Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-04-23
THE CHICAGO STRIKE.


Stbikers on the Baltimore g. Ohio
Return to Work.
CHICAGO, April 19.-Business has
been entirely suspended in the yards
of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern road ever since the switch
men struck Saturday night. All day
yesterday there was big crowd of
strikers and spectators at the Forty
third street yard, but no deeds OF vio'
lence were committed. The switch
men held a meeting last night and ap-
pointed committee of thirty men to
do picket duty and protect the COM
pauy's property. One half are to stand
guard by day and the other half are to
go on duty at night. The strikers
deny that they have asked the
company to discharge the eight
Objectionable non.union men. They
say they would be satisfied if the com
pany removed them to some other de
partment of the road outside Of the
capacity of switchmen. At nine
o'clock this morning the freight officials
reported everything quiet. No at
tempt has been made yet to remove
freight.
In South Chicago a crowd of some
two hundred men are congregated
around the tracks and road houses of
the Lake shore and Michigan Southern
railway at Forty-third street this
morning. AS only seventy men are
involved in the strike, the majority
of the crowd is composed of outsiders
and sympathizers. The committee of
safety, which the strikers appointed to
look out for the interests of the com.
pany and to prevent damage to pro-
perty or violence to men, is on hand.
AT $50 am. an engine, guarded by
two deputies, left the round-house and
steamed slowly up the track in the
direction of the freight yards. The
groups of strikers who had been stand
ind around idly gossiping with the
policemen on duty Immediately broke
up, two or three of them jumped on to
the moving engine and had an earnest
consultation with the engineer. They
jumped off again and the engine pro-
ceeded to where train of three re-
frigerator cars and one common Car
anda caboose stood. The engine was
coupled on without any difficulty, the
signal to go ahead given and with two
policemen stationed at the end Of each
Car the train slowly started up.
General Freight Agent Blodgett and
General Yardmaster Jones boarded
the caboose and everything seemed
to be moving all right, when a
dozen men climbed upon the top of
the train and set the brakes. The
train began to slow up and in a mo-
ment the full head of steam which the
engineer turned on only served to turn
the engine wheels like so many wind
mills without moving the train an
inch. Cries of derision were sent up
by the crowd of strikers, which rushe
for the train, and in spite of the ex-
postulations of the police, uncoupled
every car and sent the coupling-pins
flying through the air on the other
side of the trains of cars stand
ing on side tracks. The officials
dismounted from the tboose with the
policeman and the strikers formed into
little knots To d scuSs the affair and
await fUrt ler develop nents. Not a
blow was struck by either the police
or the men, who maintained the ut
mos. good humOr throughout the affair
The town of Laks has about thirty
police on the scene, or about seVe1Cy.
five per cent. of the entire force.
All the Baltimore & Ohio strikers
went back to work at O lock this
morning. The non-union men will
probably be sent out on the road Satur.
day afternoon. Two men came here
from Garrett, in response to an order
from the division superintendent
They jumped on board an engine fol-
the city and a crowd of the strikers
surrounded them and asked then
where they were going. They sale
they intended to take run into Chi
cago, to try a little switching. Tit
men then asked them II they had per
mt from headquarters to ride on tht
engine. They ans vered in the mega
tive, and the crowd escorted then
over to train standing in the depot
and sent them back to Garrett.
1t is stated on good authority tina
the Lake Shore officials propose tC
make the present strike an absolute
issue as to their right to retain theil
non.union men anu also afford then
adequate protection. The failure o.
the town of Lake police to protec
their property against the strikers will
be taken as clearly shown that tht
town cannot or will not afford protec
tion, and the sheriff and governor Ii
turn will be called on for assistance.
Efforts to Move Trains on the Lake
Shore Abandoned--GoV. OglesbN
In Consultation with the Sheriff.
CHICAGO, April 20.-At $50 o'clocl
engine 532, in charge of Enginee
Weaver and Fremen Merkle, movet
out of the roundhouse into the yards
General Superintendent Wright ant
Yardmaster Jones and General Freigh
Agent Blodgett were on the engine
AS the engine moved into the yards
one of the strikers approached tn