Connecticut western news., 1886-04-14
THE MISSOURI PACIFIC K. R. STRIKE.

dispatch from Fort Worth Tuesday, says: The situation here Is very gloomy, not so much on account of the strike as through the bad blood engendered by the attack on the officers Saturday, resulting in tho death of Townsend and the wcunding of Fulford and Snecd.
 The dis ,oSery of dynamite in the Union depot produc, moro fear than, any thing else up to this time Men who have taken active measures for the preservation Of the peace are said to have been threatened, and soldiers and Winehesters arc felt to be of no protec- ton against dynamite.
 On Tuesday the General Executive Board of the Knights issued & circular declar ng that Mir. Hoxie will not O serve the New York agreement, and directing strikers not to re- sume work. The engineers OH the Missouri Pac fc have formally notified the managers that the roadbed is unsafe for want of repair. These circumstances have greatly encouraged the strikers. There is 8 great excitement at Fort Worth. A large quantity of dynamite was found near the union depot there. many Knights lave been arrested, and trains are running freely under military escort
 Mir. Jay Gould was interviewed Tuesday re- garding the charge made by Secretary Turner of the Knights of Labor that Mir. Hoxie was not acting in conformity with the terms of the agreement entered into at the New York con- ference. Mir. Gould says that there was no agreement, direct or implied, that his com- pany "would take all men back, with some comparatively few exceptions." On the con- trary, not one of the committee expected the company to take back any men not needed or any who had had ything to do with damage to the property of tue company or obstruction to the lunning of it's trains.
 The only demonstration of importance We'd nesday in connection with the railway strikes iu the southwest was the issuance of mani festo against Jay Gould by the Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor represent ing the districts involved. It is addressed to lL tkn1 do claration is made that Gould must be over thrown. Mir. Arther, Chief Of the Brother hood of railway engineers, has been in St. Louis in consultation with the Knights. It IS agreed that his men will continue to run mail and through passenger trains, when provided with Union firemen, but in the matter of local traffic they will cooperate with the Knights of Labor. A state of quiescence is reported from Fort Worth. Mir. Hoxie claims to be running trains with considerable regularity on all his lines, and in his last proclamat on pronounces the strike at an end. He says that no striking Knights are applying for work as such but as free American citizens.
 The strikers in East St. Louis marched in procession to number of railroad yards Wednesday and compelled the few employees to quit work. The chief result of the demou- stration seemed to be to aggravate and excite the strikers so far that 1t IS thought more serl- ous consequences may follow. Some of the yards are protected by armed deputy sheriffs, and they are ordered to prevent any further trespassing upon railroad property. The off cials of the Missouri Pacific Company assert that the freight movement Wednesday was more than equal to the average daily business before the strike.
 Mir. Powderly justifes the resumption of tbe strike on the ground that after Mir. Hoxie refused to meet the National Executive Board of the Knights in friendly spirit they could do nothing except to let the strike take it's course.
 The General Executive Board of the Knights have decided to issue an address to the public setting forth the grievances of the strikers in plain and sober language. They assert that the Missouri Pacific Company will find it more and more difficult every day to get and retain competent men to move their trains. At the request of the Knights the men in the St. Louis yards of the Wabash moving, but they are said to be inadequately manned, and the service is yet far from effc- | tent.