Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-13
THE RAILROAD FIGHT
The Knights Of Labor. Now Ready for the
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Con@itioes of Warfare Against the
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Metropolitan rOad-MeetinG
of the Assembly.

Secretary Treasurer Hayes of the X. of
L. and Mr.. H. B. Martin Of the general ex-
ecutive board, who have been in the west
for some days past. are expected to return
to Washington tomorrow, and then most
of the members Of the board viii be in the
city, SO that meeting can be held at any
time that IL is deemed necessary to have
one.
1t is quite certain that with the return
of Mr.. Hayes the war the Metropolitan
Railway Company, which all readers of The
Star know was begun more than two weeks
ago, will be carried on with renewed vigor,
and it is stated that no effort will be left
untried to bring the company to terms.
1t is understood that the discharged en-
ployes Of the Metropolitan Railroad Com
pany do not believe that there is much
chance for their reinstatement, and several
of them have already secured positions all
OF which are fully as remunerative, and in
some instances more so, than those from
which they We're dismissed; but even if all
those locked out get employment. 1t will
make no change whatever, 1t is said, in the
attitude of the Order of the K. of L. to-
ward the railroad company, and, as here
tofore stated i'll The Star, the general exec
utive board proposes to carry the question
before Congress at next winters session.
The board already has the assurance Of
scores of members of Congress, whose let
terS have been received at the headquar-
ters of the general assembly here, stating
that they are willing to enter into full
Investigation Of the charges made against
the Metropolitan company by the board.
Street Railway AssembIy.
An important meeting of the Street Rail-
lay Assembly was held Saturday evening,
and the action Of M. F. NJ. Dent, in re-
questing District Assembly No. 66. with
which the local assembly Is affiliated, to
postpone the operation OF the boycott
against the Metropolitan Railway Company
until after tomorrow, on account of the
Christian Endeavor convention, was unani-
mously Endorsed.
A committee was appointed to draft a
series of resolutions expressive of the graf
hcation of the assembly at the nominate ton
of William j. Bryan by the democratic
convention at Chicago for the presidency
gentleman. 1t was stated that while Mr.
Bryan was member of Congress he de-
Hvered a lecture for the benefit of the
members of the assembly
Messrs. F. NJ. Dent, W. P. Smith and
John Ryan were appointed an agitation
committee, with power to add to their num-
Der, to cal lon all organized labor bodies in
the District explain the pending trouble,
and ask that the boycott be Endorsed. The
committee was also instructed to go before
the various citizens associations and secret
societies for the same purpose.
The delegates to the local Federation of
Labor will at the meeting of the latter 20
be held Tomorrow evening, ask that the
boycott be approved. There is, it Is be-
granted, and those who are managing the
matter say that the boycott will be the
most extensive ever inaugurated In the
District of Columbia