Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-01
LATEST /! LABOR MOVEMENTS.
Continuation Of the Strikes ut ALI
Points Many attempts Made
t'f2gi @fs'i' For Arbitration, III s..
The Eieht.HOur Demand Takes Def.
mite Shape..-It Will be Inau.
81 @-= gurated May First. 20.
4 Striking Switchman Killed by q Non
Union Employe Of the Missouri
Pacific.

NEW YORK, April 28-President Lyon, O
the Third Avenue Railway Company, say
he will have no more conferences with tn
Ahtrikers, and that be would resign before b
would confer with them again. Experienced
drivers are being sought Tor ia other cities
and when the running Of night cars is re
/ sumed the Governor may be called upon t,
! give military protection to the company.
!; 1t is said a. bass Of agreement betweel
the company and strikers was reached yes
/ terday, one OF the terms of which was that
the prosecutions against the rioters should
| be abandoned.r The Grand Jury, however
had taken the matter in hand and refused
to stop its investigations. So the settle
Iment fell through ,, -.......-- ---,.. d.
p BOSTON CAR MEN.
BosroN, April 28.-The differences be
tween the Cambridge Street Railway Com
pany and its employees have been adjusted
upon terms which practically concede the
terms Of the men.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO MEET.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28.-The General
Executive Board of Knights of Labor has
fixed May 25 as the date for special meet
/ ing OF the General Assembly OF the Order t o
consider the labor crisis and to make rec
Omme1datiOn OF appropriate leeis! q ton on
the subject as suggested by the Congress
|sional Investigation Committee. The ses-
sion will be held in Cleyeland.
TROUBLE IN ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, April 28.-The boss bakers
and confectiOners and shoe manufacturers
OF this city have declined to accede to the
demands of the Knights Of Labor, that
%hnv, n1~ t1r1~ II
trouble among the employees in various fac
tories seems imminent.
+ BOYCOTT OF THE MALLORY LINE.
GALVESTON, April est was reported
here yesterday that the Executive Board
now in session at Fort Worth, had issued
an order raising the boycott against the
Mallory steamship lines. The officers
deny that such an order has been agreed
ups IL, but state the Executive Board is
discussing some contemplated action in
the matter.
STRIKER KILLED.
/ Sr. LOUIS, April 28.-Wm. E. Withers, a
so-callcd ''scab'' switchman, formerly of
indianapolis. while leaving the Missouri
Pacific yards tonight was set upon by
three men, who seized and pounded and
beat him sorely. He finally broke away
from them, and drawing a revolver fired,
and one of his assailanrs, named Gibbons,
fell dead. Gibbons was striking yard.
man. Withers was arrested. His other
assailants escaped. 4
Strike Briefs.
An eight-hour mass meeting will be held
q Rochester Saturday nj hit, and unless
strike will be ordered.
Tho cf mon ~ R,,ffo1o bovo do
manded reduction to IL hours, and an.
to 81 per day.
The Empire Protective Association have
secured an old charter for stage line from
the City Hall to Forty-fourth avenue.
They will try to secure it's extention to
Harlem.
The Citizens Committee Of St. Louis
have determined to make decided effort
to end the strike. They ask the Knights
to declare the strike off and pledge them
selves to bring about arbitration or to seJ
cure the Unemployment of all strikers who
have not committed offenses against the
aw.
Three hundred freight handlers of the
Chicago, Milwaukee Il St. Paul road in
Chicago have demanded the eight-hour
system Nav l, without a reduction OF
wages. II not complied with there will be
. strike.
John Holland, one OF the strikers was
found guilty in St. Louis yesterday OF as.
saulting non-union brakeman, and sen
fenced to 80 days in jail.
The case OF the East St. Louis Deputy
Sheriffs charged with murder is before the
courts. They having been re eased on a
will be arrested and tried as
fugitives from justice.