The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-22
TRAILED BY DETECTIVES
POWderly and Associates Everywhere
ShadOWed by PinkertOn'S Men.
Progress OF the Great Strike on the
New York Central Belief That
IL Will Extend to Enormous
Proportions in Few Days.

like pause IN the battle, or rather |
il has been 10 them "a day of prepara-
ton after "A declaration aud before the
set-to. Never before has Powderly been
personally in the heat of a contest like the
one believed to he coming. He never yet
ordered a strike, and feels some pride in
the record of peace, which he feels is his
There's little doubt, however, about his
determination in this case. His men say
he Is here to stay and the cN-
ecutive board says its headquarters
during the strike, il one is ordered,
will bo in this city. II is clear that Pow
derly and his cabinet intend, if the strike
is made general, that the responsibility
shall be brought just as close as possible
to the rank and file. This purpose under
lies the orders Of the board To the master
workman to convene his district ASSEM-
bly,, and also the order which has gone up
the river to Albany to convene their dis
trict assembly Monday. At these meet
ings the local assembly will voice their
disposition as 10 a general strike and the
result will hc that a fair consensus of
opinion among the men may he had.
The federation Of the supreme body
will not meottill Saturday and will pos
sibly communicate its determination To
the knights here that night or Sunday.
Albany district assembly, whose action
will be influential in the plan laid out hy
Powderly To make the men themselves
declare the strike general will not meet
till Monday as stated. A fair conclusion
from the facts and circumstances is that
the grand strike, II il is To- come, will not
fall before next week.
NEW YORK, Aug. II. Secretary Hayes
Of the executive board announced this
afternoon that Monday next at Albany
meeting of District 2iG would bc held, at
which the executive board would bc
! present for the purpose of consultation.
AT this meeting each local assembly
will send from three To five delegates aud
there will he present from 600 To 700 mem
| bers from that section of the state lying
adjacent 10 the Central road from New
| York 10 Buffalo.
Webb, late in the afternoon, said rcla-
| tive 10 the charge made 10y Powdcrly that
| he and the executive board since their
arrival here had been shadowcd 10y dctcc-
tivcs. that unless lac had taken every law
| ful means to protect the interests Of his
road and kept himself informed as Ia
| what tlI', members of the board were
| doing, he would he wholly unfit To remain
one half an hour in his present position,
To-day Powdcrly has been preparing
the following, which was made public to-
night. For some time the management
of the New York Central a Hudson River
railway has been discharglng employees
who have been active in labor affairs. IL
happens that all these who have been dis
| missed are members Of the order of the
Knights Of Labor aud have AT one time or
another been officers Of the order or have
served ON committees which waited on
the officials with a view Ia presenting
grievances.
These discharges became So frequent
and were so clearly an evidence uf "A
settled purpose on the part Of the COM
pany To disrupt and destroy the organka-
tion Of knights of Labor upon the Central
system that the executive board Of Dis
trlct Assembly 2iG in which the knights
OF Labor upon the system are enrolled,
found Il necessary To call a special meet
ing To consider the situation.
ln III" meantime the general cNccu-
tive board having been appriScd
of the condition Of affairs, sent
one nf its members, J. j. Holland,
To New York with instructions to use all
possible efforts 10 bring about an amiCablc
adjustment Of the difficulty. Dn his ar
rival in New York, Holland, after confer
cnCe with representatives Of the district
assembly, in the course Of which he OH
tanned full knowledge of the trouble from
the standpoint of the men, waited upon
Nicc.p President Webb. Holland stated to
Webb that he had called upon him to
endcayor TO adjust the unpleasantncss eN-
isting between the company aud its
Knights of Labor employees. Webb de-
Mod that there was any trouble existing
bctwc, n the company and its employees.
Holland told him he. rs a member of
the general executive board Of the Knights
| Of Labor, had come AT the request ut the
men made through the organization "a
which they belonged, District Assembly
2i6.
, Webb brusuucly declared lac would not
discuss the matter with any one not an
employr Of the company and closed the
interview. Finding all efforts Ia effect a
: pcarrahle settlement of their grievances
: impossible and seeing that Il was only a
question Of time and the convenience oi
: the company when they would one and all
) be discharged unless they forfeited tlUir
e manhood and abandoned their privileges
: as citizens of free country, 10y r"nolnc'
irg their right Ia join their fellows ~ AN
| Drgliilk tllDn fdlfUldl'u 10 lifbVtl ll'll
rights without intrttding upon those oi
2 othrrS. the district executive board had
D no alternative but to order a strike,
. which they did.
| The public is already acquainted witt
\ the details Of the affair aud a repetition Is
/ scarcely necessary. The most earnest
I. and sincere efforts Of the general officer
/. to secure a hearing for the discharge
men were unhvaling. The correspond
cnrc winch passed between the genera
master workman and Webb has hcct
published,
Wednesday morning. August -, John
i Dcvliu, general executive II the board
= aud myself waited on Iouccy genera
q superintendent, and cndcayorrd tp hay,
!. the matter nrbtratcd or investigated
e TDurry was emphatic in hi, refusal, Dt
the ali rnoou of that day Webb Was Wis
tied by The same gentleman and hr r"ltrr
uu.d what Iuucuy had said IN tho morn
!, ing. % was suggested tu him that duru.
4 the investigation the strike would be- de
: claryd ~ and the investigation pruCurdu'
with. ] his was refused. Ihru came ihO
following proposition by me;
"Mr Webb, could you not -it Down will
me iu the presence ~ the men VIII