Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-03-13

severely injured James Madden was taken
home i'll from the shock caused 10y fear.
A number Of arrests were made, and Ia
court the parties were either lined or dis
charged for lack of-ey1dence.
IN BEoOELTN.
/ Not a car is running on any of the seven
roads controlled 10y the Atlantic avenue rail-
I way company. The strikers are orderly and
] confident OF victory.
The lines thus affected are the Fifth and
! Seventh avenue. BoerCm place. Bergen
l street, Butler street, Vanderbilt avenue, and
! the cross town route from the bridge TO
/ Hamilton ferry. This suspension has caused
{ great inconvenience to business men in south
/ Brooklyn.
The total number of men who Quit work is
about ], 200 and a few of them are gathered
about each OF the stables owned by the com
/ pany; but beyond arguing with new men,
[ generally with success not to 60 to work.
have made no demonstration. The company
was assured of police protection. One Of
Henry Bergh's officers was present to pre-
vent cruelty to animals.
President Richardson, who is also one Of
the directors of the Dry Dock lines In New
York, said the strike was made without
warning, and was because he took part ia
the fight on the Manhattan Island.
The strikers said they proposed to give
him enough work to dOaI home he asserts
that he agreed to listen to their demands,
and was willing TO concede s. per day OF
twelve hours work.
The strikers, however formulated long
list of demands fixing hours, number OF
trips, etc, and demanding that several OIL
GERS be reprimanded and one of them dis
charged, and called on him TO come to their
meeting to sign the agreement which he de
clined to do.
GONE BACK.
CHICAGO, March fully eight hundred
men are at work in the MCCOrmick's paper
factory this morning. The strike is con
sidered at an end. The unemployed work
ns| p
they prepared an address TO Mccormick, IN
which they stated that if 1iVe nOn-un1On men
now worked in the fOuncery are placed IN
some other department where they viii not
deprive old hands of employment, a settle
ment Is possible.
AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
SPRINGFIELD, o., March THE excite
Enent on the labor situation is still intense.
The prOprietOrs Of the East street reaper
works claim that only $50 men are out, but
the men themselves claim that 800 men are
out. There is no violence.
If no settlement can be reached T. v.
POWderley, master workman of the Knights
of Labor, viii be appointed 10 act as arDi-
traitor. The discharged men have. received
many offers OF help from business men and
Others. The men call on all WOrkmen to stay
away from Springfield until the difficulty is
settled.
The men are already talking of boycotting,
and are IN a great state Of excitement. Most
of the men discharged viii be destitute IN a
ries refuse to discharge the knights Of Labor
in their employ.
After considerable parlsyiug tho New York-
street railroad labor difficulties were settled
to on the following basis; That the several
companies hereby agree to pay rate of s.
per day for twelve hours as a days work, for
conductors and drivers, and after our ears
are running TO submit all questions of differ
ences between the employees TO Labor Com
missioner O'DOnneu. Travel was at once
resumed on all street car lines.
IN TEXAS.
There seems to be a general Right Of Labor
strike throughout Texas particularly on the
line of the Southern and azas Pacific rail
roads. The strike on ts later road was
caused by the discharge a au obieetious r5ls
KuiUht of Labor. An al6sfs-- the la'sIatLi
s-,llhgqesEsrn system are closed, and the road
is practically cited up.''
The New Brunswick newspapers mourn
a falling of Of 100000 in the fish exports
during the last five months.
Hon. James Harlan, ez-Vice- Chsneel-
Tor, Louisville, KY, says he usel st.
Jacobs Oil, that it is a most extraordinary
and aI1eoTr1Fla 0Trv-a for v57ar4r11rEf and