The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-07
TIE KNIGHTS OF 1AHoR.
A Great Railroad Strike in the West
Other Labor Agftations.

by Associated Press to the TArrLERl
| At Full usli, KY, convict miners are beine
threatened by tree miners. and Governor
Knott has called out the militia.
SEDALLA, Mo-, March 6-The 100 EN-.
pioyees of the Missouri Pacific and Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railroad shops
struck this morning at 1920 o'clock.
ST LOUIS, March 6.-Archbisho Kenrick
OF Missouri, has instructed Vicar General
Brady to deny the statement recently sent
from here to the effect that the Catholic
Church was hostile to the Knights OF
Labor.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, March 6.-This morn
Ing all the workmen in the st. Louis and
Iron Mountain Rhilroad machine shops.
over 300 in all, stopped work, aud business
is at standstill. The men are quiet, and
| good order prevails.
DENVER, Col, March 6.-It is reported
that 800 miners at the Marshall Coal Com
pany, a. Erie, have struck on account of
the company having reduced wages from
81 % per ton to 80 cents. No trouble is
at present anticipated.
The strike on the Gould System gro VS.
out of the dismissal of one of the men
without charges and investigation. The
Central Knights ordered the strike. Nine
Ae
through the West.
ST.. LOUIS, March 6.--All the Knights of
Labor in the Gould system, of which there
are 900 in this city, struck OF IL o'clock this
morning. The strike is supposed to have
been ordered by the Central Committee of
the Knights of Labor at the suggestion of
the Texas Assembly of that organization.
Information from De Soto, Mo-, is to the
effect that the men at that point have also
gone out.
NEW YORK, March 6.-Things began to
look serious to hundreds and thousands of
business men who went into their offices
this morning and found that the pipes of
the New York Steam Heating Company
were cold. The company have six boats at
Pier 8, North River, full of the coal they
use, but the drivers of the carts and the
leaders of the boats were afraid to work,
superintendent Prentiss made application
to the police and the force necessary was
furnished. The company intend to make
application for a permit to work to-day
Sunday on the five boats in the dock yet
untouched as they are afraid to work at
night. The Supefint sndent has been told
that after Monday next the Brotherhood of
Engineers may order that none of their
members shall haul any coal for the New
York Steam Heating Company till the
trouble is ended.
NEW YORK, March 6.-[ By Ass'd Press1
After the difficulties between the drivers
and conductors of the Dry Dock Road and
the officers of that road had been satisfac-
torily adjusted yesterday, travel was re-
sumed on all of the street railroads with
the exception of the Blocker Street and
the Twenty-third Street cross-tewn roads,
which are both controlled by the Twenty
third Street Company, under the direction
of Jacob Sharp. The men refused to go to
work again unless their wages were in
creased to 81 rs per day. They also made
other demands. Noagreement was reached,
however, and all travel has been suspen-
ded on the roads since the last trip was
made on Thursday night. At 2:15 this
afternoon Superintendent Murray and 500
policemen, in addition to twenty mounted
men, were in possession of Twenty third
street, ready to defend three cars, which
were to be sent over the track. There
was crowd of men outside of the police
lines. A trial car was pushed through
menacing crowds on the Blocker street
line. Subsequently the Company agreed
to pay 50 day of twelve hours, and 40
minutes for dinner, and the strike was at
an and