Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-27

 'The subject of conceding the mems demands was fully considered and it was determined that we could not grant what they asked without destroying the discipline of the road. The suburban and fast mail trains will be run as usual and all suburban freights will be taken care of. Freight for competitive points will be also handled, too, but all local points will have to be abandoned for the time being. We have already made arrangements for 200 men to come here from Philadelphia and take the place of the strikers, and they will be here ill time to save us from serious incon- yenience.
 "We will not attempt to move any freight trains. Our object is to run most of our suburban and passenger trains as usual Our first endeavor will be to get in our suburban passengers and take care of all passengers for points not covered by competitors We have sent east advertisements for competent men, and we have also received a number of telegrams from individuals in Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania points, saying they would come and bring other engineers with them. To all these I have replied that we will give good wages and permanent employ ment to all men of good character who are competent to do the work"
 ''Would you keep these men in case of settlement with the old menY'
 "Yes, sir," said MT. Stone emphatically. "We want all the competent men whom we can depend upon, and they will be retained as long as I am general manager of the road"
 All the local divisions, and, through them, every member of the order employed on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy system were notified not to go to work this morning, un- less specially advised by the chairman of the grievance committee to report for duty. The fremen running with the engineers acted with the latter i'll everything, and no engines are being run out by the aid of members of either Brotherhood today Trains on the road will be run to the end of the engineers division, and stopped.
 The managers of the strike are the coolest men ill town to-day, and at reasonable hour last evening MT. Arthur retired to his room at the Grand Pacific hotel and went to bed. The officers of the railroad company are act ing with equal deliberation. During all the weeks of negotiations MT. Stone has not been idle An agent of his road went to Reading Pa and employed all the trainmen he could who had been recently thrown out of em- ployment by the strike on the Philadelphia and Reading lines. Other points were reached by telegraph, offering work to idle engineers. The company has been running twenty-six such trains daily. If the strike assumes the proportions that now seem probable, about
 
 includes employees that will be thrown out of employment by the strike of the engineers and firemen. g
 ''We propose" said a veteran engineer, ''to conduct this strike on business principles. If we resort to any sort of violence or stoop to low tricks we cannot expect to gain the sym pathy of the people, The mails will not be stopped. All the mail clerk has to do is to step up to Brotherhood's engine and say I want this mail carried out, and she'll go and reach her destination, too, but you can bet your last cent that no passenger coach is att tached and that no passenger rides with the mail unless he is connected with the United States mail service. The Brotherhood has never yet refused to carry the mail and never will"
 READING, Pa., Feb. 27.-An agent repre- senting the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad has, it is said, been in this city and vicinity for a number of days trying to per suade the striking engineers and firemen of the Reading railroad whose places were taken by Locomotive Brotherhood men, to take their revenge by going to Chicago and oc- cupying the places of men who are on strike on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy line. According to rumor here he has obtained a considerable number of recruits.
 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.-Capt George l.. Eastman, national organizer of the Knights of Labor, is authority for the statement that the committee of the Reading railroad strik- CTS have notified General Manager Stone, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, that in the event of a strike on his road and the failure of Chief Arthur to withdraw the Brotherhood engineers who took the places ot strikers on the Reading road, they will send