The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-09

The Knights OF Labor employed on these
FIVE roads are under the immediate
direction of district assembly 121. When
the local strike in Texas failed of the de-
sired result, 'he executive board of the
Knights of Labor of the Southwestern sys-
tenn, In session at Marshall and in commun-
ication with Receiver Blown and other
officers of the Texas & Pacific railway since
March lst when the first let of men walked
out, asked an adjustment of the trouble by
the reinstatem Mt of Hall and some oth-rs,
who were subsequently discharged. With
this request the board gave notice
that refusal to comply would
be followed by the strike ION the Gould
system. The railway has failed to do as
desired, and to-day tn. executive board
gave the word for general strike of the
shopmen
| OFFICERS INTERVIEWED.
To-day direct application by an Asso-
ciated Press reporter to the high officials
of the Missouri Pacific system has
failed most signally in eliciting any in
formation in regard to the strike, its cause
or its present aspect. Neither Vic Presi-
emit Hoxie, General Superintendent Ker-
rigan or Traffic Manager Newman would
talk. The few leaders OF the Knights of
| Labor who are here are also quite retecent.
When Mas er Mechanic Bartlett was
informed by committee of the order that
had been issued and the men in his shop
would 60 out immediately. He asked them
| If the men were dissatisfied with anything,
or if they had any grievance, but they
would only reply: 1--WE have been ordered
to quit work and leave the shops"
and they obeyed the order at
once. About 200 men were employed in
the shop
At the Office of the yard superintendent
il was ascertained that some trouble was
anticipated in the handling of the engines.
Locomotives are fired and made ready for
the road by the opmen and are
not touched BY the engineers
or firemen until ready to go out. 1t was
thought probably that if the strike con-
tiuued the engines would have to be run
into the round houses of 9th reads, as was
done during the strike on the Gould sys-
tenn, and have them got ready for work in
that way.
STRIKE ON THE 1. Gu
ST. Louss, March 6.-The Globe Demo-
crafts Palestine, Tex, special says: Two
hundred and fifty International & Great
Northe' n shop-nen quit work this morning
in obedience to orders from headquarters
of the Kn ghts of Labor. The company
will not attempt to run any but passenger
trains.
KNIGHT Is INTERVIEWED.
st. Louis, Narch 6'-The Knights of
Labor, or more particularly the railroad
branch of that order, have been in contin-
uous and secret session all day and tonight.
Their proceedings are not known, but one
OF the speakers at the meeting
said to reporter tonight, that
it is their purpose to stop
every wheel on the Gould system if C.
Hall is not reinstated in his position in the
Car shops at Marshall. "The executive
committee" he added, :"is pretty ,rtain
thai Governor Brown, receiver of the Tex
as & Pacific, win yield when ne sc that
the Knights are determin d and will
call upon them for conference by Mon
day. There are now 5000 men out, but
the committee has Mt ordered out its
switchmen, ysrdmen or brakemen, who
number about 1000. If nothing is heard
from Governor Brown on Mon
day, these men will be ordered
out. Then will come the engi-
neers, firemen and conductors They
do not belong to us but We C N 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 ikelys that they ill
be asked by tha other four
roads in the system, which are incnnveni-
enced by the strike, to confer with the
committee as soon as possible and arrange
the difficulty. There was a report in cir
culatIon tonight that the yard men in the
issouri Pacific yards at the western end
OF the Union Dep t yards had struck, but
it was ascertained that he men were ali at
work up to 6 o'clock to-day.
AT PARSONS.
Parsons Kas., March 6.-AIl the men
employed in the shops at tins place strucs
at 10 o'clock this morning and freight
TRIMS are not permitted o run. The
cause of the strike is said to be the viola
ton by the Missouri Pacific of the agree
ment entered in'o last fall and the Knis hts
OF Labor have several other grievances
which are not made public. Ev ~ thing is |
peaceful and quiet and no disturbance or |
violence is anticipated.
LATER FROM PARSONS
Parsons, Kas., March 6.-ISpec al EAt
a signal given bv the owing of the whis-
lie in the Missouri Pacific shops to-day at
10 o'clock every man IN the shops Quit !
work asd wa ked out. They we've Joined |
by all the Knights in the employ of the |
except enough to run the passen-
ger tr ins, which are running as
usual. There was no demonstration /
of any character, and the men were all |
quiet and orderly. The executive COM
miltee has been in session all day, but
nothing can be learned of their intentions. !
The number out here is about four
hundred. The majority of them are
own rs Of their homes, and are in shape,
inanciall :, to stand long strike without