Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-24
LABoRS' EXCITED PROTEST,
From the Atlantic to the Pacific the
Wage Workers of All Classes
RebelliOus.
Brooklyn Sugar Men Have q Conflict
with the Police and Destroy
Some Property.
Eastern Car Drivers ON the Rampage.
The Great Railroad Strike Still
in Progress.

ST. LOUIS, April 22.-Another step in the
, aggressive warfare by the striking Knights
OF Labor upon the Missouri Paci6c Railroad
has taken place this morning when five hun.
dred employees OF the Missouri Car and
Foundry Company stopped work and
of Distriet Assembly No. II. This move
has been contemplated ever since the
4 nights tound the company supplying re-
pair material for the Missouri Pacific and
/ Iron Mountain shops. A committee called
upon the vice-president Of the company and
informed him that unless they ceased fur
nleh'ng repair material to the roads their
men would be ordered out. The vice-presi-
| dent refused. The Knights employed bv
| the company were then ordered out and
the men struck. President Mcmillan said:
we shall try to run our works with new
force, but il we fail, shall open our works
atCambridge, Indiana, which have been
closed for some time. If we can't run our
business there as We see fit, we shall 90 out
OF business. would rather see the works
idle for five years than to accede to their
demands like these made by the Knights"
THE LAKE SHORE.
CHICAGO, April 22.-Everything has been
quiet on the Lake Shore road here up to
IL O'Clock this morning. The sheriff has
been assembling posse and expects that
an attempt will be made to move trains
during the day.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS.
CHICAGO. April 22.-The Lake Shore Rail- |
way Company filed bill in the superior |
court this morning, citing that the company
owns certain lands, tracks and terminal |
facilities in the county which is now being
trespassed upon by sixty men not now in
lts employ, naming the striking switch
men. The bill recites that these men are
interfering with the movement of the Rail-
road Company and in other ways tres
passers, and prays for an INJUNCTION to pre-
vent their further interference with the
operations OF the company. Judge Garnett
ssued writs OF Injunction against the men
his forenoon, and at 1910 p. m. train
oaded with two hundred deputy sheriffs
eft the Lake Shore depot for the scene of
he strike to arrest these men and bring
hem into court.
AT THE GROUNDS.
The train with the deputies and new
'orkInen reached the Furty-third street
ards little before 2p. m. Through the :
OF the strikers several of the :
lew men deserted. The deputies then en-.
eayored to clear the yard OF the 1000 3
aen assembled there. An engine was run
Ut OF the rou' house but the strikers +
eached the engineer and he reversed the !
'ver and went back to the round house.
mother attempt will soon be made to run +
train, but trouble ia feared, as the crowd a
} large and threatening. !
HOUSTON MEN GO OUT. t
HousToN, Texas, April 22.-The yard =
len OF the Southern Pacific Railroad struck .
,-day, for what cause is not stated. The 8
5rikers number about fifty men. Freight II
.affie has been suspended since the trouble O
egan.
JOINING THE STRIKERS.
CHICAGO, April, 22-4:4O p. m.-Fifteen "
sw switchmen brought from the East is
ined the strikers this afternoon The b
rikers were allowed to circulate among v
'e new men, and the supposition is now
lat they will all join the strikers. The
abroad Company and the Sheriff's posse
opear to be helpless. =,