The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-04-03
COMING REIGN OF TERROR.
Settlement of the Strike as
Far Off as Ever.
GROSS PU R II O = A. -
On Both .sides-Troops Called Out
in Ilinois-Fort Worth in the
Hands Of a Mob.

On Both .sidss-Troops Called Oo
in 1llinois-Fort Worth in the
Hands Of Mob.
ST. LOUIS, April LIT is not by an.
,o.,us certain that either the Knights d
Lab r. ON the Gould Southwestern system
or those in East Louis will return to wor|
to-day in obedience to any order issued b.
IN. officers Of their Assemblies. Chairman
Irons has obeyed the instructions of tn
General Executive Board by ordering tn
4 900 Knights OF his District Assembly t.
resume work, but he neutraliz"d it with al
amended notice that the time at whicl
the. should apply for their positions woul'
he teiesraphed to them later. At lat
hour last night he said he had not sent am
telegram announcing any hour for resump
ton, and refused to explain why. Th
difficulty In sending back to work th'
East ST. Louis Knights, comes from ta'
local Assemblies and not from the Exacu
tiv, Committees, which intended to have
them resume yesterday, but which met
with protest from theiK nights themselves
based on
INDIVIDUAL GRIEVANCES
which thew demand shall be adjusted be-
for, they SEEK employment. Their exec
tive c,mmittees, however, issued orders
so wortled as to throw the responsibility
OF their action to-day upon the'r own
lodges. So, unless their committees take
decided action to-day AID issue precise Or
ders for the resumption 01 WORK, the ueh'
oral Erecntiye Committee, when it reaches
here tomorrow will find that its order
has not cuused the effect intended. Not
ritbstanding the failure ii the Knights on
the Missouri Pacific Railway to return to
work. freight ira ffic on tina; road has az.
sumed very near it's normal condition.
In the railroad yards the usual activity
,,reyuiled in u marked contrast to the dull.
ness which has existed during the strike.
Freight trains nr- being made UP prelDar-
atory to starting and are placed in posi-.
ton to receive their loads without any at
tempt at interference from the striking
Knights The general offices Uf the COM
uany have also assumed their Normal ac-
tiyity incident to the resumption of th..
freight traffic OF the system, and to-day, the
first OF the month, the clerks who " re
TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED
during the strike. resumed work. Governor
Oglesby and his Adjutant General arrived
N East St Louis last eveains. Soon after
the Governors arrival he received dele
cation Of Knights, who presented their
eide OF the trouble to him. They told the
Governor that they were willing to resume
work when their grievances had been
adjusted, and deprecated all acts of vio-
lepce. Owing to the absence OF any finite
orders from the Executive Committee as
to the exact time when they shall return
to work, the. strike of the yardmen and
switchmen at East st. Louis still con- |
tinues, and the strikers have assembled in |
great numbers this .norning in the railroad !!
yards and around the relay depot, but no
serious trouble ia anticipated. The pres
ence OF Deputy United States Marshal
has a restraining influence upon the more
demonstrative members of the crowd, and
the efforts of the Wabash road. which il
under the control of the United States
Court, to start out freight trains is not in
terierred with.
The knowledge that the Governor OF the
State and the Adjutant- General are watch.
Ing their every move in order to determine
whether or not it shall b. necessary to call
from violence and the crowds are, in con-
sequence unusually orderly.
NO ORDERS YET.
ST. LOUIS. April CONTRARY to the gen
srai expectation that the executive COM
nittee OF the district Assembly No. 1Ol
would designate the hour OF 10 o'clock this
morning d. the time when the striking |
Knights should return to work. no order
tu,hat effect was issued and at 10 O'Clock
the strike still continued. None of the
strikers have applied this morning to the
Missouri Pacific oftici Is for work and they
cay they will not do SO until ordered by !,
their exec utive committee.
THE COAL BLOCKADE.
ST. LOUIS, April 1.-The st. Louis coal
dealers relying upon the promise of the
strikers that the efforts by the teamers to
raise the coal blockade ut East Louie would
not beinterfered with, sent q number OF men
with their teams to transfer fnel from that
side OF the river. Several OF the strikers.
howev r. made an attack upon the men to
prevent them from loading the wagons.
The teansters resisted, and general fight
ensued. Knives were drawn, but the ap-
pearance OF several United States Deputy
Marshas caused the strikers to fee with.
out having received or inflicted any very
severe injury. The teamsters returned to
1t. Louis without coal fearing further
violence
SIGNS NOT HOPEFUL.
ST. LOUIS, April l.--Tbe Executive Com
mittee OF District Assembly No. $3.50, the
members OF which include the Missouri Pn-
cihc shOpmen and mechanics, appointed Il
fnitt tt.nf In, I
Bartlett to ascertain what luen he would
re,enploy. Mr.. Bartlett in reply an en-
qulry us To what men he would take back
raid ne would exercise his own judgment in
the matter that none OF those who had
destroyed the rompany's property would
oe ereemployed, and that the II mbe, he
should lake back would be determined by
lhe number actually needed. i final settle
uent therefore OF tie strikes on the Mis-
sour Pacific Railroad seems as far OF as
ever. The Executive Committee Of Dis
T'et Assembly No. lOl has decided to ap-
point no arbitrators or committee to con-
Ter with Mr.. Hoxe until theod employees Of
,ae road shall be taken back. The striking
Allshts of Hannibal and 81. Joe have re-
turned to wotk Fred Howard, a striker,
Who assaulted Il Missouri Pacific engineer,
"scause he refused to leave his engine upon
e,e4ucsl VI the hnl8nG TO 40 so. wuS NneO |
Sio ~ and costs to-day at the Criminal Court.
saaomas Hass was fined in the same court
'to and costs for using threatening and
"oas'e ",,n language in addressing Il nom
FREIGHT MOVING.
81 LOUIS, April 1.-Six freight trains.
hlfe on the Missouri Pacific and three on
non Mountain road were STARTED ont Uf
n ~'u1y today. No police protection was
aIIeSteo by the officers OF either Dad and
~, .u "lldrance OF any kind was offered by
loaa'er strikers AT any point along the road
,,on ,s,auhs out oi the city. At East st. Louis
l;s strikers induced an engineer to abandon
t.a;1 r." ;ens'ne on the Fandal,a, but the freight
rnaa "s On the Indianapolis and St. Louis
ea'e lis engines
MORE GaIEvANCEs
in,. "'' Louis March The folio wing has
'a:. been Issued:
o,,H. Or" fubllc: As showing the sincerity
Of W., 'wv''eoad managers in their treatment
stata nhnish's OF Labor. We respectfully
GensraI 'a, a pursuant to the order OF our
sent Executive Board, we this day,
mvs,a' '.onmlttes to the ma. .agers of the
men 70 railroads Offering to return the
thew W \. work, and in no i: stance would
Official :, received or treated with. Each
Mr. Hon;asn H,H Iurn refusing them employment.
o. Ne had agreed to receive n ron, m;ttae