The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-01
The Men Instructed to Return to Work
Pending Arbitration, but Mr. Irons Declines
to Say When They viii Resume Labor.
Business Still Blockaded by the Strik-
ing Yardmen at East st. Louis.
Atchison Strikers Appear in the Streets
Wearing Masks and Armed with Clubs
Destruction of Property at That Place.
IN AND ABOUT ST. LOUIS.
The Order of the Executive Board Trans
mftted tn the Local Assemblies.

The Order of the Executive Board Trans
mftted tn the Local Assemblies.
ST. LOUIS, March 31.-Martin Irons chairman
of the executive committee Of District Assembly
No. 10l, which embraces all knights Of Labor
employed by the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
pany, this morning telegraphed to the different
local assemblies under his jurisdiction notifying
them officially that the general executive board
has ordered all men to go to work pending arbi-
tration Of the existing difficulty by committee
Of the Missouri Pacific employees and Mr.. Hoxie.
It is expected here that this will be followed,
some time to-day, by supplementary order by
Mr.. Irons to the men under his jurisdiction to
obey the instructions of the general board.
The executive committee this afternoon de-
cided upon an order, which they will not give
out locally, but which has been telegraphed to
outside assemblies. the purport of which is that
work at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning 1t also
provides that the men who irst went out shall
be the first to resume labor. The committee are
now consulting with delegation from East st.
Louis In regard to ordering the strike off at that
point. member of the committee thinks the
men will be ordered back to work tonight, but
this has not get been decided upon
The following is the text of the order men
toned above. 1t is addressed to the local assem-
blies Of District l01:
'You are ordered by the general executive
board to 60 to work. Honor demands shat you
see that those who came out to support you get
to work first We will telegraph you the hour
and day. MARTIN IRONS.
The men in the Wabash yards, in North st.
Louis, returned to work at 2;15 this afternoon.
All were received
Up to midnight tonight no information has
been obtainable from the joint executive COM
mittees of districts 101, SO and II, who were in
session nearly all day and might, in regard to
whether the strikers In East st. Louis have
been ordered back to work, or whether such an
order viii be issued tomorrow. At midnight
nothing whatever for the public and that he
would not answer any questions. The most
that he would say was that the order sent in
these dispatches to-day was genuine, but he
would not give the day and hour when the men
would resume labor. nor would he say whether
a time had been set by the committee.
Over $50 freight trains were moved on the
Southwest system to-day, and this number will
no doubt be increased tomorrow. Traffic is prac
tically resumed on all the lines in the system,
and the wheels of commerce are again moving.
The Missouri Pacific officials this morning
sent out three freight trains from their yards.
This is the regular number Of morning trains
which it was the custom of the company to send
out before the existing strike commenced, and it
is now conceded that the road is practically
open. Some difficulty Is encountered in making
up the trains, owing to the inexperience of the
new brakemen. No opposition was offered to-
DAY to the passage of these. trains from the city
No crowds of strikers have congregated for that
purpose
The Iron Mountain road this morning has sue
ceeded in sending out its usual number of trains.
Three were started from the Lesperance yards,
with the usual number of brakemen each
train. No trouble has occurred at the yards,
and none is anticipated. The officials say they
can obtain as many experienced switchmen and
brakemen as they want, and receiving nu-
merous applications every day, though those
that struck are not embraced in the number.