Telegram-herald., 1886-04-24
BUSINESS RESUMED.
The Strike OF the Lake Shore
Switchmen ar an End.
TERMS Or SETTLEMENT UNKNOWN.
The sight "Oblectionsble" Men Re-
turn 10 Work IN the Round House
The Railroad Offieiais Claim
TO Have Yielded Nothing.

CHICAGO. April Z5.-AIteF nearly week
cessation the striking switehmen Of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southsra railroad
resumed work this afternoon at 23o ocloek.
An hour later all available switch engines
and the whole day the crew of strikers were
hard al work. while al $50 the hrst
freight train started since Saturday Of last
week left the company's yard al Tselfth-st.
Whose victory il was could not be ascer-
tanned today. and will perhaps never
he known with any degree OF ex-
actness The railroad officials are very
emphatic in their assertion that they have
not made the slightest concession 10 the
strikers, and the latter insist that the agree
Inent upon which the resumption Of work
was based is in every way satisfactory 10
them. AT the same time they admit that
none OF the railroad officers In authority
signed the agreement. During last night
the principal scene of what little excitement
the strike caused the Forty -frst-st. crossing,
had been deserted. Ii had been given out
that operations would begin at $50.
crowd began TO semble at that hour, and
by noon was as large as on any
day during the strike. Good order
prevailed with perhaps little more
hilarity on the rart Of the strikers
and their immediate friends, because of
rumOrs that the company would give IN,
or at least consent 10 some arrangement
favorable 10 the strikers were flying thick
and fast The men were more reticent than
ever. and OF the leading railroad officials
none were on the ground. The executive
committee of the strikers was in continuous
session al Beierleins hall from 5 o'clock
ull noon. At about III clock all the
strikers except a few guards were called 10
the hall where they remained until l:3o p.
IN. in informal gathering. At that time the
two leading officers of the Switchmen's
Union, accompanied by County Commis-
sioner Mccarthy and VIM. l.. Stahl. OF the
executive board, returned from the
city in carriage which had
evidently been driven at breakneck
speed, the horses being covered with foam.
At once the doors of the hall were closed TO
all outsiders but soon tumultuOus cheers
from within were heard at the tracks, where
a crowd took them up. At 2:3O p. IN. news
that everything Is settled reached the
round house, and scene OF activity ensued
such as had never been seen at Forty-first
ST. crossing. About sixty strikers ran along
and between the long lines of freignt-cars.
In a twinkling the cars on the stock-yards
~ " which had blocked that important
combination of tracks since Monday night,
were adjusted, missing coupling-pins were
replaced. brakes unloosened, obstacles
removed from the switch track,
and everything made In ship-shape
for the resumption Of traffic. Up 10 3:l5 p.
m thirteen switch engines had been run
out and were hard at work. From that
time on until dark the rumble of heavy
freight trains past Forty-frst-,t crossing
never ceased Ar $50 the first out freight
destined for Elkhart Ind, went by. The
whole complex switchboard system OF the
great railroad was once more in uninter-
rupted operation; the six days strike so
much fraught with evil forebOdings was at
an end. The forenoon and early part of
the afternoon had been periods of anxiety.
Arrangements had been made for twice as
large force of officers as went to
the scene yesterday. Secret meet
ings were held between the sheriff and rail
road officials and also between the sheriff
and representatives OF the strikers. The
railroad officials held about fifty imported
| switchmen in readiness at the depot, and
every one IN authority asserted most EN-
| phaticaly that the men should take the
places abandoned by the strikers, if the aid
| OF the state and the union had TO be in
| voked But when Division Superintendent
Amsden received telegraphic information
| from Commissioner Stahl, shortly after 2
| O'Clock, that the strikers had gone TO work,
| the imported men were at once paid off and
| dispatched to their homes. In this point at
least the railroad company has given in. -
| The eight 'objectiOnables, on whose ac-
| count the switchmen went out, were sent
down to the round house at
o'clock and went TO work. II is
| asserted by the strikers that
4 IL .e.I Itrs ant Nnu oil
| when asked about the settlement of the
strike. said the company had made no con-
| cessions The eight men, he added
| will be on the same equality with the rest
| of the men as before the strike. They will
| not be removed just because they are non
union men. This company does not recog-
nize any union" Mr.. Newell professed ig-
| norance Of the existence ofany arrangement
| between the company and the strikers, and
seemed to treat the close Of the fight on hi,
lines as a complete surrender on the part OF
| his employees.
The results Of today are undoubtedly the
outcome Of a compromise, and thi:
is most likely the reason why
the strikers refuse TO make
known what the details of arrangement
between them and the railroad company
are. The most plausible theory is that th'
important business interests involved
| tttlkpI some OF the aDu
facturers who were the heaviest support II
become mediafors between the company
and the men. Had the former insisted or
putting the imported pen in the place o
strikers. sheriff Hanchett would have beer
compelled n afford protection. and bad th'
arrangements entered into been unsatIsfac
tory 20 the striker. operations rould not
have been resumed by them.
The following munication is givei
! out tonight By the strikers a. the terms O
the agreement on which they returned q
work
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| ~ ~ C9rr r71isss Srtkss ~ II al the sFttsr
/ men ~ The lake shore and Michigan souther'
/ Rsilrasd Company in chicago and C1.ose counr
/ viii return - work a. cuce ( VII per>0nsl
/ guarantees hat within sixty days from date n
! eight objection ane srjfrh hnaeu wid he re-s1nsli
/ removed from their present positions.
The name of the signer j. Withheld an
can only - suruised Opinions a.
divided bnt many think Sheriff Hanche'
acted as a mediator o. that Yard Msste
Jones submitted The agreement 70 th
! strikers
a sensation On Ireland
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