Daily Republican., 1888-04-02
nsosn soAD. TIED UP.
Strikes ON the Bt. RauI and ft Wsyn
Llnes-HeArs That the Fever VIII

Spread.
CHICAGO, March 31.-Strike follow
/ ing strike in rapid succession was the
result to day Of the BurlinRton's hrsi
attempt to resume forcing freight on
other roads. Almost at the very outsei
strike occurred In the Fort Wayne
sy stem, involving for the first time an
l undoubted extension OF the trouble tc
the roads leading East FROM Chicago
A leading Western line, the NIL
wAukee and 81. Paul. had been oom.
pletely tied between midnight and day.
light and Chairman HoRe, the leader In
the absence OF Chief Arthur, intimated
early that before auothtr midnight
there might be prec!pi,ated succes
sion oi stIikes unparalleled in this city.
One on the Pan Handle occurred as
4 early nB z. Y. m, but wRH overcome By
the officials OF the road showing that no
workman bad been asked to 90 much ae
touch car from the Burlington.
At 10 .. m. came the initial ttsp by
the Burlington In what seemed n pro
gram Of sRgressiveness to transfer the
scat Of war 20 the lines of other roads.
A train of 10 oars Was made up and
quietly transferred to the Fort Wayne,
while at about the same time another
train OF 20 cars was made up for the
Lake Shore road and started ont with
40 Plnksiton men aboard, who ad pro-
vlded themselves with rocks to use 10
an emergency.
The train which had beeu transferred
to the Fort Wayne stood on the "Y" at
Sixteenth street. and Fort Wayne Off
cials ordered their men TO take 1t Aad
pull 1t upon the Fort Wayne tracks,
The men promptly refused, and run
their enginee In. The news spread from
one engine to another, and in few
moments all the crews in the yards had
| quit work, engineers, hTemen and
Iswitchmen.
Just at this time the $50 Fort Wayne
,oss ssenger, outward bound frcm the
tDion Depot, came along and stopped
Al9ixteenth street. The engineer and
hrtuan learned of the strike and left
theii ,ngine, and for tims 1t looked as
thouRl the train would get no further,
but the conductor finally volunteered
to hold the throttle, and o fireman was
found, ad the train proceeded after
slight delay. Eighteen switch engines
had been mde idle and the crew OF the
~ passenger vunlue. This afternoon
tho engineers, hrenen and avitchmeD
tOh viz ~ q bhi AVIA helu u ul66tluk hBu
decided 70 send . comaittee to the Off
oials Of the road to sugsest arbitration
Superintendent EsrliuR, a. the re.
quest Of the oomm,tte, visited tne meet.
ing and the men laid before him y
lpropoeitlon whereby they agreed To
handle empty. but not loaded 40 .
cars Mr.. Earling asked them to sub
NIT their proposition In writing and
sareed TO for ward 1t to General Mana
ger Miller, st Milwaukee.
Fifty men who are regular freight
and passenger conductors on the OouD
oil Bluffs Division arrived at the round
house this morning, They were brought
hero by the 81. Paul people 60 fill the
Places Of the striking engineers, firemen
! IsI s..l keys t8"en. but after talk with
and swsoE.a>d1iieE- OF the local st Paul
Doherty. the le1hnnss. a man would
men. decided that nueriDg ~ Gay a.
throw switch. During taiateeh tne
many as o dozen men oAIlea.tll inee
mayor with complaints sRsinst Tas
onioaRo, Burlington and Quincy mana
gers, They claim that they were in.
uuced to come here from the East nv
promiseB OF positions as braeeman
switohmen, SO, NJ ade to them by ths
chicago, Burlington and Quincy man
sgsment. and on their arrival wera de-
oi&red incompetent, aud refused either
WORK or transportation home again
rhey are without money, they ssy. and
IN a bad plight generally, and have a.
companions in their misery 900 or 900
others whose condition is exAotly simi.
lsr. The Mayor promised to see The
ohtoaeo' burlington aud Q1incy people
about the matter.
Inc train of Butlington cars that had
Desn shifted up on the Lake Shore
irack during tha morning was not
touched until we'll along In tha after
noon Finally tho order was given by
fhs Lake Shore officials that the cars be
CARED for and sent along towards their
uestluHtion Ia the east. To the surpriae
OF The eompaDy's representative the
order was obsyed.
1t soon came to be understood that
the cars wera handled az Temporary
shlit, and that q strike might he in
Au2urSted Mt any moment.
firTsBURG, Pa April --Repre.
.entatives of all tho lodges OF the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
IN the Piitsbnrg Division held au i'm.
ooEtant meeting this afternoon at their
iall on Butler street. The bueineso
vas to discuss the Chicago, Burllnaton
Ind Quincy strike, and also TO consider
ne reports relative to q strike amonas
ne Pitsshurg and Fort Wayne em-i
'loyae. The meeting was we'll attended
ND lasted about four hours. Ii
The Ohsirman In opening the pro In
eedings requested the meeting TO deal
l.ss with inc rumored strike Of the
'liisburs and Fort Wayne freight eugi. !,
sers, hrsmen and switchmen. In al
sw minutes 1t was oonoluslvely statsi I
nat no strike on the line named bad {
aken plnce, nsr would any occur. 10. II
lfmatton wns rendered 10 the effect l
hat the reported strike was false and I
'as intended to Dc harm. II