Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-14
WAS A COLD DAY
For the Knights of Labor on
the Central.
A LOCAL ASSEMBLY sURRENDERs,

Throws Up It's Charter and Asks for
Work-Aibany the Point of Diniculty
for the Railway Managerial Sym
pathy" Strike ON the Delaware and
Hudson-serious Row Between Pinker-
tons and Crowd-Two Men Hurt-The
Rioters at CIoquet. MIMI. Overawed.
New YORK, Aug 1.-THE first open
surrender ON the part of the New York
Central strikers took place late yesterday
afternoon, when the members of local as
sembly 1,705, Knights of Labor. voted al
most unanimously to disband, and the
members placed themselves at the disposal
of the railroad officers with prayer for
reinstatement. This action, with the
facts that the executive board in session
at Detroit thus far ignores the strike and
that the freight blockade at Albany has
been raised. comprises the news in the
New York Central situation. It was a
blue day for the knights.
The Alleged Strike Of Firemen.
1t was stated very positively yesterday
that the members of the Brotherhood of
Firemen had been ordered out by the ex-
scutive officers of the organization, but
the story was entirely without founda-
ton. Reports of the spread of the strike
to other roads had no more facts to back
them than that handful of men in the
Delaware and Hudson yards at Albany
had left work because Central cars and
freight were being handled Within two
hours their places had been filled. About
4 o'clock in the afternoon General Super
tntendent Voorhees, received dispatch
from Superintendent Worcester, of the
Harlem division, saying that some of the
strikers who were knights of Labor were
very anxious to be taken back, and after
some negotiations they surrendered their
charter and offered their sery ices to the
company.
Has a Strike Order Been Received?
At o'clock p. m. yesterday John Reed,
OF East Albany, who is secretary of the
all of the firemen from New York to Buff
falo on freight engines were ordered out,
and would leave their engines last night.
The West Shore firemen were to follow,
which would leave the engineers value.
less to the roads, as they will not run with
green" tiremen. The order was received
yesterday afternoon by telegraph from
Chief Sargent at Cleveland, o. Old heads
here say that one of two things must hap
pen to-day-either the strike will become
prodigious or else it will die
Terre Haute Says No.
On the other side telegram from Terre
Hsute, Ind, says: Grand Master Sargent,
OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Fire
men, left at noon for Cleveland to meet
with a grievance committee, but whether
or not in connection with the Central
strike is not known. At the national
headquarters here the positive statement
was made that he had not ordered the fire.
men to strike. When seen Tuesday MIR.
Sargent said that it was out of the ques-
for the brotherhood to engage in a strike
as the case stood"
The Trouble with Mr.. Lee.
T. j. Lee. master workman of District
assembly 246, who was discharged by the
New York Central people before the
strike, Is receiving considerable attention
just now. General Manager Toucey gave
this as one of the reasons why Lee was
discharged. He said: "Mr Lee called at
my office about two weeks before he was
dismissed from our employ and. after
some conversation said to me in sub
stance: Mr.. Toucey, there has been a good
deal of water put into the stock of the
Vanderbilt roads, and the Vanderbits are
getting too much money out of them
Now, propose to get some of it before l
get through | said to him, is that a
threat, Mr.. LeeY He made no reply to
my question, and | reported his words to
MIR. Webb, and on his making more
threats he was discharged"
Depew's Approval Cabled.
nhh l..N
gram from Mr.. Depew, dated Milan, in
which he sustains the action of the mana
gers of the road, and said that any other
course would have brought the man
agement into contempt and the company
to disaster