Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-02
WAITING
For Orders From the COMMITTEES to Re-
sumo Work

For Orders From the Committee to Re.
sumo Work,
ST. Louis, April lit is not By any
means certain that either the Knigh's o.
Labor on the Gould Southwestern system
or those in East St. Louis will return to
work today in obedience to any order is.
sued by the officers of their assemblies.
Chairman Irons has obeyed the instrue-
tons of the General Executive Board by
an order to the 5000 knights of his Dis.
trict Assembly to resume work, but neu.
trahzed it with an appended notice that the
time at which they should apply for their
positions would be telegrsphed to them
later. The difficulty in sending back TO
work the East St. Louis Knights of Labor
comes from the Local Assemblies and not
from the Executive Committees, which
intended to hsYe ordered them to resume
yesterday, but met With protest from the
Knights themselves, based on individual
grievances, which they demand shall be sd-
justed before they seek employment Their
Executive Committees however, have issued
the orders 90 Worded as to throw the respon-
Ebility on thig action today upon their own
lodges. So, unless ths three committees take
decided action to-day and issue precise or.
ders for the resumption Of work, the Gen
eral Executive Committee, when it reaches
here tomorrow, will find that the order
has not caused the effect intended.
Notwithstanding the failure of the
Knights on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
to return to work, the freight traffic on
that road has assumed very nearly its
normal condition. The different freight
depots throughout the city present an
animated appearances. Transfer wagons
and trucks are arriving in great ECpbers,
deposiing their loads for shipment to sll
points on the Gould system, and others are
departing heavily laden. In the railroad
yard the usual activity prevailed this morn
ing, in marked contrast to the dullness
which has existed during the strike.
Freight trains are being made up prepsra-
tory to starting and are p!.eesd IN posluon
to receive their loads without any s..t0mpt
at interference from tbs siHking Knights
of Labor. The general officers Of the
company have also resumed their nominal
activity, incident upon the resumption Of
freight traffic on the system and to day,
the FIRST of the month, the clerks, who were
suspended, during the strike,
resumed work.
STRIKERS TALK WITH THE GOVERNOR.
Governor Richard 0glesby aud J. W.
Vance, Adjutsnt General, arrived in East
st. Louis last evening. Soon otter the
Governors arrival, he received delegs'
ton of the Knights of Labor, who repre-
sented their side Of the trouble to him.
They told the Governor that they were
willing to resume work when their griev.
ances shall have been adjusted, and depre-
Gated sll acts of violence. They explain
ed the stoppage ofthe Ysndslis train after
the AdiutsEt General had been told
that all trains could be moved without
with the ststeaent that they
had not had sufficient time to notify the
railroad men Of the promise they had given.
They said that the companies were willing
to par the wages asked by them lndlvidu'
auv, but refused 70 deal with tie Knights of
Labor, and they coald net understand why,
Il the companies recognized tas Brother
hood of Locomotive EuEc:"eeEs ana fifs-
men. they should refuse to deal WIN shem,
and that yesterday morning they offered to
couple up train on the Chicago, Burning
ton and Quincy Railroad, which has been
cut in two, but their services we're refused.
All they had done was to persuade the
men not to run their trains
and had not intimidsted them.
THE MILITIA NOT ORDERED OUT.
Later in the evening, upon beng asked
if he had ordered out the troops to protect
railroad property in East s.. Louis, the
Goye.nor replied, No, cir; there have not
been any oEders issued for the State mill
tia" -,
"Hsve you determined whether you will
order them out2 There il report IN St.
Louis that they were sll under arms at
Springfield and other parts Of the State;
that extra trains we're waiting in readiness,
and 10000 rounds Of ammunition had
been distributed"
No, sir; i have not made up my mind,
It is q serious thing to order them out, no
matter how much care and precaution
might bs taken. II one or two men were
shot it would create terrible excitement
in the State, and no one could tell what
the effect would be. II order them ont
II W lot be to execute the Sheriff 8 orders.
He has great powers, and, perhaps, does
not realize how great they are, and he
aust exert every effort in his power to