The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-05
AN END TO THE BOYCOTT
THE MEN OF ALL ROADS HAND
LING BURLINGTON FREIGHT.

| General Manager Jeffry's Speech One
of the Principal Factors in Bringing
About the Peace-The Burlington's
| Employees to Fight the Company on
Their Own Hook
CHICAGO, April 4-The final result of the
meetings of the employees of the various
roads in this oity, which began yesterday
afternoon and lasted until late hour last
night, was announced this morning in
declaration that the boycott of 80" cars
had been permanently raised and that
henceforth the contest will be confined
strictly to the 20" system. This raising Of
the boycott means that all the strikes now
on, except the "Q,n are to stop forthwith,
and that all those which were imminentare
to be averted. The business of Chicago is
to be restored and maintained by the
strikers with strict decorum. The other
roads are absolved from the requirement Of
neutrality and violence is to be discoun-
tenanced, according to the well known pol
icy of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-.
gineers.
| HOW 1T WAS BROUGHT ABOUT.
The arrangement agreed upou, it is stated,
is directly due TO the exertions of Chief
Arthur of the Brotherhood of Engineers,
Grant Master Sargent of the firemen,
| Grand Master Menoghan of the Switch
mems Association. Mayor Roche and Mark
| Crawford, who also represents the switch
men. The final decision was fastened by
mass meeting held with closed doors last
evening, and which was addressed bv Gem
eral Manager Jeffrey of the Illinois Central
road. Fifteen hundred railway employees
were present at the meeting, representing
| a "a alnnRptg " " Mt
times anita 2onistc. When the appointed
time came this morning for the cessation OF
the strike on the st. Paul road, all hands,
firemen, engineers and switchmen, present.
ed themselves for duty and the usual
course of things.a as far as the Milwaukee and
st. Paul Company is concerned, was resum-
cd at once.
At the Fort Wayne yards there was a
hitch and the strike on that road continued.
The engineers and fireman were ready to
carry out the understanding, but the
switchmen were obdurate At . O'Clock
this morning, however, everything was sat-
isfactorily arranged, and the great Bur-
lington boycott was apparently everywhere
at an end.
LIVELY SCENES IN THE YARDS.
The Lake Shore road delivered a large
train of freight to the Burlington road this
morning at Sixteenth street. The 20"
yard officials were busily engaged in max
ing up trains to send TO other roads and
the yards were very lively.
| The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
sent train of cars TO the Burlington this
morning for the first time since the 20"
| strike began. This indicates that the boy
cott has been completely raised by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and
that the Rock Island officials no longer fear
any complications with their men because
of exchanging business with the Burlington.
MANAGER JEFFREY's SPEECH.
There seems no room for doubt that the
speech of General Manager Jeffrey, of the
Illinois Central, at the strikers meeting last
night had greater influence in bringing
about the suspension of the boycott than
anything else that was done. Mr.. Jeffrey
spoke for two hours and was listened to
with respectful attention. He explained to
the men the obligations placed upon
the roads by the interstate
commerce law and their unwritten
obligations toward the community
at large, told them that in their impulsive
desire to help their brethren on the Bur-
lington road they were not injuring the
Burlington, but were working incalcu
liable mischief on themselves, and he prom
ised to use his personal effort with all the
railroad managers in the city against black
listing or visiting any punishment upon the
strikers beyond what they suffer from the
|
as soon as the meeting adjourned by calling
upon all that he could reach SO late at night,
and he completed his undertaking to-day.
All the managers without exception, so far
as is known, promptly gave the required
assurance.
| BURLINGTON YARDS JAMMED.
The Burlington yards were jammed with
freight from other roads to-day. The move
Of the Rock Island in sending it freight
| ii 80, Ia4 10
minutes after the receipt Of a Rock Island
train Baltimore and Ohio train steamed
in, and following this came another lot or
cars from the Lake Shore. All the roads
having freight communication with the
Burlington continued sending in freight to
the "Qp yards steadily. There seemed to
be no end to the freight that has been held
in check by the boycott on the eos" inter-
change of cars. 1t is broadly stated that
the strikers calculated that on the lifting of
the boycott all the roads that had for weeks
suspended relations with the 20" would at
once proceed TO unload on that company all
the cars that had accumulated, and that
the effect would be to swamp the 20"
people with freight, the case, they believed,
being that of all the roads fully equipped
against one poorly equipped. It was thoughA
that in the natural order Of things the Bur-
lington would receive more freight daily
from other roads than it could give to
them, and that IL would be but short time
before IL would be obstructed with freight
consigned to it by other lines.
MUST MOVE 1T.
Having achieved this the Burlington
would be required under the law 10 furnish
facilities for the proper handling of the
freight. This might grow into lever to
move the men back into their old positions
on tho "Q.n 1t was a move worth making
and tie men made 1t. Up to to-
night the ju lgment of those ordering
1t seems to have been good. A great deal
more freight has been received by the 20"
people to-day than has been sent out by
them. Whether they will be able TO handle
it all without difficulty and transact their
own business as well with their present
| force remains TO be seen.