The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-12
IDLE INDUSTRIES.


An Epidemic of Strikes Sweeping Through
the Countrywide Trouble ON the Gould
Lines Assumes Gigantic Proportions
Coal Miners in Pennsylvania and Car
penters in New York Stop Work.
ST. LOUIS. March Gin addition to the
shopmen employed on the Gould South
western lines who struck Saturday in ac-
cordance with the Executive Committees
order, many switehmen, trainmen, brake
men and fremen have already Joined
the strikers, so that the number OF
men now in enforced idleness along
the lines concerned in the strike is com,
puted at from 900 to 10000. The en-
gineers have not yet formally entered the
strike, but inasmuch as they are hindered
from working by the lack of firemen and
helpers they are counted as practically
among the disaffected men.
As result of these large numbers of
additions to the ranks of the strikers, no
freight trains and no passenger trains
went out OF st. Louis on the Missouri
Pacific road yesterday, and its business in
every department was at a complete stand
still.
The strikers exercise great care that the
delay of the mails shall not be attributed
to them. They have appointed delega-
tlonsssFom their number to prepare the
mail cars for their trips, switch them into
position and attach them to the engines.
This preeaution makes it impossible for the
United States Government to prefer charges
against them for delaying the mails,
and thus the Government can find no
pretext for interference unless violence is
resorted to.
All the men employed at Carondolet, six
miles below here, quit work yesterday
morning. This is an important point, as
it is the river terminus of the kirkwood
branch Of the Missouri Pacific road, and
large quantities of freight for the East are
transferred across the river there The
Iron Mountain road also passes through
the place and the yards of the two roads
are quite extensive. Now every thing is
still, the transfer-boats are tied up and
the yards and shops are deserted. Over
500 freight-cars many of them laden,
stand on the tracks.
A report comes from Dallas, Tex, that
the receivers OF the Texas q Pacific have in
contemplation the arrest of leading
Knights of Labor and strikers at Mar
shall, Denison, Big Springs, Fort Worth
and other places. A dispatch from Sedalia,
Mo-, says there are 800 cars laden with
perishable freight in the yards there, and
that there are several hundred carloads of
California oranges side-tracked along the
road between there and Fort Worth.
The switchmen of the Bridge and Tunnel
Company went out at eight O'Clock last
night. This will greatly disturb traffic be-
tween the union depot and the relay de.
pot in East ST. Louis, as the system OF
tracks on both sides of the river is quite
complicated and requires very skillful men
to handle it.
A special from Pilot Knob, Mo-, says.
Owing to the refusal of the Iron Mountain
road to receive freight the ore and stee.
company shut down yesterday, throwing
four hundred men out OF work.
A special from Long View, Tex, says
No freight is being accepted by the Texas
& Pacific here for any points, and engines
are only sent out of the round-houses
under special orders. The Texarkana
Knights having discovered that certain
merchant was receiving goods via the
Mallory steamship line promptly put the
boycott on him.
A Marshall (Tex.) dispatch says: Rail-
road men here entertain the opinion that
the strike will involve the whole railroad
system of the United States unless soor
settled. Boarding house keepers have
agreed not to board any men who may
be brought here to take the place OF this
strikers.
STRIKING CoAL-NfINERs.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 9.-An extensive
strike OF the coa-miners of Federation No.
3, comprising the soft coal districts OF
the East, was inaugurated yesterday for
the uniform scale OF wages which was
adopted at the convention at Cumberland
on February 10. The scale is: Irwin, 60
CENTS Clearfeld, so cents; Meyersdale and
Garrett, 40 cents; Pocahontas, rs cents;
Elk Garden and Georges Creek, SO cents,
involving general advance OF 10 cents
per ton. In the district there are 10, 00C
miners.
NEW YORK CARPENTERS AND JoINERs.
New YORK, March 9.-Four thousand
members of the United Order of American
Joiners and the Amalgamated Society OF
Carpenters and Joiners stopped work here
low wages paid, at the rate of two dollars
per day OF ten hours, the rate for first
class workmen being $3.50, which
they are not first class The strikers
now demand that the average
wages paid to iourneymen shall be $3.50
per day of nine hours each for five days,
and eight &ours on Saturday. Six hun
dred shops are affected by this move
ment, and at noon eighty.six bosses had
agreed to the demands as presented.
Men in these shops will at once resume
U ri no MOI IF
their points, as nearly all the larger shops
have given in.
WATCHING THE STRUGGLE.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-In the quiet,
where no one can hear who will report au-
thority, one of the most serious subjects for
discussion among the public men here to-
day is the attitude of labor toward cap
1tal, the probable outcome of organized
workingmen as an organization. Nearly
every one comedies that the more
organization there is the greater is the
distance between the laborer and en-
ployer, and every one acknowl-
edges that the man who will be able to
avert what seems to be inevitable riots,
war and destruction of property will bo
the wisest statesman of the day.
EDGE-TooL MAKERS LOCKED OUT.
FRANKFORT, Pa, March 9.-Yerkes &
Plumb, manufacturers of edge tools in this
place, have locked out all their employees,
as an initial step in a contest with the
Knights OF Labor. The firm made OBJ
lection to the men joining the Knights, and
on Saturday posted up notice requiring
all their men to renounce that organiza-
ton. Monday committee OF the employees
consulted with the firm and the trouble
was thought to be ended but subsequently
the proprietors changed their minds and
the shutdown has resulted. The firm says
it will sell the works before it will submit
to the interference of the organization
Experienced lumbermen have al
ways held that timber cut in the spring