The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-07

was done during the last strike on the Gould
system, and have them got ready for work in
| that way.
The Knights of Labor, or more particularly
the railroad branch of the order, have been in
pretty continuous and secret session all day and
tonight Their proceedings are not known, but
one of the speakers at the meeting said to q
reporter tonight that it is their purpose to stop
every wheel in the Gould system, if G. A. Hall
is not reinstated in his position in the car shops
at Marshall. s'The executive committee" he
added, 'is pretty certain that Governor Brown.
receiver of the Texas Pacific, will yield when he
sees that the Knights are determined, and will
call upon them for a conference by Monday.
There are now five thousand men out but the
committee has not ordered out it's switch
men. yardmen or brakemen, who number
about four thousand If nothing is heard
from Governor Brown on Monday, these men
will be ordered out Then will come the engi-
neers, fremen and conductors. They do not be-
longto u.s. but we can bring them out. But we
think the strike has gone far enough now to show
the Texas & Pacific receivers what they have to
deal with, and it is likely that they will be asked
by the other four roads in the system, which are
inconvenienced by the strike, to confer with the
committee as soon as possible, and arrange the
difficulty
There was a report in circulation tonight
that the yardmen in the Missouri Pacific yards
at the western end OF the union depot yards
had struck, but it was ascertained that the men
were all at work up to o'clock.
Advices from Sedalia, No., where the head
quarters of the Knights of Labor. dis
trict assembly, No. 1Ol, are located, are
to the effect that seven hundred of the
the Gould employees at that place have gone out,
and this confirms the expectation that the strike
would become general The officials of the MIS-
souri, Pacific railroad are very reticent and pos
itively decline to make any statement further
than that they do not anticipate the possibility
of supplying the places of the strikers. Master
Workman McGary. of the district assem-
bly,, refuses to state the direct cause
of the difficulty, and is as retcent
the railroad officials. It is stated here however,
that the action of the Texas Pacific officials in
discharging the foreman of the shops at Mar
shall, Tex, for activity in engaging in orgs niz-
ing Knights of Labor assembly at that place,
is the cause Of the present trouble The Knights
there objected to this action, and refused to
work for the company, which as positively
refused to reinstate the foremen. Mat
ters remained in this state for some
time, each remaining firm in their intention
to defeat the other. To-day general strike
upon the entire system. ordered by the central
committee of the Knights of Labor. and affect
ing nine thousand men, is the latest move by the
workmen to force the company to accede to their
demands.
The order calling upon the Knights of Labor
to strike on the Gould system applies to the shop
men only, and does not affect in the least the
trainmen. All trains to and from ST. Louis
are running on time, and no trouble is antici-
pated.
A special from Sedala states that the order
for the general strike reached that place at 1890
o'clock this morning, and every man in the Mis-
souri, Pacific shops put up his tools and walked
out The employees there number about seven
hundred The men are determined to support
to the end the demands of the Texas strikers
Everything is quiet and no trouble of violent
nature is anticipated. The trains are all run
ming on time, and no effort has been made to in
terfere with them, except to carry out the boy
colt instituted against the Texas Pacific cars,
which are side tracked as soon as they reach
that place.
Of the men who struck at Sedalia, 250 were
from the Missouri Pacific shops and $50 from the
shops of the Missouri. Kansas and & Texas. No
freight trains have left since IL o'clock this morn
ing. At meeting of knights, held this noon,
committees were appointed to look after the
property of the company and to see that all pas
senger engines are ready for work, but on the
arrival of freight trains the cars are side tracked
and the locomotives taken TO the round-house
and KILLED" Fred Page, prominent member
of District Assembly No. l0l. and chair
man of the meeting held held to-day, said to-
night that all train and bridge men will coop
crate with the strikers, but it is not known
what the track and section men will do. The
engineers and fremen held special meeting
this afternoon, but nothing is known of their
proceedings. Conductor King who passed
through Sedalia this afternoon in charge of the
Missouri Pacific west bound passenger train
said that Governor Marmaduke came from St
Louis to jefferson City with him, and was en-
phatic that he would stand by the Missouri Pa
ciic officials in their present troubles. He claims
that Vice-president Hoxie has li-.d up to the
contract entered into q year ago with the
Knights of Labor, and says the latter have
no causes for striking The Governor was anxious
that this information should be conveyed to the
strikers, and said that should the trouble con-
tinue he would probably visit Sedalia. At the
freight department nothing whatever is doing,
and from the fact that General Superintendent
Sibley is making no attempt to send out freight
trains, it is thought the company will pursue the
policy of abandoning all trains and suspending
business in every department. except passenger
traffic
AT Sedala, this afternoon, the strikers held an
enthusiastic meeting, appointed committee to
take charge of the round house to get out pas
senger engines, and to see that no freight engines
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