The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-03-13
THE BIG STRIKE.


Orderly Strike to Bring About a Settle
ment OF the Texas Pacific Trouble.
81, LOUIS, March Between ten and
eleven O'Clock yesterday morning the
Knights of Labor began the general strike
along the five lines of the Gould system
Of railroads, which they claim will end
only in the granting of their demands by
railroad officials, or the suspension of
work by Is 900 men and the stoppage of
every wheel on the Southwestern system
of railways within four days Five thou.
sand Of the railway employees are now
out, 1000 more will be called out Monday
II the companies involved make no pro-
position by that time to the Knights for
an adjustment of their grievances, and the
1000 remaining employees Of the roads
who are directly concerned in their
mechanical operation, but who are not
Knights of Labor, will be forced to join
the strike, it is expected, by the force of
the tremendous pressure brought upon
them by their organized brethren. This
appearance OF the situation can be
changed in a day by ex-Governors
j. G. Brown and Lionel A. Shell
don, receivers OF the Texas Pacific,
with an order reinstating in his former
position c. A. Hall, late foreman Of the
wOod-workers in the Texas Pacific car
shops at Marshall, whose discharge for
attending a Knights of Labor meeting
caused the strike, and in whose case the
| Knights intend to make second test of
| theI strength on the Could lines. The
| strike on the four roads connected with
| the Texas Pacific was ordered yesterday
by Chairman Martin Irons and his execu-
tive committee in session in Marshall, and
was intended to bring out only the shop
men and local swtchmen. Fifteen hun
dred Of these received the order before
noon and left their work, st. Louis, Sc
dalia, Little Rock and DeSoto turning out
the largest bodies Of men. All OF them
left their stations Quietly and have been
employed since principally in holding
meetings and initiating new members.
j. " Powderly, Grand Master Work.
man of the knights Of Labor, is on his way
to st. Louis from Scranton, Pa, and A. A.
Talmage, general manager of the Wabash,
St, Louis & Pacific, who has been away
from the city on vacation, is expected
TO return tomorrow. ..t'
TIE STRIKE IN ST LOUIS.
The programme the Knights Of Labor
nave determined upon has been COM
municated to only few OF the most
prominent members of the order in st.
Louis, the remainder knowing generally
that it is to "stop every wheel on the
Gould system" il c. A. Hall is not given
back his position in the car shops at Mar
shall The details of the plan Of the eX.
ecutive committee were given to re-
porter last evening by one of the Euterpe
Hall speakers. t"The executive commit
tee," said he, "is pretty certain that
Governor Brown will yield when he sees
that the Knights are determined, and will
call upon them fora conference by Monday
There are now 5000 men out altogether
but the committee has not ordered on
its switchmen, yardmen or brakemen
who number about four thousand. L
nothing Is heard from Governor Brown
Monday these will be ordered out. Their
will come the engineers, fremen and con
ductors. They don't belong to US, bu
we can bring them out. But we thnl
that the strike has gone far enough nov
to show the Texas Pacific receivers wha
they have to deal with, and it is likely
that they will be asked by four othe
roads in the system, which are inconveni
enced by the strike, to confer with thu
, committee as soon as possible and arrang,
the difficulty"
"Where would this conference b.
held2"
"At Dallas, probably"
, Chow would the strike be declared a
an endI"
"Just as 1t was declared begun II tn,
executive committee receives satisiacto
ry proposition from Governor Brown ant
accedes to it., an order will be issued an
nouncing to the men that the Knights o
j Labor have won another victory, and tina
. the strike is of This will be followed
, by resumption of work all along tn
. lines"
The Knights of Labor have made it
point of honor that during one of thei
; strikes property, both private and corpc
= ration, shall be protected Yesterda
j afternoon committee from the strikers
/ just after the men had abandoned work a
VllO oilOpo1 hoibSu upOh hCCuhul
q Bartlett and Master Carpenter Hodge an
= offered to station watchmen over the raj
road property in the yards and shops du
& ing the continuance of the strike. TIL
: offer was accepted, and the Knights place
nine men on guard over each Of the fiv
departments of the shops, who will kee
alternate watches of eight hours, wit
Is three men in watch, until the strike
over. These men will be paid from tn
d District Assembly treasury
!. Although the Gould lines may not b
able to carry pound OF freight owe
Il their rails If the strike is made comprt
q. hensive, the United States mails will ne
j, be delayed, and the trains carrying thel
q will not only be allowed to run, but wi
be operated with the strikers assistance
"We are making no war on the people
: and we know too much to interfere wit
D, the mails" said a striking knight yeste
n day. "If the strike stops the trains "
will either have knights detached to rU
; the mail trains or hire other men-I don
,e know which the executive CommittC
.e considers the better plan. We're sorl
for the merchants whose freight is beir
do1ovad lint ,ua canit haln That noir