Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-04-24
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
THE CONFLICT AS BITTER AS
EVER
for Supremacy Throughout the
Countrywide Congressional Labor
Committee to Investigate the
Existing Troubles.


Mr. Powderly will 60 to Washington to
testify before the special Congressional Com
mttee inquiring into the strike en- Goulds
Southwestern railroads. Mr.. Griffith, of
Chicago, General Worthy Foreman. near in
authority to Mr.. Powderly, will also go to
Washington to give testimony. When Mr..
Fowderly leaves Washington he will 60 to
Philadelphia, where he will establish head
quarters, and probably remain there until
the expiration Of his term, on January J.,
next He finds it necessary to make the
change on account of constant Interruptions
to his work at his home In the new head
quarters he will fix regulsr office hours and
refuse to see any body on business except
during them.
MIR. Powderly is making arrangements on
the part Of the Knights of Labor, to appoint
a committee of disinterested men to inau re
into the strike. He will probably do this
within week. The Knights will give the
committee all the assistance they can, and
see that it does not overlo k anything respec.
ting the indictment of Martin Irons. Mr.,
Powderly says the Knights as body will
take no steps to defend him. While Mr.
Powderly does not wish 10 prejudice Irons
case, he says that the organization cannot
stand between any individual member and
the violation Of the law, and that offending
Knights must stand trial the same as any
other citizen.
COAL STRIKE PR BABLE.
A special from Youngstown, O., says there
Is every reason to believe that tbs coal
miners Of the Mahoning valley will make a
general demand for an advance Ct wages
within short time. The miners of the Po>
land Coal Company and those of the Port
Royal Coal Company in that vicinity, have
already asked for an increase of ten cents per
ton from May 1.
NEW STREET CAR TIE-UP AT NEW YORK.
Twenty-Five new men were hired by the
Third avenue railroad company to replace
strikers and drilling Of the new drivers has
gone forward in the depot. The company's
officials are thoroughly confident and say
they now have enough men to run the cars
OF the main line from end to end and also
the 125th street line. The strikers were in
session all day and they say they initiated
twenty-five Of the company's newly-hired
men Of Saturday.
The executive committee of the Car-drivers
Association have decided to tie up all the
surface lines in the city except on Eighth
and Ninth avenues
REFLEcTING ON THE KNIGHTS.
The Elmira, N. Y. division or the order
CT Railway Conductors, numbering 100 mem.
bers adopted resolutions extending greeting
and commencing the manly action, the
steadfastness to principle and the prestige
thereby given to the order in maintaining its
principles by the brothers of the order en-
ployed on the Missouri Pacific system of
railroads in refusing to join in and discoun-
tenancing the strike which has been in pro-
press in that section to the detriment of both
employe and employer.
woRKINGMEN ADVISED TO ARM.
What is known as the Workingmen's Rifle
Corps filled hall at Second avenue, New
York. They were addressed by Editor
Schewitch, of the Nolks Zeitung, upon the
labor question. He advised his hearers to
arm themselves as rapidly as possible. and
Rifles could be had for S. each and smmuni-
ton was cheap. The crowd cheered these
sentiments
THE EIGHT HOUR MOVEMENT
The members of the Miners and Laborers
Amalgamated Association in Luzerne and
Lackawanna counties Pa. will hold demon
stration on April o.. Addresses will be made
in favor of the Eight-Hour law, which there
will be an attempt to enforce throughout the
anthracite region on May l.
TEXAS KNIGHTS IN CONFERENCE.
The four local Assemblies of the knights
Of Labor are holding consolidated meeting
at Denison, the attendance being I'M
usually large The Knights give indication
of something important under consideration.
Extra guards watch the doors, and back>
sliders were carefully excluded from the
meeting.