The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-01
The Great Strike Ended.
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Especial Dispatch TO tho IntellIgencer.l
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3l.-With view
Of learning from headquarters the exac
condition OF the strike among the engin-
eers OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany, and Its leased and connecting roads
a correspondent Of the Press called at the
main office Of the company, which is To-
Gated in this city, and learned the follow
Ing facts in an interview with one of the
leading officers Of the company. His words
are as follows:
"The latest news this morning, (the
hour was 2 o'clock P. N J Is that the strike
on the Fort Wayne and all other ROADS on
the western lines is practically at an end"
Mr. Mccullough, General Manager Of
the branches west of Pittsburgh. tele-
graphs me-irom that city that all the en.
gineers will be taken out Of the shops and
put on the lines for service al once.
Seventy additional engineers started out
this morning on the Fort Wayne route,
and others will follow as rapidly as they
can be taken from the shops within
twenty.iour hours. Mr.. Mccullough be-
lieves the strike will be then ended and
the men return under full conviction that
in the present depressed condition of the
country and, d,all its business Interests, the.
reduction made necessary thereby Is no
more than ought to be conceded.
Matters are improving rapidly on the
Panhandle and Southwestern roads,
and the action Of the men on the North
western lines win no doubt practically put
an end to all troubles.
Superintendent in charge oI the various
divisions telegraph me that they believe
BY tomorrow night all their lines will be
in iull working condition. The passen-
ger service is now full on all lines.
An effort made east OF Pittsburgh to
excite feeling has signally failed, the old
men in the oompany's service having
formally given notice to the man
ayers Of the different divisions that
they were quite content to submit to
this reduction. during the present de-
preston Of affairs infthe country. The
whole trouble has undoubtedly been
brought about by few men who are
disposed to be agitators on all possible
occasions, and who, instead OF accom-
Fplishing good for their fellow workmen
always lead them into trouble, as in this
instance. The only injury to the road
and its branches has been the
delays in freight transportation. As
to'the punishment Of the strikers by the
loss OF employment the company has been |
very lenient, nearly all the old men going
back into service again. While your
correspondent was in the office the lol.
lowing dispatch was handed to the officer
referred to above; =:
"PITTsBURGH, Dec. 3l-12 M,-The
strike is substantially over so far as the
Fort Wayne and Erie and Pittsburgh
lines are concerned. The men at Pitts |
bugh are reporting for duty as fast as |
their engines can be got ready, and the
business Of the road will be fully resumed
within The next twenty-iour hours; the
only delay. being that caused in get
ting the men and engines to their places.
The Erie and Pittsburgh line has had all
they needed since Monday"
This is the position Of affairs this morn.
ing, and unless something occurs more
than know of now we expect no further
trouble. The things we have had to con.
tend with for the past two days are re.
ports circulated along the line that the
roads west Of Chicago, the northern lines
and the lines east of Pittsburgh, would all
strike on the 1st of January. This lie
stood the men up. As soon as the fsIsity
of 1t is generally known we will have no
further trouble. There Is no doubt that
all our business on the Fort Wayne and
all leased lines will be moving as promptly
tomorrow night as before the strike.
(Signed jim. MCCULLOUGH,
General Manager Of Lines West of Pits.
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