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Show STRIKERS STILL OUT. I i And n Settlement of the Qnestion as Far Off Now as Ever. For llie Knights Will Not Resume Un- til Their Demands Shall Be Compiled Com-piled With. JVot Gone to Work Vet. St. Louis, April 1. It is not by any means certain that either the Knight3 of Labor on the Gould southwestern system, or those in East St. Louis, will return to work to-day in obedience to any order issued by the officers of their assemblies. chairman irons has ousted instructions Of the General Executive Board by ordering order-ing the 8,000 Knights of his District Assembly Assem-bly to resume work, but has neutralized it .with an appended notice that the time 8t vhiah they should apply for their positions would be telegraphed to them later. At a late hour last night he said he had not sent nny telegram announcing any hour for re-'sum re-'sum ption, and refused to explain why. The diffisulty in sending back to work the East St. LouiH Knights comes from the local assemblies, as-semblies, and not from the executive committee, com-mittee, which intended to have ordered them to resume yesterday, but met with A PROTEST FROM THE KNIGHTS : Themselves, based on individual grievances, which they demand shall be adjusted before they seek re-employment. Their executive committee, however, has issued orders so worded as to throw the responsibility of their action to-day upon their own lodges, so that, unless their committees take decided action to-day, and issue precise orders for the resumption of work, the General Executive Ex-ecutive Committee, when it reaches here tomorrow, to-morrow, will find that its order has not had the effect intended. Notwithstanding the failure of the Knights on the Missouri Pa-oifio Pa-oifio Railway to return to work, freight traf-fio traf-fio on that road has assumed very near its normal condition. IN THE RAILROAD YARDS The usual activity prevailed, in marked contrast con-trast to the dullness which has existed during dur-ing the strike. Freight trains are being made up preparatory to starting, and are placed in position to receive their loads without any attempts at interference from the striking Knights. The general offices of the company have also assumed their normal nor-mal activity incident upon the resumption of the freight traffic of the system, and today to-day the clerks who were temporarily suspended sus-pended during the strike resumed work. - Governor Oglesby and his Adjutant-General arrived in East St. Louis last evening. Soon after the Governor's arrival he received a delegation of the Knights, who presented their side of the trouble to him. They told the Governor that they were willing to resume work when their grievances had been adjusted, and deprecated all acts of violence. Owing to the absence of any definite orders from the executive committee as to the exact time when they shall return to work, the strike of yardmen and switchmen switch-men at East St. Louis still continues, and the strikers have assembled in great numbers num-bers this morning in the railroad yards and around the relay depot, but no serious disturbances dis-turbances are anticipated. THE PRESENCE OF DEPUTY MARSHALS Has a restraining influence upon the more demonstrative members of the crowd, and the efforts of the Wabash road, which is under un-der the control of the United States court, to start out freight trains are not interfered with. - The knowledge that the Governor of the State and the Adjutant-General are watching their every move in order to determine deter-mine whether or not it shall be necessary to call out the militia, also restrains the strikers strik-ers from violence, and the crowds are in consequence unusually orderly. St. Louis, April 1. Contrary to the general gen-eral expectation that the executive committee commit-tee of District Assembly No. 101 would designate the hour of 10 o'clock this morning morn-ing as the time when the striking Knights should return to work, no order to that effect was issued, and at 10 o'clock the strike still continued. None of the strikers have applied this morning to the Missouri Pacific officials for work, and they say they will not do so until ordered by their executive committee. com-mittee. DIDN'T GET THEIR COAL. St. Louis, April 1. A St. Louis coal dealer, relying upon the promise of the strikers that efforts by teamsters to raise the coal blockade block-ade at East St. Louis would not be interfered inter-fered with, sent a number of men with their teams to transfer fuel from that side of the river. Several strikers, however, made an attack upon the men to prevent them from loading the wagons. The teamsters, resisted, re-sisted, and a general fight ensued. Knives were drawn, but the appearanoe of several United States deputy marshals caused the strikers to flee without having received or inflicted any very severe injury. The teamsters team-sters returned to St. Louis without coal, fearing further violence. x RETURNED TO WORE. The striking Knights at Hannibal and St. Joseph have returned to work. 'Fred Howard, the striker who assaulted the Missouri Pacifio engineer because he refused to leave his engine upon a request from the Knights to do so, was fined $10 and costs to-day at the Criminal Court session. Thomas Hass was fined $10 and costs for using threatening and abusive language in addressing a non-striker. St. Louis, April 1. The executive committee com-mittee of District Assembly No. 3650, the members of which include the Missouri Pacifio shopmen and mechanics, has appointed ap-pointed a committee to call upon Master Mechanic Bartlett to ascertain what men he would re-employ. A member of the Committee Com-mittee said this morning they would demand de-mand that all the men, without exception, who had struck, be re-employed. Bartlett, in reply to an inquiry as to what men be would take baok, said he would exercise his own judgment in the matter; that none of those who had destroyed the company's property would be re-employed, and that the number whom he should take back would b9 determined deter-mined by the number of men actually needed. The final settlement, therefore, of the strike on the Misouri Pacific Bailroad seems as far off as ever, for the executive committee of District Assembly No. 101 have determined to appoint no arbitration committee com-mittee to confer with Hoxie until the old employes of the road shall be taken back. |