St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-02
The Knights in the Southwest Discover
That Gould Does Not Mean What
He Says,
And Resolve to Stand United in the
Fight for What They Conceive to
Be Right.
Receiver sheldon Refuses to Dis.
charge New Men and Take
Back the Old.
Kansas Militia Ordered To Parsons
A Convention OF knights Called
at Cincinnati.
The knights TO the Public.

As showing the sincerity OF the railroad
managers in their treatme Mt of the Knights
of Labor we specially state thai pursuant
To the order OF our general executive board,
We this day sent committee 10 the man
ayers or the several railroads. Offering 10 re-
turn the men 10 work, and in no instance
woald they be received or treated with. each
official in return refusing them hearing or
evading them with specious subterfuges for
direct answers or refusing them
employment Mr.. Hoxie has agreed
To receive a committee OF employees
10 adjust any grievances which may exist.
He refuses personally and through his
subordinates TO recognize any OF us as en-
ployes, aud refuses 10 receive any but such u
he calls cmplo es. In short, after himself
aud Mr.. Gould have conveyed the impression
20 the world that they are willing 10 settle,
they refuse to settle Now we appeal TO q
candid and suffering public, on whom is fall
ing all the weight of
THIS GREAT CONFLICT,
IL we have not been deceived enough. How
much is iong-sCtlering labor to bear? This
greaC strike never would nave been had Mr.
hoXio condescended months ago TO hear our
complaints. We do not claim t.
be more than human. II should no.
be expected of rs TO be moro than
human. IN this counirf position makes NJ
man king or slave, and imperious refusal OF
the part Of one citizen 10 confer with other
citizens with whom he may have business
connections when such refusal begets great
business and social revolution, is not only a
mistake but crime against the public. Mr..
Gould ~ invoking the law a yainst little crimi-
mails who are made desI cate 10y his policy
publicity and oppression. and yet u Terrorize.
public does not invoke the Jaw against thu
arch criminal OF the land. II We can not bo
allowed 10 return TO work, the strike must GO
on. By order of Executive Board ID. A.
lOl, %, Il.
WILL NOT EXPOSE PLANS.
Chairman Martin Irons, A. c. COughlin
and other members of the executive COM
mittee. when asked for further information
regarding the effect of the appeal upon the
situation, and whether or not the number
of men already at work would be increased
10y another call OF the joint executive board.
refused positively to discuss the subject
As one of one of the committeeman said:
We have Il large army II our command anG
desperate fight ahead of us. therefore we
40 not propose TO expose our plans until they
are perfected.
CAUSE OF THE ORDER.
1t now develops that under instructions
from the executive boards of districts IOl
% and II committee from local assembly
$500 waited upon Master Mechanic Bartlett
last evening at the Missouri Pacific shops
and rendered the services of the old shOl
employees. The men. they said, were ready
TO go to work this morning. and they de
sired TO lind out il they all would be taken
back. and a list of fifty-two names wa.
handed Mr., Bartlett, who. after scanning
it, checked of seventeen of the men whom,
he would employ. The others, he said. h,
would not take back. Attempts OF
similar nature were made by committees
of the strikers at prominent points all over
IA nfsNI In, A.
executive board claims that the committees
received the same reply to their offers Oh
the part OF the strikers TO return 10 work
The railroad officials stated it is claimed
that they did not require the services of ali
their old employees, that they
WOULD NOT TAKE THEM ALI.
back and would use their own discretion In
selecting the men they wanted. The ratio
of the men that the road were willing t.
take back TO the number who are on strike
was, the executive board said, about the.
same all over the system. seventeen out o.
fifty, or Whereabouts. Reports of these com
mittees, received by telegraph, determined
the executive board To issue its address this
afternoon, and to continue the strike until
the roads consent to take back all the
strikers. The members Of the board want
it distinctly understood that the Knights OF
Labor will all hang together. that one viii
not return TO work without the others, and
that the men who came out through SWIM
pathy with the members of District As
sembly No. 101 must be supported before
the strikers, in whose interest they went
out, will cOnsenttO a settlement.
THE GOVERNOR AND MERCHANTS.
About noon to-day several representa-
tive members of the Merchants Exchange.
headed by Mr.. ID. II. Francis. mayor of the
city, called upon Gov. 0glesby at the Mar
ket house in East ST. Louis. Speeches
were made setting forth the situation, the
delay to commerce, the injury to the city.
the lawless acts of the strikers, etc., and
urging upon him the necessity of calling
out the militia at once to restore order and
effect the resumption of freight traffic. The
governor replied that while he knew the
authorities of East st. Louis were unable to
cope with the situation. the county of st.
Clair was large and pOpulous, and that the
powers of the sheriff were very great.
These had not been exhausted. and until
they were he could not under the law call
on the militia for aid. He greatly regret
ted the situation of affairs, but did not feel
authorized to take more forcible measures
at present If, however. he should be
actually obliged to bring soldiers here, they
would come for active service and resolute
work. There would be no nonsense, no
child's play about it.
sHELDoN's NEGATIVE ANSWER.
DALLAS. Tex. April 1.-The following
telegram was received here yesterday:
St. Louis, March SI.-To Receiver Sheldon,
Texas Pacific Railway: Will you set all the
strikers at work in their former places and
arbitrate past grievances on the Gould Hoxie-
Powderly basiss MARTIN IRONS.
This dispatch was forwarded to Receiver
Sheldon, who is making an inspection of
the Western end of the road. 1t caught
him at Big Springs. whence the following
reply was sent last night:
Big Springs, Tex, March 3l.-To Martin
Irons, st. Louis: We cannot set all the
strikers TO work, as we have employed large
numbers of men in their places who
came 10 our assistance at a time of need an d
TO discharge them TO give place TO those
who carelessly put Us in a condition of great
need would be the height of Ingratitude aud
Injustice. The discharge of Hall - the only
grievance made known TO the receivers. and
the only information possessed by them as TO
what the claims are. The facts in the case
have been denied by the newspapers since
the strike commenced. One OF his friends
has informed me that he has concluded 10 ap-
peal to the court for redress. II is the proper
arbiter in such cases, and will do exact and
speedy justice toward all. IT is the mode OF
arbitration provided by law and the practice
OF appealing thereto is not without pre-
cedent. J.. A. SHELDON
THE SITUATION IN EAST ST. LOUIS.
EAsTST. LOUIS, April Gov. Oglesby
briefly addressed the strikers at the relay
depot this morning and invited them 10
meet him at Turner hall at IL O'Clock, but
at that hour pressure of important business
caused a postponement to o'clock. The
governor asserts that he has ordered DO