Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-22
suaded nearly all not to work. Strikers
assert tnat trains cannot be moved without
violence occurring

| osSeft tuat trains cannot be moved without
violence occurring.
NEW YORK, April 81.
Inc rallroad commissioners met Wednes-
uay morning to hear the reply of Lauterbeck
TO the proposition of the striking employees.
Ex- Senator Ecclessine was present in behalf
OF the men. The executive committee of the
Empire board was also present Lauterbeck
SAID be had not been able to get the other di.
rectors together to consult with regard TO the
| proposition submitted. He asked for an sd.
lournment TILL so 10 the afternoon, so that.
IN The meantime he could call the directors
/ together By consent OF the Empire execu-
tive committee an Adjournment was had till
this afternoon.
treasurer Beaver OF the Third Avenue
Co., SAID this morning that in his opinion
none OF the men now employed by the road
would he discharged TO make room for strik-
ing emploves. Lsuterbeck. IN a conversa-
ton with the railroad commissioners. this
morning, promised in behalf of the Third
Avenue company, to employ no more new
men until after the conference this afternoon
The proposition is that sll the emploves Of
the Third Avenue railroad. who recently went
out on strike, be taken back and reinststed
IN their old places. and that the Italians, who
were hired to till their places and all others,
be discharged, The question of hours and
wages will be left to arbitration, and the dis
placement of the seven obnoxious men is TO
be left TO the board of directors.
The Third Avenue strikers have decided 10
meet at headquarters on S7th street. Wednes-
day morning, and march down in a body to
Goth street stables at 10 O'Clock an, resume
work on the basis of the proposition accepted
last night.
This afternoon the directors of the Third
avevenue railroad adopted resolutions declar.
ing that the company will not recede from
the position it has taken. 1t will not dis
miss the men who entered its employ during
the strlke.so long as they faithfully discharge
the duties. They will not take back IN
body those who left in body, nor will it
take back those who have done injury to the
property Of the company or have melted
TO do so. 1t was also resolved that the com
pany will run cars to the limit of its ability.
The action of the directors was at once CON-
municated to the railroad commissioners,
which body left soon afterwards for Albany.
ST. Louis, Mo-, April 81.
Late Tuesday night a Cairo short line
freight train was made up in the railroad
yards in East st. Louis, and had proceeded
on its way out of the city beyond the last
line of sentries when it was boarded by a
number of strikers, who seized one of the
brakemen and dragged him to the ground,
where they administered a severe beating be-
fore the military guard could respond to his
cries for help. The brakeman is in critical
condition.
Several of the men employed by the Chica-
go, Burlington & Quincy and the Louisville
Nashville Railroad Companies to fill the
places of the striking Knights of Labor quit
work this morning, giving as reason that
they were afraid of violence from the strik-
ers. Not enough of these men stopped work.
however. to seriously interfere with the run
ming of trains, and the companies business
! continues uninterrupted.