Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-04-01
LABOR MATTERS.
GROWS WORSE.
There Ia But Little Ho o Of q Settlement Of
the Railroad Strike

No one ventures prediction as TO how or
when the strike upon the Gould southwestern
system of railroads will end. Mr.. Hoxie has
refused TO confer with MIR. Powderly; the ef-
forts of Governors Martin Of Kansas and Mar
maduke Of Missouri have failed TO effect q set
Elements the management of the road declines
to treat with any OF Its striking employees
representing the Knights OF Labor; the latter
now announce that they will accept no terms
from the company unless offered TO them as
members of that organization; and now, as a
last resort, the strikers have called upon the
merchants of different cities to assist In posi-
bic arbitration. Several business men state
that such course would be gladly pursued by
them II both would agree to abide faithfully by
their decision.
III we were TO submit now and return to work
without having been recognized as Knights OF
Labor, IL would be defeat not only for US but
for every labor organization In the whole coun-
try. We will wait three or four days in the
hope that some way towards a settlement may
be opened, and then, II the situation remains
unchanged for the better, every freight train
on every road running out of st. Louis, and
every freight train on every road running out
OF Chicago, will be stopped. III this shall fail
To force the companies TO recognize us the
strike will be extended, embracing the entire
country, and II IL comes to the worst, the
strike will be- made to embrace every large
mandatory and every extensive business In
dustry In the country"
The railway officials in Sedalia, Mo-, notified
the city and county authorities
the other morning they would attempt to run
a train at o'clock in the afternoon. The
mayor had the entire police force on the com
pany's grounds, with the sheriff and 25
deputies, taken from the business men of the
city. At 2 p. IN. the train was ready to start,
and man named William Freeland stepped
up TO the train and gave the engineer, fireman
and brakeman each n note which read: "YOu
are hereby earnestly requested, for the sake OF
humanity, not to 60 out on this engine" The
train started out ana as IL passed New DIRK
ave. a torpedo exploded under the engine. At
the city limits the fireman came down from the
engine, and train soon came to standstill
and then backed up TO the yard. Freeland was
arrested and placed under 500 bonds on the
charge OF trespassing
The situation in Kansas City is one o. quiet
but anxious expectations. No freight trains
have been moved and there has been no at
tempt made TO start them. Passenger trains
are not interiered with. A STOCK train consist
ing of Is cars of cattle and five cars of hogs
came in the other morning over the Atchison,
Topeka IL Santa Fe, and was delivered by the
trainmen. No other business has been done,
owever, as far as reported. report re-
celved from Atchison says that party OF
masked men visited the Missouri Pacific round
house and inundated the guard and
killed all the engines In the house.
The strike In Denison, Texasis virtuany I'M
changed. Vice-President Hoxie's reply TO the
governors is not received by the strikers with
satisfaction they claim there is nothing In 1t
for them. Forty OF the locomotives were run
out of the round house the other day into the
yard, as there Is some apprehension OF the
house being burned by incendiaries. All the
yards and shops are heavily guarded by the
sheriff and his deputies, armed with Winches-
ter rifles.