Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-25
LABOR.
Knights of Labor Excited Over the
Bond Issue.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.-The Knights of
Labor, after consultation among officers
here sent the following despatch to j. Ii.
Sovereign, at Des Nloines, Ia:
Secure counsel and go before the United
states supreme court Immediately. Enter
injunction proceedings against Carlisle,
restraining him from issuing fifty mill
lions of bonds. The interests of the peo-
pie, upon which the burden of all taxa
ton to pay the interest and principal OF
these bonds fall, require that you should
Immediately take this step against the
secretary of the treasury, enjoining him
from incurring any further debt while
the resources of the government, if prop
erly applied are sufficient to meet all
lawful demands. JOHN W. HAYES,
Gen. Secretary Treasurer X. of L."
TO this Mr.. Sovereign replied;
Case submitted to counsul. If there Is
reasonable ground on which to force
standing in court injunction proceedings
will begin at once"
| BridgeporI's Street Car Strike
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Jan 22.-Tne strike
of the Traction company's employees is as
suming IA serious phase. Mayor Bostwick
and the police commissioners went to the
ltation and the mayor read the riot act
TO 1000 people. Crowds gathered on the
I line of the road in East Bridgeport last
| last night and the entire police force was
kept busy trying to disperse them. The
company made several attempts to send
out cars, but they were stoned and finally
abandoned by the men brought here from
| New York. One car lies on its side in
Congress street. The labor unions have
agreed to cooperate with the strikers.
] The lnttnr hoNya 1pnn mo yiplnnra aud tl py
threaten none Not car is running in
the city or on the line to Stratford.
Trenton Potteries Closed.
TRENTON, N j., Jan. 23.-The potteries
! Of TrentGn are all practically closed. The
! operatives are in session in various halls
/ discussing the cut in wages. and the or
dering of n strike is expected. The men
do not Gemur so much over the ten per
cent reduction as they do over the propcs:-
tion to withhold twenty per cent of the
balance of their earnings pend lg the fate
of the Wilson tariff bill IT the pottery
schedule goes through unmodihed when
: the bill passes this twenty per cent is to
be retained altogether by the employers
If the schedule shall be modified the
operatives are to receive the difference.
Russian Laborers Stopped.
! New YORK, Jan. 23.-Adam Sedliczki,
n miner, of Scranton, Pa, arrived here on
the Stuttgart, from Bremen, accompanied
by his wife and family and 10 young Rus
sian miners The latter were Detained as
contract laborers and will be sent back.
Sedliczki found the miners all stranded
on the German frontier. AS they came
from his native place, wilma, he advanced
them $500, which paid their passage to
this country. When they left home, the
meu say, they had $50 each, but, being
without passports, they were blackmailed
under threats of arrest by Russian AMI
German border officers.
Pottors Threaten 10 Strike,
TRENTON, n. j., Jan. 24.-The operative
pottrrs have passed resolutions that tie
reduction in wages announced by their
employers is unnecessary and uncalled
for at this time" A committee repre-
senting all branches of the trade will be
appointed to confer with the employers,
and unless n compromise of liberal ma
ture is effected Il strike will sbe inaugur-