Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-02
Three Hundred Knights Of Labor Lay
Down Their Tools and Stop
Their Labor.
Reports Indicate The Stdke 10 BE
general and Far Reachisg on the
Railroads Of the Couuiry.
The Men NJ Marhali, Tex Also Suf'
hut no N.sson shswn for
Their Action.


mcant, among them q reporter for TIM
gAzErTY, The first aoOt 81 The whistle
had hardly died awsy before eyery man
nj work In the rOund,houI OF the Texas
& Pacific, every man In the yards u the
Texas Pacific and Missouri Pacific,
every msn handling baggage, every man
al work on the sections, had put on his
cont and voluntarily suspended labor,
q AzyTrH readers are certainly aware ~
the fact that, az far a. the general public
know, thore WAS no grievance Of any
description, uld for that reason the
strike caused supreme surprise, Then,
100, II was 80 quietly done, 80 orderly,
showed auch pklllful management, that
the o0nyictl0r was forced on observers
that master minds had engineered H.
The men knew what thoy were doing
No standIngiaround and talking over the
situation; no gathering al saloons or
walking the streets IN gangs, but
when the hour had come TO do what
had been decided best by their
leaders, the knights OF Labor
owing allegiance to Assembly No. l0l
simply stopped work and went TO their
several abiding places, The strike was
well generated.
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ne went to bed last night the most Tired
man In Fort Worth
At 10 o'clock last night reporter
sought out the residence OF Nm Loving,
tile district mastur workman, and, pllotod
ny an unknown friend, found the house,
but when the Mecca VI his hopes had
KIN, o.. A., ,,n,l ,,,,,s M IA, An ~
,,ns, dnia"nt sr.,ch could not nni him
Al the linton dopol MIR q l., Froat
ooneral aunor,niendeni of tho Fort
Worth Denver. was seen and asked
what he knew about tho strike.
,,Not A thing. lcnn, lind ont. only
henrd of H. AN hour AGO. mud came down nj
once. hui can't md onl n thing No
one will talk nbont H. Mr.. Judy mott.
1nd ua mat we lind better mi brina onr
freight hero. thlnkinr, no doubt. tnnt il
,youldnot be handled. hut our mon arr
MI right and tho train IL IN and enrol tor
am ,foinp back homo wl,hout learplnu n
Thing. and win have IA wut I'M morn.
inn "
a last men were lom,d who know
something about IL.
First the strike had been ordered from
sodalla next y embraced the Texas 4