| Show = = THE STRIKERS WIN Conference Committees of Missouri Mis-souri and Kansas Meet And Adopt a Circular Retaining Retain-ing the Old Rates Work Resumed and the Railroads roads Again Running The Great Railroad Strike ST Louis March 15Specials from different points west and east state bat the strikers have received VicePresident Hayes circular cry coldly Meetings lumrbeen held in various places tonight but so far as reported no definite action has been taken The men will meet again tomorrow and determine what they wi i do I is stated here today by one of the railroad commissioners present at the conference that the strike has been engineered en-gineered from Pittsburg that all orders have emanated from there and that the Knights of Labor have directed and controlled con-trolled all the movement of the men I is learned tonight that over 2000 loaded freight cars on the Missouri Pacific sidetracks betAvecn here and Sedalia are ready to move when the strike is ended The company has taken freight all the week and has loaded large numbers num-bers of cars gathered here to send out after grain and as faat as they were filled they had been made up into trains and sent to different points on the line where they remain in charge of their crews ready to start for their destination the moment trouble is OATer KANSAS CITY March 15The Missouri Pacific strikers hero will await oiders from the general committee before returning re-turning to work The local committee at midnight was still in telegraphic communion commu-nion with the committee at Sedalia It is understood that the strikers before accepting ac-cepting terms of compromise are considering consider-ing several proposed stipulations one that the restoration shall extend to all strikers of the Gould system another that the engineers who were relieved for abandoning work at the reqnest of the strikers shall be restored and several minor stipulations ST Louis March 15Special dispatches dis-patches from Sedalia say that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Engnees held a long secret session there yesterday yester-day afternoon but the precise nature of i the proceedings are not known I is asserted as-serted however that after the session adjourned ad-journed Mr Fitzgerald chairman of the grievance committee of the Brotherhood telegraphed the members of the executive execu-tive committee of the Brotherhood at St Louis Little Rock Atchison Parsons San Antonio Fort Worth Palestine Marshall Dennison Big Springs and other points on the Gould system sys-tem to meet at Laclede Hotel St Louis tomorrow Monday for conference Mr Arthur Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood also telegraphed This action is regarded as an indication that unless the present trouble with the shopmen is speedily adjusted the engineers en-gineers will join them in a formal manner man-ner The brakemen and firemen held a formal meeting but they keep their proceedings pro-ceedings secret I is believed however that they have matured plans to cooperate cooper-ate with the engineers whenever the latter lat-ter shall decide to take action sha1 decde The conference appointed to be held here today between the leading officials of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company and the Governors and other representatives representa-tives of the States of Missouri and Kansas Kan-sas on the subject of the strike existing Ion I-on the railroad lines took place this afternoon After a long discussion during which the situation was fully set forth by the representatives of the two States I they formulated a proposition which was I immediately accepted by the railway officials Subsequently VicePresident Hayes issued a circular which has been sent to the officers and agents of the company I com-pany at all affected points and Avhich tells the whole story as follows CIRCULAR The following suggestions will be presented pre-sented to the undersigned as a solution of the difficulties at present impeding the operations of these railways To Capt R S Hayes First ViccPresidrnt and chief executive officer of the Missouri awd Pacific Railway Company Com-pany and associated roads strike VIIKREAS on account of the among certain employes of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company m the States of I Missouri and Kansas resulting in the stoppage of all freight traffic over said companys lines in said States to the great detriment of the business interests and the rights of the people of said States and the continuance of which endangers confnuanec and safety of dangers the public peaceand I the companys property and f WHEREAS the undersigned representing represent-ing the States abovenamed are anxious to restore harmonious relations between the said company and its employes and to restore to the public the unobstructed use of said lines of railroad we do recommend rec-ommend and request that said company restore to its striking employees in Missouri Mis-souri and Kansas tie same wages as were paid to them in September 1884 including 1 i for extra time worked and ing lj < price exta tme I to restore all striking employes i to their several employments without prejudice to them on account of the strike Be lieAing thm1 the foregoing Avill constitute a just and fair settlement we recommend their acceptance by the striking em acceptnce ployes as well as by the Missouri Pacific Railwav Company Signed JohnA Marlin Governor of Kansas i Marmaduke Governor of Mis John S of souri Ii S Turner Almerin Gillette Commissioners James Humphrey Railroad Comnls James sioner Kansas George C Pratt James M G Downing Railroad Commissioners Harding 1 q DO i Missouri B G Bonne At missioners B eral Missouri J C Jameson I torneyGeneral lIssour i General Oscar Kochthesk Adjutant J Commissioner of Labor Statistics With a desire to concurr in the I recommendations expressed above by the t stated officials and to open the usual i oOcals avenues of commerce and with a spirit i harn towards the employees of amity and harmony i to this of these companies tns is ployees notice that the rates of wages and I give afs g specified will go mto effect 1 above 1VIl mO terms spcifed i morning March 16th and be on Monday in effect from and after that date I I Hereafter the said rates will not be changed except after thirty days notice j j thereof given in the usual way R S HAYES fmfrned HWES I bigned Signed KretviccPresident I to which the I Heads of departments to I 1 t I I above apples will act in accordance to I the provisions of the above fiionlar Signed II M HOXIE Third VicePresident KANSAS CITY March lThe Times1 Hannibal Mo The Missouri Pacific strikers went to work last evening on the receipt of news from St Louis interpret ing it as an end t the strike Three freight trains were sent out tonight Another dispatch At I says a late hour last night the strikers acceptance of the compromise was still undetermined Members of the local committee have gone home S |
