The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-19
LABOR TROUBLES.
The Southern Pacific Operators = Coal
Strikes in Indiana and Colorado

HOUSTON, Tex, Dec. 1S.-W hlie the
operators strike has not yet extended &c
Texas, there is no telling when it will. as
| the employees OF the Southern Pacific in
| this state have been ordered to sign, on
pain of dismissal, pledge that they do not
now belong to any organization of teleg-
| raphers nor will join any such unless
permitted to do SO by the officials OF the
| company. 1t was the circulation of this
| pledge that precipitated the strike on the
| western divisions of the road, and If in
sisted on here all the operators in Texas
will doubtless go out.
| OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 18.-Orders were
sent out yesterday to the telegraph oper-
ators working for the Fremont, Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley road, notifying the
| men that they must leave the Order of
| Railway Telegraphers or leave the service
| of the company This morning the super
| intendent of the road received replies from
several of the men, refusing to obey the
| order, aud trouble is expected. Chief
| Thurston of the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers has been notified, and the matter
| will be brought before the local lodge
tonight. 1t is said that similar orders
have been sent to all the men employed on
the Chicago and Northwestern system.
OMAHA, Dec 1S.-It WAS rumored this
afternoon that a strike of the telegraph
operators had been ordered on the FIRE.
mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley rail-
rood, but Superintendent Mcfarland re-
ports that his men are all at work and
that there are no signs of trouble. a local
official of the telegraphers' brotherhood
says that the officers of the local lodge are
satisfied that the Northwestern railway
contemplates general warfare on the
order.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Dec. 1S-Ac+ing Grand
Chief Ramsey of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers arrived tonight and held a
secret meeting with the telegraphers OF
this city, to prepare schedule TO be pre-
sented to the Santa Fe people on January
1. The schedule will ask that operators be
divided into three Glasses, to be paid at the
rates Of go, SO and $50 per month. The
different divisions of the order are 10 sign
the schedule, aud then the Santa Fs is to
be asked to sign it or take the conse-
quences.
Ell PAso, Tex, Dec. 1s-It IS stated here
that the operators aorking on the Atlantic
and Pacific will strike tomorrow.
MINING STRIKES.
TERRE HAUTE Ind. Dec 1S-President
Cummeski of the United Mine work
ers has visited the Clay county dis
trict, to learn how we'll founded was the
report from Brazil indicating that a
stampede of the miners was imminent,
He said: "The seven men who returned
to work have been weakened and the
wonder is that they have remained with us
up to this date. So far as | am able 10
learn, the men in the Brazil district are
firm in their purpose to remain idle II their
demands are not granted"
DENVER, Dec. 1S.-News received this
morning from Crested Butte states that
the Italian strikers there INDUCED very
freely in liquor last night and acted reck-
lessly and boastfully, declaring that they
would blow up the houses in VIII .ch live
the Austrian strikers who returned to
work in the mines yesterday. The sheV
IFS party patrolled the town and vicinity
all night, but no actual violence was Of
fered toy the strikers. The ventilating fans
in the mines were kept at work ali day
yesterday and last night, ejecting the gas
which had accumulated from their stop
page. 1t is reported that fifty more of the
strikers will return to work today. IL =
rumored that troops have been ordered
from here to Crested Butte, but this is
not certain. It Is impossible to get any-
thing from there at present, on account of
the poor wire facilities.
DENVER, Dec. ls-The rumor current
here today that state troops had been or
dered to Crested Butte to q ell the dis
turbance created by the Italian strikers
there is without foundation. Reports re-
ceiyed from that place tonight say that
everything Is quiet.