The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-28

all, then we pursued the right course.
One of the members, who was asked if
the Brotherhood OF Engineers thought the
company could soon fill their places with
! reliable men, said:
"Well, If you ask my personal opinion,
don't think it can be done That is what
the boys all think Good engineers are Il
scarce article. because they are all en-
ployedn
What are you going to do about the
Knights of Labor"
"Nothiug If they can fill our places let
them do it. The company has right to
| hire anyone it pleaSaS. We shall not inter
fere with anything they do. The public
will find that we have enough to live ON a
little while, and if the company can do
without us all well and good"
This afternoon 600 of the freight handlers
of the Burlington line were laid Off, and
every freight office in the city shut down
in consequence of the engineers strike,
! These are the same men who obtained work
during the freight handlers strike OF 1887,
and are all said to be loyal to the company,
| but they have to be laid Off as no work re-
mains for them to do.
ALL STRUCK BUT ONE.
General Manager Stone, of the Burling
ton road, Us that every engineer on the
main line of the road, except one at Gales
burg, went out to-day. A few suburban
trains were run by the aid of engineers
drawn from shop mechanics, yard foremen,
| etc. The strikers did not bring
their engines through to the
end of their runs, but left
them at the nearest point when o'clock
came. Thus all tine passengers from the
| Missouri river were dumped at Galesburg,
and those which we take from the Illinois
Central road were left at Aurora. From
the latter point we were able to bring them
n4
the passengers were obliged to wait until 10
O'Clock before we could start them in"
A CROWD OF APPLICANTS
The Superintendent office and the lobby
leading to it are crowded with men apply
ing for the positions vacated. They are
put through an examination by the Super
intendent of the Motive Power, and if they
are found competent are taken to the yards
at once Before II o'clock this morning
about fifty Of the applicants had been ac-
cepted.
The suspension Of work Is complete at
| East St. Louis
A dispatch from Des Moines, Ia, says
that not a train is moving on either the
| Albin or Charlton division of the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road.
dispatch from Rock Island says the
tie-up is virtually complete there.
The engineers allow an engineer and fire
not be interrupted, but no passenger cars
can be attached. A full train got off for
Sterling this morning, however the conduc-
tor, who had been an engineer, running it
| out.
General Worthy Foreman Richard Grif-
| fiths, of the Knights of Labor of Chicago,
says something similar, that as an order the
| Knights will remain neutral, but If It's
members as individuals choose to work for
the Burlington road they may; there is
nothing to hinder them.
KNIGHTS ON THE SCENE
The crowd of applicants for positions as
| engineers and fremen kept steadily increas-
| ing during the afternoon and evening. One
of them, an engineer who gave his name as
| Michael Reilly stated openly that he was a
member of the Knights of Labor and had
| been for a number of years. 81 was run
| ming a locomotive on the Iron Mountain
line before the Southwestern strike he
said, land went QUO with the others.
In a little while a Brotherhood man took
| my place and | have not had steady
job since. Now | am going to step into the
| Shoes of a member of the Brotherhood.
Whatever may be said of workingmen
sticking together, | say that when man
has been slapped in the face he has right
to return the blow"
Reilly's words were well received by the
/ knot of men surrounding him, and the opin-
ion was pretty generally expressed that the
engineers and flremen belonging TO the
Brotherhood should be paid back in their
own coin.
1t is estimated that there will be 5000
men idle within the next two davs, who are
now employed in the city lumber district,
in case the strike continues. Ninety per
cent. of the lumber traffic Of Chicago
must in one way or another pass over the
Burlington tracks in the city to reach the
lumber district, and all day to-day not a
stick passed ih or out, owing TO the
virtual boycott of the Burlington
established by the engineers Of the other
roads. All of Sunday and Sunday night
men were kept busy at many of the yards
loading cars and getting them started in
anticipation of the strike. Many were not
loaded in time, and were left AT some
wards the only work for the lumber showers
to-day was to fill the cars in the yard.
Many hundreds Of men will have nothing
at all to do tomorrow.
A GENERAL MANAGERS VIEWS.
The General Manager of one Of the prin-
cipal railroads terminating at Chicago,
commenting ON the situation, said: at
has been question of expedIency or prin-
ciple whether to grant the demands of the
engineers All of the lines to whom they
have been presented have chosen the
former, and it has been left TO the Burling
ton and Quincy to vindicate the principle.
Whether it mas chosen wisely or not is not
to be determined now. A majority Of us
have shrunk from the - contest,
not only for the immediate losses
which would be entailed, but because
the public has been educated TO believe that
the members of the Brotherhood were such
q superior class of men, and that they have
proven SO conservative and orderly in the
past that they would not take such "a grave
and serious step unless their grievances
were so great as 10 justify it. Public
opinion has much TO do with the success or
failure Of any such movement and we
thought we saw that that would be against
u.s. am free TO confess that the contrary
appears TO be the case, but that only proves
that our judgment was not infallible."
RECRUITING At PoTTsvILLE.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Feb. 27-The strike Of
the Brotherhood men on the Chicago Bur
lington ard Quincy system has created a
great sensation among the supplanted Read
ing engineers and fremen at this end OF the
road. James Gleason, of Port Richmond,
an ex-employe Of the Reading railroad,
came here this morning and IN a few hours
recruited between 100 and 200 engineers ana
firemen Of this city and Palo Alto
for service on the Western road.
These men are knights Of Labor, but they
will not 20 West under the orders or
auspices of the Organl nlzatlOn, but as Indi-