Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-31
THE GREAT boycott.
Sawyer Talks freely and Thinks that
Mallory Didn't Say What
is Reported,
The Heaviest Musical Iuiirumeni
Rouse In Che state Says ship
by the aergan Line
she noycott Was agreed Upon "a Eh,peS.
ton but Was illuminated nons'
For Worth
speflaito I'M 0aaettc:


CONTRACTING INTERVIEWS.
GALVESTON, Tex Jam 30 lfgqybsl
matters are stlll In statu quo, aus not.
withSMndiug the ed.ct putting the Nal.
lOry line under the ban IS now three days
old, no official notice 10 that eHtat has
been served on the company or amy Ni thc
other parties IN interest, One % thp
probable causes for this hanging ice Of
the order IN forcing .he refractory com.
pany into line iA said to he the
premature publicity given TO The boycott
proclamation, This preylousnoss has
considerably exercised the knights and
been the subject OF close investigation.
Juaj how the Information was obtalned Is
secret, hut the fact of It's authority is
not denied. The assertion that II was
Issued from Galveston within llteen
minutes after the anal adjournment Of
district assembly No. 70 Is hardly recon
cAablo with the statement that the en-
Velope IN which 1t was for
warded bore the Fort Worth
postmark, hut be this as Il may the
boycott order has been given 80 the pub
lie, and is ostensibly in effect though no
I results are yet apparent, except In the
case of Messrs, TIL mas Goggan & Bro,
Z dealer In pianos and musical Instruments,
of this city, who yesterday changed ship
meut from New York from tho Mallory to
Morgan line Mr., Goggan says his action
was simply measure of seli-protection,
by nsuring the rapid transit of his freight
which, Via the Mallory line, might
meet with delays as result
of the boycott. Relative TO the
initiatory steps taken by the Mqssrs
Goggan, Capt. Sawyer said "TheSe gen
tlemeu are right; they are doing the very
same thing the Mallory Line company ar,
having all the trouble about They ar,
exercising the right TO control their owl
business, OF course we regret that W,
lose our part of their shipments, bu
then we have no right to object TO thei
action in the premises. Whether with o
without reason, no matter wha
the controlling Influence is
the Niessrs. Goggan, | think, ar
dong what they consclentiously belioy
TO be for the best for thetr business u
present II Il their prerogatiyo TO do so
and no one has any right TO question
them. This Is our case precisely" llela
tive 10 the interview had IN New Ior
with c. II, Mallory, publishc
this morning, Capt. Sawyer said thi
afternoon "that from his nuderstandu
OF the history Of the trouble between tn
knights of Labor and the company h
thought there was some mistake in tn
a publication The interview was not q cnl
! rect version and had an irritating ten
! dency.n II is rumoyed that there will b
. big meeting OF the order to.morro,
night and that regular boycotting will BIZ
gin the next morning.
specla to tho Gazette
G. II. MALLORY TALKS,
NEW YORIt, Jan 50 &C II. Mallory 0
= The Mallory Steamship company SCENE
to be little disturbed to-day by the boy
colt placed on bis line 10y the Knights {
= Labor in Galveston. lie said he had II
4 ceiyed telegram from Capt Sawyer, III
" agent Of the company in Galveston, and
was stated In the telegram that theI
j. had not been any delays In the delivery
J. freight by the railroad companies 50 Ia
y but what action the labor unionlst
q might take in order to int
T. rupt traffic was as yet undecided
j. The wholesale merchants OF Galycsto
~ sympathIze with the company in the 1gt
81 I'd would give them their support. a,
,e cot1ng TO Mr.. Mallory the arbitratio
"a boycott'On to which was referred tn
ber, and Whist the company last Hoven
Jointly with 4 considered the questlo
os of Labor, are opposed 81 inc knlghl
BOYCOTT. hThe knights OF ne presef
al said "urdered the boycott wlthol'9 h
a shifting the members of the arbltratil
commissions To-day the steamsh
5e Alamo was loading at pier 90 East rive
for Galveston and the state OF Texas W
al unloading at pier ~. Both piers we
~ crowded with trucks unloading and loa
u ing freight, and Il small army Of Ion
\, shoremen were employed on I
piers Capt. Deering, who i
general chnrge Of the compan.
a. piers, said that he had
III 'longshoremcn employed on the yesse
re Thes men have been in the employ
le, tho company far long time aud
" thought they could be depended (
They did not belong 20 any labor nni'
ne as the company did not employ UNI
as- mon. The men are paid thirty cents
nd hour for day and night wulk. The unl
Is. price N forty cents on hour Under tbs
Ice circumstances hc did not see how
boycott could affect him. H. hoWef
lrr MS men sh ud JON "a labor union .
as 20 out, he would do as he did once pel'
ms % a similar occasion, advertise for laD
~ ers AID employ those who answered
De adyertisement The company's stea
sly shin I.ampasas Is due at Galveston an'
rs txpec 90 that the Knights OF Labor
)s- begin the fight by endeayoring ~ prey
the railroads from conveying freight
cit her,
ay.