The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-04-20
LABOR TROUBLES.
THE LAKE SHORE swITcHMEN
sun Out on a stslks- Quiet RsiguS at East
ST. LOuls-strsst Car Strikes at New
York and BAltimOro-Tho Cars
Attacked at both Places.

CHICAGO, April l9-Busness has beer
entirely suspended in the yards Of tht
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rost
ever since the switcbmen struck Saturday
night, All day yesterday there was biz
crowd of strikers and spectators at the
Forty-third street yards, but no deeds oi
violence were committed, The switch
men held q meeting last night and ap.
pointed q committee Of thirty men to dc
picket duty and protect the CompaDy'l
property, ons-half to stand guard by day,
and the other half to go on duty at hight,
The strikers deny that they have asked
the company TO discharge ne eight obisC-
tionable non,union men, They say they
would be satisfied II the company removed
them to some other department OF the
road outside Of the capacity Of sWitChmen.
This morning q crowd OF some two hun.
dred men congregated around the tracks
and roundhousea Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway at Forty.third
street. As only seventy are involved In
the strike the majority Of the crowd was
composed OF outslders and sympathizers.
The committee OF safety which the strikers
appointed to look out for the interests Of
the company and to prevent any damage
to property or violence to men, was also
on hand. AT $3.50 a. NJ, an engine, guard.
ed by two deputies, left the rounlbouse,
and steamed slowly up the track in the
direction OF the freight yards. The groups
oistrikers, who had been standing around
idly gossipiug with the policemen OH duty,
Immediately broke up. Two or three oi
them jumped on 10 the moving engine and
had an earnest consultation with the en-.
gineer, They jumped of again and the
engine proceeded TO where train OF three
refrigerator cars and one common car and
a caboose were. The engine was compiled on
without 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 Yard Master Jones boarded the
caboose, and everything seemed to be
moving all right, wren dozen men
climbed up on top Of the train and set
the brakes, The train began to slow up,
and in moment the full head OF steam
which the engineer turned on, only served
to turn the engine wheels like 80 many
windmills without moving the train an
inch. Cries ol derlsion went up from the
strikers who rushed for the train, and In
spite Of the expostulationB OF the police,
unCoupled every car and sent the coupling
pins flying through the air on the other
side ot the trains ol cars standing on the
side tracks. The officials disnounted
from the Caboose, and the policemen and
the strikers formed into little knots to
disCuBa the affair and await further de.
velopments. Not blow was struck by
either the police or the men, who main.
sained the utmost good humor through
out the affair, The town OF lake has
about thirty policemen on the scene, or
about seventy-aVe percent OF the entire
force.
All the Baltimore L Ohio strikers went
back to work at I o'clock this morning,
The non.union men will probably be sent
out on the road.
Saturday afternoon two men came here
from Garrett In response to an order from
the Division Superintendent. They Jump.
ed on board an engine for the city and a
crowd Of strikers surrounded them and
asked them where they were going. They
said they intended to take run into CHI
cago to try little switching. The men
then asked them II they had q permit from
headquarters TO ride on the engine. They
answered in the negative and tho crowd
escorted them over to the train standing
in the depot and sent them back to
Garrett.
The Lake Shore officials propose to make
the strike an issue in regard to the non.
union men. The failure Of the town or
Lake police to protect their property
against the strikers will be taken Do clear.
" showing that the town cannot or will
not afford protection, and the Sheriff and
Governor IN turn, will be called upon for
assistance.