, 1888-03-02
THE END NOT YET.
Arrangement Between the K.
of L. and Brotherhood.
The Latter to Leave the
Reading Road.
A Long and Bitter Struggle
Now Threatened.
The r Strike.

CHICAGO, March Late to night it
was given out that Grand Master Sar-
geant had sent a telegram to Henry Wall
ton, chairman of the executive board of
Locomotive tiremen, requesting him to
see all the members on the Reading road
that have taken the places of the men
that went out Dec. "a, 1887, and request
them to sever their connection with the
company, and saying that they would be
paid until they could find employment
elsewhere, and allow the men now out to
return to work. 1t was further said that
this would assist the brotherhood to win
the struggle with the Burlington road.
MIR. Walton wired thai he would at once
transmit the necessary orders to brother
hood lodges.
Chief Engineer Arthur then transmit
ted the following: 10 EdWdrd Kent,
Chairman of The ErecuttUe BodrdOf En-
1ineers, NeU York Go to Philadelphia
at once aad use your influence to get all
the brotherhood engineers who took the
places of the Reading strikers TO leave
the service of the company, furnishing
them with financial support of the brother
hood. The Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy are using the strikers to beat us
in the conflict, and we must c~heckmate
them"
LSignedl II. NJ. ARTHUR.
A BITTER STRUGGLE TO COME.
Eighty of the striking Reading engi-
neers who arrived here on Wednesday
night to take places returned home late
to night. The local bureau at a late hour
tonight furnishes the following:
Intelligence of ~undoubted reliability
uag caauraA of n lofo hour ro pirht 70 Tho
effect that the chairmen of the engineers
and firemen grievance committees upon
all railroad lines interesting and parallel
to or connecting with the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy system will meet in this
city to morrow or the next day, This
meeting is preparatory to a general strike
upon all these lines. This includes the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul, Chicago
Il Alton, Northwestern, Wisconsin Cen
trail, Rock Island, and Minneapolis e.
Northwestern"
1t appears that Secretary Cayhill
brought Chief Arthur and Grand Master
Sergeant official information that $50
members of their organization had taken
the places of Knights of Labor on the
Reading read. They assured Cayhill that
they had previously no other knowledge
than vague newspaper reports that this
thing had occurred. Both expressed a
willingness to request their men to quit
the Reading employment.
In return Cayhill agreed to keep the
$50 or 200 engineers in the city from TAX
ing places on the Burlington. These
men, it was agreed, would be held back
twenty-four hours. If the brotherhood
men quit the Reading road the knights
would return home,
After this settlement was made Mr..
Arthur and his comrades seemed much
more cheerful.
Chairman Hoge of the grievance com
mittee said that complaints had reached
him that several roads were voting a neu-
trality agreement. He declined to say
which were the offenders, but the Rock
Island and companies using the st. Louis
bridge were on the list. Secretary Debs
of the Firemen Brotherhood said that
unless this assistance was stopped a gen.
eral strike would be ordered within forty.
eight hours.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
A trump card that the strikers are
holding in reserve was described to night
by he general manager of a railroad other
than the Burlington, which terminates
here. He said:
Granting that no compromise is arrived
at between the Burlington and the striking
engineers, and the company succeeds in
filling the places of the strikers, there is
another phase that will present itself,
which will not only embarass the Burling.
ton company, but will prove dangerous to
other corporations. The Burlington with
all its locomotives manned can resume
local business and successfully conduct it,
but therei it will stick. Through business it
cannot do.
If the brotherhood should take a
stand against it they could and probably
would refuse to haul trains on which
Burlington cars were made up, and such
action would be effectual in blocking
through business. If connecting lines
should insist upon the performance of
service, it would p~recipitate a strike on
their own roads, and there is not much
doubt. under these circumstances, but
that they would refuse to accept Burling-
ton cars and that the company would
have but one resource. 1t could transfer
its freight at terminal points to foreign
cars, but this would be an expensive pro
cess and would place it at a fatal disad-
vantage against other roads"
The Burlington road to day moved a
larger number of passenger trains than
any previous day this week and also re.
port a partial resumption of freight traffic
on most Of the divisions. They succeeded
in getting four switch engines at work in
this city and cleared out quite a number
of cars from the lumber district.
An evening paper to-day asserted that
a conference had been held between
President Perkins. General Manager
Stone and T. f. Dcsemler, representing
engineers and firemcn. This was en-
phatically denied this morning by both
sides,
Collapse of a Bridge.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March While