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go to work, they would refuse to go, no matter who ordered them oat Mr. Crain—You have no powor to order a •trike, hare you? Mr. Turner—Yea The Chairman (with an air of surprise)—You have? Mr. Turner—Yea There U no law in our cooetitution governing strikes. We do not believe in strikes. Mr. Crain —Then where do you derive your power to order strikes? Mr. Turner—We have not the power, directly, to order a strike; but we have the power to approve or disapprove a strike. Mr. Crain—Was this Strike approved or disapproved? Mr. Turner—We never knew anything about it until we received the telegram - from Mr. Hopkins. It has never been approved. Mr. Crain—Then, I suppose, the power is vested in you to direct the meu to return to work. Mr. Turner—Yea Being questioned on the subject of arbitration, Mr. Turner said he had read the President’s message on that point to-day, and thoroughly agreed with it He believed that there should be some fixed tribunal of arbitration, not one raised on the spur of the moment He thoroughly believed in arbitration, and would like to see arbitration compulsory. Mr. Crain —Suppose the arbitrators reported that the Knights of Labor should go to work at a dollar a day, when they wanted a dollar and a half; are you willing as an American citizen, to say that you would ask your fellow-members of the Knights of Labor to abide by that? Mr. Turner—ls I entered into an agreement to abide by arbitration I would submit to the award. Mr. McDowell was recalled and made a statement—in the line of one of Mr. Gould's suggestions yesterday—as to the propriety of having railroad engineers and officers licensed by the general government. He favored that, finding an analogy for it in the licensing of steamship captains and pilots. These meu were bound to bring their vessels into pert, and so railroad engineers should be bound to bring their engines to their destination. The laws governing international commerce were drawn up with great care. The railroads had come in and taken the place, largely, of that kind of commerce, and interstate commerce by rail could be, and should he, governed by the same sort of laws. As to arbitration, it must necessarily be voluntarily. It seemed to him that the difference between the President and the House on that subject was as to the appointment of the third arbitrator. The selection by a United States judge the President seemed to regard an unusual thing. Mr. Crain—Evidently the President had not read the bill as it passed the House. There is nothing of that kind in it An arbitrator is to be appointed on each side. &n#the two are to select a third. Mr. Buchanan—ln other words, the President's criticism was of a bill not passed by tho House, Referring to remarks made yesterday by Mr. Hopkins as to prominent persons connected with the Knights of Labor having been sedn around brokers’ offices, most positive denials of all stock speculations were made by Messrs. Powderly, McDowell and Turner. Mr. Theodore P, Rynder, of Center county, Pennsylvania, made an appeal to the committee on behalf of the miners in Pennsylvania, Maryland and western Virginia, that the committee should have its powers enlarged so as to investigate the trouble in the mining regions. The chairman said the committee would, on its return, ask to have its powers enlarged. He said they were in harmony with the President’s message, except that it did not go far enough. There should be some power in tho government to prevent interruption of railroad travel by the quarrels of railroad owners and their employes. The committee, at 1:30 o’clock, closed its sitting in Washington, and it was arranged that the members should leave this city for St. Louis on Monday morning, THE CHICAGO STRIKE ENDED. Both Sides Claim a Victory, but It Looks as Thongh the Srikers Were Ahead. Chicago, April 23.—The switchmen’s strike on the Lake Shore road is at an end. An order has just been issued by Chairman Stahl, directing the switchmen to report to the yardmaster in charge of the Forfy-third street yard. President John Newell, of the Lake Shore road, just said to a representative of the Associated Press: “We have allowed the old men to go back at their own request, without any stipulation whatever on our part The eight non-union men return to work along with the union men formerly in our employ. The men brought here from other cities will not be put to work in our yards here.” The order for the men to return to work was telegraphed from the general offices of the Lake Shore company at 2:38 p. u., and within ten minutes the switch-engines began to leave the round-house, and the making up of trains was at once began. The blockade will be completely ended this afternoon. When the strike ended the question whether the action was the result of a capitulation on the part of the strike, or the other side had acceded to the demands of the strikers, was a matter of conieotnre. Both sides claim a victory, and they offer no explanation; but the strikers and their r riends were in a jubilant frame of mind. When the terms of settlement were made known at the c*cret meeting of the men in their hall they • leered until the building trembled. The demeanor of the officials was in marked contrast to tbst of the strikers. All of the officials were glum and taciturn, and repelled newspaper representatives who endeavored to elicit from them the basis of settlement.

At 2:30 p. M. the railroad officials at the Lake Shore depot received a dispatch from the company’s office at Forty-third street, stating that the strikers all wanted to return to work. District Superintendent Amsden replied by wire that if they did the eight men on whose account the strike was instituted mu6t bo allowed to go to work with them. Soon after the contents of Superintendent Amsden's telegram was communicated to the strikers a dispatch was returned from Chairman Stahl, of the strikers' committee, confirming the report that the strikers wanted to resume work. It was then evident that the strike was at an end, ajid rejoicing was general. The eight objectionable men were at once ordered down to the yards, where they and the strikers united in making up trains, and the blockade began to be raised. Chairman Stahl, who has tbroughont been very careful in all hiß statements, was at once congratulated ou the of the strikers. “How do you know it is a victory?" queried Stahl. The reply was that it had been so stated bv some of the switchmen. Mr. Stahl smiled. He was asked for the basis of the settlement, and said he would give a cony of the agreement upon which the men returned to work. “I’ll read this to you,” he said, “because I don’t want you to the signature.” Mr. Stahl then read as follows: "Chicago, April 23. •'W. I j. Stab), Chairman: “Sir—ls all the switchmen of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company in Chicago or Cook county return to work at once, I will personally guarantee that within sixty days from this date the eight objectionable switchmen will be furnished other employment, and permanently removed from their present positions. —, “li> authority.” I ‘l Mn not at liberty to give the name of the man eignine this paper,” continued Mr. Stahl, “but it is genuine, and is fully sanctioned by Mr. Newell.” “What about the prosecutions?" • They afe all to be dismissed, and the men all :o back to work.” “You are sure the agreement is sanctioned by Mr. Newell?" • 7 “Yes. sir. The officers of the company know all about it, and they have agreed to its terms." “Everything will run smoothly from this time on, then?" “The company makes a complete capitulation. 1 would tell you more, but my word is pledged, and I cannot do so.” The officers of the company, however, continued to assert that that they had not entered into any agreement with the men, and also that they had not authorized any one else to do sa” In this connection. Nelson Morris, president of the Fairbanks Canning Company, was seen topigbt, at his residence os Indiana avenue, he

said, regarding the basis of the settlement between the Lake Shore people and the switchmen. that he was not at liberty to reveal anything but the fact that the men had gone to work and that business was resumed. That was sufficient for his firm. They shipped considerable freight via the Lake Shore road; in fact, the bulk of their stuff went by that route. The Fairbank Canning Company had contracts with several European governments, and these contracts must be filled within a specified time. They could not afford to pile up their freight awaiting the pleasure of some railway officials. The consequence was that a conference was held and an agreement arrived at whereby business could be resumed promptly; “but,” continued Mr. Morris, “you can flatly contradict the statement to the effect that the Fairbank company is to find places for tho eight objectionable men. That is a pure fabrication, without a word of truth in it You may go and ask Mr. Newell what he is going to do with those men. lam not at liberty to state. It is enough for me to know that business is resumed.” The inference drawn from Mr. Morris’s conversation was that such pressure was brought to bear upon the Lake Shore Company by the packing company that they were compelled to sign an agreement to find other places for the eight non-nnion men within sixty davs, and that this is the agreement Chairman Stahl carries in his pocket The crowd in the Forty-third-street yards was rather scattered when the news of the settlement first came. Quite a group had collected around the signal station that stands in the center of the yard, but the greater portion of the men either lined the streets or were lounging about in the shadows of freight cars, or stretched out on a little green between the round-house and the tracks. The news was not welcomed with any demonstration, but when an engine steamed out of the round house, at 2:35, and was recognized as a switch-engine, the men excitedly rushed to the switch. At the Root-street crossing . the engine was surrounded by the strikers, who were eager to learn the terms of the settlement, and when told that everything was satisfactory they took it as a victory for their side, and seemed highly pleased. Several other engines followed in quick succession, and matters were lively in the yard the rest of the day. The men seemed to enjoy the situation hugely. It was astonishing how quickly the yards were cleared of the cars that almost blockaded the switches. Everything moved smoothly, and the crowd that has occupied the Root-street crossing the past few days soon dispersed. To-night, had it not been for several policemen that lounged about the neighborhood, one could not have told from the appearance that the yards had ever been the scene of a strike. Several hundred men and boys attested their joy over the victory of the strikers by parading the streets of the town of Lake this evening. They were headed by *a band comprising fife, bagpipes and drums, while transparencies bearing the legends, “In Unity is Strength,” “The Switchmen Forever," “Only Sixty Days," etc., were evidences, of their sentiment. The bystanders along the line of march oheered the paraders. At midnight they were still marching. But very little drunkenness was visible throughout the evening. Meantime there was the greatest possible activity in the freight-yards at Twelfth and Forty-third streets, and at Englewood. Train after train was pulled out and started eastward, while their places upon the tracks were rapidly taken by trains brought over from connecting lines. Two of the “objectionables” were working at Forty-third street, and were not interfered with by the other switchmen. The yards will be all straightened out by morning, and business will proceed as though the strike had not occurred. The Daily News says that the sheriff’s efforts yesterday were ridiculous and abortive, for the reasoD that he did not want to antagonize the town of Lake voters. Concerning the turning back of the engine that attempted to start, the News says: “One of the strikers, who had been served a few minutes before with an injunction to keep off the company’s property, and not to interfere iu any way whatever with the company’s business, jumped upon the engine and talked for at least a full minute with the engineer; fully one hundred deputy sheriffs saw him. and were near enough to arrest him. The engineer started his engine back, the crowd yelled approvingly, and the striker jumped down, and mingled with the throng unmolested. A few moments later he was in the car containing the switchmen the company had brought down to go to work, and in the hearing of several deputy sheriffs, who graciously allowed him to enter the car, was pleading with tho switchmen to refuse to go to work.” A rather curious but well authenticated story is current, which shows the acuteness of the striking switchmen in dealing with the Lake Shore road. One of the heaviest of the shippers from the stockyards, who has sent all his freight —provisions and lard mostly—by the Lake Snore road for a year past, desired to send forward his traffic &BUBual, although by another road. For this purpose, and to make sure of no complications arising, he consulted with the authorized mouthpiece of tho switchmen and asked if his cars would be interfered with if he delivered the freight to the Michigan Central for shipment. He was informed that he would not be allowed to send a pound forward through that channel. He then suggested the Fort Wayne, and reoeived a similar answer. He Was told that the switchmen were well acquainted with the workings of the pool, and were well aware of the fact that under its provisions the Lake Shore would receive its per ceutage of the gross pool earnings, whether it carried the freight or not, and the fact of its going over some other pool line would be merely an evasion, and would benefit the Lake Shore almost to the same extent as if it went out over that line. This opened the door to another direction, and the shipper was given to understand that he would be allowed to do busiuess with one of the non-pool lines. Following out this hint, he at once opened negotiations with the Chicago & Atlantic, and his freight will go out over that road uutil a settlement is effected.

THE MISSOURI PACIFIC. Mr. Hayes Says the LdN. Company Is Responsible for the East St. L>ouls Shooting. New Bbusswiok, N. J., April 23 —John VV. Hayes, member of the geueral executive bo trd of the Knights of Labor, returned to this city last evening. He says that no progress has been made toward a settlement of the difficulties between the strikers of the Gould system and the railroad officials. The case is now. however, in a shape from which it is expected that when the congressional committee reaches St. Louis and meets with the citizens' committee, those two bodies may be able to hit on gome plan whereby a settlement may be effected. He says the reports sent out by the railroads that they are haudling all the freight they want to every day are untrue. The roads are all blocked up, nnd what freight is run out goes under the protection of deputy sheriffs and the militia. The roads claim, and Mr. Hayes admits, that they have now all the men they need to do the work they have to do, which is very little, on account of the blockade. Mr. Hayes says that the uncalled-for massacre of innocent people by the deputy sheriffs was instigated by the railroad authorities. They knew they could not get the help of the State militia until some act of violence was committed. They, therefore, got together a band of roughs who brought ou the trouble, aod the Governor then ordered the militia to the scene. He further says that the lawyers employed by the Knights of Labor have now in their possession an ample amount of evidence to convict the Louisville & Nashville road of instigating the riot An eoaeaver will be made to prevent, in the future, any such troubles as exist at present. Mr. Hayes returns to St. Louis this evening. Irons and Other Knights Indicted. St. Louis, April 23.—Between twenty and thirty indictments were returned to the Criminal Court to-day by the grand Jury. Among the persons indicted are Martin Irons and A. C. Coughlan, prominent Knights of Labor, Committeeman Geo. M. Jackson and S. •M. Nichols, fer tampering with telegraph wires; Messrs. McGary, Burdett and Chase, and three other strikers, for obstructing the Missouri Pacific railroad; five or six men for using dynamite on street-railroad traeks during the strike, last October, of the streetcar drivers, and ail deputy sheriffs who fired on the mob in East St Louis, about three weeks ago. The speeifio offense for which the deputies are Indicted b manslaughter ia the third tagree, for

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killing C. H. Thompson on the bridge, while they were crossing the river to come to this city, after tbe shooting in East St. Louis. Superintendents Kerrigan and Blue, of the Missouri Pacific railroad, report the business of the road increasing so rapidly that they have great difficulty in furnishing sufficient cars to meet the wants of the shippers. They also say they have no trouble in handling freight. The Missouri Pacific Hospital Service. Sedslia Special. Dr. Willis P. King, assistant chief surgeon of hospitals on the Gould Southwestern system, was seen this afternoon by a Globe-Democrat representative, and interrogated in regard to Master Workman Powderly’s statement to the congressional labor-investigating committee, to the effect that one of the grievances of the Pacific employes resulted from the manner in which assessments are made for the hospital fund. “I have read Mr. Powderly’s evidence,” said Dr. Kin?, “and I am surprised at his statement. In the first place, instead of there being an asment of 25 cents on each man who earus $1 per day, and 50 cents on those who earn $2 per day, as stated by Mr. Powderlv, the assessment is 25 cents on all who earn SIOO per month or less, and 50 cents on all who earn over SIOO per month.” “How about discharging men after they have been admitted to the hospital?” “There is nothing in it'wbatever. On the contrary, the company makes it a point to get all the sick and wounded into the hospital as quickly as possible. I have never beard of a case where a sick or wounded man was discharged.” “In stating this do you speak for the Sedalia hospital alone?” “No; for all on the system, so far as I know.” “Are all classes admitted?” “Yes; from the general manager to the tankpumper." “How are the medicines furnished?” “They are gratis to all, and on the prescription of local surgeons or the family physician of employes, are sent over the road to the sick." Dr. King eaid he felt satisfied that Mr. Powderly had been imposed upon, possibly by some one not at work on£ne system. “I can say,” be concluded, “tnat since Dr. W. B. Outen took charge of the hospital system as chief surgeon, the hospitals have not been a matter of grievance, and the greatest cordiality of feeling exists between thoso in charge of the institutions and the employes of the system.” EVIDENCE IN MR. HOXIE’S HANDS. Stenographic Report of His Conference with the Executive Committee,. St. Louis Special. It is stated that Mr. Hoxie has a stenographic report of the entire conversation between himself and the executive committee of the Kuights of Labor, which will be submitted to the Congressional committee when it reaches St. Louis. The report, it is said, will be as important as the one of the conversation between Mr. Gould and Mr. Powderly, the publication of which estab lished the fact that the executive committee was not at all deceived, but understood exactly what Mr. Gould understood, as the basis of the order issued that the strike should cease. When the committee came here and met Mr. Hoxie. they went away professedly indignant, and declared that he had refused to act according to the directions in the telegram from Mr. Gould. These assertions they made the excuse for anew order that the strike must go on. Mr. Powderly has been induced to accept their statement aud ap prove their action. But it is now stated that the stenographic report will prove that Mr. Hoxie held strictly to the course promised, aud by Mr. Gould directed, and that the executive committee have entirely misrepresented the interview. For instance, they say he refused at their request to take back 50 per cent of the strikers: the stenographic report, it is said, shows that he repeatedly stated to them that he wanted and would take back 56 per cent but the committee would not consent that he should select that part of the men. The evidence, if it is as reported, fixes beyond a doubt the responsibility for a continuance of the strike upon the executive committee. Perhaps it would be more correct to say that tbe ooiumittuA _ found itself powerless, found that the would not obey orders from headquarters, and chose, in order to cover its own lack of influence, to misrepresent the interview with the railway officials and to order the strike to be renewed. The practical result to the men is that nearly all of them are out of work, while the railroads have resumed operations.

A NEW FACTOR IN THE FIGHT. A Powerful Organization of Manufacturers— A Strike Collapses at Its Touch. Boston, April 23,—The Commercial Bulletin to morrow will say: “The sudden and unexpected collapse of what threatened to be a serious strike at the Whittonton mills, Taunton, was caused by the discovery that that mill belonged to a huge organization of textile industries of New England, which has been formed sc quietly that it has escaped all notice. This organization extends over Rhode Island and Connecticut, and already includes fortv-uino large woolen mills. This society was organized for mutual protection. It does not recognize the. authority of the Knights of Labor in any way, but is prepared to use arbitration in the settlement of strikes. The organization is growing in numbers, and it proposes to give each strike a chance for arbitration. A second society, embracing ail cotton mills of any importance in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, was quietly completed, and elected its officers in Boston on Wednesday. The Massachusetts league is a league of cotton mills to which woolen mills are to be admitted; while the Rhode Island society was formed by woolen mills and subsequently admitted cotton manufacturers. During the last month the cotton mills of this State have been quietly preparing for organization for mutual insurance against labor disturbances. “The cotton manufactnring industry Is better adapted for the formation of such an organization than many others, because it is composed of a number of large mills rather than a large number of email ones. The quiet organization which has taken place, therefore, has been conducted with much expedition, and its result will probably be witnessed at the next attempt of the mill hands to secure the discharge of workmen who are not of the union. The society is not a corporation and has no stock. The yearly pay rolls of the Massachusetts mills that have already joined, amount to $15,000,000. The aims of the company are not In any sense aggressive, and its purpose is not to attack the Knights of Labor, but simply to protect its members against unjust persecution. The methods of self-defense which the society will employ have not yet been made public. WHAT STRIKES COST. Thirteen Million Dollars In Wages Lost by Btrikes In One Year. Washington, April 23. —The advance sheets of the report of Joseph D. Weeks, expert and special agent of the Census Bureau, upon strikes and lockouts occurring within the United States during the calendar year 1885, have been received by the Interior Department The recorda-show, he says, that many strikes and lockouts still grow out of the most trivial causes. It is also true, especially in localities where large bodies of workmen are gathered, that there will always be found men who,.too frequently from sinister aud merceny motives, create dissensions and endeavor to inaugurate strikes. When strikes are in progress their duration is liable to be prolonged by the efforts of such persons. Yet the tendency, as stated, ia toward less frequent strikes and lockouts. The number of strikes in certain of the prominent trades, as given in the report, is as follows: , Iron and steel industries, 236; coal mining, 158; textile trades, 46; cigar-making, 42; building trades, 36; transportation, 36; printing trades, 28; glass iudustries. 27; piano making, 14; boot and shoe making, 1L Much the greater portion (7l| per cent. ) of the strikes and lockouts repeated upon were caused by differences as to rates of wages. A total of 503, or 86 per cent, related to rates of wages; 62 per cent of all were for an ad-

ranee, and 92 per cent against a reduction of wages. In conditions of trade that justify an advance, it is much more to tbe interest of the employer to give in than to have his work stop. Os the 813 strikes, the results of 481, or 59 per cent, are given. Os these, 169, or 35 per cent, were successful. 85. or 13 per cent, were compromised, and 227, or 47 per cent, were unsuccessful. It will be noted that while the larger number of strikes, 503 out of 813, were for an advance in wages, a larger proportion of strikes for this cause were successful than for any of the other important classes. Os the 307 strikes for an advance of which the results are given, 127, or 41 per cent, were successful; 62, or 20 per cent, were compromised, and 118, or 39 per cent, were unsuccessful. On the other hand, of tbe 45 strikes or lockouts where the demand was against a reduction insisted on by the employer, 3 only of those of which the result is given were successful; 8 were compromised, and 34 were unsuccessful. Os the other classes, those involving questions relating to the payment of wages were quite uniformly successful. Out of the 20 strikes in connection with payment of wages of which the results are given, 11 were successful, 6 were compromised, and 3 are reported as unsuccessful. On tbe other hand, every strike in connection with hours of labor of which the re suit is given was unsuccessful. In questions relating to administration and methods of work the strikes were, as a rule, unsuccessful. Os the 813 stoppages by causes reported upon, 610, or 88 per cent., were strikes; eighty-five, or 12 per cent., were lockouts. Os the 610 classified as strikes, the results of 369 are given. Os these. 143, or 39 per cent., were successful; 168, or 42 per cent, were unsuccessful, and seventy, or 19 per cent, were compromised. Os the eighty-five lockouts tLat are classified the results of fifty-two are given. Os these, ten, or 19 per cent, were successful; thirty-four, or about 65 per ceut, were unsuccessful, while eight, or about 15 percent, were compromised. From 414 of the 762 strikes reports were received showing the number of men idle iu those strikes to have beeu 128,262, making an average of about 310 men to each strike. The report concludes: “As to wages lost, it appears that 64,789 employes lost $3,711,097. "This would be at the rate, of $57 each. As the entire number of employes estimated was 228.138, the total loss of wages on this average would be $13,003,86G, which would have been received had the works run constantly. Os course, there would be a number of off sets to this. In case the strikers were successful, the additional wages would compensate for a portion of this loss. In other cases, where unionism sustained the men on strikes, they received strike pay or strike-benefits. Then, in many cases, tbe parties on strikes secured em ployment in other industries, and hence their actual loss would bo what wages they would have earned at their old labor, minus what they did earn in presumably less profitable employment.” THE EIGHT-HOUR SYSTEM. Powderly Says the Knights Will Not Attempt to Enforce It on May I. Scranton Special. When General Master Workman Powderly was asked whether a concerted effort would soon be made by the Knights of Labor for a general strike for the enforcement of the eight-hour paovement on May 1, he said: “No such movement is contemplated by the Knights of Labor. The country is not yet ready for the eight hour order of things, and before any step can be taken toward such a movement the subject will have to be thoroughly and intelligently discussed by both manufacturers and workingmen. It must be fully understood by employers and employes before any attempt is made to enforce the eight-hour rule. You know how Bincerely and heartily I am iu favor of a reduction of the hours of labor, but I do not want to see it done rashly or radically, and I do not desire to see any effort of that kiad undertaken that would prove a failure, and thus retard rather thAn advance tbe object that we have in view." “Has any time been set when a general demand will be made for the eight-hour system?" “No date has Deen fixed, and none will be fixed until the question has beer fully discussed and plainly understood by all concerned. Uutil such is tbe case, it would be folly to force the questlou Much harm is being done to the order by the circulation of such idle rumors, to the effect that the Knights are determined to soon make a general demand for eight hours a day. These rumors seriously interfere with very important industrial enterprises, and it is a pity that those individuals who are responsible for such canards oannot be found out and prosecuted for their mischief. The order of Knights of Labor believe in lessening the hours of toil for those who work, with a view of affording employment to those who are now idle. It is an economical question, that must be fully understood by employers and employed, and no attempt will be made to force it upon the country on the Ist of May.”

OTHER STRIKE AND LABOR NEWS. End of the Rioting on Long: Island — An Advance In Prices of Sugar. Hunter’s Point, L.IIf. f April 23.— There was no renewal of the trouble by the strikers at Havemeyer’s sugar refinery at Green Poiut this morning* The men are standing around the sugar-house in small groups, but are quiet, owing to the presence of police. Work in all branches of the sugar-house has been suspended. Officers Gerken and Delaney, who were badly injured yesterday, are improving, but it is thought that the former is not yet out of danger. Ten arrests of strikers who were engaged in yesterday’s riot have been made. Three of them have been severely clubbed by the police. The strike of workmen in the Williamsburg sugar refineries has boomed prices, and the consumers of sugar are paying the fiddler for the dance of the strikers. Granulated sugar was quoted at Cic on Saturday last; yesterday it reached ff je. It is said that prices are sure to advance still higher. The stock of refined sugar ou hand amounts to practically nothing. Business has been slack and dealers have been buying sugar in quantities just sufficient to supply the demand. Now that the country demand has increased, the strike has caused prices to advance out of proportion to the natural course of trade. Haw sugar was quoted at 511 16c on April 11, and yesterdav it was 5Jc. This shows a slight advance in the cost of raw material, which is not accounted for by the present strike, but which will account for nothing of the advance in price of refined sugar. The strike has tended to very much strengthen the advance. Praise for Mr. Hoxle. New York Evening Post. The Missouri Paoific boycott is now at an end. There may be a short season of brigaudage, but that, too, will come to an end. The boycottere adhere to the opinion that trains cannot run on the Missouri Pacific railroad without their services, and when they see them running they think that there is something wrong in the moral constitution of the universe. They say thut they will ‘‘hold out 0 all summer and all winter if necessary. Holding out means that they will subsist firmly on contributions collected in all parts of the country from people as poor as themselves. There is no objection to this, but it is an arrangement which obviously cannot last long. As Mr. Arthur, the chief of the Locomotive Brotherhood, said in the beginning, “Strike means assessment, and assessment meftDß death.” The longer the taxes are levied to support the Martin Irons boycotters, the more dissatisfied will tax payers become. Disintegration will set in at both ends of the line as soon as the burden becomes onerous. The assessments are not equal to full wages, and therefore the men who have families and responsibilities on th#ir bands will hunger for steady employment, and will apply to Mr. Hoxie for it. Some of the Knights have already done so. The residuum will either drift away, or “take to the road,” or become a burden on public chanty. The roan who is entitled to the credit of bringing this greAt conspiracy to confusion is H. M. Hoxie. What Mrs. Gray has done on a small scale he has done on a large one, in the midst of infinite difficulties, and in the presence of personal danger. Although not an officer of the law, he has vindicated its majesty to better purpose than any Governor on his line. He has set a notable ex ample to all railroad managers, and to hie countrymen generally, the moral significance of which in that the way to deal with a boycott is

not to yield to it ten inch, and not to appear to yield. He has taught the boycott#!* a salutary lesson, and has probably broken up their system in the Southwest. It will be a long time, we imagine, before a general strike takes place again on one railroad in order to bring another railroad to terms. Worse than Russian Tyranny. New Tork Times. President French, of the Board of Police, yesterday morning received the following letter from Everett P. Wheeler “Nsw York, April 19,1886. “Stephen B. Trench, Esq., President of the Board of Police: “Dear Sir—l have just received a visit from one of the Knights of Labor who have recently been in the employ of the Third-avenue railroad and whom I nave before befriended. He tells me that he did not approve of the strike and would be gla4 to -go back to work, but that the threats of the few men who have led the strike are such that he fears personal violence if he should return to his work. He says that his family are in absolute distress for want of food and he is entirely dependent on his wages. He expressed the conviction that the few men who ordered the strike have such power that any man who should go back to work would be in danger of bis life. I told him I thought this could hardly be possible, and that 1 believed protection would be given to any such person by the police. “If what he said was true, there is an irresponsible tyrauny in the city of New York, and one might as well live in Russia. All pretense to this being a free country might, in that case, better be given up. lam very sure that I have no voice in the election of the leaders of the Knights of Labor, and if this man’s account be true, members of the order have practically no control of the action of their leaders, and are coerced by threats into doing what their own good judgment disapproves. I cannot but express the hope that an assurance will be publicly given by the police authorities that all men who desire to enter the employ of the company will be protected, at whatever cost. You may be sure that nothing could possibly be dooe which would give more satisfaction to the great mass of our citisens than the securing to every man who wants to work the opportunity to do it without molestation. “Everett P. Wheeler.” The Strike on the Third-Avenue Car Line. New York, April 23—The police were on hand early, to-day, to guard the men who are running the cars on the Third-avenue surface railroad. The cars began running at 7:30 o'clock. There was no excitement whatever around the depot. Up to 10 o’clock forty-four cars had Rtarted from the depot It is intended to start four cars on the One-bundred-and-tweoty-fifth street branch of the road to-day. President Lyon, of the road, received a letter to-day signed “Stock Exchange,” recommending that all the roads should combine for mutual protection, and stating that that was what the labor unions feared mo6t The letter winds up with the remark that “Wall street commends your course without one dissenting voice.” The strikers were in session the greater part of the day. Six non-union drivers became members of the organization to-day. One of the leaders of the movement said to-day that an offer of 1,000 men was made to Inspector Byrnes by the union, to relieve the tired-ont police. He aiso said they would run 100 stages on Third avenue, carrying passengers free. There was a rumor this afternoon that a settlement had been reached, but an official of the company says there is no truth in it. The statement that the horses are in bad condition is also denied, and it is asserted that, on the contrary, owing to the rest given them, they are in better condition than usual. The cars stopped running at 6:30 P. M.; during the day sixty-five cars were run; to-morrow eighty cars will be run on the Third avenue line and eight on the One hundred and-twentv-fifth street line. Possibly some cable cars may he started. The Building Trades Courcil to-day adopted a resolution declaring tjiat the demands of the Third-avenue railroad strikers were just and equitable, and tendering them financial support. The members were ordered to refrain from riding on the company’s cars until the difficulties were amicably settled. A number of non-uuion drivers were assaulted to night, but none of them were seriously hurt. The strikers’ committee deny that the assaults were made by their men. The strikers are confident of success.

A Town Rntned by Strikes. Taunton (Muss .) Special. Troubles at the Old Colony iron works, at East Taunton, Mass., have assumed a shape that insures the extermination of manufacturing in that once-prosperous and thriving village. Five years ago the company's large nail factory was burned. Owing to constant labor troubles the company removed the factory to Somerset. This move took from the village a large proportion of the population. Nothing warned, the remaining workmen have kept up petty differences. Two weeks ago the helpers in the shovel department requested an advance, but Mr. Washburn informed them that the concern had lost in three years $20,000. He was willing to leave the matter to arbitration, and selected his clerk; the men selected Senator Howard, and these were to meet la#t Saturday and choose another. Mr. Howard did not appear, but telegraphed the men to go to work until May 1, and matters would be arranged Monday but four of the helpers returned, and the company have shut the shovel works down indefinitely, and will move the plant to Somerset and unite it with the business there. Four hundred hands have to migrate elsewhere, as all that will be left of the establishment in Tnunton will only furnish employment for sixty hands. The plant is one of the best equipped in the country. Herr Most and His Socialists. New York, April 23. —A socialist mass-meet-ing of German workingmen was held here tonight to denounce the “capitalists and the police who were endeavoring to crush Herr Most and bis workingmen.” A large number of women were present. Police officers in uniform and detectives in civilian dress was scattered abont the hall, and a squad of fifty police was within calling in case of any trouble. Herr Most made a fiery address. After a scathing denunciation of capitalists and the police, referring to the present crisis, he said that the revolution in Paris in 1871 resulted because the people were disarmed, and the same was likely to happen here. They did not intend to bring a riot to the fore, but they merely proposed to have a revolution, and that was the reason they should arm themselves. He concluded by saying that they roust work, live, fight or die, and if those present would leave their names and addresses with the secretary he would see that they were furnished with arms. Other speeches of a like inflammatory nature were made, aud one of the speakers declared that it was a shame that the police had been admitted to the hall. This caused cries of “put them out,” when the officers made a threatening demonstration, and a stampede of the audience followed. Thisonly lasted for a moment, and order was restored. The meeting shortly afterwards quietly adjourned. Boycotting the Boycott, St. Louis Special. There was a meeting in this oity, to-day, of prominent men who determined to boycott the boycott, This is but soother branch of an order known as the Law and Order League, which has sprung into existence lately throughout the Southwest, It is already a young giant, and its principal objects are to assist the authorities in maintaining the law and to support all persons who have been boycotted by the Knights of Labor or kindred organizations. If a person threatened with a boycott shews the white feather the Law and Order League will have no dealings with him, but it will do all in its power to assist those who refuse to follow the instructions of the Knights of Labor or trades-unionists against their own sense of right Those who refuse to be bulldozed will get thesuoport of the Law and Order League and its friends. Those who are afraid of a boycott will be made to feel the weight of one that is issued without parade of any kind. The boyedtters bare simply arrayed a powerful class of citiseus ia direct opKition to them, and as soon as this faet has a dearly demonstrated the weak-kneed will

flock to the side of the Law and Order Leagues leaving the original boycottera in the minority and with nobody to boycott but tbemselveo. Preaching and Practicing. Chicago Tribune. The Kuighta are not practicing what Me, Powderly preaches. Everything in theory which the order seeks to prevent in practice it encourages. Every peaceful method which it proclaims on paper it antagonizes in dealing with employers and railroad common carriera It professes to be in favor of arbitration before strikes, but it strikes without assigning cause, and then demands arbitration before any list of grievances has been made out. It denounces boycotting on paper and immediately proceeds to boycott every one. from large manufacturers down to poor widows trying to make a living for themselves and children, who will not allow it to dictate how they shall conduct their businesa It professes to be opposed to the destruction of property, and has recently destroyed tens of thousands of dollars’ worth in Texas, Missouri and Illinois. It condemns violence to individuals, and to-day it is maiming and beating men in Chi< cago, as it has done all over the Southwest, so no other reason than that they want to work without joining its conclave. It disclaims thi policy of asking for unreasonable wages, and to day in more than one instance sections of iti members are demanding wages which no employer can pay without ruining his business. Knights of Labor Charter Surrendered* New York, April 23.—A dispatch was received iu this city to-day, from Beese, Kan., ' announcing that Sunflower Assembly, 4678 Knights of Labor, bad surrendered its charter Labor Notes. The strike of the journeymen house-painters, of Brooklyn, it is thought, will end during th< present week, and the meu will probabiy go U work on Monday. * The Mattahiessen & Weichers Sugar Reflnin| Company, of Jersey City, announced, yester day. an increase of 10 per cent, in the wages ol the 1,800 men employed by them, to take effect April L The Lucy furnaces, at Pittsburg, which wen banked some days ago on account of a strike, re surned operations yesterday morning, the striker! having agreed to return to work pending a set tlement of the dispute by arbitration. One hundred blacksmiths in Hiram W. Davit & Co.’B carriage manufactory at Cincinnati struck yesterday for restoration of former wages. They claim they are only making 88 a week os ao average, and think they are entitled to $lO. The employes of the National foundry and tube-works, at Scottdale, Pa., struck yesterday for an advance in wages, iu consequence of which the works are closed down. The greater portion of the men are members of the Knights of Labor. The local executive committee of the Knights of Labor at Marshall, Tex., has received a $5,008 draft trom northern Knights with which to pay off the strikers of the Texas Pacifio shops at that point. The money will be distributed today. Two hundred operatives of the Ludlow Manufacturing Company, at Jenksville, Mass., struck 4 on Thursday, and at tempted to prevent the company from unloading their goods from freight cars. Extra police have been sent there from Springfield. The strike at the Coleraine iron works, at Easton, Pa., ended by Superintendent Carter giving the men the advances asked for. and a regular pay day. The laborers will now receive sl.lO per day instead of 90 cents, and furnace meu $1.60 per day instead of $1 25. The stove-molders in the large foundries of Bridee, Bench & Cos., the Western Stove Manufacturing Company, and the Evers Stove Manufacturing Company, at St Louis, have made a demand for an advance in wages of 15 per cent, and have given the companies until to-day to decide the matter. The strike of the Brooklyn warehousemen and the engineers of the hoisting apparatus on the docks remains unchanged. The ’longshoremen are kindly disposed to the warehousemen, and will, unless the latter have their demands granted, knock off work themselves within Italians, guarded by police, are working at thl union stores. * Senator Beck is outspoken iu praise of the President’s message on the labor question. He says if he could have his way he would name Allen G. Thurman, Joseph E. McDonald and Roscoe Conkline as labor commissioners, and give them SIO,OOO a year. Such a commission would command the respect of all parties, and wouid settle the labor troubles. The two months’ strike at William Skinner A Son’s silk mill at Holvoke, Mass., continues. The executive board of the district assembly, Knights of Labor, has Rnnctioned the request for a boycott, and will notify every assembly in the district. The Central Labor Union of New York has also indorsed the boycott and is pushing it hard. An application has been made to the general executive board for a general boycott The employes did not strike until the firm refused arbitration.

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