Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-02
The Mayor and Citizens Ask for
Military Aid,
Which the Governor Refuses Sui
Says When II DOES Come
Il viii Come Primsd fer Radical
Execution.

ST. LOUIS. Arpil The Executive
Committee of District Assembly No. 1850
the members Of which include the Missouri
Pacific shopmen snd mechanics, appointed
scommi,tee 10 cali upon Master Mechanic
Bartlett 10 ascertain what men he would
reemploy. The committee has not yet
had a conference with Mr.. Bartlett, and
neither the demands Of the COMMITTEES nol
the plans Of Mr.. Bartlett are officially
known. A member of the committee
however, said this morning that they would
demand that sl the men, without excep
tioa, who struck shall 6s re-emploYed.
Mr.. Bartlett WAS seen, aad in reply to
sn INQUIRY as to what men he would take
back, replied that be would exercise his
own Judgment in that matter; that none
Of those who had destroyed the company 9
property would be re employed, and that
The number Shom he should take back
would be determined BY the number Of
men actually needed, which was to say
that the competent men engaged during
the strike Eoad not be discharged to make
room for the strikeEs.
The final settlement, therefore Of the
strike On tie Missouri Pacific railroad
seems as lar of as ever, for the Executive
COMMITTEES Of District Assembly No. lOl
As?e determined 70 appoint no arbitration
committee to cosfsF Bith Mr.. Hoxis until
oil the t5rmer employees o. the road shall
De taken back.
LESS THAN HALF.
II nov de- ,elops that under instructions
from the Exeeurye Board of Districts lOi,
80 and Il, a eonuittes from Local Assem-
Div $500 awaited upon Master Mechanic
Bartlett last evening a. the Missouri Pa
cifc shops and rendered ths services
of the old shop employees. Ihe
men, they said, were ready 70
20 10 work this morning and they desired
10 ind out If they all would be taken back
aud list Of 6fJy-two Esmes was handed
Mr.. Bartlett, vino, alter scanning 1t,
checked of seventeen OF them IS the names
Of the men whom he would employ. The
others he said he would not take back,
Attempts of similar nature were made
By committees OF strikers at prominent
points all over the Gould systsm. In
every instance the Executive Board claim
thai the committee received the same re-
ply to their officers on t5e part OF the
strikers to return to wo;k Railroad OH
cials stated that they did no. require the
services Of all the old employees; that they
would not take them oil back, and would
use their own discretion in selecting the
men thew wanted. The ratio Of
the men that the road we're will
ling to take back to the
number who are on q strike was, the Exc
cutive Board say. about the same oil over
the system. seventeen out of 6fty or there
sbouts. Reports OF these committees re-
eeiyed by telegraph determined the Exc
cutive Board to issue their address this
afternoon and to continue the strike until
tbs roads consent to take back sill OF the
strikers. The members ofthe boards Wantil
understood that the Knights of Labor will
all hang together, that one will notrsturn to
work without the others, and that the men
who came out through sympathy With the
mem Sers of district Essem0ly l0l must be
sspported before the strikers in whose IN
tsrests they went ont will consent to Get
tlement