The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-10
The Labor Troubles.

ST. LOUIS, March ALI freight traf-
fic over the bridge is entirely suspended
this morning and none except passenger
trains have been allowed to pass over
since last night. Passenger trains are
made up by yardmasters and bridge
superintendent, who also do all the
switching necessary to bring trains into
position at the Union Depot. Each
road is obliged to use its own engines in
making up and transferring its Cars, AS
none Of the bridge engines are in use.
The bridge company's engines and fire
men have not as yet gone out. but they
refuse to do any of the work which
heretofore has been done by shopmen.
such as repairing, cleaning, etc. When
an engines becomes injured or its ma
chinery needs cleaning, there is no one
to do the work, and the engine is put
aside. All passenger trains for the east
and west have succeeded in starting
out this morning, but all have been
more or less delayed on account of the
difficulty the few men in the yards at
the depot experience in making up
aims.
CAIRO, Ill. March 9.-On the Iron
Mountain railroad no freight is being
handled here or at Bird Pnir- 81.
o G,ae sWltchman pa. n d at WORK in the
- al Bird Point. Passenger trains
carrying mail Will be run from here as
usual About eighty men including
bridge carpenters, struck last night.
AT the Missouri Pacific and Iron
Mountain yard everything is quiet, and
no disturbance has occurred, and none
is expected. Squads of guards, ap-
pointed by the Knights, continually
patrol the yards, protecting the COM
pany's property and dispensing the
groups OF men who become at all excited
IN discussing the situation, and in this
way perfect order prevails. A rumor
to the effect that ali Knights employed
by all roads, which have yards in East
st. Louis, will strike this evening, is in
circulation. This has been confirmed
by one OF the superintendent of the
Bridge aud Tunnel Company, who
says that such a move is certainly
in contemplation. Knights, when que.-
toned about the affair, maintained
strict silence, and will make no state
ment in confirmation or denial of the
rLnor. A sub-official of the Missouri
Pacific road said to a reporter last
night: You are aware that we are
expected to say nothing and saw wood,
but l will say contidentially to you that
from the inside l know the extent and
meaning of this trouble is more alarm
ing than head officials would admit
under any circumstances. The men
who are participating in this strike are
better able now than before to fight to
the bitter end and the company cannot
refuse to respond to the appeals
of shippers very long. L do not
say the strike is just or war
ranted, but 1 do say, and
emphatically, too, that it cannot
be put down as quietly and
as quickly as could be wished. 1t will
not stop were it is. There is not a
not for the United States mails it is my
opinion that passenger trains would be
stopped as well, unless a compromise is
bitterly contested than the one in 1877.
LITTLE Rock, March 9.-This morning
the Iron Mountain railroad managers
discharged twenty-five truckers, all
freight clerks, and notified transfer
companies to clear the depot OF all
freight.
Managers of the Missouri Pacific
Railway offices in this city. to-day no
tilted their clerks that they had decided
to relieve them from duty indefinitely.
This action has been taken by the COM
pany in order to curtail as much as
possible their expenses during the con-
tlnuanca of the Knights OF Labor strike
upon their road. The order affects
sixty telegraph operators and 200 office
clerks