The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-18
In THE WORLD OF LABOR.
THF LATEST NoYEHRErs All OYER
THE COUNTRY.

swifehmen In Chicago strIks.-sfx OF
the East 81. Louis Strikers In Custody.
-Dlsputes Betwesn Employers and
Employed. Settled ana Unsettlsd.
ST. LOUIS, April 17.-At about 9 o'clock
last night in East St. Louis, First Lisuteu-
ant Burroughs of the Eighth Regiment and
four soldiers, who were on duty guarding
the coal dumps south of the st. Louis
bridge, noticed ak men prowIing about the
cars in that vicinity. who, when they be-
held the solGiers, attempted to escape. The
guards surrounded them, and the officer in
command questioned them as to their bust
ness, and as they could give no satisfac-
tory acceuut of themselves they were
marched at the point of the bayonst TO tho
guard house, north of tbs Relay Depot,
where they were searched and placed
under guard, The six prisoners appeared
to be strikers, and two Of them are the
Bailey brothers, who have figured prom
inently in East st. Louis labor Affairs
Their cases will be investigated to-day.
CHICAGO, April IT, officers Of the Lake
Shore road positively deny that there ia a
strike of their switcAmen here. Interviews
with yarieua yard employees fail to dis
cover any authority fer the rumored
trouble, although some think strike may
occur in few hours.
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, April 16.--Mr- Barry,
of Saginaw, Mich, member Of ths Gen
eral Executive Board of the Knights Of
Labor, addressed a public meatlnk at the
Board of Trade Hall hers last night. 1t
was nominally citizens meetlDg, but no
prominent men were present. Barry said
that the present strike has settled into a
contest between the Knights of Labor
an day Gould, and they proposed to put
every energy within the Orders pswer to
bring the magnate to terms, evez to the
interruption of the commerce of the coun-
try if necessary. If the strike in thsSouth-
west did not suffice, strikers would be or
gained in the East at central points A
man named Williams, from Sedalia. de-
clared himself communist and INDUCED
in Some violent language.
CLINTON, Mass, Ap,l 17-Agent Bige-
low announced last night that the Bi9eIow
carpet mills would shut down az noon to-
day. This will throw about one thousand
persons cut of employment. twenty-five
special policemen have been appointed.
The members of the St. Louis Citizens
Committee, appointed to make arrange
ments for arbitration of tbs South western
labor tronble, have written letters similar
to that addressed to Mr.. Hoxie, TO the resi-
dent Directors of the Hesonri Pacific
Railroad Company, and are now awaiting
replies. The members Of the committee
all say they expect the Directors viii take
the same view of the mattsr as that taken
by Mr., Hoxie in his answer to DR.. O'Rsilly,
and that efforts at arbitration will be fruit
less. Should this be the case, the Com
mittse will make no further attsnpt to
settle the strike
The business done by East St. Louis
railroads continues to increase. Yesterday
q greater vcldme of freight was transferred
across the river tkan during any day since
the strike.
HAvERHnn, Mass, April II. = The
trouble between w. B. Thorn 4 Co., hat
manufacturers, and the Knights of Labor,
which has, lasted year and half, was
settled yesterday. 1t is said that the Arm
has acceded to all demands and will dis
charge its nen-union workmen and taxa
hack It's old employees.
The Terre Hill, Pa. (near Laacastsr),
cigar factories will resume work tomorrow,
giving work to several huRGred hands.
The Boston stone masons are organizing
into a Knights of Labor Assembly, and will
demand 81 day after Nay 8. With hours
work on Saturday.
to move freight trains from Chicago yestsr-
day. The General Superintendent declares
that the company will make no attempt
for the present. Passenger trains are run
ming regularly.
McGarry, Burdette and Chase, three st.
Louis strikers, have been indicted for IL
tsrfering with the Missouri Pacific Railroad
ann obstructing trains.
Martin Irons, A. Q. Coughlin and George
Jackson, for whcse arrest bench warrants
were issued en- Friday, Voluntarily ap-
peared before the Criminal Court yesterday
morning and gave bonds in $500 each.
At Lynn, Mass, yesterday, Keeae Brcs.
signed the agreement made with the
Knights of Labor two weeks ago, and all
the men will return to work to morrow.
The journeymen carpenters Of Chicago,
have determined to make another move
looking toaArd the adjustment of prison
made boxes and barrels from the market.
Speaking of the matter yesterday, w. Fl.
Muldoon said "To- morrow shall ask the
Trades and Labor Asse mbly to notify the
National Federation of Trades of Great
Britain and Ireland of our grievances. :
Ibis organization is the most powerful in
the world
At Chicsgo, all appearances point to the
fact that trouble will shortly occur on ths
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-
way. The gatemen are not backward in
saying that they are dissatisfied at not hav-
ing received a reply to their request made
several days ago, that they be paid for
dead" runs, and that certain non-Unios
men be dismissed.
Ro1kiunra fba on- -
on Thursday are still out, and there Ia NO
probability of reaching an agreement WITH
the companies. An effort will be made by
the several lines early next week to pro-
cure others to drive and those employed
will have the psotectien Of the police.
In Philadelphia yesterday the KNIGHTS
presented to the Presidents of the Fifth
and Sixth street Railway companies the ul-
timatum OF the Arbitration Committee to
the effect that il Superintendent Janney
was not discharged within q Reasonable
period the drivers and conductors would
be ordered cut and the cars Of the line
tied up until the demand was acceded to.
At late hour last night Ike trouble was
settled By the company agreeing TO divsst
Mr.. Janney OF the power of Diminishing
employees.
CHICAGO, April 1l-At o'clock last even
ing, the switchmen employed on the vAri-.
Gus yards of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railway throughout Chicago,
carried out tier threat to strike if sac
company refused to discharge eight men
who accepted work from the road during
the strike of 1881. The strikers number
"a men. SO
At Chicago It is reported taat the SWITCH
men on the Rock Island & Burlington roads
here have the same grievances as the Bal
timore & Ohio sxischmen.
The Third Avenue .sTie-Up.v
NEW YoDK, April H. The frat car on
the Third avenue line left the depot at s
o'clock ibis morning., and at nooa tw ;nty.
eight cars were running. making trips from