Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-03-20
A BIG STRIKE ON IN TEXAS.
Gould Accused of Breaking the St.
Louis Compact.
The Texas & Pacific and Missouri
Pacific acknowledgements to the
Courts for Interference.

The sravest apprehensionS continue
touching the outcome of the strike of the
shop and yardmen at Dallas, Tex, and other
points on the Texas Il Pacific and Gould
lines West of the Mississippi river, as it is
now believed that matters have come to
such pass that a general strike all along
the line cannot be averted. and may be pre-
cipitated at any moment, thereby involving
st. Louis in n strike and consequent lockout
no less embarrassing and DISASTROUS to her
commercial interests than has for weeks dis
turbed the trade of Galveston and other
South Texas points.
SOURCE OF THE TROUBLE.
The strikers allege as the reasons for go
ing out at this time that the Gould lines have
violated the compact entered into with the
employees at ST. Louis in March, 1885, at
which time it was agreed on the part of the
Gould system through its solicitor, Ex-Gov
Brown, that no man should be discharged
for participating in that strike nor for be-
longing TO any labor organization: that the
road should have 30 days notice of any de-
mand for an increase of wages, that the
company should in return give like notice
of any contemplated reduction of salary, and
that no man, either then or at any other
time, should be discharged without first
having full and impartial hearing.
BROKEN CONTRACT.
This agreement, the strikers claim, has
been ignored in the discharge of Foreman
Hall, of the Marshall shops, who was sum-
marily dismissed without previous notice for
participating in labor meetings. The re-
ceivers of the road, however, claim that Hall
was discharged for incompetency, thereby
raising direct issue on the facts.
A committee, composed of citizens of
Marshall, invited Governor Brown. one of
the receivers of the Texas Il Pacific. to a
conference looking to a settlement OF the
strike 20 which he replied in substance that
ceivers would be governed by the advice of
the L. 5. courts at Dallas, whose interfer-
ence was subsequently invoked.
SERVED WITH NOTICE.
Dallas, Tex, March ). Receiver Browns
order i'll the shape of notice TO the strikers
was given out in the form of a circular this
Alltt StitlilS lOtlu llit ldClS tOll-
nected with the strike, all employees not
willing to return to duty are notified 10 leave
the premises and other property under con-
troll of the receivers; to desist from cOngre-
eating about the dePOts, warehouses and
other places of business, and in all other re-
spects to cease from interference of or EN-
barrassment to said railway and those con-
trolling or serving it in the prosecution of its
duties as common carriers. Otherwise the
receivers will feel compelled to invoke the
aid of the United States court with all the
power at its command TO protect the EN-
plOyes of receivers and the property in their
hands, and the proper conduct OF the busi-
ness of said railway.
THE COUNTS ORDER.
The fOllOwingis the substance of the order
of Judge Don A. POrdue, dated New Or
leans. based on the petition of the receivers
The receivers are authorized to suspend the
running of trains and transaction of all busi-
hess upon any part of the lines of the Texas
and Pacific in the shop wherever their con-
troll of the property is interfered with by the
strikers, and in the event of such interfer-
ence to apply TO the judge of the United
States circuit cnurt in which the interference
occurs setting forth the facts and praying fol
an order to the United States marshal to
arrest and bring before the court, to answer
for contempt of court all such persons as
may be found interfering with the receiver
of the road.