The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-01
Still the Strike.

| CHICAGO, March 31.-Strike following
strike in rapid succession was the re-
suit to-day of the Burlington roads
first attempt to resume forcing freight
on the other roads. Almost at the very
outset strike occurred on the Fort
Wayne system, involving, for the first
time an undoubted extension of trouble
to the roads Leading east from Chicago.
The st. Paul road had been completely
| tied up between midnight and dayiigt t
and Chairc.a an Hoge, leader of the
| brotherhood in the absence of Chief
Arthur, intimated, early, that before
another midnight there might be pre-
cipitated succession of strikes VI =
paralleled in the city. One on the Pau
handle occurred as early as am, but
was overcome by the officials showl g
| that no workman had been asked 10
handle Burlington cars. At 10 am.
the Burlington made up train
of fifteen cars. which was quietly
transferred to the Fort Wayne
road, while at the same time twenty
five cars were made up and started for
the Lake Shore road, with forty
Pinkerton men aboard. The transfer,
however, was made without any dis
turbance. At 2 p. m. the Fort Wayne
officials ordered a switching crew to
take 20" train from the siding 81 Six
tenth Street and place it on the Fort
Wayne tracks. The men promptly re-
fused and ran their engines In. The
news spread, and in few moments all
the crews in the yards quit work, en-
gineers, firemen and switchmen. Just
then, 2 20 p. NJ, Fort Wayne passen-
ger train, outward bound, came along.
AT Sixteenth Street, the engineer and
fireman learned of the strike and lett
the engine. The conductor soon voiun-
teered to run the train, fireman was
found, and the train proceeded alter
slight delay. The Fort Wayne dis
patches say they have assurances from
other passenger engineers that they
would not go out. But great deal of
dependence is placed in them. Along
the line of the St. Paul road the freight
business was paralyzed and the passen-
ger traffic is almost suspended. AS
soon as the inbound passenger trains
reached the depot and were unioaded,
the engineers backedIthem out to West
ern Avenue and abandoned them.
This afternoon the engineers, hremen
and switchmen of the ct. Paul road
DSlu a ue6LluS anu s6UL a COululIltGc W
Superintendent Earring. They stated
to him that they would agree to
handle empty, but not loaded %" cars.
Earring asked them to submit their
proposal in writing and agreed 20 for
ward it to General Manager Miller, at
Milwaukee.
Fifty men, said to be regular freight
and passenger conductors on the
Council Bluffs division of the road,
arrived here this morning, having been
brought by the st. Paul people to fill
the places of the striking engineers,
fremen and switohmen, but after
brief talk with the leader of the st.
Paul strikers. they decided that not a
man would throw switch. During the
day, as many as dozen men called on
the manager, with complaints against
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
managers. They claimed that they
were induced to come here
from the east by promises OF posi-
tons as brakemen. sHitchmen, ETC.,
but on their arrival they were declared
incompetent and refused them work or
transportation home again. They
claim to be without money and in bad
plight, and say they have as COM
panions in their misery 200 or 800 Others
whose condition is exactly similar.
The mayor promised to see the Bur-
lington people.