The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1886-03-10
THE WARNING WORKERS,
Trouble and Rulnor OF. Trouble
From all Points.
A N IsSU E II A d e
By the Knights Of Labor and tho
..4 Railroads Street Car Strike
General Dissatisfaction.

. received from the Mallory line. The might
= were not discharged openly as that woul
> force the issue ssought for by the executiv
e board. but they were told this evening to as
8 for their time or recede from their cefusa
n to handle the Mallory freight. Orders for
+ general strike over the Santa Fe line ex
!, tending from Galveston to Fort Worth liza
1 been recently sent out. A lumber of mel
employed at tie Shippers Compress qui
work this afternoon, because the cotto1
: was being compressed for shipment by tn
= Mallory line. The railroads are working
Y night and day getting clear Of freight, SO a,
to be prepared for tie-up,, It's thought
by Tomorrow night every compress will b,
r locked up. There is no talk OF arbitration
this time, and the outlook is gloomy, al
| the Knights seem determined to force tht
Mallory Company to employ organized
labor. -.--.. 49,,
! SUBSTITUTES ARRIVING.
New ORLEANS March 6.-Governor Shell
don this afternoon received dispatch from
Governor Brown, at Dallas Texas, notify.
ing himfthat last night about 100 masked
men attacked the round house at Big
Springs and disabled several engines remoy-
ing from them portions of the machinery
l
OF Colorado would be discontinued. That
at Fort Worth the company had succeeded
IN supplying the places OF the strikers to
such an extent as to enable them to resume
traffic at tha4 point and that they are ap-
plying for writs OF assistance at Fort
Worth and Toyo in accordance with the
order OF Judge Pardee. Col. E. B. Wheeler,
manager Of the New Orleans division OF the
road, states that the company are now en-
ploying skilled mechanics to 60 to Marshal
| for the purpose OF obtaining & sufficient
number of men to keep the engines in re-
pairs. He says that there has been no dis
satisfaction expressed by the employees OF
| his division and that no trouble is appre-
hended on this end OF the line.
At sEDAL1A, MISSOURI
81. LOUIS. March 6'-The Globe Demo-
| Gratis Sedalia special says the situation
| here tonight is consid. red more critical
than at any t mo since the Texas & Pacific
strike was inaugnrated. This afterno II a
cipher dispa tch was received by Fred Page,
OF District Asaemb y No. 1O1 which is com.
p.,sed wholly Of railroad employees Oh the
170uld system, and Immediately after
I ward an order was issued to boy
cott- all Texas g. Pacific cars and all
| freight .sonsigned to that road! The
| order went into effect at once and not
| singh Knight OF Labor can be found in
| Sed9e,fk tp'handle either cars or freight in
! tend. fr the bovcotted road. The feeling
| against Receiver Brown is bitter in the ex-
ysa Hsstn arex 9 aa ths hsfss
Pacific cars west, as he has been told that
they will be boycotted in Kansas City.
STILL STRIKING.
SEDALIA, March 6.-Ihe employees of the
Missouri Pacific an Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad shops struck this IN ,rning
at 1890. Everything around and in the
shops is in a state Of chaos. and it is i'm
possible to ascertain the cause or..extent of
the strike. 1t is supposed, owever, that
the order came from the Texas Knights of
Labor. 1t is also reported that every man
but one in the shops here belong to the
Knights OF Labor, but he too went with the
others.
ARKANSAS TAKES A HAND.
LITTLE Rock, March 6-The trouble with
the operatives Of the Texas & Pacific Rail-
road has extended to Little Rock This
morning all the workmen on tn St. Louis
d Iron Mountain Railroad machiue shops.
over 800 in all, stopped work and business
is at Il standstil. The men are quiet and
good order prevails.
ST. LOUIS, March 6.-All the Knights Of
Labor Oh the Gould system centering in
thi. city went out and struck this morning
az - " CloCh. NJ par lCuidrS sLFt Known
at present, but the strike is supposed to
have been ordered by the Central Comm it. !
tee OF the Knights Of Labor at the sugges-
ton OF the Texas assembly of that organ
izatiOn. lnformatiT n from Desoto, Mis- |
souri,, is to the effect that the men ut that |
point have also gone out.
NINE THOUSAND STRONG
ST. LOUIS, March 8, l p. m.--There are !
5000 K lights OF Labor in the strik: on the |
Gould system.
is II FAILURE?
Fort WORTH, Texas, March t. - The
Texas Pacific strike is failure The places
Of he strikers have been filled with the eA-
ception OF a few machinists, and freight is
moving as usual. 1t is believed Vet that a
big strike is being planned which will include
all the roads in the Southwest, but nothing
definite can be learned in regard to such
move.
MUCH DISSATISFACTION.
GALyEsroH, Texas, March 6. -- The
Knights OF Labor at the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe freight depot who refused to
handle the Mallory freight were displaced
this morning by colored laborers. At the
Missouri Pacific yard very few Knights OBJ
served the boycott and none were dis
charged. Both companies have a number
of colored men selected with view of re
placing the Knights rs fast as the latter
lrop out. Such changes will be permanent.
1umOrs Of an impending general strike OF
,he Knights throughout Texas are current
,ere and elsewhere in the State. Indica-
lions point to an understa nding on the
part OF the Knights to quit work generally
Monday morning On all roads carrying
Mallory freight. There is Considerable dis .
'atisfaction in the ranks OF the local
TO l1rv% hae |
compress esta blishments.
WAGON MAKERS STRIKE.
CHICAGO, March 8.-Referring to the !
triks this afternoon of over 900 men :
Employed by the Studebaker Bro g., wagon :
at South Bend Indiana, :
dr. P. E. Studebaker, the treasurer Of the
eporter tonight when our men dis
harge themselves they do what we never
lid by them. Our works have been in .
operation for 81 years and have never shut | r
lown except on legal holidays and for re- q
'airs. We have never asked our men to c
york halttime, always having believed it Z
'etter policy to pay dollar and half for y
day. work than to pay dollar for haf P
days work. We do not anticipate any
erious troutle. A few Of our men have de-
ided tn demand an advance OF 25 per cent
nd have succeeded in inducing those in. g.
lined to be satisfied to g. out with them q
hey hold a meeting tonight. and may a
onclnde to return Monday morning" cl
The employees sent a committee to the IL
rm last Monday making the demand d
aud the firm declined to grant | IL
be demand, bnt promised to review the h
tuation personally with their superin-
sndents and endeavor to adjust the mat
,r satisfactorily.
BOTH SIDES RETIcENr. >,
Sr. LOUIS, March 5.-The officers of the d
[issouri Pacific Railroad are very reticent, e.
nd positively decline to make any state a.
ent further than that they do not all .,
cipate any possibility of supplying the
Iaces OF the strikers. Master Workman
OF this district assembly, re,
ses to state the direct cause of the difficulty
nd is as reticent as the railroad officials. ali
IL stated here, however that the action to
the Texas Pacific officials in diachare. N
Z tho foreman OF the shops at Marshal, In
sxas for activity In engaging in orsau. tb
Inc 4he RniGhts ol 1Abo1 AsoAnhly a Al