St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-25
A SEASON OF STRIKES.
TheLake Shore Switchmen at Chicago
Still Hold the Fort.
Three Hundred Silly Girls Quit Work
at Cincinnati.
The strikimg Switchme.s.


CHICAGO, June 24.-During the day
there was no change in the situation at the
Lake Shore yards. Incoming freight trains
have all been stopped at Englewood. The
town of Lake, within the precincts of
which the strike is confined, has police
force unable to cope with the crowd of
strikers and their adherents. The sheriff
of the county. during the former strike,
made no serious effort to dispense the crowd,
and in published interview to-day con-
dennis the railroad company, and declares
that it has not lived up to its agreement,
intimating that it offered to dis
charge the non-union men. This
charge is denied by President Newell. This
evening when the regular night switch en-
CINE left the round-house, Thomas Collins,
one of the strikers, boarded the machine,
and in moment had induced Charles
Coles, the engineer, to turn back. Coles
Informed the yardmaster that it would be
impossible for him to go through the mob.
During the day notice was given the
swtchmen that unless they reported for
duty tomorrow, they are to consider them
selves discharged. and are requested to call
for their pay. 1t is asserted this evening
by leaders among the strikers that before
nightfall tomorrow oledo, Buffalo, De-
troit and Cleveland will be involved in the
strike, and that general tie-up in other
departments of the company's works is not
improbable.
Shortly after 3 o'clock an engine in charge
of an engineer named Shea pulled ont of
the round-house at Forty-first street, and
was Immediately
SURROUNDED BY STRIKERS.
Excitement became very marked, and the
men for time were very threatening. The
police arrested one of the most violent
strikers, and succeeded in clearing the
track, after which the engine started up to
Forty-third street to the vicinity of the ca
boose, which was abandoned yesterday
The crowd grew momentarily greater and
more boisterous. and the courage of the en-
gineer finally deserving him, he took the en-
CINE back to the round-house. The crowd
cheered frantically when the eff
fort to move the train was
abandoned. At various newspaper
officers this morning the committee as an
explanation of ther course as strikers ex-
hibted the following communication, dated
during the former strike and written in
Sheriff Hanchett's chirography upon one of
his official letter heads:
Sherif's Office, Chicago, June 23.-To
w. L.: Stahl, Esq, Chairman of Committee:
Sir: If all the switchmen Of the Lake Shore
Michigan Southern railway in Chicago or
Cook county return to work at once, I will
personally guarantee that within sixty days
from this date the eight Objectionable switch
men will be furnished other employment and
permanently removed from their present posi-
tons. SETH F. HANCHETT. Sheriff.
A call has been issued and quietly circu-
lated for a meeting of all the general
managers and general superintendent of
the railroads centering at Chicago. The
object is tO diSonSS tha morris
of the switchmen's strike and the
course to be pursued by correcting roads
regarding it. 1t is recognized that if the
Switchmen's union is disposed to back up
the Lake Shore men, complications must
arise with other roads. The managers say
they will insist that switching to the Lake
Shore shall be done the same as if no trouble
existed, and if the Switchmen's union
orders out the men on this point the issue
will be fought out if railroad traffic comes
to a standstill.