Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-05
BOYCOTT BANISHED,
AND ALL SrIKBS EXCEPT ON THE o.
ROAD DECLARED OPP,
Which Enables Chicago 10 Get 0Ut Of the Woods
Why the Action Was faksn-Ths Fight
Against the "Q' Road, However,
IS IS Bitter as Ever,

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afternoon and lasted until late hour las
night, is announced this morning, in tht
declaration that the boycott of @" car:
hae been permanently raised and thai
henceforth the contest will be confined
strictly to the system. The raising of the
boy cott means that all strikes now on, ex
cept the 20" are to stop forthwith, and
that all those which were imminent are tc
be sverted. The business of Chicago is tC
be restored and maintained by the striker.
with strict decorum. Other roads are ab
solved from the requirement Of neutrality
and violence is to be discountenanced &C
cordiDg to the well known policy of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
The arrangement agreed upon, il
is stated, is directly due tC
the exertiOns of Chief Arthur, o.
the Brotherhood of Engineers, Grandmas
ter Sargent, of the F,remen; Grandmaster
Monaghan, Of the SSitchmen's Associa.
tioD; Mayor Roche and Malk Crawford
who also represent the switchmen. The
hnal decision was hastened by the mass
meeting held with closed doors last even.
log, and which was addressed by General
Manager Jeffrey, of the Illinois Central
railroad. Fifteen railway employees were
present at the meeting, representing ele,
ments which had previously been at times
antagopistic.
Master Sargent, Of the Firemen's Broth.
frhoOd, was the first speaker. He stated
that he came not only as the representa-
tive of the Firemen, bat also to voice the
views Of Chief Arthur, of the Engineers.
The strike on th1 Burlington road was q
just cause, and they had used every honor
able means to treat with the company.
With such record behiud them 1t would
not be proper for the strikers to stand
by and see helpless people suffer from the
base practices Of the company.
TEE BOYCOTT.
Sargent urged, therefore, that the boy
cott be raised and the q" deprived of its
most dangerous weapon.
General Manager Jeffrey, of the Illinois
Central road, told the men that railroad
companies had certain delegated duties to
perform. These duties could neither be
disregarded nor abused. The inter-s tate
law was especially severe in its commands,
and that law had been enacted by men
elected by the ballots Of the people, in.
Guiding men engaged in this strike. Mr.
Jeffrey spoke of the disasters that would
follow general tle-up and appealed to the
men to shield their fellows from such an
iEtliction. His speech occupied nearly
two hours and was received with the most
attention. Grand Master Mon
ahan, of the Switehmen's Associa.
tioh, also dwelt at length upon
the dangers attending further
extension Of the strikes aud reminded
his hearers OF theiC interests as citizens and
men of families. The Burlington road, he
had acted in bad faith toward
other lines to get them in trouble so that
in their crippled condition it could regain
its lost prestige. The boycott was, there
fore, "a great weapon in the hands of the
90 lie wanted that weapon removed,
and he knew that society would applaud
the men if they disarmed the foe of social
order. Mr.. Jeffrey had assured them
that they would not be blacklisted for the
sincere effort they had made for the men
who were fighting the 90" and every
thing was to be gained and nothing to be
lost by raising the embargo.
THE EMBARGO RAISED.
After number OF other speeches of sim
liar tenor a vote was taken and the bOyc
declared raised, but the meeting declared
its undivided confidence in the cause and
conduct of the Q strikers and urged them
TO fight with even greater, though always
honorable fury.
At later meeting of The men the action
Of the mass meeting was ratified and the
employees of each road were instructed TO
notify their employers and be ready to
report for duty everywhere except at the
Darlington yards to-day. Committees were
sent out at once to visit the different off,
cials and later reported that all had &C
cepted the action Of the meeting and that
the restoration of traffic this morning
would he as complete and harmonious as
it had been sirce the engineers abandoned
the 20" OF course the union action OF
The meeting does not affect the attitude Of
the @" strikers.
BOYCOTT AT AN END.
When the appointed time came THE
morning for the cessation Ct the strike on
the st. Paul all hands, fremen, engineers
and switchmen, presented themselves for
duty, and the usual course of things as
far as the Milwaukee and S. Paul Com
pany is concerned was resumed at once.
At the Fort Wayne yards there was
hitch, and the strike on that road con-
t;nued.' The engineers and fremen were
ready 10 carry ont the understanding, but
the switcbmen were obdurate. At Ga m,
however, everything was satisfactorily ar
ranged, and the great Burlington boycott
was apparently everywhere at an end,
THE scHRIE WORKS WE'LL.
The huge boycott against the Buring-
ION road was fully lifted to-day and the
Burlington yards were ismmed with freight
rom other roads 1t is broadly stated
that the strikers calculated that In lifting
the boycott all the roads that had for weeks
suspended relations with the 20" would
1t once proceed to unload on that company
Ill cars that had accumulated, and that
The effect would be to swamp the 80"
people with freight The case, they
being that of all
roads fully equipped against one
poorly equipped, it was thought that in
he natural order Of things the Burlington
would receive more freight daily from
other roads than it could give to them,
lud that it would be but q short time be-
fore it would be obstructed with freight
to it by other lines. Having
achieved this, the Burlington would be re-
3uired under the law to furnish facili-
lies for the proper handling Of freight
This might grow into lever to move the
men hack into their old positions on the
%" 1t was move worth making, and
he men made it. Up to tonight the
Judgment of those ordering it seems to have
,een good.