New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-01

RrApIya NOT BADLY CRIPPLED.
THg LATEST ORDER TO QUIT WORK ONLY PARTi-
ALLY oBEYED-KNIGHTs DROP OUT IN PHIL
ADfLPHIA. BUT REMAIN AT WORK on
THE MAIN LrNE-rnE STU


ALTON YESTERDAY.
FER TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE
PHILADELPHIA Dec 3l-At Port Richmond early
this morning, there was the same feeling Of un-
certainty as existed all day yesterday. When
the order to strike was given out at noon but
few men quit work and "a rapidly as the old hands
left their places were filled by others willing to
accept the situation without question. The strlk-
crs made no attempt to interfere with the men
taking their places. Up to noon about so men
principally freight handlers and bralScmen left
the main lire. For little while this morning
things looked blue in the freight yard at Brcadst
and Pcnnsylvania-ave. When the hour Of seven
arrived, the time for the day crews to begin work
twenty or more refused to do So
All right said Agent Bertolet. Get out
of the way then and make room for others that
Will
In surprisingly short time the agent had their
places filed by able bodied men. New hands
had been engaged for just such an emergency
Some of them had worked on the road before
and therefore required no instruction In the labor
they were to perform. The yard was fied with
loaded freight cars which had to be taken OUT
and made up into trains in order to provide room
for incoming freight. This was done ana the
The wharves as Willow-st. were almost entirely
deserted and little or no work was bein8 dohc
The freight handlers employed by the company
at this point some 500 in number failed to appear
this morning, and they are oil knights OF La
Dor there was no doubt that they had obeyed the
order issued by the local assemblies last nlShe
The only work going on at the Wlilow-st. WHIT
yard was that Of two shifting engines, when were
manned by crews whose members had seeded
from the knights and refused to join in the strike
Train Dispatcher Goodman at this yard said at
l o'clock that. despite the strike, the shifting
engines were worl1ing as usual and lie was OF the
opinjon that he would be able to have the regular
freight trains moved to the Sixteenth-st station.
II Think he said that in day or two we
shall be able to fill the places Of all the striking
men, and until that time our work will move
along without Interruption
At the foot Of Noblc-st the same state OF AFFAIRS
as at Willow-st prevailed as to the freight hand
.lers and ordinary laboring men. They had al
Joined the strikers. The shifting engines were'
however all at work and the freight cars were
moved out and up to the North Penn station with
regularity Dispatcher Mclaughlin stated that
the whole thing, in nut SHE'LL as far as the
Noble-st ward WAS concerned was that the laboring
men had quit work and it WIS only a question
of few days before their places would be hlled
by other men. About forty men, said the train
dispatcher, have applied for work this morning
and some of them have been put on, and think
men. To-day the trains were made up ana seht
out Usual"
a worl.nlan ct Port Richmond said today:
we rccciN cd the order 20 strike dt noon ana
tsty.threc Of my fellows incluiIy myself refused
to obey it, A committee visited us last night ind
said: Your talk is injucng our cause Keep
uuict or We will MAKE it WARM for you. don U
care for their threats. You see am still at work
and [ inten 10 remain ~ my post. knlehts q
Labor OF 10 Knights of Labor. The men you sec
about me aTr OF the same opinion we noh ""no
.,.,1 t-stl al
suffer to pie Sc Mr. Lee al the officers that con
troll the organization. ! know IL To be TACT ,h'U
every laboring man who has gone out will tosether
with his family be suffering for Dread DcioVc an
other week rolls around"
SCENES ALONG THE wHARvEs
At Taylor's pier -four was being discharged
from cars and cotton lighters Fourteen men
were engaged unloading the flour and twenty IN
taking the cotton from cars for storage In MGR
chandisc piers. The floats were in operation Mt
the elevator pier Steycdorc MOTIFS 12n'S Mi,n
carg0es Of iron ore from the ocean traplpS, hhia-
ryllis and Roxborough Castle. The downtown
steyefIorcS in charge OF Francs iOOu were us
cbarrinr cargocs of cinders and railroad ties from
various boats lying alongside. The barkehtihe
Alfredo was dscharging her cargo o IRON ore WIN
her own crew. This is the first time III many
months that any cargo was discharged by u vessel >
own crew, the knights OF LABOR refused 10
allow this to be done. Stevcdore COX had charge
of "a gang Of mcn loading railroad IRON on NJ Inc
Swarren Hall. to he shipped to savannah Inns
iron has been arriving in cars direct from the
SteeltOn works. III, a
Port Richmond and at various places III the yards'
that all those who desire work shall make hppli.
cation at Pier No. 3. Already an overpius OF
engineers have made applications for work.
The collicrs Panther and Lancaster sailed To-
day. having completed their cargoeS. me steamer
Earnwen Of the Earn Line is discharglng cargo
of iron ore from Cuba at Pier No. 10:
Superintendent Bonano tclcgraphed TINS Il, morn
ing to Newfork for hundred men. nneh n m9
before long the new workers began to come in,
ten in a squad. As Superintendent Bonzano sent
them of to Front-st, he talked III S9tisieu s'i.ln
of the strike Developments. Whaeyer the
Knights of Labor are going to do they VIII nN 70
day This is the time they intend striking IN r
hardest blow One that they think TO give with
a sledge. and think will be only a feather They
expect to take 800 men out, eh claim OF Una.
kind is bosh. They won't take out more than
who were going to wait on the different suPerin-
tendcnts | haven't seen any yet, ana what
more, don't intend seeing any tha re eD Who
unit work ut Nobc-st. wharf this morning nine
of them returned at ! o'clock and asked 70 nc
taken back. Their request was refused. Az tnc
North Penn deDot this afternoon the men were
listed nv rckets OF the committees detailed by
the convention to meet them and to give the orler
for the continuance OF the strike Ihcy preIaieu
upon about twenty conductors handiciS' etc,; "
20 out but many OF the men refused TO leave theIf
work As soon the news reached the Oihcais Oh
the company in the depot the places of the strikers
were filed and in half an hour after the dls-
charged men were off the ground the business WAS
going on the same as if they had the regular men
duty" a, ID.
Train Dispatcher Geary said L can't say that
the strike dsturbs much here. There were
some nat made fools Of themselves TINS morning.
Some twenty men. conductors and hands, left the
YARDS as soon as they he I'd the order but most OF
them know upon which side their bread Is put
tered / had talk myself with conductor
who was strong Knight. and he said when !
asked him why he was not out with the . /;
WELL Mr.. Geary, I'll tell you: have wife ana
Knights of Labor can keep them the way can
when I am employed by the Philadelphia and
Reading"
General Manager Mcleod to-day issued the fol-
lowing:
No man who has left service without cause and
Oh the order the Knights Of Labor shall ever have
a days work this road so long az this management
has charge OF II.
The management says that the strike has been
...l.,a "a t,a ro,I In a