St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-17
Nothing Yet on Which to Base Belief
That the Great Strike Will
Soon End.
Correspondence Between Vice Presiden
HOxie and Martin Irons Devoid
Of Result.
Railroad Men Favor Conference
With Employees Rather Than
knights OF Labor.
The Clearfield Miners VIII Hold Out
"A Strike on the Burlington ~
Northern.
Thc C:rent strike Continues,


ST. LOUIS, March 16.-Receiver Brown
| President HoXie that he has siXty-seyen
men ut work in the Marshall shops, thirty
four of them old employees. and that he eX-
poets many more tomorrow. The shops at
Big Springs. Baird and Fort Worth. ho
says, have men enough at work for present
wants. No strike has yet occurred among
the East st. Louis switchmen. Attempts
to run freight trains are still generally un-
successful, even With the efforts of United
States marshalS. Texas passenger trains
are from one TO three hours behind time.
Boycotting Is being resOrted TO at Fort
| Worth, the bOarding-houseS which take
men who secure strikers places being among
the number. No freight trains are moving
on the Nebraska division of the Missouri
Pacific from Omaha. The knights of Labor
there are obstructing tracks with empty box
cars. st. Louis merchants publish card
announcing their ability To deliver mer-
chandise as quickly as merchants in other
cities. The injunction recently granted
against ObStructing the Missouri Pacifie's
property here has had practically no effect
Police protection has been asked for. No
attempt to resume freight traffic has yet
been made.
FRUITLEss CORRESPONDENCE.
Vice President Hoxie received the fol
lowing to-day:
Sedalia, No, March 16.-H. L. Hoxie. First
Vice President: Ii has been intimated to me
that committee of Knights OF Labor COM
posed of railroad employees, would be admitted
TO a conference with You in regard 10 diff
culties now existing with said employees and
railroad companies comprising the Gould
Southwestern system. III IL is your wish,
gnnnh
such time and place as you may determine
MARTIN Irons,
Chairman X. of l.. Executive Committee.
To this. after acknowledging its receipt,
Mr.. HoXie replied as follows:
While 1 am always ready TO confer with and
hear complaints of any of the employees OF
the companies which L represent, i cannot
see that meeting with commi ttee such as
you propose won Ii adjust the trouble. as
am informed that the reason Tor the existing
difficulties was tue discharge of Q. A. Hall
by the receivers of the Texas Pacific railroad,
a road not under my control and with the
management of which L have no voice or
authority. would further state that the ae-
tion taken by our late employees has so re-
duced our traffic that we shall not soon again
require as many men in our shops as hereto
fore; but all good men who desire employ
ment and are acceptable to our superintend-
ents will hereafter, as heretofore, be well
and promptly paid for services rendered, and
IL they have any complaints / will take pleas
ure in meeting them for that purpose.
II. L. HoxIE.
A CONFERENCE PROBABLE.
A meeting of general managers and su-
perintendehts, freight agents and other
officials of all the roads centering in East
Sc. I-O,ais hold hara fhis after,,ooy 20
consider and act upon the demand OF the
switchmen OF these roads made
yesterday through an executive
committee OF the Knights of
Labor, for an increase of wages. Vice
President HOXie of the Missouri Pacific
was also present The general situation
was freely discussed and the position
of the Missouri Pacific was ind0rSed
as the only correct one that could be taken.
The roads interested in the wage question
tacitly agreed TO work in concert, but
no action was taken to-day and
the meeting adjourned till tomorrow, when
a reply will be prepared to the demand
made by the Knights of Labor committee.
There was feeling of expression umfavor-
able to treating with the Knights of Labor,
but no opposition whatever to comforting
directly with their employees and it is pos
sible that the action OF the meeting may be
in this direction.