Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-27
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EASTERN NEWS.
Grand Master Workman POWdGrly
Issues a Strong Labor Circular.
moRs PRUDENCE MUST Be OBSERVED BY
KkiGSTs.
The Situation Yesterday Among the
St. Louis Strikers.
JAY a9vLD's vEaAcTTY STRONGLY
IMpEAcEED.
More Gossip Concerning John
W. Mackay.
SECRETARY MANNINc'S CON-
plTIoN REMAINS CRITICAL.
More Gossip Concerning Joh1
W. Mackay.
SECRETARY MANNINc'S CON
plTloN REMAINS CRITICAL.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Sensible Labor Talk.

Sensible labor Talk.
ST. LOUIS, March 26.-Grand Master
Workman Powderly has issued a secret
circular TO the noble Order Of the Knights
| OF Labor OF America, which has just been
made public. Powderly instructs the
secretary OF each assembly to call a meet
ing and read before it the sentiments
which follow. The address opens with an
order to the assembly to cease accepting
any new members until the relations OF
capital and labor shall become less
stringent than at the present time. and
| continues: "To add concessions to our
present raw, undisciplined membership
would be like hurting an un~organized mob
against a well-drilled regular army. 1t is
not fair to order assemblies TO bring in
new members. pick up their quarrels as
soon az organized, and have them expect
pecuniary aid from them who helped to
build them up for noble purposes" After
dwelling at some length upon the mad
visibility of taking in new members al
present, the address continues: We must
not fritter away our strength and miss
the opportunity of our present successful
instrument against capital by rushing into
useless strikes" Powderly then cautions
the assemblies against receiving into their
ranks employers, and warns the Knights
that politicians are planning night and
day how to catch the Knights for the ad-
vantages of himself and party, and adds that
TO use the name of the order in a political
contest ia criminal, and must not occur
again. Referring to the eight-hour move
ment the circular says that the assemblies
of Knights must not strike for the eight
hour system on May l under the impress.
sion that they are obeying an order from
headquarters, for such order was not and
will not be given. Out of 60, 600. 900 Of
people in the United States and Canada
our order has possibly 5000. 900. Can We
mold sentiment ia Of the millions in favor
OF a sbort-hour plan before May /? 1t is
nonsense to think of i'll Ia conclu-
sion. the Master Workman says: 81 write
this circular TO lay before the order the ex-
act condition of things. / am neither
physically nor mentally capable of per-
forming the work required of me. l am
willing to do my part. but not to be asked
to maintain a false position before the
world any longer. M OF two things
must take place: Either local or district
assemblies of the order must obey its laws,
or l must be permitted to resign from the
vocation which obliges me TO play one part
before the public and another to our mem
bers. I say to the world that the Knights
OF Labor do not approve of or encourage
strikes, and in one day dispatches came to
me from Troy, Manchester, Chicago, Gin
%cinnati, Lynchbnrg. Springfield and Mon
treal. 1t il impossible for human nature
to stand the strain any longer. I must
have the assistance of the order, or
my most earnest efforts will fail.
Will I have it? If so, strikes must be
avoided. B%oycotts must be avoided. Those
who boast must be checked by their Assem-.
blies. No move must be made until the
court of last resort be appealed to. Threats
OF violence must not be made. Politicians
must be hushed up or driven out. Obedi-
ence to the laws of the K%nighthood must
have preference over those of any other
order. If these things are don't the next
five years will witness a complete emanci-
patton of mankind from the curse of mo-
nopoly in our members. We require Sc.
crecy, obedience, assistance. patience and
courage. II with their aids you strengthen
my hands, / will continue in the work. II
you do not desire to assist me in this way,
then select q man better qualified to obey
your will. and I will retire in his favor"
The Labor Situation in 81. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March 26.-When the usual
hour arrived this morning for duty Of the
force of switchmen TO relieve the night men
at the Wabash yards in this city no men
appeared, and q few minutes later the an
nouncement was made that the entire force
had struck. These men, it is understood,
were ordered out by the Executive Com
mittee in support of the position taken by
the striking Missouri Pacific employees.
The situation at East st. Louis is becom-
ing serious. Yard masters of the different
roads have been attempting all morning TO
make up and start out a freight train, but
have in every instance been prevented
from carrying out their designs by striking
s%witohmen, who are using all the means at
their disposal to make a freight blockade
in that city complete. Coupling pins are
removed from their positions, and trains
become separated. Switches are reversed
and trains are run upon the wrong tracks.
ii A. M.-The Missouri Pacific railroad
this morning, with the aid of a large force
Of police, succeeded in starting q freight
train consisting of IS cars.
News has been received from the Mis-
souri, Pacific. about 90 miles from this
city, that the accommodation train run
ming between here aud that place was
disched by strikers this morning. No par.
ticulars of the affair have been received.
An engine and tender carrying 25 detec.
tives armed with Winchester rifles have
been dispatched thither in anticipation OF
. conflict between the authorities and
strikers when the freight train sent out
from here shall reach that place.
A committee of three OF the striking
Wabash Knights of Labor called upon the
chairman OF the Executive Committee this
AFTERNOON, and informed him that they had
struck. and requested him to inform them