The Portland daily press., 1886-04-26

will be loaded as quickly as possible. The
whole matter consisted in the decision of the
men that they could not afford to work for what
the company were willing to pay.
The Trouble at Bath.
BATH, April 24.-The agreement drawn up by
the District Board of the Knights of Labor for
the coal stevedores at Bath remains the same as
when given to the executive committee of the 10
cal assembly, the stevedores not having offered
their signatures The stevedores, rather than
have any trouble with the beavers, are willing to
give them the price fixed upon by the District
Board, but on no condition will they sign the
agreement, which is considered by the stevedores
to be rather arbitrary. The time given the steve
dores in which to sign the document expired yes
terday.
The Lake Shore Trouble.
CHICAGO, April 24.-When the announcement
was made that the strikers on the Lake Shore
road had gone back to work Internationally,
every one wondered how such a result was at
tanned. 1t was reported tnat the company agreed
to discharge the eight men or remove them to
other work within sixty days. No such agree
ment or anything similar to it was made. ltWas
reported tl.at Nelson Morris had agreed to hire
the men in his packing house. President Newell
said the officials of the road had no knowledge of
any such proposition being made, and Mr. Morris
was sure that no formal proposition had been
made. The facts are that the surrender was
conferences had been held. Mr.. NeWeli told the
strikers that the company would listen TO no
proposition to compromise and would not submit
TO dictation in the matter of employing and dis
charging its men. He said further TO the strikers
that they were warning more against their fel-
lows than against the company. Several others
represented to the strikers not only the specious-
ness of their demands but the injury to business
they were occasioning and the certainty that IL
A.. Nntfx nf
value would be destroyed. Then the legal gospel
was laid down to the strikers in plain and unmls-
taxable terms, andfney were told Just what await,
ed them if they persisted. Then they were told
very bluntly that the company was through tenn
porizing, and was prepared to begin prosecution
at once They were also toa tnat tney aa fedna fel
laws, and various roads to the pententlary as well
as by-ways leading TO heavy fines and jail SEN
tences were pointed out to them. The result was
that the strikers committee threw up their hands
and began to make known their desire to retreat,
and it is quite certain that it did not take the en-
tire Seventy-Seven long to decide that the Detter
part of yalor is discretion.
Several hundred men attested their JOY over the
alleged victory of the strikers by paradlng the
streets of the town of Lake last evening. They
were headed by a band comprising flies, bagpipes
and drums, while transparencies bearing the
men Forever etc., were evidences of their senti-
ments The bystanders along the line OF march
cheered the paraders. They started out at
o'clock and marched until after midnight.
Meantime there was the greatest possible activ-
ity in the freight yards at Twelfth and Forty-thrd
streets and at Englewood. Train after train was
pulled out and started eastward, while their
places upon the tracks were rapidly taken by
trains brought over from connecting lines. Two
of the objectionable" men were working at For
ty-third street and were not interfered with by
the o<ler sWitchmen. 1t is said that no less than
AZ tram loads of freight are near the city, on the
line of the Lake Shore road, waiting TO get INTO
the yards for transfer and unloading.
An Interview witt, Jay Gould.
NEW YORK, April 25.-The Tribune will print
an interview with Jay Gould in which he is re-
presented as saying in regard to the present CON
dtion of affairs in the Southwest: 'It is so quiet
we hardly know there has been strike out there
Messrs Hoxie and Kerringer say they never saw
things move so quietly as they DO now Inc
strikers console themselves with the thought tnat
we are not doing any business, Dut we are DONG
large business, larger amount than we were do
ing before the strike and more than we were doing
at the same date last year. have received this
N9'f''N'' ST. LOUIS, April 49,
The third weeks earnings will not be ready
to-day but the auditor estimates h that tney VIII
with last year.
[Signedl u. N: u.
Mr. Gould, 'sThere is also an increased movement
of cars on our roads, and it would look to me as
though the business OF tne country was unproVlng.
| think this improvement would have been very
marked but for these labor troubles PuDnc
opinion has risen up and asserted itself about this
matter ana the Oh law dilu
in the Southwest has eXerted great moral IN
fuence and in effect destroyed the organization
of the Knights of Labor there. In fact to be
Knight of Labor out there now is about Synony-
nous with being called criminal
Concerning the proposed legislation In regard TO
strikes Mr.. Gould said:
81 think well Of the plan for the appointment OF
a commissioner to arbitrate on difficulties be-
tween employers and employees OF course my
hindSight is better than my foresight, and can
not tell with certainty what would be the result.
Still am willing to say think the time has
come when we should try that experiment, Tor OF
course it will be an experiment. Most OF these
strikes are gotten up by few bad men who are
mere agtatorS. and you can always count them
on the fingers of one hand i'll every movement OF
this kind, and if there was some tribunal Where
they would be compelled to show reason for
strikes / think we should find the appointment
of official arbitrarorS an improvement, because
then we would have men acting IN that capaclty
whose business it would be to handle such sub
iectS and whose experience and knowledge
would become valuable in settling them !"
a Reaction in Clinton, Mass.
CLINTON. Mass April 24.-A committee of the
knights Of Labor In Clinton have waited on
Agent Bigelow and stated that some of the fe-
male strikers were appealing tor ald Iney sald
that before deciding upon the course the order
would follow in regard to this matter tney desired
to know as to the probability of the mills starting
within week or SO. They were informed that
the mills would be started when help could be
as the engines were now being overhauled 1t
would be possible to start within two or three
weeks, even if the help stood ready to go TO work
at once. The reaction has come, and from
state of unrest the town has reacted INTO condl-
tion of qniet more profound than was ever before