Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-02
THE STRIKE NOT SETTLED.
THE STRIKE TO GO ON-ADDRESS
OF THE LOCAL EXECUTIVE
Board OF the Knigh's of Labor-Men
Refused q HeRring-DeOeived
Long Enough.

Refused q Hearing-Deoeived
Long Enough.
ST. LOUIS, April TO the Public:-
As showing the sincerity Of the railroad
managers In their treatment of the
Knights Of Labor, we re- spectfully state
that. pursuant to the order of our Gene
raj Executive Board, We this day sent
committee to the managers Of the
several railroads, Offering to return the
men to work, and In no instance would
they be received or treated with, each
official in turn either refusing them o
hearing, or evading them with specious
gu bterfnges for direct answers, or re-
fusing them employment. Mr.. Hoxie
has agreed to receive q committee OF
employees to adjust any grievances
which may exist. He refuses, person.
ally and through his subordinates, to
recognize any of us as employees, and
refuses to receive any but such as he
calls employees. In short, after himself
and Mr.. Gould have conveyed the i'm
lpression to the world that they are
| willing TO settle, they refuse to settle.
INow, we appeal to q candid and suffer-
ing public. on whom is falling all the
weight OF this great conflict, II we have
not been deceived enough.
How much Is long suffering labor to
lbear? This great strike never would
lhave been laid had Mr.. Hoxie conde-
Iscended months ago to hear our COM
IpIaints. We don't claim to be more
THAN human. 1t should not be expected
of us to be more than human. In this
country position makes 20 man king or
slave. An imperious refusal on the
Ipart Of one citizen to act with other
citizens with whom he may have busi-
ness connections, when such refusal
tbegets great business and social reyolu-
ton, 1t is not only mistake, but o
crime against the public. Mr. Gould is
Invoking the law against little crimi-
nails who are made desperate by his
policy Of duplicity and oppression, and
. the law against the arch crimiaal of the
land. II we cannot be allowed to return
to work, the strike must 60 on.
By order Of Executive Board D. A.
I101, SO and II.
St. LOUIS April 1.-The Executive
IOommittee of District $3.50, the mem
bers of which include the Missouri
Pacific ehopmen aud mechanics, ap-
lpointed Q committee to call upon Master
Mechanic Bartlett to ascertain what
men he would employ. The committee
lhas not yet had conference with Mr..
Bartlett, and neither the demands OF
= the committee nor the plans of Mr..
q Bartlett are officially known. A MEM
4 Der of the committee, however, said this
!. morning that they would demand that
"a all Ithe men, without exception, who
II struck shall be re-employed. The final
20 settlement, therefore, Of the strike on
20 the Missouri Pacific Railroad seems as
Al far from sediment as ever, for the Ex-
a lecutive Committee of District Assembly
.. No. 101 have determined to sppoint no.
+ arbitration committee to confer with
70 Mr.. Hoxie until all the former en-
N ployes OF the road shall be taken back.
n EAST ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April -Ow
ing to the absence of any definite orders
~ from the Executive Committee as to the
m exact time when they shall return to
A. work, the strike of the yardmen and
tc swltchmen still continues. The strikers
I'd have assembled in great numbers this
he morning in the railroad yard and around
.iv the Relay depot, but no serions dis
70. Lurbances are anticipated. They have
20 Expressed their intention of not resort
tsr ing to violence, however great the pro-
,ss vocation, and will pursue the samt
course as that of yesterday In the at
Tempt to render freight traffic an impos
sibility by persuading the engineers tt
~ !, desert their posts.
In view Of the determination, the
7sei necessity OF calling upon the State mill
h~ tia to protect the railroad property IL
~ mot now seriously considered. The pres
ar ence of the Deputy Unieed States Mar
he shals has restraining Influence upoI
of the more demonstrative meh0 0bers of tn,
on on crowd, and the efforts of tho. Wabasl
"a Road, which Is under control of tn
Ia United States Court, to start out ne.xh
~ trains are not interfered with. III
hi knowledge that the Governor of the
1to State and Adjutant General Vance ar,
are watching their every move, In order tc
Ian determine whether or not it shall b
10 necessary to call out the militia, ais
a. restraints the strikers from violence, ant
or the crowds are In consequence, unusu
~ ally orderly.
a1st Despite the continuance OF the strike
-en here, considerable number of new
nd switchmen and yardmen have beel
nes employed to fill the places mad,
vacant by the strikers. and appearance
this morning indicate q speedy resump
tion of freight traffic by the dfferen
far roads Switch engines are running
, a back and forward in the yards, preps
arc tory to starting out freight train
=, q None of the switch engineers have q
aat yet been prevailed upon to leave thei
sra engines, and If the regular freigh
engineers shall be equally faithful /
his performing their duties, there is n
,nr doubt that freight traffic on the road
he here will be at least partially resume
hen to-day.