Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-01
All Negotiations Fail and the
Strike Goes on.
Official Declaration from
the knights Announce
ing this Result.
-
President Cleveland Fills the Vacan-
o;ss Caused by the Howard
and Terry Promotions.
Alarming Reports from Greece
and Bulgaria Induce Eng
land to Make Ready
ItsTorpedo Fleets.
LABoR

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NO TIME SPECIFIED 0 THE KNIGHTS OF
ABo TO RETURN TO THEIR WORK
st. Louis, April lit was not by any
means certain that the knights on the
Gould system, or those at East st Louis
would return to work to-day, in ODE
dience to the order issued by the officers
Of the assemblies. Their chairman
obeyed the instructions of the general
executive board by an order to 5000
knights OF this assembly to resume
work, but neutralized it with an append
ed notice that the time at which they
could apply for their positions would
be tslegraphed them later. At a
late hour last night he said he had not
sent any telegram announcing any hour
for the resumption of work and refused
to explain why. The difficulty of send
ing back to work the East st. Louis
knights comes from the local assemblies,
and not from the executive committees,
which intended to have ordered them to
resume yesterday, but met with q pro-
test from the knights themselves, based
upon
INDIVIDUAL GRIEVANCES,
which they demand shall be adjusted
before they seek employment. Their
executive committees have issued orders
SO wordsd as to throw the responsibility
OF their action to-day upon their owr
lodges, 30 unless three committees take
decided action to-day and issue precise
orders for the resumption Of work, the
general executive committee, when il
reaches here tomorrow, will fine
that it's order has MOI
caused the effect intended. Notwith.
standing the failure of the knights
on the Missouri Pacific railroad t.
return to work
FREIGHT TRAFFIC
on roads has assumed nearly O orma
condition. This morning the diffsren'
freight depots throughout the city pre-
sent an animated appearance. Trans feI
trucks and wagons are heavy loaded il
the railroad yards and the usua
activity prevails in marked contras
to the duilness which existed during The
strike. Freight trains are bel ng mad,
up preparatory to starting and placed
in positions to receive their loads with
out any attempt at interference from
the striking knights. The genera
officers of the company have assumed
their normal activity incident upol
the resumption of freight trafi
on tie systcm and to-day clerks VIII,
were temporarily suspended during th
strike resumed work.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE KNIGHTS.
The governor and his adiutans gen
eral arrived at East st. Louis last ever
ing. Soon after the governors arriya
he received a delegation OF knights, VIII
presented their side of tn
troubles to him. They tol,
the governor they we're willing {
resume work when their grievance
shall have been adjusted and depreca
ted all acts of violence. They explains'
the stoppage OF the Vandalia train, afte
the adiutant general had been told
should be moved without interference
with the statement that they had no
sufficient time to notify the railroad me,
of the promises they had made. The.
said tho company were willing to pa,
the wages asked Of them individually
but refused to deal with the knights
They could not understand why, j
the company recognized the arotherhos,
of locomotive engineers md firemer
they should refuse to deal with them
Yesterday morning they offered t
couple up a train on the @. B. & @. road
but their services were refused
All they had dine was to persuade mel
not to run their trains and had not in
Inundated them.
THE TRIKE CONTINUES.
Contrary to the general expectation
that the executive committee of assem-
bly, 101 would designate the hour OF tel
this morning as the time when the atrik
ing knights should return to work, n,
order to that effect was issued at /,
o'clock, The strike continues. Non,
of the strikers have applied this morn
ing for work to- the Missouri Pacif,
officials and they say they will not Go 81
until ordered by their executive com
mittee.
NBw HANDS At WORK.
Despite the continuance of the strik,
upon this side of the river, q consider
able number of new switchmen and yart
men have been employed to ell til,
places IF the strikers and all appear
ances this morning indicate a speedy
resumption of the freight traffic of ths
different roads. Switch engines ar.
now running backward and forward
preparatory to starting out freigh,
trains. None OF the sw;tch engineer
have yet been prevailed on to quit
work and il the regular freight
engineers shall be equally
faithful in performing their duties, there
can be no doubt that freight traffic on
the roads viii be at lease partially re-
sumed today.
THE GOVERNOR SPEAKS.
Governor Oglesby, after breakfast