The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-12
LARoR.s REVOLT.

General Strike on the Gould Lines IN
the Southwest - Freight Traffic Sus-
pended, and Work in the Shops Adam
doned-The Cause-TroubIe In the Stud
ebaker Wagon-works at south Bend.
Ind.-yyar Against Convict Labor in
Kentucky.
ST. LOUIS March Sat ten o'clock Sat
arday morning the executive board OF the
Knights of Labor, district assembly No.
101, in session at Marshall, Tex. issued an
order for general strike of members OF the
organization employed on the Southwest
ern system OF the Gould line ofrailroads. In
compliance with the order the men quit work
in bodies at st. Louis, Sedaha, De Soto,
and other chief centers of the Gould sys-
tenn and are reported to have gone out in
squads at Kansas City, Parsons, Atchison,
Hannibal, Leavenworth, Fort Worth, Dem
ison, Little Rock, Houston and at other
points along the lines. Seven hundred
men laid down their tools at Sedala, $40
at De Soto, 175 at Kansas City, and about
800 at the Missouri Pacific shops in this
city.
The officials of the Missouri Pacific rail.
road are very reticent and positively de-
cline to make any statement further than
that they do not anticipate the posi-
biIity of failure in supplying the
places OF. the strikers. Masterworkman
McGeary, OF the District Assembly, refuses
to state the direct cause of the difficulty
and is as reticent as the railroad officials.
1t is stated here, however, that
the action of the Texas Pacific officials
in discharging the foreman of the shops
at Marshall Tex, for actively engaging
in organizing a Knights of Labor AS
sembly at that place, is the cause of the
present trouble. The Knights of Labor
there objected to this action, and refused to
work for the company, which has positive
~ refused to reinstate the foreman.
Matters remained in this state for some
time, each remaining firm in their in
tention to defeat the other. Yesterday
general strike upon the entire system, Or
dered by the Central Committee of the
Knights of Labor and affecting 5000 men,
is the latest move by the workmen to force
the company to accede to their demands.
The running force of the Gould roads, in
Guiding shopmen, truckmen and trainmen,
is IL, 900, 5000 of whom are Knights of
Labor. The order calling out strike APP
plies solely to the shopmen, and all other
employees are at their work as usual. At
present on the entire system from $500 to
1900 men have struck, but the 5000
knights comprisedin the other departments
of the system may be ordered out in the
next forty-eight hours to sustain those at
present in idleness.
The strikers were very quiet yesterday,
and most OF them attended secret meetings
at their headquarters. Nothing is known
OF there proceedings, and their leaders will
not talk beyond saying they are out to
stay until the discharged manis reinstated
at Marshall, Tex, and all their other griev-
anccs are redressed. Affairs in the Mis-
souri, Pacific yards were at a stand
still all day. No attempt has been
made to move freight, and, as all
the yardsmen are out, much difficulty
has attended the making up OF passenger
trains. The trains which LETT for the west
last night had to be made up by officials
of the road, General Superintendent Ker-
rigan assisting in the operation. The
strikers say they will see to it that engines
and postal cars are made ready for the
road, so that mails shall not be detained,
but they will render no assistance in MAX
ing up passenger trains.
Ell PAso, Tex, March 8.-The command
er at Fort Bliss received orders Saturday
to hold his command in readiness to move
order was made in anticipation of trouble
with Mexico over the killing of Captain
Crawford, but it is now ascertained that
the order originated on account of the
strike on the Texas & Pacific railway. No
trouble is anticipated from the strike at
this point.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March Sat two
O'Clock Saturday afternoon hundreds of
the employees of the Studebaker wagon and
carriage works in this city laid aside their
tools and left the factory. The cause of
the trouble WAS the refusal of the company
to grant an increase of wages demanded
by the employees. The strike was q sur
prise to the officers. The strikers are quiet
and orderly, and no trouble is anticipated
FRANKFORT KY, March S.-Saturday
afternoon Governor Knott, of Kentucky,
sent a message to the Legislature saying
that 200 free miners, armed, had appeared
before the State Inspector in charge of the
convicts at work in the mines in Pulaski
County, and given him two days in which
to remove the men, saying they would
burn the camp. The Governor also issued
proclamation commanding the people of
Pulaski County to keep the peace and or
dering the mob to dispense. During the
evening four companies OF the State Guard
lett Frankfort for Greenwood to protect
the miners. The companies arrived
at the mines early Sunday morn
ing and took the 200 free miners
and citizens entirely by surprise. The
free miners had ordered the lessees to re-
move the convicts and were waiting for the
expiration of the two days of grace granted
before they resorted to the threatened vio-
lence. The mob is orderly, and while the
soldiers are in charge no trouble is antici-
pated, but it is the opinion that when they
go the citizens will force the convicts to
leave
New YoRK, March S.-The strike on the
Twenty third street railroad line came to
an end Saturday Early in the afternoon
g. car, guarded by a platoon of police, was
driven over the line with but little opposi-
ton, and later in the day Jacob Sharp and
the Empire Protective Association Com
mittee arrived at an agreement. The
drivers and conductors are to get two dol
lars day instead of 1925, but all of their
other demands were conceded
CHICAGO, March 8.-The executive COM
mittee OF the State Assembly of the
Knights of Labor last Saturday adopted
a memorial to the Senate and House of
Representatives, at Washington asking that
liberal appropriations of the surplus rev.
enues be made for the construction OF pub
lie works. The Hennepin canal project
is Endorsed as an undertaking of Ma
tional Importance 1t is claimed to be an
Improvement that will present an insur-
mountable check to monopolies and fur
nish cheaper bread to the East and cheaper
goods to the West. The memorial, it is
said, has been adopted by sixteen assem-
blies in this State and eleven in other
States. 1t will be sent to every member OF
Congress from Illinois.
Condition of Oranges in Florida-Brighter
Prospects.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March S.-The dele
CATION appointed by the National Edi-
torial Association at it's recent annual
meeting in Cincinnati to visit Florida and
investigate the damage done to oranges
by the recent freeze reports:
Our observations led to the conclusieE that
the reports so unfavorable to the orange in
duStry which followed the frost were largely
the result of panic among range-growers
themselves, arising from insufficient in:orma-
ton. The few weeks which have since elapsed
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