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Strikers Worsted

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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1890
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Public Domain
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New York, Aug. 9.- Without a word of warring all Knights of Labor employed on the New York Central railroad between New York and Buffalo went on strike at 7 o'clock Friday evening, and the key-road of the Vanderbilt system was at a standstill. Trains were abandoned at whatever point of the road had been reached at that moment. The f ast mail trains were allowed to run unobstructed, manned by actual strikers. The primary cause of the strike was the frequent discharge of Knights employed on the road. The protests against this method were un heeded, and offers of compromiso were rejected. The men also presented a set of demands, which were refused. The demands of the men are for a minimum day's wages of L1.50; station agonts to receive an increase of 85 a month; men in yards at Troy and Green lsland to receive the same compensation as at Schenectaday and East Albany; all firemen on six-wheel connected engines to receive 'X cents a mile; all engineers on same, 4 cents; 4wheel-engineers, '% cents a mile; flremen, 2 cents a mile; for all men, overtime, doublé pay. New York, Aug. 12.- The Central strike seems to be nearing an end. The company appears to be slowly but surely gaining the upper hand. Mail, express, passenger and freight trains are all moving. It is thought that unless the strikers adopt some new course their cause is lost. There are no indications of a strike on the Jersey Central. Reports to tho effect that the various operatives of the Michigan Central will go on a strike in sympathy with the Knights of Labor strikers on the New York Central fail of veriflcation. On Monday's schedule at the Grand Central depot there were 138 Central railroad trains. Of these 120 left the depot on schedule time. President Webb informed a reporter that the rumor that the firemen had joined the strikers was untrue. The signal towers are all fully manned. Every thing, he said, was working beautifully all along the road. Officials of the Central speak in the most confident manner of a speedy settlement of the troubles. They say that it is only a question of time when work will be resumed. They are hourly getting men to take the strikers' places. Two hundred men have been sent from Chicago and many have been secured in the East It is generally conceded that the Brotherhood of Locomotivo Engineers will have nothing to do with the switchmen in this strike. The engineers themselves are not in sympathy with it, and if they are called ouc it will be entirely against their will. The trouble on the tracks used by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad caused needless and tiresome delay for numerous Grand Army organizations, many of which had come from considerable distances, and members were already tired out and in no humor to take gracefully the long waiting in New York. Albany, N. Y., Aug. 12. - AdjutantGeneral Porter, when asked regarding the movement of the State troops in connection with the strike on the New York Central road, said: "Up to this hour there has not been a dollar's worth of property destroyed or a single act of vlolence commiued, so (ar as I can learn. As a whole, the strikers are behaving admirably and are in good temper. Governor Hill had a consult ation with some of the leaders during the forenoon, and after listening to their grievances called their atlention to the situation at De Wit t and asked that all hostlle demonstrations there be stopped. They promlsed that his request would be complied with. Immediately after the interview some of them startcd for Syracuse, and the result is that they have brought about what they promised. The comjjany has now peaceably resumed the possession of lts property at that place and its trains are running tbrough without molestation. It is doubtful whether any troops will be now needed unless an unexpected change in the situation occurs. The strikers profess a AesiT6to avoid violence."

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