Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-15
POWDERLY TALKS.
why the Firemen Did Not support the
* ights-We1b RcsponsibIe.

bAblibrii, Aug IO4'-NfldItt 1dSltI
Workman Powderly, Secretary j. w.
Hayes, j. j. Holland, aad John Devlin,
members Of the exc autive board Of the
Knights Of Labor. met in this city
Wednesday. Iney denied that the
meeting had anything to do with the
present strike on the New York Central
and Hudson River RAILROAD. In spite of
these assertions, however, they We're
constantly Iii receipt OF teiegrauls from
New YORK and eludei reporters as much
as possible MI Powderly was asked if
he knew, as was then supposed to be
true, that the Brotherhood of Loco
motive tircm n had q ,cilel to aid tine
strikers. He seemed surprised, and after
brief consultation with the other
members of the committee, he dictated
the following:
mo application for assistance in this
strike has been made from assembly
No. 246, which is in command. and tho
board us such can take no action until
asked We have expected that the
brotherhood of FireneI would take the
action they did, of which we have been
apprlsed. We also expect that the en-
gineers will follow. ;t5 they have moth
ing left them now that the tiremen have
come over to us | want to state right
here that tho firemea did not take the
action they have because Of outside in
terfe..ce, bat simply because they de-
sired to do it tnein elves, and they
recognized the fact that this quarrel
was us mach theirs as ours.
The men had no intention Of strik-
ing but Mr., Webb intended they shoald
strike and forced it by wholesale dis.
charge of the knights. Mr.. HoilaAd
was said to have been instrumental in
starting this strike, but he really had
nothing to do with it am confident
that had both sides placed the matter in
Mr.. Holland hands there would have
been no difficulty, The responsibility
for this strike rests in the main with
Mr.. Webb.
When Mr.. Powderly was asked if he
blamed Mr Depew for tde present diff
culties. he said: Mr.. Depew did not
leave until June. while this wholesale
discharge of men began III April.
Thinks the Kni shts wi!l Win.
Mr. Powderly expressed every conf
dence in the knights winning. He
thought the strike would extend to all
the railroads that persisted in handling
NEW i vi II NCHtlfil lItlSIl. IL llOW ltJADkS
as if the strike was in the hands of the
general committee the Michigan Cen
trail and Lake Shore officials expect to
be tied up rs they claim they will
handle all the freight the New York
Central offers,
Mr. Holland Talks
Members of the general executive
board Knights OF Labor were aStr
bright and early Thursday morning
Mr.. Holland expressed the positive b.,
lief that the Brotherhood of t'lremen
would strike, He regarded the news
papers as misinfoIlned of the situation
regarding the movements of Grand
Master Sergeant, of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Wremen. and said that in
stead of Cleveland the conference with
Sergeant would take place in Utica,
and that the local authorities of the
order would press to 20 out. In case
they do" said Mr.. Holland, the On.
gineers are plelgei t. run with non.
union firemen, hence the engineers will
be practically on strike"
Enthusiastic Meeting at Buffalo.
BUFFALO, Aug l5 The strikers held
a vely enthusiastic joint meeting Of
switchmen, locoinJtivs iircmen, and
Knights of Labor Wednesday night,
and judging from the boisterous cheer
ing that issued from the hall, must
have received some encouraging infOr.
nation. The meeting did not break up
until midnight. Maj. McGowan, Of
Syracuse, was one Of the speakers. He
was seen after the meeting and said:
I'VE have assurances from unions
outside the knights that they will go
out and inside of few days there will
not be train moving on the Central
AT tho present time the freight service
of the road is completely paralyzed and
over - per cent. Of the Central's earn
ings are made through its freight bu,i-
ness. Valuable stuff is rotting ut SYRIA
cuse and Albany aad the railroad can
not stand This long The STRIFE has not
yet begun and before it ends the rail
road viii be sorry it ever started
Firemcn Not Ordered Out.