Missouri Pacific is completely
blocked, not a wheel turning but
ON passenger train. The few men who
have gone to work here are not interferred
with, but boarding houses and some hotels
refuse to give them lodging. They have
nowhere to lay their heads. The company
officials talk about renting house for
them to sleep in and furnish them board.
The community is with the
strikers strongly ON. one point, the de-
mand for an increase of the wages of the
common laborers and of the machinists.
The knights of Labor in other lines of
work are standing by their brethren and
money and provisions IRE guaranteed TO
support them for months. here is one
feeling only among the Knights, which is
that they must win the fpht or they
are gone They don't think of losing. The
railroad officials are taciturn and low, but
say they are firm IN their stand. ~"--->r -
At Denison, Dallas, Texsrkana, Wealth
erford, Ab,line, Baird, Taylor, Paris, Sher-
man and all Texas & Pacific points, the
men are out. Freight traffic is psralyzed.
The men are quiet, sober, firm and enthu-
81 site. The opinion is that the strikers
will win.
DALLAS
Dallas, Texas, March Especial. y
1t was understood that at 10 o'clock this
the switchmen, wipers, shopmen,
etc, on the Missouri Pacific would be call
ed out at that hour. 1t was done and all
along the line of the Missouri Pacific the
men quit the shop and the wipers threw
down their rags, hence the strike on the
road was in full blast. 1t is understood
that the strike was caused alone on account
handle the cars of the Texas e. Pacific and
the strike is directed at the latter road. At
Dallas there are no3evidences of the strike
and the trains are runningas usual and
business going on as If nothing had oc-
Cured. Matters on the Texas e. Pacific,
rs far as could be learned from the officers,
remain about as they were on Friday.
At Big Springs the strikers were in full
possession. All the engines except the
passenger engines had been killed and the
striker were in complete poss ssion of the
situation. No freight trains were allow,d
ogc out and il is reported that the boarding
house ket peis were notified not to furnish
food to tho-e who would TAKE place of
the strikers None of the cars of the Texas
& Pacific at the junction are touched by
the men of the olhsr roads, and, as conse-
luence, at each junction there are Texas &
Pacific ears loaded with freight.
At Myclo there are veral cars loaded
With custom house freight.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE
Dallas, Texas, arch 81 special SO |
ar the public has not been fully informed !
Is to the cause of the dissatisfaction of the !
men now out on strike. The BAz o re-
,orter yesterday got few points from a
Gentleman, who states the cause as follows
The public, said he, as well a q great
Inmber of railroad men, 10 not know
that the trou ble is. 1t grew
ut OF a violation, in many particulars, i.y
be Texas 81 Pacific of the ST. Louis agree
aent made just after the other strike.
Ibout thre WEEKS ago the T. IA, & Pacific
fieials were notified that if the grievances
Tere not adjusted and the contract lived
p to by the Texas q Pacific pc. pie tn re
Iould be strike. This was before the
ischaIge of Hall. His discharge only pre-
ipitated matters. IT, is was con trued into q
e6ance of the men anc the rike then
Assemblies Nos. 78 and lOl
Datain most of the mechanical men on the
outhwe-t system of the Goul lines.
hey were oriered out day The order
!, walk out 10 not affect either trainm
r locomotive engineers; it is onfined
lost entirely to the shopm n and the men
/ the M chauical department If there
no adjustment of the trouble within /;
mort time he Locomotive engineers and ;
ain men W II be ordered II aud traffic
ill then cease. The strikers have sssur-
nee that hey will respond to the call.
hay don't "a IN. onrf fn h:x hat