The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-08
HANGING FIRE.
The Railway Operators Strike NoE
Fully Developed--.View of Rail-
way Officials,
Which Differ Materially from views
of the brotherhood Wire Gut.
ting in New York- ten
craI Report.

NE" YORK, Aug. Z. - lie western Union
offers reward of 81, 900 for the arrest aud
conviction Of each Of the persous who viii,
fully Injuries the wires or other appurtenances
Of the company. In relation to thus matter,
the officials OF the company say the cable
box at the company's crib was destroyed anh
the cables cut; that tVenty-six out of twenty.
nine Mutual Union wires were rendered useless
atScarsdale, and that the American Union and
Atlantic II Pacific routes To Boston wers
interrupted with the evident intention OF
preventing Boston papers from getting full
reports of the Sulliv an Slade affair at Madi
son Square garden
THE RAILROAD MEN.
PrTTsBURG, Pa, Aug. Moon was the
time set for the strike Of the operators on the
Pittsburg division of the Baltimore K Ohio
railroad, hut up to half past in the after
noon, Supt. King reported no interruption to
business and oil men at work
LATER-Supt, King, of the Baltimore 4
Ohio railroad, reports that at O'Clock p. m.
about e-third of the operators working on
the Pttsburg division quit work and are now
out
ST. LOUIS, Aug. There is nothing new
locally here regarding the telegraphers'
strike At 1880 p m. fo Withdrawals had
been reported on the Iron Mountain lines,
and tliore were no indications Of a strike.
CINCINNATI, Aug. mo strike among the
railroad operators on any of the roads leading
into this city had been reported up to 50
p III.
PRESS OPINIONS.
NEW YORK, Aug. The Times editorial
StIf iS 1iLalU tg ,yaa tha brpt harhood
to call out the railroad operators. 70 call
them out now would SAVIOR of compulsion, As
1t is clear that they are not inclined Of their
own notion to leave their Instruments
The Sun says the brothcrhood'S action in
calling out the railroad operators is wrong
and un njustifable, and says the fact that they
have ordered them out amounts to declara
tion that the telegraph strike has failed
AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, August $50 far MS We
are concerned the railroad strike has
proved most dismal failure" ex-
claimed Chicago &c Alton official, as he sat
in his Office reading a'morning paper. "Not
one of our men, either between here and
Bloomington, or south of Bloomington, has
left work in response to the mandate of the
of our telegraph operators could not get such
places anywhere else as they have with us.
They are ticket agents, express agents and
all sorts Of agents, besides being operators,
and we have never had a complaint made
with reference to the pay any man receives.
But if the men were to quit it would not
affect us The trains could be run by the
time card Just as well as by the telegraph,
and we could get ten men to fill the place Of
every one that saw fit to resign his position
The substance of the whole mattar is this
If any of our employees have a request or q
complaint to make they will always he quietly
| and respectfully listened to. We claim tina
| VIC have right to manage our own affairs
without dictation from any brotherhood. and
we propose to protect that right"
Mr.. c. L. Rising, of the Wabash road, said
| that so far as he knew, none of his operators
had quit work in the city, though it was posi-
BILE some of them might have done so without
his knowing it He was confident, however
that a dozen men could be found TO take the
place of every striker, and also re-echoed tht
| opinion expressed by the officials of otbel
roads, to the effect that there would be nc
difficulty whatever in running trains Oh
| schedule time should general strike occur.
THE BROTHERHOOD.
Tho members of the brotherhood, on the
| other hand claimed that the Wabash road
was badly crippled, and advised the reporter
| to put no faith in what was said by the Off
| cials of the road. Altogether, the ideas o
| the brotherhood and the railroad officials diff
| fer very widely regarding the strike, the for
| mer claiming that traffic on the condemned
roads will he completely suspended in day
! or two, and the latter, declaring that the at
| tempt of the strikers to drag the railrnHc
men into a strike has been an utter failure
The reports received at the telegrapbers
headquarters from various cities in the souti
and west show continued confidence and en-
| thusiasm on the part of the strikers, ther'
| being no desertions from the ranks, and sy1n
| pathy and financial aid being offered 10y citi
| zens everywhere.
| The secretary said that the reason Of th'
| failure Of the railroad operators to walk on
was owing to a miSapprehension on thoir par
as to the signal agreed upon, bnt that th'
| operators who were members Of the brother
| hood left their desks as soon as they receive,
| their notices with the proper seal