Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-03-12
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
STORY OF THE CONTESTS IOF WAGE
FARMERS THE COUNTRY OVER.
The Immensely OF the New York Strike
The Labor DisaTection Spreading
1000 strikers at st. Louis News
from Sections far and Near.

NEW YORK, March, Tt is a long while
since this city has witnessed such scenes
rs were enacted Friday and Saturday on
Grand street. For hours that street was
in the hands of a bowling mob, and only
the firmuess of the police preqented an
open riot. The Dry Dock, East Broadway
and Battery railway had determined that
1t would run car over its tracks ut all
hazards, and the striking employees were
determined that this should not be done.
Great crowds assembled principally of
strikers. The police were also out in
force. The first attempt to run car was
made under police guard, but 50 many
obstacles were met that it only proceeded
a block. The mob jeered and threw
stones freely. A car started out of the
stable about noon and WAS hailed with de
resion by the hundreds OF men on the
street. 1t was unable to proceed far ow-
ing to the distractions.
Another car of the Forty-second street
line came along, drove on Il pile of coal
dumped in the track, and was also turned
across the track. The strikers sprang into
the street, and every wagon that came along
was captured and used to barricade the
track. At Goerck street, car of the
Forty street line was toppled over,
and fell with II crash. Six cars in all were
turned across the track, and the side
streets were blocked with wagons waiting
their turn. Two beer trucks had their
wheels taken off and fell across the tracks.
At another point the switch plates were
taken away, and, further on, Il pile of
bricks and building poles lay on the track.
The contest was practically over at this
point, and orders were issued to start back
to the stable.
At one point the police charged the
Il
rioters were knocked down and arrested.
With this exception there was no blood
shed
THAT night general strike of the
drivers and conductors on all the street
railways in New York and Brooklyn, was
ordered by the executive board" of their
organization, and on Friday morning, for
the first time since street cars were intro
duced in those cities not a car was run
ming. The people hurried to the elevated
roads, and in "A few hours the jam was so
great at the stations that life was in peril
Cabs, coupes, hansOms and herdiCs did
thriving business, driving from one end of
the island to the other in furious haste.
"A Scheme to Prevent Strikes.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March "A conven-
ton of coal miners and mine operators
met here Saturday in the Knights of La
Dor hall Delegates We're present from
the States of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and
Colorado. An organization was perfected
which will form part of the National
Coal Miners Federation Mine operators,
a. we'll rs miners, will he permitted to
join the organization in order to prevent
strikes and to establish uniform scale of
prices which will be fair for all parties.
There are about $1,000 coal miners inter
ested in the movement.
The Strike Inaugurated.
SEDALIA, March 6-Seven hundred en-
ployes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
company have struck. This is supposed
to be the Inauguration of the strike ON the
Gould system.
The situation in st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March Gall the Knights of
Labor on the Gould system centreng in
the city struck this morning at II O'Clock
There are 5000 Knights of Labor in the
strike
Extended to Little Rock.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, March THE
trouble with the operatives of the Texas
and Pacific railroad has extended to Little
Rock. This morning 300 workmen in the
St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad ma
chine shops stopped work.
Demands of the Cumberland Miners.
BALTIMORE, March THE Cumberland
miners are determined to strike next
Monday unless the operators yield and
grant the advance. The strike will prob
ably be the largest that has ever taken
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